Monday, August 3, 2015

Sustainability: Scam or Substance?

Fri Feb 21, 2003


You've heard all the terms: Sustainable Development - Green Building - Sustainable Urban Planning.

Sustainability may sound expensive and complicated, but it is moving rapidly from buzz word to standard business practice. Does sustainability really add value -- or is it just another ploy to slow development? Hear from two top practitioners about how sustainability can and will transform how we plan, build, and live on the Westside, whether we like it or not.

Speakers:

Malcolm Lewis, PhD.
President, 
CTG Energetics
National leader in energy and green building, 
LEED
consultant on many Southern California projects including 
Santa
Monica Public Safety Facility
.

Andy Lipkis
Executive Director, 
Tree People
Advisor to LAUSD on 
green schools
strategies
 and developer of the TREES
sustainable urban infrastructure project.

Moderator:
Stephanie Pincetl, PhD.

Co-Chair 
Sustainable Cities
Program
, USC