Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 20:05:51 -0500
From: "Richard.Rich" <urban@vt.edu>
Subject: A National Meeting on Community Sustainability
To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu
PLease contact "Richard.Rich" <urban@vt.edu> for more information.
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You are Invited to Attend a National Meeting on:
ADVANCING COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY
Roanoke, Virginia --- June 1, 2 & 3 http://www.conted.vt.edu/advcom.htm
As public officials, business leaders, and nonprofit
organizations recognize
the need to rethink urban life to achieve environmental, social, and
economic
sustainability, this meeting will allow those seeking to foster
sustainability in their
communities to interact with practitioners who have experience with
implementing
sustainability projects. The target audience includes state and
local public officials,
business leaders, nonprofit organization managers, and citizen
activists. Speakers will
be agency heads, department directors, private sector managers,
nonprofit organization
officers, and others who are expert in their field. Much of the
meeting time will be given
to interaction among speakers and meeting participants to allow
exploration of ways
to adapt existing ideas and projects to other communities.
Plenary and roundtable sessions will examine the practice of
sustainability in each of three areas of community life:
(a) physical development (e.g.: infill, adaptive reuse, and sprawl
prevention),
(b) infrastructure design (e.g.: alternative transit, waste management, and
energy systems), and (c) economic structure (e.g.: industrial ecology, local
economic resilience, and job creation).
Special evening resource sessions will focus on:
~Green Purchasing for Local Governments and Institutions,
~The Economic, Technical, and Organizational Foundations of Ecovillages,
~The Sierra Club's Anti-Sprawl Campaign,
~Federal Programs in Support of Sustainability,
~Community Development Through Sustainable Jobs, and
~Services and Resources Available through the Local Environment
Government Assistance Network.
Optional training workshops will give participants an opportunity
to gain knowledge or skills needed to promote sustainability in the
following areas:
~Smart Growth through Ecosystem-Based Processes - Wolfe, Mason & Associates
~Developing and Using Sustainability Indicators - The Nature Conservancy
~The Green Planning Leadership Program- Resource Renewal Institute
~Moving the Community from Confusion to Consensus on Sustainability
-Institute for Environmental Negotiation
Location and Lodging
The meeting will be held at The Hotel Roanoke and
Conference Center, conveniently located at 110 Shenandoah
Avenue in downtown Roanoke, Virginia. A covered walkway
connects the state-of-the-art conference center with the
restored city market in downtown Roanoke which offers dining,
shopping, and entertainment.
Lodging rooms are being held at the hotel and rates are
$89 single/$99 double, plus tax. For reservations, call (540)
985-5900 by May 3 and mention the name of this meeting.
Or, request reservations online at:
http://www.hotelroanoke.com/res/res_bcs.html.
Registration
You can register online at: http://www.conted.vt.edu/advcom.htm
Alternatively, you can send an email to urban@vt.edu asking for a
brochure to be mailed to you and then mail in the registration form
it will contain.
Registration Fees: First two days only: $150
Any workshop: $100 additional
Special Student fee for first two days only: $55
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Presented by Virginia Tech's School of Public and International
Affairs with support
from U.S. EPA, NOAA, VA Dept. of Environmental Quality, The Cabell
Brand Center, Vital Signs,
and the Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement
.
Prof. Richard C. Rich, Chair
Dept. of Political Science
531 Major Williams Hall
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0130
Phone: (540) 231-6571
FAX: (540) 231-6078
E-Mail: URBAN@VT.EDU
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