Ecocity World Summit 2008: Program

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Main Hall Topics

Nob Hill Masonic Center, San Francisco

The Future of Cities, Towns and Villages

"What do cities do for humanity and to nature?"

"What do cities, towns and villages have to do with the triple crisis of climate change, species extinctions and coming peak oil and energy scarcity?"

"Can we run whole cities on renewable energy and maintain a good quality of life for everyone? (In the long run is there anything else to run them on?)

"Can we transform cities in time to solve these serious problems of the environment?"

"How can we prioritize and plan for the shift from unhealthy to ecologically healthy cities, towns and villages, and how should these models be crafted so that they can be adopted by both developing and developed countries?"

The Future of Land Use and Cities, Towns and Villages

"How do basic land use arrangements work for or against social and economic vitality, energy conservation, open space and nature, and for or against natural restoration and health, from the local to the global?"

"How can cities be reshaped to cover far less land area while increasing livability and energy efficiency?"

"What can governments do to regulate and govern the use of land without encroaching on individual rights?"

"How can nature be restored and celebrated inside cities as well as outside?"

"What is the relationship between population, wealth, and land use?"

The Future of Architecture/Design and Cities, Towns and Villages

"What is the difference between “green building” and arrangements of buildings that create healthy built environments for entire communities, including low-income residents?"

"What are examples of architectural and design features that larger buildings can adopt for different climate zones and building styles? "

"In an ecological city, how can architecture and design reflect the human scale within the taller and more compact built environment? "

"How do architects design with an understanding and relationship to their immediate surroundings, the natural environment, and the whole city structure? "

"Now that nearly everyone is claiming "green" credentials,how can we quickly sort out the viable solutions from all the green hype?"

The Future of Transportation and Cities, Towns and Villages

"What are the main modes of transportation worldwide, and then broken down into regions of the world?"

"How does the automobile impact the overall form and function of the city?"

"What forms of transportation best support the ecocity model?"

"What relationship does land use have to transportation?"

"How can cities start shifting subsidies over towards forms of transportation that fit the ecocity model?"

The Future of Energy and Cities, Towns and Villages

"What do we primarily use energy for and where does it come from at present?"

"What is “peak oil” and how will it impact us in the future?"

"What energy sources and technologies are going to be able to address the needs of the future without further damage to the environment and atmosphere?"

"How does the form and efficiency of the built environment correlate to energy and natural resource supply and demand?"

"What are the consequences of trying to maintain a fossil fuel based form of transportation and land use (private automobiles/sprawl) on another transport energy source, like biofuels? "

The Future of Nature and the Built Human Environment

"What is the state of the world’s environment, on land and in the oceans and atmosphere?"

"How have humans impacted the health of the planet?"

"How have cities, towns, and villages specifically contributed to environmental degradation?"

"How can the built environment be changed to help save the natural environment?"

"How can we stop climate change and save species from extinction?"

The Future of Food and Cities, Towns and Villages

"How did populations feed themselves in the past, and how did that change after the discovery of oil?"

"Can the big agribusiness model be sustainable?"

"Can local and regional farms and organic farming be economically and ecologically sustainable and can they adequately supply the needs of the world’s cities, towns and villages?"

"How does government subsidy and policy determine what kind of food is produced and how it is distributed, and how could that change in order to support the transition to more locally based food systems?"

"What are the impacts on hunger if crops are increasingly shifted over from food to fuel to maintain automobile fleets?"

The Future of Consumption and Population and Cities, Towns and Villages

"On a global scale, who is over-consuming natural resources and by how much?"

"How can we address problems of over consumption and overpopulation?"

"Is there a level of consumption that everyone could aspire to that would afford a good quality of life without destroying the biosphere?"

"How does the structure of the city, town and village relate to consumption of resources per capita?"

"If we built cities to run on a fraction of the energy and resources they do now, approximately how many people could the earth support?"

The Future of Business and Cities, Towns and Villages

"What is the main purpose of doing business?"

"Is the corporate business model helping or hurting overall?"

"Should businesses be more global or more local in order to benefit the most people and the environment?"

"What role does government play in making sure businesses are protecting and serving the citizens and the environment as well as their own interests?"

"What efforts and models are available that demonstrate a shift from big business to locally owned and operated businesses supporting a local economy?'

