Margarita Lopez NYCHA. My cousin, Jeffrey Williams, created and presented this PowerPoint as a project for his English class. (He got an A!!!) For all of our friends and family that weren't able to make it to the presentation, I wanted to put it online, so you could still see it. He did a great job speaking about how Margarita Lopez has benefitted NYCHA! Enjoy!

1. Jeffrey Williams
English 5
10.1.12
Margarita
Lopez NYCHA
Board Member
A Force for Nature
(Through NYCHA)

2. Margarita Lopez NYCHA
Margarita Lopez is an important member of the New York
Community because she is a board member at NYCHA
NYCHA (the New York City Housing Authority) houses more
than 400,000 New Yorkers in 334 public housing
developments around New York
She is in charge of NYCHA’s Resident Green Committees
and is the environmental coordinator

3. GreenNYCHA
 At NYCHA
Margarita Lopez is
a board member
and the
Environmental
Coordinator. Margarita Lopez supports
GreenNYCHA with resident
 She is in charge of
community members.
NYCHA’s Resident
Green Committees
(RGCs).

4. NYCHA Resident Green Committees
 Promote NYCHA’s sustainable
environmental plan
 Aim to reduce and conserve energy
resources
 Create green collar job opportunities for
NYCHA residents

5. The Power is in Your Hands
 RGCs needed
resources
 NYCHA partnered
with desigNYC
and the Rooster
“The design is critical to success. Design Group to
If you don’t pick it up, [then you create the Green
never open it], then the
message I have for you is never Guide: The Power
heard.” is in Your Hands
- Margarita Lopez NYCHA

6. Planters Grove
 NYCHA Chairman
John B Rhea spoke
with Margarita
Lopez at the
opening of the
Planters Grove.
 NYCHA partnered
with Planters to
create the
community garden.

7. NYCHA + NYPA
 New York Power
Authority donated
ten 100% electric
trucks to NYCHA
through the Clean
Transportation
program.
 The NYPA helps Margarita Lopez with NYPA
and NYCHA representatives.
NYCHA improve
energy efficiency
and cut unnecessary
energy costs.

8. SpeakingGreen Lecture Series
“We have fulfilled our
objective. We are
now ready for the
next level, which is to
call for a national
conference on the
greening of public
housing.”
- NYCHA Board Member and
Environmental
Coordinator, Margarita Lopez

9. Green City Force
“My time at the
NYCHA Emergency
Preparedness
Festival in Far
Rockaway was
amazing. It showed
how the people of
that community
were determined to
plan and prevent
another disaster like
Hurricane Irene.”
- Jaquan Reid, Brooklyn, NY

10. Margarita Lopez is a force of nature,
for nature.

11. Works Cited:
 Margarita Lopez NYCHA Environmental-
Watch Profile
 Margarita Lopez NYCHA Planters Grove
 Margarita Lopez NYCHA GreenNYCHA
 Margarita Lopez NYCHA desigNYC