Back on May 6, Jennifer Atlee posted here on this blog:
"If I could adopt a conference, it would be the USGBC Cascadia chapter's Living Future 'Unconference'. As someone who generally prefers to stay behind the scenes talking shop, it was a delight to find myself surrounded primarily by the obsessed of the green building world..."
She went on to briefly describe some highlights of the event, and even provided her notes from the presentation she gave, "Be a Product Detective: Sleuthing the Truth About Building Materials".
Now here's some great news for those of us who weren't there: The Living Future 08 conference is now online. Follow these links to audio tracks, powerpoint files, program descriptions, and presenter bios:
· Living Building: Energy and Carbon Neutrality
· Wholistic Engineering: Applied to a Living Building Water System
· Be a Product Detective: Sleuthing the Truth About Building Materials
· The Birds, the Bees, the Flowers and the Trees: Biodiversity in the Urban Environment
· Living Buildings and the Precautionary Principle
· Green Land Development of the Year, LEED-H Platinum. . .Now What?
· BIM and Sustainable Design: Current Abilities and Future Possibilities
· Design for Deconstruction and Zero Waste
· Big Barriers — Financing and Codes
· Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture and Planning
· 15 Minutes of Brilliance: Transformative Solutions for the Next Generation
· New Tools to Assess and Alter the Carbon Impact of Development
· Carbon Markets: How Communities and Buildings are Supplying and Buying into Tradable Offsets
· Green Building Materials Through the Pharos Lens
· Successfully Sourcing Local FSC Products
· Crafting a One Planet Community: What Does Zero Waste and Zero Carbon Really Look Like?
· Charting a Course Towards Water Independence: Achieving Net-Zero Water in Living Buildings
· Residential Remodeling - Model Remodel: Renovating for Massive Change
· Scaling it Up: Beyond Buildings to Low Carbon Communities
· Living Cities — Remaking Our Cities One Neighborhood at a Time
· Alternative Ownership Models and Housing for the Homeless
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