Presented by Cascadia Region Green Building Council

"Beyond 'public' and 'private': Lessons in community-based sustainable design from Recode Oregon"

Speaker: Brenna Bell, Environmental lawyer and educator; Co-founder, Tryon Life Community Farm

When: November 18, 2010 - 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

Where: Roundhouse Community Centre (Performance Centre), 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver

About the talk:

Recode Oregon is a community group that engages the grassroots as leaders in changing local and state regulations that inhibit sustainable building and land use. This talk will discuss Recode's successful campaign to legalize the re-use of graywater in Oregon, drawing lessons about how we can unleash community driven planning to facilitate decentralized, coordinated innovation in the values and practices of sustainable urban living. 

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Presented by Cascadia Region Green Building Council

"The Net Zero Energy Life in Canada"

Speaker: Sevag Pogharian, Principal & Founder, SPD

When: October 28, 2010 - 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Where: Roundhouse Community Centre (Performance Centre), 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver

About the talk:

Montreal architect Sevag Pogharian is pushing the borders of net zero buildings by creating the Alstonvale Net Zero House, one of the Winning Projects in Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's EQuilibrium (TM) Sustainable Housing Demonstration Initiative. The Alstonvale Home strives to:

- generate all the energy required for the household's domestic needs
- generate all the energy required for the household's local transportation needs;
- integrate homescale agriculture in order to displace the industrial food system and enhance a household's food energy balance

Mr. Pogharian will share his experience creating the Alstonvale Net Zero House and discuss ways in which this project may serve as a model to advance net zero builiding practices in Canada. 

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Presented by Cascadia Region Green Building Council

"Creating a Real Wealth Economy for a Just and Sustainable Cascadia"

Speaker: David Korten, Author, When Corporations Rule the World and Agenda for a New Economy

When: September 30, 2010 - 12:30 PM to 2:0O PM

Where: Roundhouse Community Centre (Performance Centre), 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver

About the talk:

We humans are awakening to the reality that we are living beings and that life, by its nature, can exist only in community. The framework for a New Economy is designed to bring humans into balance with Earth's biosphere, equitably share the wealth of our common human heritage, and make democracy a living practice. It's time to turn away from the economic system ruled by global corporations and financial markets and create a future in which economic power is rooted in people and communities of place.

Visionary author and lecturer Dr. David Korten will speak on the themes of his most recent book, Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, which sets forth a framework for an economy designed to bring humans into balance with Earth's biosphere, equitably share the wealth of our common human heritage, and make democracy a living practice.

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Both Cascadia members, non-members and anyone interested in sustainability are welcome to come out and enjoy a relaxed evening networking with people in the green building industry and finding out more about the great work and events of Vancouver Branch of Cascadia.  Enjoy a scrumptious summer dinner (local and/or organic and/or socially responsible food with meat and vegetarian options) out on the patio and a cash bar.  Volunteers get two free drinks as a thank you for all their hard work and enthusiasm!

When: Wednesday, June 24; 6pm - 9pm

Where: Vancouver - HR MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut St.

Cost: Tickets are $16 if by noon on June 22nd, or $25 at the door.

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With global climate change upon us, we are challenged to find a way of living that will ensure the longevity and health of our environmental, economic, and social resources. Since buildings are responsible for approximately 40% of carbon dioxide emissions each year, considerable focus has been placed on the construction of new green buildings. Discussion about the importance of improving and re-using our existing building stock – and especially our historic buildings – is largely absent from the conversations about climate change.

"Pharos Project + Green Building Materials Selection"

Jessica Woolliams, British Columbia Co-Director, Cascadia Region Green Building Council

BC is the
province with the highest number of LEED certified buildings per capita (34 at