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Our Woodland Legacy is a Trees Forever program in partnership with the Holloway Family Environmental Trust that seeks to raise public awareness of how trees, woodlands, and natural areas are community assets that provide real benefits, and that need to be protected.
Finding Common Ground: Can Engineers, Developers & Conservationists Work Together for a Green Future?
Find out on December 2, 2010 at the Our Woodland Legacy Symposium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Registration: 8:00 a.m.
Program: 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Reception to follow)
$15 for Trees Forever members
$20 for non-members (includes lunch)
CEU Contact Hours Offered
Opening Keynote: Doug Mensing, Senior Ecologist, Applied Ecological Services, Prior Lake, MN
Doug Mensing has over 18 years of professional and research experience in the ecological and environmental fields. Doug will address how "green" practices contribute to balance and sustainability in the economic, human, and natural environments, and how policy decisions impact this balalnce.
Master of Ceremonies: Shannon Ramsay, Founding President & CEO, Trees Forever
Welcome: Monica Vernon, Cedar Rapids Mayor Pro-Tem
Other Featured Speakers:
- Lynnae Hentzen, Co-founder and Executive Director, Center on Sustainable Communities
- Les Beck, Director, Linn County Planning and Development
- Laura Carstens, City of Dubuque Planning Services Manager
Panel: From Policy to Practice
Perspectives from elected officials and senior staff of Linn County, Cities of Cedar Rapids and Marion, and Greater Cedar Rapids Area Homebuilders Association Developers
Afternoon Workshops:
Creating a Sustainable Development Code
The Principles of Low Impact Development
Green Infrastructure: Integrating Natural Systems in the Built Environment
Sponsored by: The Holloway Family Environmental Trust, Linn County, Trees Forever Project trEE•O2, Hall & Hall Engineers, Inc., The Greater Cedar Rapids Area Homebuilders Association Developers, and the Center on Sustainable Communities.
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