The Future of Government and Cities, Towns and Villages

"How are governments currently addressing the problems of climate change and its impact on citizens, the economy, the environment and the future?"

"How can government lead us from the Age of Oil into a new Ecological Era?"

"What governments are taking a leadership role in addressing the needs of the present and a future facing climate change, peak oil and other environmental, social and economic problems?"

"How can governments work together to address problems of climate change, over-consumption, population, social justice, biodiversity collapse and other serious problems facing humanity?"

Program - Ecocity World Summit

Ecocity World Summit Pre-Conference Public Event

World View of Global Warming and How Cities Can Save the Earth

Monday, April 21, 2008

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Herbst Theater, 401 Van Ness Ave.

Event Sponsor: Autodesk

Public Box Office for this event is now open.

Program: Gary Braasch, photographer and author, Earth Under Fire, How Global Warming is Changing the World (University of California Press, 2007), will present his past and present record of climate change around the world with emphasis on cities, their contributions to the problems of the world’s environment, and whole systems initiatives for change.

Ecocity World Summit Academic and Talent Scouting Sessions – Day One Tuesday, April 22 University of California at Berkeley Extension, 95 Third Street (at Mission)
8:00am	Registration - Check-in
8:00am-4:30pm	Academic Sessions Morning Plenary: Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street Afternoon Sessions: UC Berkeley Extension, 95 Third Street Download Program View Academic Sessions by Day Online
7:00pm	Evening Mixer Yerba Buena Center, hosted by Urban Re:Vision
Academic Sessions – Day Two Wednesday, April 23 University of California at Berkeley Extension, 95 Third Street (at Mission)
8:00am	Registration - Check-in
8:00am-4:30pm	Academic Sessions
Main Conference Opening Plenary Wednesday, April 23 Nob Hill Masonic Center Auditorium, 1111 California Street, San Francisco
7:00pm	Welcome and Opening Comments Richard Register, Conference Co-convener, Ecocity Builders Rusong Wang, Co-convener, Chinese Academy of Science Jared Blumenfeld, Director, SF Department of the Environment Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco, CA, Greetings from Past Conference Conveners Paul Downton, Australia Joan Bokaer,United States Serigne M'baye Diene, Senegal Cleon Ricardo dosSantos, Brazil Rusong Wang, China International Greetings from World Sampling of Presenters Rosemary Enie, Cameroon Ambika Shukla, India Margareth Sagevik, France Shanta Lall Mulmi, Nepal Janet Larsen, Washington, DC Sahar Attia, Egypt Carol Whiteside, California *Keynote Address* Jaime Lerner, former Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, co-founder of IPPUC (Institute of Urban Planning and Research of Curitiba)
9:00-10:00pm	Reception
Main Conference - Day One Thursday, April 24 MAIN HALL TOPICS: FUTURE OF CITIES AND NATURE, GOVERNMENT GREENING Nob Hill Masonic Center, 1111 California Street
8:00am	Registration - Check-in
9:00-10:30am	Early Morning Session - Main Hall The Future of Cities, Towns and Villages Stephen Schneider, Climatologist, Stanford University. Stanford, CA Rusong Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peoples Congress of China Serigne Mbaye Dine, Village Leader, Yoff, Senegal Reid Ewing, Urban Land Institute, Maryland Brent Toderian, Director of Planning, Vancouver, Canada Moderator: Jared Blumenfeld, Director, San Francisco Department of the Environment
10:35-10:55am	Tea
10:55am-12:15pm	Mid Morning Session - Main Hall The Future of Nature and the Built Environment Ambika Shukla, president, Animals for People, Deli, India Marsha McNutt, CEO, Monterey Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA Emmanuel Mukete, naturalist, Director of EPA of Cameroon, on the Mt. Cameroon and Congo Basin environments Janet Larsen, Director of Research, Earth Policy Institute, Washington, DC Moderator: Lesley Nagy, Host, TV 20, San Francisco
12:15-1:30pm	Lunch
1:30-2:45pm	Early Afternoon Session - Main Hall Reshaping Cities, Greening Government Parris Glendening, Former Governor of Maryland; President, Smart Growth Leadership Institute Dan Beard, Chief Administrative Office, US House of Representatives, Washington DC, Green the Capitol Initiative Moderator: Jared Blumenfeld, Director, San Francisco Department of the Environment
