President, CEO & Founding Chairman, U.S. Green Building Council
Wednesday, November 19, 8:00am - 10:00am
Rick Fedrizzi, founding chairman of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) in 1993, was appointed President & CEO in April 2004. Under his leadership, the Council has tripled its membership, broadened its influence, and cemented its role as a leadership voice in the global sustainability movement.
President and Founder, Green For All
Wednesday, November 19, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Van Jones is the founder and president of Green For All where he is working to combine solutions to America's two biggest problems: social inequality and environmental destruction by creating. Van is also a founder of a new national coalition that is promoting the idea of a national "Clean Energy Jobs Corps" as well as the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. He is the recipient of several awards including the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the international Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum "Young Global Leader" and the Rockefeller Foundation "Next Generation Leadership" Fellowship.
Principal, Behnisch Architects, Inc.
Wednesday, November 19, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Since founding the office of Behnisch Architects, Inc. Büro Innenstadt in 1989, Stefan Behnisch has directed the design of dynamic, award-winning buildings that promote sustainability within the built environment. With a design portfolio that includes public buildings, sports facilities, offices, schools, and museums, Behnisch oversees a wide range of global projects at all scales striving to design inclusive buildings that provide maximum benefit to the community as a whole.
Behnisch recently served as the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture. He has been awarded numerous design honors, and was recently designated an "Environmental Champion" by EnvironDesign Journal and Interiors & Sources.
President, Majora Carter Group, LLC
Wednesday, November 19, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
"Green-Collar Jobs" are attracting press and pundits, but few have actually marshaled the resources to get unemployed Americans trained and placed on pathways out of poverty in this growing economic sector. Majora Carter has. Born, raised, and continuing to live in the South Bronx, her work takes her around the world to improve the quality of life in environmentally challenged communities. She founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 and implemented the highly successful Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training (BEST) program- a pioneering green-collar job training and placement system -- seeding communities with a skilled workforce that has both a personal & economic stake in their urban environment. She is currently president of the green-collar economic consulting firm the Majora Carter Group, LLC.
She is a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow who started 2007 as one of Newsweek's "25 To Watch", ended the year as one of Essence Magazine's "25 most Influential African Americans". She has been named one of the "50 most influential women in NYC" by the NY Post for the past two years, and "NYC's most influential environmentalist" by the BBC World Service. Majora is currently recording a special national public radio series called "The Promised Land" for 2009 release.
President, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Thursday, November 20, 8:00am - 9:30am
When Richard Moe became the seventh president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, he brought to the position a lifelong interest in history and a career-long commitment to public service. Since 1993, Moe has led the organization in its mission to save the nation's diverse historic places and create more livable communities for all Americans. Under his direction, the National Trust has greatly strengthened its financial base, reaffirmed its commitment to expanding and diversifying the organized preservation movement, become an outspoken and effective advocate of controlling sprawl and encouraging smart growth, and launched innovative initiatives to demonstrate preservation's effectiveness as a tool for community revitalization and for sustainable development.
Thursday, November 20, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
This session charts the path for a credentialing evolution that supports LEED 2009 and introduces some exciting new changes that will enhance this important credential its role in market transformation. We will also describe the role of GBCI in the LEED certification process.
Thursday, November 20, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Thursday, November 20, 10:00am - 11:30am
Presenters:
Russell Unger, Executive Director, USGBC New York
Dan Geiger, Executive Director, USGBC Northern California
Chris Ladner, President, ecoIntegration and Chair, Past-Chair USGBC Arkansas
Martha Jane Murray, Policy Associate, Clinton Climate Initiative and Founding Chair USGBC Arkansas
Convener:
Jerome Ringo, President, Apollo Alliance
This panel of distinguished USGBC chapter representatives will discuss their local level efforts to bring social equity into the green building movement. Through innovate partnerships, curriculum creation and a dedication to rebuild, all of our panelists identified needs within their communities and are working to fulfill them. By developing the Green Construction Skills Initiative, USGBC New York is creating necessary education and a certification process for building trade professionals. The Northern California Chapter - in partnership with Green for All, founded by Van Jones, businesses and organizations - is forming the Green Jobs Growth Alliance to make green jobs a reality for low-income communities. Through the Arkansas Chapter two initiatives have come to fruition: an affordable homes partnership to revitalize the community and NOLA 100, a rebuilding effort in New Orleans focused on energy conservation technology to bring economic benefits to homeowners.
The 2008 Leadership Award for Organizational Excellence winner was AIA / COTE. The award was accepted by Bob Berkebile.
The 2008 Leadership Award for Education winner was Alex Wilson.
The 2008 Leadership President's Award winner was Andy Karsner.
The 2008 Leadership Award for Organizational Excellence winner was CB Richard Ellis. This award was accepted by Sally Wilson and David Pogue.
The 2008 Leadership Award for Research winner was Davis Langdon. The award was accepted by Davis Langdon, Nick Butcher, Peter Morris, and Lisa Matthiessen.
The 2008 Leadership Award for Advocacy winner was Governor Ted Strickland. The award was accepted by Michael Shoemaker.
Director for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, Yale University
Thursday, November 20, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Known as "The Father of Green Chemistry," having coined the term in 1991, Paul Anastas has worked to develop the field over the past 17 years. He joined the Yale faculty in 2007, where he serves as Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, which advances the sciences, education and use of sustainable technologies. Anastas focuses his research on the design of safer chemicals, bio-based polymers, and new methodologies of chemical synthesis that are more efficient and less hazardous to the environment. He has published nine books and numerous papers on the subject of science and technology for sustainability.
