Attend the 2nd annual NAIS / NBOA Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday, February 29th with both NBOA Symposium and NAIS Annual Conference attendees. Just a few short blocks away, this event will take place at the Washington State Convention Center from 1:00 - 3:00 PM, immediately following the closing session at the NBOA Symposium.
This year's theme, Doing Well by Doing Good: The Green Future, will examine how independent schools can further their commitment to environmental and financial sustainability through a better understanding of renewable energy, green design, and healthier food. The format will be similar to TED talks, three 20-minute keynote addresses that will give you plenty of new ideas to help your school with its sustainability work. One-hour workshops related to these topics will follow the featured presenters.
Practical Steps to Build Human Capacity to Launch the "Sustainability Generation"
Discover tools already in use by households, schools, companies, and municipalities to increase productivity and reduce environmental impact. As the World Bank Group's chief technical specialist for renewable energy and energy efficiency, Kammen provides strategic leadership on policy, technical, and operational fronts. He is also the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), co-director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, and director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center.
Building a Sustainable Future
Sustainable design plays a vital role in protecting and preserving our natural environment. Learn key strategies of designing green – creating buildings that consume less water and energy while using healthy, environmentally friendly materials – and how doing so at schools not only improves the environment, it teaches future generations how to care for and respect our world.
Have Your Sustainability and Eat It, Too!
What do certified organic, fair trade, locally grown, school supported agriculture, seed to table, slow food, composting, integrated pest management, fair food, carbon footprint, life cycle analysis, and zero waste have to do with sustainability? Let food service become the jewel of your school's sustainability crown through easy, cost effective additions to the dining and academic programs.
Daniel M. Kammen
As the World Bank Group's chief technical specialist for renewable energy and energy efficiency, Daniel M. Kammen provides strategic leadership on policy, technical, and operational fronts. He is also the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), co-director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, and director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center.
Author of 12 books, Kammen has written more than 240 peer-reviewed journal publications, testified more than 40 times to U.S. state and federal congressional briefings, and provided various governments with more than 50 technical reports. He frequently contributes to international news media, including Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Financial Times. Kammen has appeared on 60 Minutes, Nova, and Frontline, and hosted the six-part Discovery Channel series Ecopolis. He serves on two National Academy of Sciences boards and panels. In 2010, U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton named Kammen the first Energy and Climate Fellow for the Western Hemisphere.
Kammen has served as a contributing or coordinating lead author on various reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 1999. The IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Chris Hellstern and Stacy H. Smedley
Both associates at KMD Architects, Chris Hellstern and Stacy H. Smedley cofounded the firm's internal Sustainability Committee in order to foster sustainable practices as one of the firm's core principles. Dedicated to work that benefits the community, they collaborate on exciting new LEED designs and construction.
Hellstern holds a master's of architecture from Texas Tech University. His thesis work focused on designing a sustainable elementary school in Seattle that allowed both students and faculty to be a part of the building's many environmental features through education and practice. Most recently at KMD, he finished the design and construction administration of a pro bono Seattle project aimed to achieve The Living Building Challenge v2.0. He serves as a Cascadia Green Building Council Branch member and a Living Building Ambassador for the International Living Future Institute. Hellstern mentors high school students about sustainable practices and was recently appointed the first regional chair for USGBC Students. Outside of architecture, he spent 15 years in Alaska serving as a Certified Level III Alaska Naturalist leading outback kayak trips.
Smedley holds the LEED AP BD+C credential from the U.S. Green Building Council and is considered an expert in sustainable design. Earning her bachelors of arts in architecture degree from the University of Washington, she served as president for the American Institute of Architects UW Chapter. Following graduation, she spent the next four years working on a LEED for Homes Pilot Cottage Housing Project in the Greenlake neighborhood of Seattle, deeply involved from initial design concept through construction completion. The project became the first LEED for Homes Platinum certified project in Washington, and made her an official a part of Seattle's green building community. Most recently at KMD, she managed the first Living Building project in Washington: a science building for a local private elementary school.
Gary Giberson
A professional chef for nearly 30 years, Gary Giberson is a leading innovator in sustainable dining. He joined The Lawrenceville School (New Jersey) as executive chef in 1998, and started developing the school's sustainable dining program in 2003. In 2007, he founded the food service company Sustainable Fare, L.L.C., with a focus on integrating sustainable food systems. Giberson has earned the Certified Executive Chef designation from the American Culinary Federation and is certified by the State of New Jersey as a Master Composter. He is a member of Slow Food USA and a Terra Madre U.S. Delegate (2006, 2008), a board member of Fair Food, New Jersey Farm to School, and a Steering Committee participant for Farm to Institute. Giberson has recently been invited to join First Lady Michelle Obama's Chefs Move to Schools initiative and attended the 2010 White House event.
Create a 21st Century School Building: Strategic Technology Investment
Robert Mueller, Delaware Valley Friends School (PA); Frank Aloise, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy (PA)
21st century schools must prepare students for rapidly changing intellectual work: instantly accessible information; social, interactive, cooperative learning; multimedia content and communication. Find out how to integrate technology into every pore and tissue of school operations and create sustainable school buildings appropriate to constant change.
Green Your Dining Service
Elizabeth Duffy, Gary Giberson, and Samuel Kosoff, The Lawrenceville School (NJ)
Food is the perfect medium for integrating sustainability education and practice in a campus setting. Learn how Lawrenceville made its dining service a conduit for school and public awareness about food choices, nutrition, performance, and sustainability in general. Examine economic and ecological costs as well as the impact on sustainability awareness and education.
Triple Bottom Line: How Greening Your School Makes Sense/Cents
Paul Chapman, Inverness Associates (CA); Dan Kammen, University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Greening your school is essential financially, programmatically, and environmentally. Explore how Head-Royce School became a model green school focused on energy efficiency, healthy operations, and environmental literacy. Discuss tools that document savings from incorporating energy efficiency in all building operations, renovation, and construction decisions.
Designing Regenerative Schools Is Possible
Chris Hellstern and Stacy Smedley, KMD Architects (WA); Mike Saxenian, Sidwell Friends School (DC)
Learn about the most stringent sustainability rating system in the world: the Living Building Challenge v2.0. Learn from designers of Washington's first Living Building how a team of professionals donated time to create a living legacy for future generations. Uncover the design responses and solutions to achieving a building with net-zero water and net-zero energy, as well as the rigorous materials requirements.
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