The Eco-Crisis and The Built Environment
February 22, 2010
What choices should we be making now in order to diminish the impact of development on the natural world? Better yet, from a more positive point of view, what are the opportunities for designing the built environment so that it encourages human interaction, improves productivity and conserves natural resources?
“The Built Environment” is the subject of the Blue Ridge Sustainability Institute’s next Green Monday, February 22, from 3:00-5:00 p.m., in the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce second floor conference room. Admission is free and open to the public.
We will explore our options as citizens and stakeholders in the built environment and in how best to mobilize diverse factions into positive, cooperative action. Scheduled panelists are Moderator Andrew Euston, FAIA, former Senior Federal Urban Design Administrator with the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Jim Barton, focusing on The Great Shift: Peak Oil, Climate and Transformation, and Asheville’s role as a town in transition; Linda Giltz, AICP, Regional Planner, Land of Sky Regional Council, on innovative land and natural resource initiatives; Patricia Hinkley, on cold season vegetable greenhouses; David Johnson, FAICP, on his visits to Curitiba, Brazil, and other cutting-edge planned communities; and Jan Moran and Paul Rollins will share their experience in developing Civano, a planned, sustainable community in Tucson, Arizona.
This Green Monday is presented by the Blue Ridge Sustainability Institute with support from the Asheville Chamber of Commerce and a generous grant from Progress Energy.
Panelists
Andrew Euston, FAIA, Moderator, former Senior Federal Urban Design Administrator with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Jim Barton
Linda Giltz, Regional Planner, Land Of Sky Regional Council
Patricia Hinkley, Wintergreen
David Johnson, FAICP
Jan Moran, formerly of Civano Community, Tucson, Arizona
Paul Rollins, formerly of Civano Community, Tucson, Arizona
Presentation
Audio
Green Monday 12 Audio
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Video
Videographer: Stu Zonder. Editor: Peter Brezny of PurpleCat Networks