3:00-6:00pm	Concurrent Tours: A. BART Infill Development Tour (to the East Bay) Host: Bay Area Rapid Transit B. SF Waterfront Bicycle Tour Hosts: San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and San Francisco Neighborhood Parks Council C. CA Academy of Sciences LEED Green Building and Green Roofs Host: SF Environment, CA Academy of Sciences D. Downtown and Chinatown Walking Tour Host: San Francisco City Guides E. Crissy Field Wetlands Tour Hosts: Nature in the City, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy F. MUNI Infill Development Tour (San Francisco) Hosts: SF Municipal Transportation Agency, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Please Note: Those not participating in an off-site tour have the option of remaining at Nob Hill Masonic Center for a screening of A Convenient Truth, Urban Solutions from Curitiba in the Auditorium, followed by a discussion session with the filmmakers, Maria Vaz and Giovanni V.Del Bello
6:00-7:00pm	Dinner, Nob Hill Masonic Center
7:30-9:30pm	Terra Musica Special Evening Event, Masonic Center Auditorium with Green Music Network – Mark Deutsch, instrument inventor, Steven Baker, instrument inventor, Alan Tower, composer, Irina Rivkin, songwriter Imagery by Quang-Tuan Luong, photographer Free for conference delegates. Tickets on sale to the public online through Ecocity World Summit.
Main Conference - Day Two Friday, April 25 MAIN HALL TOPICS: TRANSPORTATION, ENERGY, TECHNOLOGY, CONSUMPTION, POPULATION, EQUITY Nob Hill Masonic Center and Grace Cathedral
8:00am	Registration - Check-in
9:00-10:30am	Early Morning Session – Main Hall The Future of Transportation and City Structure Jeff Kenworthy, world expert on urban form and function, Perth, Australia Fiona Ma, CA State Assembly Majority Whip, Chair of the Legislative High-Speed Rail Caucus Wulf Daseking, Director of Planning, City of Freiburg, Germany Moderator: Peter Albert, Deputy Director, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
10:35-10:55am	Tea
10:55am-12:15pm	Late Morning Sessions (concurrent) Main Hall: The Future of Energy Tuned to Cities, Towns and Villages Nancy McFadden, Sr. VP, Public Affairs, PG&E, past Deputy Chief of Staff to US Vice President Al Gore, past Chief Counsel to US Department of Transportation Charlie Ricker, Senior Vice President, Bright Source Energy, (solar energy), Oakland CA and Jerusalem, Israel Peter Droege, Chair, World Council for Renewable Energy, Asia Pacific, author, “Renewable City,” Sydney, Australia Moderator: Wade Crowfoot, Sustainability Officer, San Francisco Mayor's Office
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 1: Water and Infrastructure Betsy Damon, artist, international water planning strategist, US and China David Hammond, biomimetic waste water treatment, Princple, GO2 Water, Berkeley Margo Young, Environmental Design and Management Limited, Halifax, Nova Scotia Moderator: Sarah Minick, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, Waterwise Program
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 2: Ecocity Mapping Wendy Brawer, Director, local-global participatory engagement with GreenMap System, New York City Ian Hanou, NCDC (Native Communities Development Corp.) Imaging, Native-American-owned GIS mapping for urban forestry and water planning, Colorado Springs, Colorado Richard Smith, Ecocity Mapping System, Ecocity Builders, Oakland and Berkeley Moderator: Richard Register, Ecocity 7 Conference Co-convener
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 3: Africa in the World Serigne Mbaye Dine, traditional village leader, host and co-convener of the Third International Ecocity Conference, Yoff, Senegal Mike Korchinsky, Wildlife Works, local economy to support wildlife protection in Kenya, San Francisco-based Rosemary Enie, women, water and related environmental and economic issues, Cameroon Moderator: Arthur Monroe, Art Department Registrar, Oakland Museum of California
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 4: Rails to Ecocities Christopher Swan, author, solar rail inventor and advocate, San Francisco David Vasquez, Public Vision Research imagery and strategy for rails and ecocities, San Francisco Andy Kunz, rail expert and advocate, Washington DC Moderator: Dave Room, Bay Localize, Oakland, CA
12:15-1:30pm	Lunch
1:30-3:00pm	Early Afternoon Sessions (concurrent) Main Hall : The Future of Information Technology and Cities, Towns and Villages Doug Eberhard, Senior Director, Autodesk Geospatial Division, new systems for design and planning visualizations, San Rafael, CA Colin Grant, Founder and CEO, Visible Strategies, strategy mapping and reporting software, Vancouver, Canada Gil Friend, CEO, Natural Logic, metrics for successful sustainable businesses, Berkeley, CA Moderator: Michael Gosney, infotech media guru
