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Fyi -----Original Message----- From: Michael Bauer [mailto:mibauer@vt.edu] <mailto:[mailto:mibauer@vt.edu]> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 AM To: Scott Anderson Subject: I am writing to ask your assistance in selecting speakers for a national meeting on community sustainability to be held in Roanoke, VA in June of 2000. I hope you will be able to recommend individuals who would be effective in helping achieve the goals of the meeting. As more and more public officials, business leaders, and nonprofit organizations begin to recognize the need to rethink urban life, one of the most effective ways to advance the cause of sustainability is to assist those who are seeking to implement programs to demonstrate the viability of sustainable methods and develop the technologies and institutions which others might use in their communities. Accordingly, this meeting will allow practitioners who want to learn how to develop and implement sustainability projects to interact with those who have experience in doing such projects. I envision a meeting that will be highly interactive and more like a workshop than like an academic conference. The target audience would be state, regional and local public officials, business leaders, and citizen activists affiliated with nonprofit organizations. The speakers would be agency heads, department directors, CEOs, plant managers, nonprofit organization leaders, and others who are close to the actual implementation of sustainability efforts, but high enough in their organizations to have a holistic view of the process. Much of the meeting time would be given to interaction among speakers, resource people, and meeting participants so participants could find out how existing ideas and projects might be adapted to their communities. These discussion and workshop sessions will ask (1) what sustainability means, (2) how it is achieved, and (3) where are some of the best examples of projects. We will ask these questions about each of three areas of community life: (a) physical development (e.g.: sprawl, infill, adaptive reuse), (b) infrastructure design (e.g.: alternative transit, waste management, and energy systems), and © economic structure (e.g.: waste and pollution free production, local economic resilience). I would deeply appreciate your suggesting individuals who could serve as speakers and resource people in any of these nine areas. You can do so by using the "reply" function to return this email message to my assistant after filling in the spaces below with the name and full contact information for those individuals you would like to hear address any or all of these issues. (If you prefer, a FAX or phone call to the numbers given at the end of this message will also be welcome.) I need your response by September 1, 1999, if possible. If you need additional information or want to discuss the meeting, please give me a call at (540) 231-6571 or send an email to me at <urban@vt.edu <mailto:urban@vt.edu> >. Thank you very much for your assistance, Richard Rich TOPIC POSSIBLE SPEAKER(S)________ I. What does sustainability mean in physical development? II. What does sustainability mean in infrastructure design? III. What does sustainability mean in economic structure? IV. How do we achieve sustainability in physical development? V. How do we achieve sustainability in infrastructure design? VI. How do we achieve sustainability in economic structure? VII. Where are good examples of sustainable development? VIII. Where are good examples of sustainable infrastructure design? VIII. Where are good examples of sustainable economic structure? PLEASE RETURN TO: 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 <mailto:urban@vt.edu> -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- You received this because you are subscribed to "sust-mar", the Sustainable Maritimes mailing list. To unsubscribe, send email to <majordomo@chebucto.ns.ca> with "unsubscribe sust-mar" (without quotes) as the body of your message. To post a message to sust-mar subscribers, send it to <sust-mar@chebucto.ns.ca> Posts that are off-topic or excessive length (10K) will be rejected. For help contact <sust-mar-owner@chebucto.ns.ca>
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