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KATHY GING M.A
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Kathy Ging, M.A., G.R.I., has been a full-time Realtor for 30 years. References available upon request to people in many occupation. She co-directed the First Annual Lane County Energy Round-Up Public Forums held in Eugene, working with co-director Pamela Driscoll and an all volunteer group and a Lane County Commissioner. Over 400 people attended the events. The Energy Round-Up had eight sponsors: Climate Crisis Working Group, EWEB, EPUD, Eugene Weekly, Helios Network, West Wind Forest Products, Oregon Department of Energy and the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild. Kathy Ging has a Master's in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has lived in Oregon for 37 years. Originally from Pennsylvania and later from San Francisco, she has studied and traveled extensively to become acquainted with other cultures. She has been a promoter of energy efficiency, eco-products for homes, gardens and farms, ecological business practices and renewable energy sources for three decades. Kathy directed or co-coordinated 21 renewable energy events in Oregon including the First Southern Oregon Energy Fair, Visions for Humanity, in Ashland, Rogue Inventors Days, seven mini fairs, Oregon Energy Round-Up at the State Fair 1981-83 and Energy Independence Days in Eugene and Springfield. She catalyzed the addition of Energy Park to the Oregon Country Fair in 1981 (formerly Oregon Energy Horizons). She has also provided financial assistance to G.R.E.E.N. (Grassroots Renewable Energy Education Project) that has been making videos of renewable energy events in recent years. Kathy co-founded the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild, SW Oregon Chapter, in Eugene, and helped to organize 70 of its educational events and spearheaded the movement to green the Eugene library, the beginning of a gradual transition by the City of Eugene to its current proactive stance toward green building practices for public buildings. She attended the first New Energy Movement conference in Portland, OR, the 1st Solar Electric Power Summit in Salem, OR, and Oregon Solar Energy Industries Association Solar Expo in Portland, OR, and a SEER gathering.While doing post-graduate work at the University of Oregon, she initiated the revised performance based personal income renewable energy tax credit in the Oregon legislature in the late 80s after 85% of the solar businesses state and nationwide had gone bankrupt because state and federal tax credits had sunset. She helped to organize the statewide momentum to win its passage 22 to zip the day before summer solstice in the second attempt to secure its implementation.This tax credit for home owners and renters is still in effect and has been expanded and revised in recent years. When passed, it was widely considered to be the best renewable energy personal income tax credit in the country.Kathy has been a member of several environmental and energy groups such as Solar Oregon, American Solar Energy Society, Climate Solutions, Citizens Utility Board, 3Estrategies, OSPIRG, Co-Op America and the School Garden Project.She was on the Technical Advisory Committee of Eugene Mayor's Sustainable Business Initiative, on the Statewide Green Building Committee and a panelist at HOPES, an EcoDesign and Arts Conference at the University of Oregon. In the early 80s she was on the grant giving committee of the Federal Region X Small Scale Appropriate Technology Small Grant Program.In 1981, Kathy lobbied the EWEB board to assign staff time to research solar electric power (PVs); EWEB did fund a part time position that year. She also co-sponsored the first local all day photovoltaic seminar with former EWEB Commissioner Jack Craig.In December, 2006, Kathy testified to the EWEB Board that they should consider researching the idea of becoming a distributed utility where power is produced on rooftops, in yards and in neighborhoods (see Rocky Mountain Institute's book, Small Is Profitable: The Hidden Economic Benefits of Making Electrical Resources the Right Size; SmallIsProfitable.org.)In 1997, Kathy won the First Citizen Activist of the Year Award from Friends of Eugene for exceptional community service and in 2000 she was chosen as one of 15 socially responsible business persons featured in Co-op America yearly publication now Green America.In the 70s she founded Community Skills Bank & co-founded SUNERGI (Southern Oregon New Energy Institute) and was later secretary of the Oregon Campaign for Public Power.
Kathy specializes in city + rural property and farms + multi-family transactions.
Kathy is most familiar with the local real estate markets within and around the following zip code areas. See other realtors that service the same areas by clicking: 97327, 97386, 97401, 97404, 97412, 97413, 97430, 97431, 97463 & 97478
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