Annual Retreat
Presentation Overview
NW Ecobuilding Guild Annual Members’ Retreat
October 17-19, 2008
"Deep Green"
Saturday, October 18, 2008
9:30 - 11am - Saturday Keynote Presentation - Fireside Room
Meror Krayenhof,
Meror Krayenhof,
"Greenbuilding – Vision and Current Reality"
Meror Krayenhof, environmental builder and inventor and principal of SIREWALL, will explore what's going on behind green building. Why do we build the way we do? What's really driving the action? He will also lead us in a global look at excellence in the rammed earth domain. How is it done now? What's possible? Come and be inspired by the optimism afforded by the choices and technologies available to us – and see how they fit into the green building sea change.
1:15 - 2:30pm - Fireside Room
Joanie Parsons, Parsons Public Relations, President
1:15 - 2:30pm - NE Room Joanie Parsons, Parsons Public Relations, President
"Marketing Your Deep Green Project"
When marketing your green building, how do you effectively communicate your commitment to sustainability? How do you find and tell the right stories? What do the media want to know? And what do consumers need to know? Joanie Parsons, president and chief strategic advisor of Parsons Public Relations, will answer these questions and more during her workshop on how to market your deep green project. With the help of case studies, she will provide creative strategies for grabbing the media’s interest. She will also discuss how to build the buzz for your project by using social marketing tactics.
Tom Campbell
2:45 - 4pm - Fireside Room"Getting Green: Connecting Planning, Low Impact Development, and Housing"
Tom will discuss the drafting of Washington’s ‘growth management act,’ different policy goals, and how they play out at the design level. Citizen participation is an important component of his work. He is working on the New Orleans Rebuilding Plan and helping to develop the design criteria for the World Trade Center.
He will share his experiences with design choices and the permitting of Clearwater Commons, a low impact development. Tom will also cover the ecosystem challenges of creating “scale” in low impact developments.
Brandon Tauscher
2:45 - 4pm - NE Room"Living Building House at Felida
Communities"
A joint partnership of Project Green Build and Fazzolari Custom Homes of Vancouver, WA, the Felida Living House marries craftsmanship, education, and sustainability in suburban Clark County. Built in Messner Estates, a bungalow-style community, it will serve as an educational classroom to help the building industry, code officials, and the general public to understand the systems, cost, and performance of a Living Building. Open for tours, the partnership will use sponsorships, donations, and trades in-kind to subsidize costs of construction, with profits from the sale of the home to be used for further green building education in Clark County.
Chris Herman
"NW Solar: Carbon Free, Nuclear Free"4:15 - 5:30pm - Fireside Room
Chris Herman will bring us up to date on incorporating solar into our projects. He will also give a summary of the recently developed Carbon Free/Nuclear Free Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy.
Jon Alexander
4:15 - 5:30pm - NE Room"Early Adopters’ Interactive Workshop – The Next Level"
The tide has turned. As awareness of global warming and green building surges forward, those of us in the green building field are now in the midst of an enormous opportunity to expand the growth of green building in a powerful & sustainable way.
This highly participatory workshop is designed to support break-through thinking and collective action to take advantage of this opportunity. Jon Alexander will offer a cresting wave of information and provide a facilitated environment to support and enable the masters of green building to exchange ideas and strengthen their networks. BYO surf board & be ready for some collective surfing on big waves!
Mark Buehrer
"Wholistic Engineering for Living Building Water Systems"
Mark Buehrer, founder of 2020 Engineering, will tell us about how a Living Building Water System mimics nature and, by doing so, is based on “closed-loop” design that integrates the reuse of water and nutrients to provide on-site solutions with both economical and environmental benefits.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
9 - 10:15am - Sunday Keynote Presentation - Fireside RoomRay Levesque
10:30 - 11:45am"Green Dreams in the Red World"
Ray Levesque will bring us some of the questions that inform decision-making for tribal home development. It is a constant exercise in balancing the competing interests of the tribe, federal programs, individual initiative, cultural factors, faith-based assistance, and new construction strategies. As we look for deeper shades of green, how do we create the opportunity for neighbors to share energy, communication and disposal functions? Can a homeowner's association bear the weight of becoming a utilities management office? Can we legislate "green" neighborhoods? What is the cultural cost of "efficiency"? Is there a difference between "renter's green" and "homeowner's green"? What are the tribal barriers to efficiency, especially the "utility franchise"? Is "smoking salmon" anti-green?
Jim Blodgett
"Clever Solutions Old and New - a hosted Interactive Forum"
Join the discussion on such wide-ranging topics as Passive Annual Heat Storage, Prefab Green, and Living Roofs. Tell us of ideas and techniques you’ve tried and how they worked – or things you want to know more about. Guild members have a lot of experience with innovative techniques and it’s time to share them.
After lunch, we’ll have our Closing Circle and celebrate the life and work of long time green Architect and past NWEBG Board President, Chris Stafford. Then we’ll have a Tree Planting in our memorial grove at Pilgrim Firs.
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