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 5: Density and Equity John Holtzclaw, Director of Sierra Club Challenge to Sprawl Campaign, San Francisco Rajiv Bhati, Director, Occupational & Environmental Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco Jack Sylvan, Project Manager, Base Reuse and Development, San Francisco Mayor's Office, on Treasure Island and other base conversion strategies Moderator: Kelley Kahn, Senior Planner, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 6: Eco-Frameworks for Long-Term Sustainable Urban Development Stephen Engblom, EDAW, Principal, Urban Designer, San Francisco Dr. Tony Wong, EDAW, Principal, Melbourne, Australia and CEO, Facility for Advancing Water Biofiltration (Monash University) Claire Bonham Carter, Director of Sustainable Development, EDAW/DMJM+HN, San Francisco Diana C. Mendes, DMJM Harris, Senior Vice President, National Director of Transit Planning, Washington DC Moderator: Lisa Fisher, urban planner at EDAW, San Francisco
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 7: Bicycles - Best Personal Transport Invention Ever! Josh Squire, Cyclocity rental program of Paris and Lyon, France, JCDecaux North America Maya Carson, Cycles of Change, bicycle youth education and advocacy Leah Shahum, Executive Director, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Moderator: Ron Bishop, Architect, Oakland, CA
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 8: Land and Water Conservation and Stewardship Huey Johnson, founder of Resource Renewal Institute and Trust for Public Land, past Secretary of Resources, State of California, San Francisco Will Travis, Executive Director, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission David Lewis, Executive Director, Save the San Francisco Bay Association, past Chief Operations Officer for the League of Conservation Voters, Oakland, California Moderator: Helen Burke, Berkeley Planning Commission, Sierra Club leader
3:00-3:15pm	Tea
3:15-4:45pm	Mid Afternoon Sessions (concurrent) Main Hall: The Future of Consumption, Population and Equity Mathis Wackernagel, Executive Director, Global Footprint Network, Oakland, California Carolyn Finney, Assistant Professor/Geographer at University of California, Berkeley, California Jennie Moore, Director, Sustainable Stewardship Program, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada Moderator: Claire Greensfelder, International Forum on Globalization, San Francisco
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 9: Planning for Transformation: Planner's Roundtable Reid Ewing, Urban Land Institute lead author “Growing Cooler”, University of Maryland Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Director of Planning and Community Development for the City of Montpelier, Vermont Daniel Marks, Planning Director, City of Berkeley, California Moderator: Bob Franklin, Dir., Bay Area Rapid Transit, Oakland, CA
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 10: Nature Resurgent Whitney Dotson, Board of Directors, Committee for Eastshore State Parks, urban gardener and restorer of shorelines, Richmond, CA Charlie Huizenga, co-founder, Agua Para La Vida, Berkeley, CA David Blau, Sr. VP Environmental Planning EDAW, San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project Moderator: Leslie Estes, Watershed Program Supervisor, City of Oakland, moderator
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 11: Musical Ecology Workshop Mark Duetsch, musician - vibrational ecology and evolutionary music inventor of the bazantar, San Francisco Bay Area Moderator:Alan Tower, musician and composer, Berkeley, California
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 12: Whole New Eco-Communities Jeff Stein, Board of Trustees Chair, Cosanti Foundation, Arcosanti, Arizona Liz Walker, Ecovillage at Ithaca, Ithaca, New York Gus Yates, hydrologist and founder of Car-free City USA, Berkeley, California Moderator: Scott Fossel, eco-futurist, San Francisco
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 13: Energy and Economic Relocalization David Room, Local Clean Energy Alliance and Bay Localize, Oakland, California Jan Lundberg, relocalization and the coming oil scarcity, San Francisco Paul Fenn, Founder, Local Power, community choice aggregation, Oakland, California Moderator: Kirsten Schwind, Bay Localize, Oakland
4:45-5:00pm	Short Break
