[SustainableTompkins] Greenbuild Denver Conf: anyone going?
Patricia Haines
levelgreen at kaxy.com
Tue Sep 26 07:53:18 PDT 2006
This conference sounds inspiring - is anyone from the Ithaca Green Building Alliance going? who
might be willing to report back to us?
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Subject: Master Speakers, GreenRide, and Other News
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Tradeshow Week’s Fastest 50
The Greenbuild Conference and Expo has been selected by Tradeshow Week, the premier news
magazine of the exhibition industry, as one of the 50 fastest growing trade shows in the U.S. and
Canada. As of the 2005 show, Greenbuild had more than doubled in size since its debut in 2002.
Nearly 10,000 people attended Greenbuild 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia, which featured an impressive
582 exhibitor booths. The inaugural conference in Austin, Texas in 2002 was attended by over
4,000 people and had 220 exhibitor booths.
“We are honored,” said Kimberly Lewis, Director of Conference & Events,
USGBC. “The growth of Greenbuild mirrors the advancement of the green building
industry itself and USGBC is at the forefront. We look forward to what the future will
bring.”
Rising energy costs, global climate change, and increased pollution have recently underscored
the need for a collaborative convention to share advancements and success stories, as well as to
disseminate the educational tools necessary for implementing green practices in the built
environment.
Greenbuild 2006 in Denver promises to surpass even the 2005 event. Highlights include:
* Over 80 educational programs
* More than 700 exhibitor booths
* Dozens of LEED workshops and green building tours
* USGBC member day and Chapter forum
* Thought-provoking keynote speakers
* Master Speakers Series
* USGBC Leadership Awards event
Greenbuild 2006 will provide an international forum for education, news and networking for all
professionals in the built industry.
Winners of the Fastest 50 must qualify as either a trade, association, or consumer show and must
also demonstrate at least 50% growth from 2003 to 2005 and at least 50% growth of total net
square footage from 2003 to 2005. Greenbuild 2005 will be formally recognized by Tradeshow Week
at an awards ceremony this November in Boston.
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Greenbuild Partners With GreenRide
Greenbuild has partnered with GreenRide, a Web-based ride-sharing program, to help attendees
minimize the environmental impact of attending the conference. This exciting new service is being
offered to Greenbuild's attendees free of charge in order to preserve air quality, decrease
traffic congestion, conserve fuel, and promote better health.
GreenRide is a Web-based application developed by Ecology and Environment, Inc. that matches you
to conference attendees with transportation needs similar to your own. You can choose from
several default starting and ending locations, such as the airport and conference hotels, or you
can enter a customized location. To learn more or to sign up today, visit
www.usgbc.greenride.com.
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Master Speaker Highlights:
Eric Chivian, M.D. and Frances Cairncross
The impact of green building ripples far beyond the physical structures themselves. Each year at
Greenbuild, our Master Speakers series helps us deepen our understanding of the relationships
between environmental, human, and economic health. Greenbuild Denver is no exception; we'll
be joined by leading thinkers and visionaries from a broad range of disciplines as we explore
what it means to take green building to a "higher level."
In this month's newsletter, we highlight Dr. Eric Chivian from Harvard University, whose
work focuses on the environment's impact on human health; and Frances Cairncross of Oxford
University, who is renowned for her writing on the economy, the environment, and technology. To
learn more about all our Master Speakers, visit the Greenbuild Web site.
Eric Chivian, M.D.
Harvard Medical School
For more than 14 years, Dr. Eric Chivian has been working to involve physicians in the United
States and abroad in efforts to protect the environment, and to increase public understanding of
the potential human health consequences of global environmental change. In 1996, Dr. Chivian
founded and became director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard
Medical School, the first center at a medical school in the United States focused on this issue.
Today, the Center is a leading source of education and research for medical professionals, media,
the general public, and policy-makers worldwide.
Prior to founding the Center, Dr. Chivian designed and organized the 1992 MIT/Harvard School of
Public Health symposium Human Health and the Environment: the Medical Consequences of
Environmental Degradation, and was senior editor and author of MIT Press’ Critical
Condition: Human Health and the Environment. In 1980, he co-founded (with Professors Bernard
Lown, Herbert Abrams, and James Muller) International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear
War, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.
He is currently directing a project for the World Health Organization and the United Nations to
prepare the most comprehensive report yet available on the impacts of biodiversity on human
health. Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity will be published as a book in
2007 by Oxford University Press, and presented to the United Nations Convention on Biological
Diversity, the U.S. Congress, the European Union, and other policy-maker bodies.
Frances Cairncross
Exeter College, Oxford University
Frances Cairncross, Rector (i.e., dean) of Exeter College, Oxford University, was one of the
first people to recognize the growing impact of the "green" economy on government and
business. While the environment editor at The Economist, Cairncross wrote Costing the Earth
(1992), in which she identifies opportunities for government to set policies that spur innovation
and encourage businesses to develop environmentally responsible products and practices. She
followed this seminal work in 1995 with Green, Inc, which continued her exploration and analysis
of the relationships between the environment, government, and economy.
Cairncross was also at the forefront of the technology revolution. In The Death of Distance
(1997) she predicted the transformative effect of technology on communications, and by extension
on business and the global economy. Her most recent book, The Company of the Future (2002),
posits that technology must become an integral, and integrated, part of every aspect of
business.
Cairncross has served as Rector of Exeter College since 2004. Prior to Exeter, she spent 20
years at The Economist, most recently as management editor. She won the first
Reuter’s-Alpe Action award for her coverage during the six years (1989-1994) she served
as the magazine's environment editor. In 2003, she won the Institute of Internal Auditors
Prize for Excellence in Management. She chairs the Economic and Social Research Council and is
President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (2005-06). She is a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Senior Fellow at the School of Public Policy, UCLA.
Read about other Master Speakers scheduled for Greenbuild 2006.
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"Our end goal is true sustainability," explains Steve Bradfield, Vice President for
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Learn more about Shaw's environmental initiatives.
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USGBC Members:
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Note: Educational sessions and training are not included in a Tradeshow Only Pass.
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3. Enter code usgbc2 on the following page
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