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Announcing Executive Director of the UBC Sustainability Initiative John Robinson as Plenary Speaker at the 2012 Sustainability Conference

Published on September 30, 2011 in Conferences, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

The 2012 Sustainability Conference is delighted to announce the Executive Director of the University of British Columbia’s Sustainability Initiative John Robinson as a Plenary Speaker at the conference.

John Robinson is the Executive Director of the UBC Sustainability Initiative, responsible for leading the integration of academic and operational sustainability on the University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus. He is also a professor with UBC’s Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability, and the Department of Geography.

Dr. Robinson’s own research focuses on the intersection of climate change mitigation, adaptation and sustainability; the use of visualization, modeling, and citizen engagement to explore sustainable futures; sustainable buildings and urban design; creating partnerships for sustainability with the private, public, non-governmental and research sectors; and, generally, the intersection of sustainability, social and technological change, behaviour change, and community engagement processes. The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS), recently opened on the UBC campus, is a major project.

Dr. Robinson is on the Board of the Fraser Basin Council; a member of the BC Hydro External Advisory Committee on Electricity Conservation and Efficiency, and the Steering Group of HELIO International; and on the Editorial Boards of the journals Ecology and Society, Building Research and Information, and the Journal of Industrial Ecology. He was a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation from 2008 to 2010, a member of the Program Committee of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions from 2008-11, and was a Lead Author in the last three reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. In October 2010, Dr. Robinson was awarded BC Hydro’s Larry Bell Award for contributions to energy efficiency and conservation in British Columbia, and in 2011 he received an Educational Leadership award from the Canada Green Building Council.

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Explore Historic Cuenca at Sustainability Conference

Published on August 24, 2009 in Conferences. 0 Comments

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Cuenca Walking Tour
Starting from downtown Cuenca’s downtown, you will enjoy the most beautiful Ecuadorian city visiting the famous Rouses market, the Cuenca’s New Cathedral, Calderon Park (Central Park), the San Sebastian Plaza which is locally famous for a very interesting colonial architecture and the City Modern Art Museum. If time allows you can also enjoy a very special walk to the neighborhood of la Merced where you will find houses from the Colonial and Republican period. More…

Cuenca City Tour by Bus
Join us on a 2-2-1/2 bus tour as we visit the river side known as El Barranco. Located throughout the river Tomebamba, between the bridge of Vergel and The Ford, in their ends, and among the Calle Large, El Barranco is one of the cultural most beautiful attractions in Cuenca. This tour will enable you to see Cuenca’s colonial town on one side and the new residential homes on the other. More…

Colombian architect and urban planner speaking on Sustainability in Ecuador

Published on August 17, 2009 in Conferences. 0 Comments

Katya Gonzalez Ripoll, Director of Heritage and Vice Minister of Culture for Colombia, Colombia
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Katya Gonzalez Ripoll has 25 years of experience of innovation in the field of urban development in the private and social sectors. As an architect and urban planner, she has been responsible for more than 500,000 square meters in projects that range from private housing, commercial and public buildings, restoration, conservation, urbanism, urban renovation and social housing. With this vast experience she has worked in the public sector as Director of Heritage and as Vice Minister of Culture in Colombia developing and implementing the program “Vigias de Patrimonio” a volunteer program for the conservation, protection and recuperation of tangible and intangible heritage. More…

Sustainability Conference – Plenary Speaker Added

Published on August 4, 2009 in Conferences. 0 Comments

John M. Whiteley, University of California, California, USA
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Professor Whiteley has been at the University of California since 1972. His most recent co-authored books from the MIT Press are Critical Masses: Citizens, Nuclear Weapons Production, and Environmental Destruction in the United States and Russia, and Water, Place and Equity.


Sustainability Conference – Plenary Speaker Added

Published on May 4, 2009 in Conferences. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Lucía Astudillo Loor, Director of the Museum of Metals, Cuenca, Ecuador
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Lucía Astudillo Loor was born in Cuenca-Ecuador. She received her Doctorate in History from the University of Azuay. She is the Director of Museum of Metals. Her previous positions include Director of the Museum of Popular Arts and Crafts in Cuenca, and Regional Director at the National Cultural Heritage Institute. More…

Sustainability Conference – Plenary Speaker Added

Published on April 28, 2009 in Conferences. 0 Comments

Douglas Worts, Freelance Consultant, Culture and Sustainability Specialist, Toronto, Canada.

Douglas Worts is a culture & sustainability specialist. As a recently established freelance consultant, Douglas is bringing greater awareness to the museum sector of the central role that culture plays in fostering a ‘culture of sustainability’.

From 1982 until September of 2007, Douglas worked as an interpretive planner for the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto Canada, where he developed exhibitions, prepared interpretive policies, created experimental public-engagement strategies, facilitated community consultation and carried out audience research projects. More…

The Sixth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability

Published on April 23, 2009 in Conferences. 0 Comments

5-7 January 2010
University of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
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International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings

Published on March 9, 2009 in Conferences. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

29 April-2 May 2009

University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

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SEB’09 will be a major opportunity for researchers in subjects related to sustainability, renewable energy technology and applications in the built environment to mix with other scientists, industrialists and stakeholders in the field. Continue reading ‘International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings’