Graduated Vanderbilt with a degree in civil engineering in 1975. Randy first worked with SHC helping to construct the Petros Health Clinic in 1973. He served as SHC Co-Director 1973-1974 and a community worker in Jacksboro, TN the summer of 1974. In 1979 he helped found the Solar Greenhouse Employment Project, along with visionary Bill Dow. After a 24 year career in construction and structural engineering, he became a self-employed artist-blacksmith, and a member of the KDH artists Cooperative in Kill Devil Hills, NC.
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Randy Hodges Collection on the Solar Greenhouse Employment Project, Southern Historical Collection, UNC Chapel Hill
Randy Hodges, a civil engineer educated at Vanderbilt University, served as a consultant on the Solar Greenhouse Employment Project (SGEP), a non-profit initiative which sought to address rising food and heating costs and unemployment in rural communities in the South… Continued