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New Society Goes to Ottawa
We are pleased to be participating in the upcoming Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference: Growing the Green Economy: Practical Solutions for Sustainable Communities being held in Ottawa, Ontario from Feb. 10-12.
Join us at this national forum for leading thinkers and planners on sustainable community development. Keynote speakers include Lester R. Brown (Founder and President of Earth Policy Institute), Mayor David Miller, Avi Friedman, Steven Guibeault and Bob Willard, author of The Sustainability Champion's Guidebook.
The FCM 2010 Sustainable Communities Conference is a one-stop shop for the knowledge, tools and experts that will help you:
- CONSERVE water and energy
- CREATE a sustainable community plan
- DESIGN a low-carbon community
- DIVERT more waste from landfill
- GREEN your buildings and your workforce
- IMPLEMENT environmental pricing reforms
- MANAGE storm water close to the source
- MAP your community’s energy assets
- REDUCE greenhouse gases and COMBAT climate change
- REINVENT a suburb
- TAKE STEPS to create active, walkable communities
- TRANSFORM abandoned sites into vibrant mixed-use or eco-industrial developments
- UNDERSTAND the big picture from a systems thinking perspective
For complete information please check out the Federation of Canadian Municipalities website - hope to see you there!
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