Please join us for an engaging session with international experts in our presentation and discussion session “World Green City”. The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival believes that as our populations become more urban, celebrating urban nature and our sustainable communities will become the way of the future. You will meet representatives from UNEP SBCI, UBC CIRS and iiSBE, bringing forward a vision for Vancouver as a World Green City. Our panel of experts will share international initiatives around the way we design and measure our cities, and some of the programs for celebrating success that are already changing how we live together in our communities. Celebrate new ideas, meet new organizations, be inspired by the tremendous positive change that is happening now around the world. Deputy City Manager, Sadhu Johnston, will moderate the lecture.
Speakers:
Teresa Coady, AIBC, AAA, OAA, AIA, FRAIC, RI, LEED Fellow. Teresa is on the UNEP-SBCI (United Nations Environment Programme’s Sustainable Building and Climate Initiative) Advocacy Committee, newly appointed COO of Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning Ltd (Kasian) and is currently Director and past-Chair of the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Society.
Gordon Shymko, P. Eng., LEED AP BD+C, Green Globes Certifier. Gordon is an award-winning engineering consultant from Calgary representing the iiSBE (International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment).
Dr. Ray Cole, BSc, PhD. Ray is the new Director of UBC’s Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) and Professor of Architecture at the University of British Columbia School (UBC) with areas of expertise in sustainable communities and sustainable design.
Credits: The lecture is eligible for continuing education credits with the BCSLA, AIBC and APEG.
Tickets: $20.00 + tax and may be purchased at www.vcbf.ca