5:00-6:15pm	Late Afternoon Sessions (concurrent) Main Hall : Economy, Business, and City Building Steve Pinetti, Sr. V.P. for Sales and Marketing Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants, on greening hotels and restaurants Shanfeng Dong, Chief Planner, Shanghai Int’l. Investment Co., Shanghai, China ZhenHua Qian, Shanghai Architectural Society, Shanghai, China Moderator: Lesley Nagy, Your TV 20, San Francisco
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 14: Creativity and Critical Thinking Ernest Callenbach, “Ecotopia” author, Berkeley, CA Curtis White, culture critic, American essayist, author of “The Spirit of Disobedience,” University of Illinois, Normal, Illinois Gray Brechin, historical geographer and author, New Deal (Franklin D. Roosevelt) scholar, author, “Imperial San Francisco,” Berkeley, California Moderator: Walt Anderson, author and scholar on consciousness, environment, San Francisco Bay Area
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 15: Food and Eco Education Benjamin Linsley, New York Sunworks, on sustainable urban agriculture, NYC Vicki Wojcik, University of California at Berkeley, on native bees and pollination of native plants and commercial and urban food and ornamental gardens Shyaam Shabaka, urban gardener Eco Village Farm Center, Richmond, CA Moderator: Viraj Puri, New York Sunworks
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 16: Community Ecocity Planning Parin Shaw, Local Policy Director, Green For All, Oakland, CA Paul Downton, founder, Urban Ecology Australia, Adelaide, Australia David Beach, founder, Ecocity Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio Moderator: Dave Room, Local Clean Energy Alliance, SF Bay Area
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 17: City-Scale Ecocity Initiatives Jack Sylvan, SF Base Reuse and Development, San Francisco Peter Berg, bioregional pioneer, advisor to community and government in Ecocity Bahia de Cariquez, Ecuador Aidan Hughes, Principal, Arup engineering and design, San Francisco Office Moderator: Tim Beatley, Univ. of Virginia architecture professor, author
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 18: Developer’s Roundtable Geof Syphers, Chief Sustainability Officer, Codding Enterprises, Sonoma Mountain Village - sustainable mixed use development, Rohnert Park, CA Patrick Kennedy, Panoramic Interests, higher density infill development, Berkeley CA Gene Zellmer, architect, early pioneer in green community design, California Moderator: Mike Petouhoff, developer, Oakland, CA
6:00-7:30pm	Dinner, Nob Hill Masonic Center
7:30pm	Night on the Town! Suggestions will be provided.
Main Conference - Day Three Saturday, April 26 MAIN HALL TOPICS: ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN, LAND USE, GOVERNMENT Nob Hill Masonic Center and Grace Cathedral
8:00am	Registration - Check-in
9:00-10:30am	Early Morning Sessions (concurrent) Main Hall: The Future of Architecture and Urban Design Ken Yeang, ecological architect from Malaysia, England Peter Head, Director of the Ecocity Dongtan, China project for Arup, London Paolo Soleri, architect, pioneering ecological design and evolution philosopher, Arcosanti, Arizona Richard Register, President, Ecocity Builders, Co-convener, Ecocity 7, Oakland, California Moderator: Paul Downton, architect, founder, Urban Ecology Australia
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 19: The Ecocity Future of San Francisco Jared Blumenfeld, Director, SF Dept. of the Environment, San Francisco Isabel Wade, President, SF Neighborhood Parks Council, San Francisco Jack Macy, SF Department of the Environment, San Francisco Moderator: Sarah Karlinsky, Policy Director, SF Planning and Research (SPUR)
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 20: Higher Education and the Ecocity Campus Michael M’Gonigle, Professor and Eco-Research Chair of Environmental Law and Policy at the University of Victoria, a co-founder of Greenpeace International, Canada Cleon Ricardo dos Santos, Director, Curitiba’s Open University for the Environment, Curitiba, Brazil, Co-convener of the Fourth International Ecocity Conference Paul Faulstich, Associate Prof. Environmental Studies, Pitzer College, curricula to fit ecocities, Claremont, California Moderator: Eric Corey Freed, The Organic Architect, San Francisco
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 21: Indigenous People’s Perspectives Lucy Mulenei, Executive Director, and Chair of Indigenous Women and Biodiversity network, Editor, Indigenous News, Nairobi, Kenya William Willoya, Eskimo representative, Author, with Vinson Brown, “Warriors of the Rainbow: Strange and Prophetic Dreams of the Indians,” Seattle, Washington Vernon Masayesva, Hopi leader, Executive Director, Black Mesa Trust, Kykotsmovi, Arizona Moderator: Darby Li Po Price, Dir., Native American Health Center, Oakland, CA
