Annual Retreat
Collaborate, Innovate, Create a
Green Future
Annual Members' Retreat 2007
October 19-21
Mark your calendars now! Save the Date! This year’s Retreat is gonna be Great! Join us October 19th – 21st at Pilgrim Firs Conference Center outside Port Orchard, Washington for a weekend full of fun, learning, and camaraderie!
This year's presentations focus on the need for our Guild to "Collaborate, Innovate, Create a Green Future".
- Jason McLennan is our Saturday Keynote speaker. Jason is the director of the US Green Building Council's Cascadia Chapter. Known as an international thought leader in the green architecture movement, he has authored the "Living Building Challenge" and the "Pharos Project". He will discuss the quickly emerging trends in the world of green architecture, design, and construction with an emphasis on the need to construct a world of living buildings.
- Carol Venolia, a North California architect and educator, frequent contributer to Natural Home Magazine, and co-author of "Natural Remodeling for the Not So Green House", will be our Sunday Keynote. She will explore how the interaction of the cycles of nature and the rich sensory textures of the living world can be used as an inspiration for the ways to satisfy our human needs and wishes while respecting and nurturing the health of the natural world.
- Patti Southard of King County Metro will present King County’s Green Building Program "GreenTools", a toolkit developed to assist suburban cities in the creation of green building programs and the development of livable communities.
- Jonathan Campbell , a cultural anthropologist, will be talking about Sustainable Business Planning in Developing Countries.
- Sandy Bishop, Executive Director and co-founder of the Lopez Island Community Land Trust, will explore some key elements required in the process of providing sustainable community-based affordable housing.
- Jonathan Scherch, who teaches Permaculture at Antioch University Seattle, will draw on his teaching, research, and global experiences in sustainable development and ecological design to discuss permaculture design.
- Beyond Fossil Fuels is a presentation developed by Charlie Stephens, energy consultant and former senior energy policy analyst at the Oregon Department of Energy, exploring how declining fossil fuel production and climate change will create profound changes in our economy and communities.
- Architect Ross Chapin will share with us his current collaborative effort, The Coles Project: a community- and environment-enhancing, mixed-use development on 28 acres near Langley, Washington. That will doubtless lead to many thought-provoking and inspirational discussions.
We’ll also have presentations on:
- Comparing Green Rating Systems - Panel Discussion with Tom Balderston
- Solar in the Developing World with Brad Burkhartzmeyer
- Dealing with Difficult Clients, a seminar by the Seattle based law firm of Linville-Ursich
- Our Wonderful, Annual Slideshow of Member Projects
- And Much, much More!
We’re looking for examples of projects that highlight the collaboration between Guild Members. Do you have a favorite job you’d like to share? Please send List of Guild Member businesses who worked on the project, a brief description, and photos to:
Sandra Fugate
NWEBG Retreat Coordinator,
203 East 4th Ave Suite 221
Olympia, WA 98501
OR email them to retreat@ecobuilding.org.
Thanks in advance!!!
If you were at last year’s Retreat, you already know how valuable it was - and how inspiring. If you weren’t, ask other Guild members who were there. View Tom Bender's photo review of last year's retreat and read Jennifer's and Chariti's 2006 retreat summary! Or, better yet, come find out for yourself this year!
And…It’s not too early to begin thinking about what you want to donate to the Retreat Silent Auction.
See you there,
Bruce Millard
Guild President
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