Sustainability Forum to Look at Using Resources Wisely in Development
January 23, 2002
Environmentalist, entrepreneur and best-selling author Paul Hawken is one of six community development experts who will speak in a three-part forum on "Sustainability and the Built Environment" beginning Feb. 6 at the University of Richmond.
Hawken is author of six books, including "The Ecology of Commerce," voted the 1998 top college text on business and the environment, and "Growing a Business," which became the basis for a 17-part PBS series.
Each program will feature two speakers who will give their views on sustainability, or using resources wisely while developing communities. Sponsored by the university's Urban Practice and Policy program, sessions will begin at 7 p.m. in Jepson Hall, room 118. The programs are free and open to the public.
The series begins Feb. 6 with "Architecture and Green Building." Speaking will be William McDonough, former dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, and Adam Kowalewski, an architect and chairman of the Polish National Secretariat for the Habitat Agenda. He is also permanent representative of Poland to the United Nations Center for Human Settlements and the U.N. Environmental Program.
The forum continues Feb. 22 with ""New Urbanism, Haymount and the Law." Speakers are John Clark, developer of Haymount in Caroline County, Va., and one of the nation's leading proponents of low-density, environmentally conscious land development; and Daniel Slone, a partner in McGuireWoods, who works in environmental solutions and real estate.
The final program on April 3 will feature Hawken and Dennis Creech, author of "A Homebuyer's Guide to Energy Efficient and Passive Solar Homes" and the House Doctor column in the "Atlanta Journal Constitution." He is also co-founder of Southface Energy Institute, a private, nonprofit organization that conducts research in energy, sustainable technologies and applied building sciences.