From sarena@u.washington.edu Tue Feb 27 14:39:35 2001 Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (root@jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.10]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id OAA87684; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:39:21 -0800 Received: from homer30.u.washington.edu (sarena@homer30.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.40]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id OAA29068; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:39:18 -0800 Received: from localhost (sarena@localhost) by homer30.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id OAA06604; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:39:17 -0800 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:39:16 -0800 (PST) From: Sarena Seifer To: , Subject: Conference on urban sustainability, Vancouver, BC Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Leadership and Innovation for Urban Sustainability in the Georgia Basin-Puget Sound Region March 15-16 Conference, Empire Landmark Hotel, Vancouver, BC Join over 200 leaders from the business, government, non-profit, community, youth and First Nations communities of BC and Washington in planning for the sustainable future of our rapidly-growing bi-national region. Hear how they're designing green buildings and communities, coping with regional planning and development challenges and dealing with air and water quality, open space, housing and transportation issues. Featured speakers from BC and Washington cover the full spectrum of business, government, non-profit and community expertise. The list includes: . David Baxter, Urban Futures Institute, Vancouver - trend-spotter, provider of early warning information on demographic, economic and lifestyle changes in the region . Milenko Matanovic, Pomegranate Center, Issaquah, Washington - educator, musician, designer of community gathering spaces . Michael Geller, Burnaby Mountain Development Corporation - developer of an innovative new sustainable community at Simon Fraser University . Alan Thein Durning, Northwest Environment Watch, Seattle - visionary author, who provides a description of the new sustainable Northwest and a road map of how to get there . Patrick Condon, University of British Columbia - expert in the design of sustainable urban landscapes . Blair McCarry, Keen Engineering - engaged in green design and engineering projects in North America and world-wide. Learn how you can join them by visiting the conference Web site at www.marh.gov.bc.ca/GROWTH/CONFERENCE or contact Candice Velasco at Tel. (604) 983-3173 or Email candice@devonknight.com .