Going Greener with Low Impact Development Conf.

[Gaspar]

Today I attended the GGWLID Conference at the Tulsa Garden center MC'd by our illustrious Recycle Michael.  

The conference focused on Smart Growth, and it was very encouraging to see officials from Tulsa, Broken Arrow, and the surrounding areas not only just attending, but participating in discussion on the difficult task of changing building codes to be more environmentally and culturally responsible.

The crowd was a mix of engineers, development people, and municipal officials, sprinkled with the occasional idiot like myself.

Great job Michael!  Wonderful presentations.  I especially liked the "Up Yours! . . .With Trees!" comment.  I think that should be the new slogan. []

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[Conan71]

Kind of puzzled as to why I wasn't made more directly aware of it since I work in an industry with lots of potential to impact sustainibility.  No hard feelings RM.

[RecycleMichael]

I think guido insulted me with that before.

It was a very good conference. I especially liked the Secretary of the Environment and the urban designer from South Beach, Florida.

I try to have fun, insulting the audience slightly more than the speakers, but I always end up learning so much that it keeps me from being over the top.

See you there again next year for our 25th annual resource management conference.

[Gaspar]

quote:Originally posted by RecycleMichael

I think guido insulted me with that before.

It was a very good conference. I especially liked the Secretary of the Environment and the urban designer from South Beach, Florida.

I try to have fun, insulting the audience slightly more than the speakers, but I always end up learning so much that it keeps me from being over the top.

See you there again next year for our 25th annual resource management conference.

My boss, Dan Tanner, was sitting next to me furiously nodding as Jeff Speck spoke.  He hit on everything we've been trying to push our developers (and the city) toward for some time.  

It was funny that his powerpoint featured South Beach, Rosemary Beach, and Seaside.  We have pictures of those communities on our conference room wall.  We keep them up there to stimulate conversation when we are meeting with developers.

[hoodlum]

I work for an architecture firm here in town and this is the first I have heard about this.

[RecycleMichael]

It wasn't well promoted. But the message got out somehow because the room was packed.

There was a brief blurb about it in the Tulsa World this morning.

I promise to start a thread about next year's conference