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The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 9
Tavis Smiley Goes Primetime
Sustainable Fellwood Given
Energyvalue Housing Award
The first The Tavis
Smiley Report, premiering
Wednesday, January 27,
2010, at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on
PBS, focuses on Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton as she
completes her first year as
America’s chief diplomat
and looks ahead to the chal
lenges of the next three
years.
Smiley has been grant
ed exceptional access to
Secretary Clinton and will
accompany her on diplomat
ic missions abroad, to meet
ings on Capitol Hill and
within the State Department
itself to give the American
public a candid and incisive
view of the inner workings
of U.S. diplomacy and inter
national relations. Check
your future local listings for
the remaining reports.
Tavis Smiley is host of
Tavis Smiley on PBS and
The Tavis Smiley Show from
PRI. Smiley launched
America I AM: The African
American Imprint, a world-
class exhibition celebrating
the extraordinary impact of
African American contribu
tions to our nation and the
world, on January 15,
2009.The exhibit is on a
four-year, 10-city tour and is
currently on display in Los
Angeles.
Smiley is also the
author/editor of 14 books,
including The New York
Times best-sellers Covenant
with Black America and
What I Know for Sure: My
Story of Growing Up in
America.
The National
Association of Home
Builders Research Center has
given an Energyvalue
Housing Award to master
developer Melaver, Inc., for
the green affordable housing
development Sustainable
Fellwood. The award is one
of 20 given to projects from
15 different states and will be
presented at a ceremony on
January 18, 2010.
Sustainable Fellwood,
which serves as a principal
component of the City of
Savannah's Westside
Development Revitalization
Plan, is considered a national
showcase for environmental-
ly-responsible community
planning.
Amenities for the envi
ronmentally friendly mixed-
use, mixed income develop
ment include the preservation
of trees, on-site recycling,
cellulose insulation, high
efficiency air conditioning
and heating units, and low
flow water fixtures. The
homes have 30 percent less
energy usage and 40 percent
less water usage than typical
construction.
"Energy efficiency was
a primary driver during
design," said Tommy
Linstroth, Director of
Sustainability for Melaver.
"Energy efficiency translates
directly into more money
saved for our residents,
which is doubly important in
an affordable housing devel
opment.
The energy award is sup
ported by the U.S.
Department of Energy
through its Building America
program, the National
Association of Home
Builders (NAHB), and the
National Renewable Energy
Laboratory (NREL), in addi
tion to the NAHB Research
Center.
The award will be pre
sented at a ceremony during
the International Builders'
Show on January 18, 2010 at
the Flamingo Las Vegas
Hotel.
The NAHB
Research Center promotes
innovation in housing tech
nology to improve the quali
ty, durability, affordability,
and environmental perform
ance of homes and home
building products. Go to
National Association of
Home Builders Research
Center for more informa
tion.
Sustainable Fellwood is
a mixed use, mixed income
Housing Authority of
Savannah redevelopment.
Master Developer: Melaver,
Inc., in partnership with
Parallel Housing,
Progressive Redevelopment,
and Vanguard Developers.
Tavis Smiley
BLACK PR WIRE) LOS
ANGELES--(BUSINESS
WIRE)—
Tavis Smiley and PBS
will expand their relationship
in 2010 with the January pre
miere of THE TAVIS SMI
LEY REPORT, a series of
four hour-long primetime
specials that will air through
out 2010.
Smiley will leave his
studio chair in Los Angeles
and go on the road to exam
ine some of the country’s
defining moments through
those who have helped to
shape history from going
behind the scenes with
Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton to the streets of New
Orleans with director
Jonathan Demme to mark
Hurricane Katrinas 5th
anniversary.
The REPORT(s) will
take a look at the country’s
most important people and
recent events, from perspec
tives that are rarely por
trayed, says host Tavis
Smiley. I will be talking to
the people and traveling to
the places that have trans
formed us as a nation, often
in ways we don’t even real
ize.
For years, Tavis Smiley
has explored topics by
engaging his guests in
thought-provoking discus
sions, and we’re eager to see
him take his award-winning
approach outside of the stu
dio, says John F. Wilson,
PBS Senior Vice President
and Chief TV Programming
Executive. These primetime
specials allow Tavis to seek
out the stories and individu
als that are a driving force in
today’s world.
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