| GREEN BUILDING
AND BEYOND |
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A SUSTAINABLE BUILDING FORUM
with Keynote Speaker David Eisenberg |
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WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER 29th 6:30 PM
Poinsettia Pavilion
3451 Foothill Road
Ventura, California
(A FREE Event - No Registration Required)
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Today,
many changes are taking place in how buildings and developments are
designed and built as well as how they are regulated. Green building, Smart Growth, and Sustainable Development
are becoming commonplace terms and many new programs, codes and
standards are emerging to accommodate these changes. Yet there is still
a disconnect between the level of the changes in codes and standards
and the programs being put into place, and the level needed to
adequately respond to what the scientific community tells us is needed
today.
Faced with the realities of a lower-carbon future,
along with growing concerns about the supply and cost of energy, water
and other critical resources, we need to look beyond old assumptions
about how we address these emerging crises, and no sector contributes
more to the problems or presents greater opportunities going forward
than the built environment. A new dialog
is needed to open the doors to truly sustainable practices. This dialog
must be able to cut across the artificially constructed boundaries
between disciplines and areas of regulatory responsibility-to create a regulatory system
that is as deeply integrated and comprehensive in balancing risk and
innovation as the leading edge projects that are being planned and
designed to surpass the current minimum standards.
If you have something to contribute to this dialog, please join us in this process.
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Panel Discussion To Follow Keynote, Featuring:
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Brenden McEneaney, Green Building Program Advisor for the City of Santa Monica
Jim MacDonald, CBO Director of Building and Safety for the County of Ventura
Brandy Gallagher, founder and developer of O.U.R. ECOVILLAGE
Paula Baker-Laporte, FAIA author of "Prescriptions for a Healthy Home"
Robert Laporte,
Natural Builder, co-founder and steward of the EcoNest Building
Company, has been building code-approved clay/straw-timber framed homes
for 18 years in seventeen states and four provinces. |
For Further Event Information, Or To Become A Sponsor:
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Or Phone:
Carolyn Hernandez at 805-272-8092
Green Building and Beyond:
Transitioning To Sustainability
A Sustainable Building Forum
with Keynote Speaker David Eisenberg
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This event is organized by:
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Transitioning
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Sustainability |
| Keynote Speaker |
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David Eisenberg
David Eisenberg is an internationally renowned speaker, author, and ecological builder.
For
more than a decade, he has led the effort to create a sustainable
context for building codes. A two-term member of the Board of the U.S.
Green Building Council, he founded and chairs the USGBC Code
Committee.
He is co-founder and Director of the non-profit Development Center for Appropriate Technology (DCAT) based in Tucson, Arizona.
He
is co-author of The Straw Bale House book and has written dozens of
published articles. David and DCAT were named 2007 International Code
Council Affiliate of the Year and received a 2007 USGBC Leadership
Award.
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