Envisioning Resilient Communities
Date: March 15-17, 2012
Location: Seattle, Washington
Description: CNU Cascadia’s annual regional summit is the premier venue for cross-disciplinary conversations that inform development, policy and design of communities in the Pacific Northwest. The Summit will explore what a sustainable, diverse, resilient community should look like. An additional session titled “A Low-Carbon Neighborhoods Micro-Charrette,” will be also held.
Registration Information:
http://www.cnu.org/cnu-salons/2012/02/cnu-cascadia-hosts-envisioning-resilent-communities-summit
Funders' Network for Smart Growth Annual Conference
Date: March 26-28, 2012
Location: Seattle, Washington
Description: Learn from a network of national and place-based funders and leading practitioners how funding around growth and development issues increases the impact of your grantmaking. Registration is open to staff, trustees, and donors of all grantmaking institutions and public sector representatives. (This conference is not open to grant seekers except by invitation.)
Registration information:
http://www.fundersnetwork.org/events/annual-conference-details
Peter Steinbrueck FAIA: Thoughts from Harvard
| Event Dates: | 4-5:30 p.m. |
| Event Location: | AIA Seattle 1911 First Avenue |
| Description: | Former Seattle City Councilmember and AIA Seattle Board Member Peter Steinbrueck FAIA has returned from his time at Harvard as a 2009-2010 Loeb Fellow. With his studies focused on “the Politics Planning and Best Practices of Urban Sustainability in the U.S.," this is a first-time opportunity to hear Peter’s thoughts on his time spent and how the insights he received from this experience could translate to our own city and region. |
| Contact: | For more information, email Urban Design Forum Chair Rick Browning at Browning@pbworld.com |
| Speakers: | For nearly a decade, Steinbrueck led the City of Seattle’s legislative efforts to develop and advance cutting edge sustainable practices in areas of public policy and planning for transportation, land use, building codes and development regulations. Examples of his accomplishments include: developing smart growth management and land use strategies to support livable compact communities; the vision for Seattle’s Downtown Livability Plan to encourage more sustainable urban neighborhoods; an Urban Mobility Plan to replace aging elevated highway on the city’s waterfront; establishing a uniform green development policy of LEED Silver; development of the Seattle Green Factor for mixed-use projects to reduce the ecological footprint and expand green landscaping; and adoption of cross-system Sustainability Goals in the city’s 20-year Comprehensive Plan. He is currently the principal at his own consulting firm, Steinbrueck Urban Strategies. |
| Other Info: | Free. No RSVP necessary |
2010 Design Debate: Can Design Save the World?
| Event Dates: | 7 p.m. |
| Event Location: | Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park PACCAR Pavilion 2901 Western Avenue Seattle, WA |
| Description: | This moderated panel discussion will include an interdisciplinary panel of design professionals from the fields of industrial design, architecture, graphic design, interaction design and user experience design. The panel will discuss and debate issues related to designing sustainable products, structures and businesses for the 5.3 billion people living in less developed regions of the world. Organized by IDSA Northwest in partnership with AIA Seattle, and AIGA Seattle Chapter. |
| Contact: | http://www.idsanw.org/ |
10th Annual Harvesting Clean Energy Conference
| Event Dates: | Febrary 7-9, 2010 |
| Event Location: | Kennewick, WA |
| Description: | The Harvesting Clean Energy Conference is the Northwest’s premiere gathering to advance rural economic development through clean energy production. Clean energy offers practical, profitable opportunities for our farmers, ranchers, rural utilities and towns, tribes, and regional economy. What It Covers The conference charts the future of rural clean energy in the Northwest. Discussions focus on the steps to successful project development, including financing, to cut costs on the farm and produce power or feedstocks for market. Technologies covered include wind power, biofuels, biopower, geothermal, solar, and energy efficiency. Who It Is For Harvesting Clean Energy is designed for Northwest farmers and agriculture leaders, tribes, rural utilities and economic development officials, lenders, elected officials and public agencies, as well as energy developers and consultants. |
| Contact: | http://www.harvestcleanenergy.org/index.html |
9th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference
| Event Dates: | February 4-6, 2010 |
| Event Location: | Seattle, Washington |
| Description: | Save the Date for the 9th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth: Building Safe, Healthy and Livable Communities will be held February 4-6, 2010 at the Washington State Trade and Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. For the latest information about this event please visit the resource link below. |
| Contact: | http://www.newpartners.org/ |
Working Together for Equitable Development
| Event Dates: | 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. |
| Event Location: | Seattle, Washington |
| Description: | Smart growth, equitable development and environmental justice all strive for development that creates healthy, vibrant places and that gives people greater opportunity and choice. Given this common goal, how can smart growth, equitable development and environmental justice efforts work together to ensure that development decisions meet the needs of disadvantaged communities? How can collaboration ensure that lower-income communities, communities of color and indigenous communities participate in and benefit from the decisions that shape their neighborhoods and the communities and regions in which they live? During this one-day workshop, participants will get to know federal, state, local and tribal tools and programs that support equitable development; hear from community leaders who have forged successful partnerships; learn about opportunities for collaboration between smart growth, equitable development and environmental justice; and explore why integrating these efforts is critical and necessary to right past wrongs, revitalize America’s disadvantaged communities, grow the economy, and create healthy and sustainable urban, suburban, rural and tribal communities. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Registration is $25. This workshop will be held immediately prior to the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference and complements the Equitable Development Track of sessions to be held during the February 4-6 conference. Arrive early to attend both. |
| Contact: | http://www.newpartners.org |
Smart Growth in Small Towns Tour
| Event Dates: | February 1-3, 2010 |
| Event Location: | Seattle, Washington |
| Description: | Join walkability expert Dan Burden for this action-packed tour of small towns in the Pacific Northwest by coach bus, bicycle, walking and ferry. The Smart Growth in Small Towns tour starts at noon on February 1 from SeaTac Airport and ends at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Seattle on the evening of February 3. The event precedes the 9th annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference. The Pacific Northwest has been a leader in the smart growth and healthy communities movements. Small towns are often flexible enough to bring about change faster than large metropolitan areas. The tour will visit over 10 neighborhoods, towns and small cities to explore key issues facing many communities, including downtown revitalization, infill housing, green development and transformation of suburban bedroom communities to complete towns and cities. |
| Contact: | http://www.newpartners.org/ |
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