Sustainable Communities

Keynote with Sarah James

Speaker: Sarah James
Date: October 8, 2010
Time: 8–10 a.m.
Location: NEW LOCATION
Mid-America Regional Council
600 Broadway, Suite 200
Kansas City, MO 64105
Fee: $25 per person
$15 student rate
$180 for a table of 8

Many local governments in the Greater Kansas City area would like to make their communities more sustainable; however, the first question is often “What should we do?”

Hundreds of communities have found success in planning the future they want through a bottom-up, participatory planning approach. More than 70 Swedish municipalities have become international sustainable community models by adopting guiding sustainability principles and systematically implementing them throughout their governments and surrounding communities.

Learn how we can implement these international sustainability models here in the U.S. from Sarah James, coauthor with Swedish planner Torbjorn Lahti of the award-winning book "The Natural Step of Communities: How Cities and Towns Can Change to Sustainable Practices."

James is a city planner with more than 25 years of experience who specializes in participatory planning approaches. In 2007, she was awarded the Dale Prize from the California Polytechnic Institute at Pomona for her contributions to ecological planning and excellence in urban regional planning.

Participants will learn:

Download the presentation from the Sustainable Communities event (3.9MB pdf)

 

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