CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Warren Wilson College's Environmental Leadership Center, with guidance and support from the Mountain Green Steering Committee, convenes the Mountain Green Sustainable Communities Conference.  The Mountain Green steering committee seeks to engage those building, designing, purchasing, planning, changing and meeting the needs of the people and the environment of western North Carolina.  The 2010 conference will show how the White House has embraced LEED certification for the Nation’s home; construction and design strategies for those serving our aged population; residential design elements that are sustainable; and engineering strategies for managing wastewater.  Together we seek to assemble a community of professionals that will help create a “sustainable” network for western North Carolina.

 

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Dr. Bill Thomas is an international authority on geriatric medicine and eldercare and a Professor of Aging Studies and Distinguished Fellow at The Erickson School of the University of Maryland, Baltimore.  Most recently, Dr. Thomas developed the Green House, a radically new approach to long-term care. He has received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation five-year ten-million dollar grant that will result in the creation  of Green House projects in all 50 states.  CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.

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Vladimir Novotny is Professor, Director, Center for Urban Environmental Studies at Northeastern University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.  His 2007 book is titled “Cities of the Future: Towards integrated sustainable water and landscape management”.  CLICK HERE TO READ EXCERPTS OF THIS BOOK.

Speaker sponsored by Land of Sky Regional Council

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Robyn Griggs Lawrence

Editor-in-Chief, Natural Home and Author, The Wabi-Sabi House.  She has written and spoken on topics ranging from eco-building to spiritual design to organic gardening. Called “one of the best-informed advocates of natural living in America” by the Conservation Research Institute, Lawrence wants homeowners to know they “don’t need to spend a fortune to make their homes more environmentally sound. The idea is to slowly get more conscious and make better choices over time.”

  1. Advantage west * ambient design Group * asheville area chamber of commerce * Asheville Board of REaltors * asheville Convention & visitors bureau * asheville home builders association * build it naturally * builder architect magazine * Buncombe County tourism development authority * City of Asheville * civil design concepts * Community foundation of western nC * council of independent business owners * robert j. deutsch, pa * economic development coalition for Asheville-Buncombe County * equinox environmental * Handmade in america * WEstern nc green building council * yurko design & Architecture, pa * Land of Sky REgional Council

INVITED

Nancy Sutley is the Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). In her role as Chair, she serves as the principal environmental policy adviser to the President of the United States.  Chair Sutley is leading the effort, among others, to green the White House for LEED certification.  CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.

Two other sustainability programs are being offered in western NC during this same week - right after Mountain Green.  Stay the week!


  2. •Handmade in America:  The Western North Carolina Craft, Architecture & Design Expo


  4. •Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture’s Family Farm Tour