Founder and Managing Director, Nth Power, LLC
Thursday, November 20, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Nancy Floyd is Founder and Managing Director of Nth Power, the most experienced venture capital firm funding startup companies in the growing sector of energy technology. Nth Power is widely known as the driving force behind many of the market leaders in renewable energy, energy efficiency, advanced materials and clean transportation.
Ms. Floyd has led Nth Power's investments in Silicon Energy (Nasdaq: ITRI), Northern Power (Nasdaq: DESC), Smartsynch, Serveron, SpectraSensors and Propel Biofuels. She has been an advisor to the National Renewable Energy Lab, was a board member of Sustainable Asset Management in Zurich, Switzerland and is an active member of E2. She also helped organize the Northwest Business Leaders for Clean Energy campaign and was appointed by Governor Ted Kulongoski to serve on the Oregon Economic and Community Development Commission.
Former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and Founding Partner of Peregrine Technology Partners
Thursday, November 20, 10:00am - 11:30am
Ms. McGinty recently retired as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection where she helped lead the state's successful effort to attract some of the world's top clean technology companies to headquarter and manufacture in the state. Some 3000 new jobs and more than $1 billion in the wind, solar, advanced battery, and conservation industries were secured by the state during her tenure. Ms. McGinty was the first woman to head the state Department of Environmental Protection.
General Session: The Future of the American Home
Thursday, November 20, 2:30pm - 4:00pm
The American home has changed dramatically over the past 100 years and these changes will accelerate over the next 50 years. What will tomorrow's homes look like, how will they be built, how will we live?
The American home is unique throughout the world, a reflection of the unique American way of life. Framed with wood, built on site, located far from urban centers, filled with amenities, and surrounded by large swaths of land, the size of our homes is surpassed only by the resources they consume - features that reflect a boundless country with abundant wealth.
Is this model sustainable? What changes are likely over the next 50 years that will see 135 million new Americans and 65 million new homes? Hear from two renowned thinkers and practitioners on the subject in a lively discussion moderated by the Host of the acclaimed television series This Old House.
Environmentalist and Author
Friday, November 21, 9:00am - 10:00am
Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. He has written several books and is a frequent contributor to various magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Mother Jones, and The National Geographic. In 2007, he founded Step It Up, which organized hundreds of rallies to demand that Congress enact curbs on carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050. Most recently he founded 350.org, an international campaign to unite the world around the number 350, the safe upper limit for atmospheric CO2, which we have currently exceeded.
Director, The National Center for Environmental Health, CDC
Friday, November 21, 9:00am - 10:00am
Howard Frumkin works to maintain and improve the health of the American people by promoting a healthy environment and by preventing premature death, avoidable illness, and disability caused by toxic substances and other environmental hazards. Before joining the CDC, Frumkin was professor and chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, and professor of medicine at Emory Medical School. There he founded and directed the Environmental and Occupational Medicine Consultation Clinic. In 2004 he was named the Environmental Professional of the Year by the Georgia Environmental Council. He is the author or co-author of over 100 scientific journal articles and chapters, and has written numerous books.
Director, Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI)
Wednesday, November 19, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Leith has worked with universities for the last 10 years to achieve organizational change in the pursuit of environmental sustainability. In March of 2000 she established the HGCI, becoming the Director of this emerging organization. She also co-instructs the Harvard Extension School course, Sustainability - The Challenge of Changing Our Institutions. She is the recipient of several awards including the Young Australian of the Year, NSW Environment Category, for her work in establishing the Environmental Management Program at the University of New South Wales, Australia; a Churchill Fellowship to research best practice in university environmental management; and most outstanding paper for her contribution to the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education.
Friday, November 21, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Panelists:
E.O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus and Honorary Curator in Entomology of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
Janine Benyus, Co-Founder and Principal, Biomimicry Guild
Moderator:
Kevin, Klose, President, NPR, Moderator
Come and hear from two of the greatest minds in science today. Kevin Klose will moderate an animated discussion between E.O. Wilson and Janine Benyus on the intersection of science and sustainability. They will discus the importance of biodiversity, the virtues of biomimicry, and how we can learn from the nature that surrounds us all.
This member-only event includes a motivational opening by Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO and Founding Chairman of the U.S. Green Building Council, as well as a dynamic presentation about how to effectively network from Ron Zigmont, President of Dale Carnegie Training. In addition, Steve Curwood, Executive Producer and Host of Living On Earth, leads a panel discussion about climate change and the triple bottom line with Mindy Lubber from Ceres, Ashok Gupta from NRDC and Stockton Williams from Enterprise Community Partners.
The second half of the Member Forum includes the announcement of the 2008 Chapter Award winners in addition to the annual Member Meeting lead by Rebecca Flora, Chair of USGBC Board of Directors. The annual Member Meeting incorporates a presentation about the newly adopted 2009-2013 Strategic Plan and an overview of the 2009 board candidates. The event concludes with remarks from USGBC Founder, David Gottfried, and a special presentation from Rick Fedrizzi.
The 2008 Leadership Award for Community winner is San Diego Gas. The award was accepted by Alex Kim.
The 2008 Leadership Award for LEED winner was Scot Horst.