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For further information about this event and its sponsors please visit the event
website link below.
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Title:
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Smart Growth Speaker Series: Neighborhood-Level Sustainability: Bringing it All Together with LEED
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Event Date:
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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Time:
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12:30 pm
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Location:
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National Building Museum, 401 F Street N.W, Washington D.C. (Judiciary Square Metro)
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Time Span:
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12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
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Event
Theme/Description:
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Rising consciousness about global environmental crises combined with a faltering real estate market have rapidly mobilized localities and developers to search for a way to create places that will be both environmentally responsible and financially profitable. How can developers choose the right locations and design strategies, while also navigating the processes of gaining public and regulatory approval? At the same time, how can jurisdictions alter their zoning codes and ordinances to remove barriers to smart neighborhood design and incentivize green development?
Sophie Lambert, Director of LEED for Neighborhood Development at the U.S. Green Building Council, will explain how the LEED-ND rating system tackles these issues by combining the principles of smart growth, new urbanism, and green building into the first national standard for neighborhood design. Sophie will be joined by Tony Greenberg from the JBG Companies, who will share his experience taking the new, Gold-level certified Twinbrook Station project through the LEED-ND process.
Read more at the resource link below.
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Speaker(s):
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Sophie Lambert, Director of LEED for Neighborhood Development at the U.S. Green Building Council, will explain how the LEED-ND rating system tackles these issues by combining the principles of smart growth, new urbanism, and green building into the first national standard for neighborhood design. Sophie will be joined by Tony Greenberg from the JBG Companies, who will share his experience taking the new, Gold-level certified Twinbrook Station project through the LEED-ND process.
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Audience:
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Free; advance registration not required.
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Sponsor(s):
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The Smart Growth Speaker Series is sponsored by the U.S. EPA, the National Building Museum and the Smart Growth Network.
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Contact Information:
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To get regular announcements about the Smart Growth Speaker Series, please e-mail your name, organization, address, phone, fax, and e-mail address to the U.S. EPA's Development, Community, and Environment Division (DCED) c/o Danielle Arigoni, e-mail: arigoni.danielle@epa.gov; tel: 202.566.2859; fax: 202.566.2868.
Visit the National Building Museum website at http://www.nbm.org/.
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Other Information:
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Smart growth is development that serves economy, community, and environment. The series hosts speakers on a monthly basis to discuss this approach to development, explore specific growth-related issues, foster dialog, and identify opportunities for positive change in growth and development patterns.
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