Brown Bag Lunch Series

Brown Bag Lunch Series

Live Online Event

Thursday, July 19, 2007
1:00- 2:00pm EST


Session:  Natural Capitalism: Green Partnerships with Business


Trainers: Greg Levine, Program Director, Trees Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
		   Prescott Gaylord, Chief Management Officer, Baltimore Landmark Homes (MD)

About the series:

The Brown Bag Lunch Series is a monthly webcast held at the lunch hour. The overall goal is to create informal training opportunities for local urban and community forestry organizations.

The series is geared to mainly serve the needs of volunteer organizations and community groups. While the webcasts are open to all, the content is most likely to be of interest to practitioners who work directly with the public, volunteers, or youth.

The trainings leverage local successes by amplifying to a larger audience the model organizations' methods, materials, and approaches. Sessions are planned to last no more than one hour, with two presenters speaking on the same topic from slightly different perspectives, each for 10-15 minutes, followed by 10-15 minutes of questions and answers.

The Brown Bag Lunch Series is made possible through support from:

Description:

Natural capitalism is about planned development. It takes into account the SmartGrowth model that development can be good, when it is well planned. By creating vibrant street life and a strong sense of community, green partnerships are part of the equation to creating healthier, safer, and more livable neighborhoods. Together, community leaders, homebuilders, developers, and businesses can promote this new way of thinking by ensuring that trees are a component of well-planned development.

Brown Bag attendees will learn:

Challenges and concerns faced by developers
How to integrate green values into business practices
Why going green is the right thing to do
Selling urban forestry as a major business opportunity
Approaching potential partners

Alliance for Community Trees The BeltLine is a 22-mile loop of historic railroad that encircles downtown and midtown Atlanta. The development concept for this loop is to increase greenspace, improve transit, enhance mobility, connect 45 neighborhoods, spur economic development, and foster livable communities. No small task, but a development project of this size in a major city is a unique opportunity. Trees Atlanta's neighborhood arboreta concept fits this vision well, and, with support from homebuilders, Trees Atlanta is working to extend the concept to communities along BeltLine.

Alliance for Community Trees Baltimore Landmark Homes is a family of companies which all focus on green building strategies. Their construction firm, Baltimore Green Construction, specializes in environmentally sensitive residential and commercial construction, including LEED-certified projects. One of those projects is the silver LEED renovation of the Herring Run Watershed Association's office (a former bakery). In addition, their development firm, Baltimore Landmark Homes, focuses on green building as a crucial strategy for reclaiming older neighborhoods. Even at their real estate brokerage, City Life Realty, a large number of their agents are certified "EcoBrokers," trained to help buyers understand important issues life energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and the use of natural/recycled homebuilding materials.

Click here to register for the webcast or go to:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=aNIs1RZiRVzadb09ImoCFA_3d_3d

Next session: August 16, 2007, Operating a Nursery, Community Garden, or Arboretum.

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