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 22: Carbon Markets J. Andrew Hoerner, Director of Research Redefining Progress, Oakland, California James D. Fine, Environmental Defense, researcher advocate, Sacramento, California Jason Smith, Vice President, ClimateCHECK, San Francisco Moderator: Peter Droege, Author, “Renewable City,” Sydney, Australia
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 23: Designing and Planning the Experience of Nature Geoff Warn, professor, Curtin University, architect, bridges into the canopy and green architecture, Perth, Australia Chris Brick, Staff Scientist, Clark Fork (River) Coalition, dam removal, Missoula, MT Dominika Zareba, Central and Eastern European Greenways, Coordinator, Polish Greenways, Eastern European bicycle and pedestrian trails, Poland Moderator: David Wofford, community planning and development, Oakland CA
10:35-10:55am	Tea
10:55am-12:15pm	Late Morning Sessions (concurrent) Main Hall: The Future of Food for Cities, Towns and Villages Eric Holt Gimenez, Food First/Food Policy Council, organic agriculture, genetically modified organisms, biofuels and impacts in Latin America, Oakland, CA Carol Whiteside, President, Great Valley Center, defending agricultural land from sprawl and other farmers' and environmental issues, Modesto, CA Greg Koch, propritor, Stone Brewing on beer brewing and pressures on agriculture and his product in particular from biofuels Moderator: Kirk Lumpkin, poet, organizer of Berkley Farmers Market, Berkeley, California
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 24: Urban Fractals and Transit Villages Paul Downton, Principal Architect and Urban Ecologist, Ecopolis Architects, Christie Walk and the theory, Halifax project, Adelaide, Australia Gilda Gonzales, Fruitvale Transit Village, CEO of the Unity Council, Oakland CA Mike Petouhoff, developer, vitality centers oriented development, SF Bay Area Moderator: Richard Register, Ecocity 7 Conference Co-convener, Oakland, California
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 25: Megacities, Regional Perspectives Sahar Attia, Professor of Planning and Urban Design, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt Gabriel Metcalf, Director, SF Planning and Urban Research, San Francisco Debra Efroymson, policy on ecocities and transport, Dhaka, Bangladesh Moderator: Chris Luebkeman, Arup Foresight Innovation and Incubation, UK
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 26: Walkable, Healthy Cities Shanta Lall Mulmi, ecocity initiatives for Kathmandu, Nepal Tim Beatley, Professor of Sustainable Communities, University of Virginia, pedestrian worlds in the city, as the city, Charlottesville, Virginia Moderator: Gus Yates, Car-free City, USA, Berkeley
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 27: Nature in the City Peter Brastow, Director, Nature in the City, San Francisco nature restoration, San Francisco Kemba Shakur, President, Urban Releaf, tree planting and job training in Oakland, CA Josiah Cain, Rana Creek landscape architects, Carmel Valley, CA Moderator: Isabel Wade, founder, SF Neighborhood Parks Council
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 28: Religion and Ecological Communities Mary Evelyn Tucker, Co-Director, The Forum on Religion and Ecology, Yale University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Rev. Sally Bingham, Interfaith Power and Light, San Francisco, California Jerry Honawa, Hopi traditional spiritual leader, Kykotsmovi, Arizona Moderator: Lalit Bhatia, planner, Auroville, India
12:15-1:30pm	Catered Lunch
1:30-3:00pm	Early Afternoon Sessions (concurrent) Main Hall: The Future of Land Use and the Built Environment Walter Hood, Hood Design, landscape architect on revelatory design, University of California, Berkeley Maria Rosario, Senior Architect and Planner for the Latin America Region at PADCO/AECOM in Washington DC Brent Toderian, Director of Planning, Vancouver, BC, Canada Moderator: Eric Corey Freed, The Organic Architect, San Francisco
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 29: What You Should Know about Biofuels Tad Patzek, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley Nazreen Kadir, Institute Scholar in Science and Public Policy, Western Institute for Social Research, biotechnology and community benefit, Oakland One other TBA Moderator: Elizabeth McCarthy, Editor, California Energy Circuit, Berkeley, California
