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GREEN BUILDING

AND BEYOND

A SUSTAINABLE BUILDING FORUM

with Keynote Speaker David Eisenberg

WEDNESDAY,

OCTOBER 29th 6:30 PM 

Poinsettia Pavilion

3451 Foothill Road

Ventura, California 

(A FREE Event - No Registration Required) 

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.

Panel Discussion To Follow Keynote, Featuring:

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.

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Green Building and Beyond:

Transitioning To Sustainability 

A Sustainable Building Forum

with Keynote Speaker David Eisenberg 

This Is A Free Event 

Sponsors

This event is organized by:

Natural Building Network

Quail Springs

USGBC4- California Central Coast Chapter

Ojai Valley Green Coalition

We would like to thank the following sponsors for their support and assistance with making this event possible:

• AHome For Us To Grow (Quail Springs Capital Campaign 2008)
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• Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles
• City of Ventura
• Collaborative Project Consulting
• Community Environmental Council(Santa Barbara)
• DCAT (Development Center For Appropriate Technology)
• EcoLogic Life (Ojai - Ecological Lifestyle)
• EcoNest & Company
• International Code Council - Ventura Chapter
• 
  
• New Leaf America
• Nutiva 
• Prelitz + Partners, LLC
• Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
• 
  
• Timber Framers Guild
• Ventura Climate Care Options Organized Locally (VCCOOL)

EVENT

Transitioning

To

Sustainability

Keynote Speaker 

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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