[Env seminars] Harvard Sustainability Conference Public Keynote and Panel Events (Modified by Karen Gibson)

[Maggie Husak]

"Harvard Vision 2020: A Bridge to Campus Sustainability" Conference
  April 27-29th
  Public Event Registration

  You are invited to join us for a series of Keynote Addresses and Panel 
Discussions focusing on the topic of Harvard Campus Sustainability.

REGISTRATION: Please go to 
http://www.greencampus.harvard.edu/conference/public_event.php to 
register.  You must register in advance to attend.  You will receive a 
confirmation with event location information prior to the event(s) for 
which you have registered.  Space is limited, so please await final 
confirmation before attending.

  Please also note, currently these are the only events of this 
conference of that are being offered to a non-Harvard audience. 

Panel Discussion: "Campus Sustainability, Principles In Practice"
  Thursday, April 27th, 8:45-10:30am
Faculty members will partner with Administration representatives to 
discuss Harvard "Campus Sustainability Principles and Practice."  This 
Panel event will provide a unique background on how the Sustainability 
Principles have taken hold at Harvard. The panel will also provide 
insight into the enormous number of strategies, programs and projects 
that sit within a longer term goal of organizational transformation for 
campus sustainability at Harvard University. 

Presenters:
	• 	Chris Gordon, COO, Allston Development Group
	• 	TomVautin, Associate Vice President for Facilities and 
Environmental Services for Harvard University
	• 	Jim Gray, Associate Vice President of Harvard Real Estate Services
	• 	Ted Mayer, Executive Director for Dining Services
	• 	David Zewinski, Associate Dean for Physical Resources and Planning 
in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
	• 	Andrew O'Brien , COO, Harvard Business School
	• 	Danny Beaudoin, Manager, Facilities Energy and Utilities, Harvard 
School of Public Health


Keynote Address by Boston Mayor Tom Menino & Harvard President Larry 
Summers
  Thursday, April 27th, 5:15-6:30pm


  Keynote Address: The Honorable Timothy E. Wirth, "Climate and the 
University"
  Friday, April 28th, 9:00-10:15am


  Faculty Vision for Harvard: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
  Friday, April 28th, 12:45-2:00pm
Join a uniquely interdisciplinary panel of eminent Harvard Faculty for 
a dynamic discussion about the future of campus sustainability at 
Harvard. The panelists will be invited to explore their own visions of 
what a sustainable Harvard might look like and the particular role that 
Faculty could and perhaps should play in making Harvard a global model 
of campus environmental sustainability.

Presenters:
	• 	Eric Chivian, Director of the Center for Health & the Global 
Environment; Associate of Pforzheimer House; Assistant Clinical 
Professor of Psychiatry, HMS
	• 	Bill Clark , Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science 
Public Policy and Human Development
	• 	Niall Kirkwood, Professor of Landscape Architecture; Chair of the 
Department of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Master in 
Landscape Architecture Degree Programs, GSD
	• 	Dan Schrag, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Associate of 
Pforzheimer House, FAS and HUCE
	• 	Jack Spengler, Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health 
and Human Habitation, and Director of the Environmental Science and 
Engineering Program in the Department of Environmental Health, at 
Harvard, HSPH
    
Panel Discussion: "World's Best Practice in Large Scale Planning and 
Development"
  Friday, April 28th, 4-5:30pm
This panel event brings together some of our foremost practitioners in 
the field of master planning for sustainability, both within the USA 
and abroad.  When planning for large new developments we have the 
greatest opportunity to set a path towards sustainability. We also face 
the greatest barriers to doing so.

  This panel will reveal the nature of the political, technical and 
financial complexities that are at play in the master planning process 
for large new developments, exploring opportunities for transcending 
these barriers and planning effectively for sustainability.The audience 
will hear about courageous planning efforts that are making early 
commitments such as climate neutral development, complete on site 
treatment of water and sewage and the equivalent of a LEED platinum 
commitment for all building structures. We will share in what these 
pioneering efforts have to teach us all as we find our own roles in a 
world of ongoing development and global environmental decline.

Presenters:
	• 	John Gattuso, Vice President of Liberty Property Trust, one of the 
nations largest real estate investment trusts (NYSE: LRY) specializing 
in office and industrial properties.
	• 	Brian Wakelin, Associate Principle for Busby Perkins + Will. One of 
the principals in charge of the Dockside Lands in Victoria, a 1 million 
sq.ft. of mixed use development, that is based on a Triple Bottom Line 
criteria of social, economic and environmental responsibility
	• 	Tom Miller, Director of Economic Development, Boston Redevelopment 
Authority.
	• 	Jody Andrews, Project Manager, Southeast False Creek and 2008 
Winter Olympic Athlete's Village, a 50 acre development with a proven 
commitment to offer the world a model for a high density, inner-city, 
comprehensively planned, environmentally, socially and economically 
sustainable community.

Keynote Address: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., "


Challenging Harvard to be a green leader"
Friday, April 28th, 6-7pm


  Panel Discussion: "Student Leaders, an Interdisciplinary Perspective"
  Saturday, April 29th, 10:00-11:30am
Students are literally the voices of the future, and in the Students' 
Panel you'll hear theirs loud and clear. Representatives of six Harvard 
schools will share their personal visions of a sustainable Harvard, 
describing what they want to see and how their schools can help us get 
there. The audience will have plenty of time in which to interact with 
panelists and find out more about the student perspective on 
sustainability.

Presenters:
	• 	Michelle Rosier, KSG
	• 	Justine Kwiatkowski, GSD
	• 	Lara Freeman, HDS
	• 	Sameer Doshi, HLS
	• 	Jeremy Tchou, FAS
	• 	Faon O'Connor, FAS
	• 	Matthew Altman, HMS
	• 	Michael Keating, HBS






Maggie Husak
  Coordinator of Communications, Finance and Administration
  Harvard Green Campus Initiative
  46 Blackstone Street
  Cambridge, MA 02139

  (ph)    617-496-1278
  (f)     617-495-9409
  (e)     maggie_husak at harvard.edu
  (w)     http://www.greencampus.harvard.edu


Check out HGCI events and activities this Spring '06!
First Ever Harvard campus-focused Sustainability Conference
  April 27th-29th, Harvard Cambridge Campus
  Open to Harvard Staff, Faculty, Students and Alumni
SPACE IS LIMITED!  REGISTER TODAY!
http://www.greencampus.harvard.edu/conference/