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 30: Whole Cities on the Ecocity Path Lalit Bhati, city to help humanity evolve in peace, Auroville, India Pierre Laconte, Louvain-la-Neuve, a pedestrian new university town near Brussels, Belgium Moderator: Paul Downton, Urban Ecology Australia founder
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 31: Tools for Reshaping the Built Environment Rick Pruetz, national Transfer of Development Rights expert, Los Angeles, CA Gordon (Gabby) Barrett, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s TDR program, Nevada Maggie Skenderian, Director, Johnson Creek Program for restoration, Portland, OR Moderator: Richard Register, Ecocity 7 Co-convener, Oakland, California
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 32: Green Jobs Raquel Pinderhughes, Professor of Urban Studies, San Francisco State University, author, Green Collar Jobs Study and Report, San Francisco Nancy Nadel, Oakland City Council Member, alternative energy supporter, Oakland Nwamaka Agbo, on social justice in the ecocity for Ella Baker Center Nick Kyriakopedi, environmental control technology (heating, cooling, etc.) vocational education trainer for Laney College Basic Skills Learning Collaborative Moderator: Nicky Gonzales-Yuen, Peralta Community College District, Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda, California
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 33: Green Cities California Initiative David Assmann, Deputy Director, SF Department of the Environment Alex Hinds, Director, Marin County Community Development Agency Moderator: Jared Blumenfeld, Director, SF Department of the Environment
3:00-3:15pm	Tea
3:15-4:45pm	Mid Afternoon Sessions (concurrent) Main Hall: The Future of Urban Governance in a Time of Reshaping Cities Judy Lawley, City Council Member, ecocity Waitakere, early ecocity pioneering city government, New Zealand Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco (in this session or other) Rusong Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences Other political/civic leaders Moderator: Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Director of Planning and Community Development for the City of Montpelier, Vermont
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 34: Better Cars Build Worse Cities Andy Kunz, New Urbanist, rail expert, Washington, DC Jim McCarthy, Ast. Dir. Gov. Affairs, Nat’l. Federation of the Blind, Baltimore, Maryland Manish Champsee, President, Walk San Francisco, San Francisco Moderator: Richard Register, Ecocity Builders, Conference Co-Convenor
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 35: Reshaping Cities - Starting Small, Planning Large Lois Arkin, ecovillage in a big city – Los Angeles Ecovillage, Los Angeles, California Joan Boaker, Ecovillage at Ithaca, Ithaca, New York Phil Hawes, an architect’s approach to ecovillage design and development, Arizona Moderator: Skip Wenz, publisher, Ecotecture, Portland, Oregon
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 36: Future of and for Youth Malgorzata Luszczek, Coordinator, Schools for Sustainable Development Program, Polish Environmental Partnership Foundation, Poland Laurie Schoeman, Living Nature Classroom, for exploring and learning about natural environments and processes and sustainability in a low-income area of San Francisco Moderator: James Muldavin, Youth Sustainability Leadership Project, Sacramento, CA
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 37: Historic Cities – Timeless Lessons for Today and Beyond Sudarshan Tiwari, Architect and City Historian, Nepal, Kathmandu Valley urban ecology and ecocity design, Kathmandu, Nepal Ruth Tringham, Neolitic villages/Chatal Huyuk, earliest urban patterns, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley Moderator: Melinda Kramer, Founding Director, Women’s Earth Alliance
(concurrent session)	Featured Session 38: Clothing, the "Second Skin" India Flint, (eco)fashion designer, cloth colourist & costumiere, Mount Pleasant, Australia Moderator: Michelle Kuly, Publisher, Next American City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
4:45-5:00pm	Short Break
5:00-6:00pm	The San Francisco Ecocity Proclamation Conference Outcomes and Honoring Paolo Soleri Richard Register, conference co-convener, Oakland, CA Closing Comments Jared Blumenfeld, Dir., San Francisco Department of the Environment Rusong Wang, conference co-convener Kirstin Miller, conference director Main Hall
6:00-7:30pm	Closing Reception Sir Francis Drake Hotel Starlight Room, 450 Powell St, San Francisco

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