The upcoming Green$ense 2009: Beyond Buildings Conference will offer attendees a closer look at a full spectrum of community benefits that grow with green practices, says Diane Bossart, education manager for the Green Building Alliance, which is organizing the event. This is the GBA’s fifth annual conference to highlight leading-edge practices in sustainable design and the social benefits resulting from them.
“Green is about more than buildings,” Bossart says. “It’s about green jobs, green communities, and the benefits of green building.”
The triangulation between those themes will be drawn by a lineup of speakers whose reputations and experience with issues of environmental design promise both a national and international perspective for an audience that has been registering to attend from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, and West Virginia.
Prominent in that line up will be Jerome Ringo, president of the Apollo Alliance, the nation’s preeminent authority on green jobs and manufacturing and a partner with sustainable projects throughout the United States. (Ringo will also share his insights with attendees at PennFuture’s Fourth Annual conference on Global Warming on Sunday afternoon, March 29, at the Phipps Conservatory.)
Green$ense will also offer its audience an authority on the latest in green market trends–Harvey M. Bernstein, VP of McGraw-Hill Construction, whose SmartMarket Reports provide one of the world’s leading surveys of trends in the green building industry. The impact of green on an entire community will be the theme of Joe Van Belleghem, a partner in Vancouver, British Columbia’s highly successful Windmill West neighborhood.
“In these times, Green$ense offers a great message,” Bossart says. “Green is still a strong market.”
Green$ense 2009 is March 30-31 at Pittsburgh’s Westin Convention Center Hotel and the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
Source: Green Building Alliance, Diane Bossart, Pipitone Group, Scott Henry
Writer: Joseph Plummer
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