Industrial Sustainability Conference,South Africa

1 March 2012  

May 23 – May 24, 2012
Johannesburg, South Africa

Pooran Desai OBE will present BioRegional’s One Planet Communities projects at this two day event located in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Conference details
This will be an opportunity to be immersed in the ever changing discussion of operating within a low greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions renewable energy intensive world.  The growth of clean energy, the associated sustainability impacts and economics, the developing regulatory trends and the growing international legal ramifications of future international accords continues to gain momentum.

This event is designed to provide sector baseline knowledge and impact clarification on a myriad of business, compliance, regulatory and operating categories connected to the industrial ecology, agribusiness, manufacturing, GHGe engineering, sustainability and social responsibility topics.  You will gain insight into just what elements of this new paradigm means from an operational and financial standpoint.

Who should attend?
Key decision makers
Executive team members
Consultants
Trade and industry experts
Government officers
Managers
Business development professionals
Manufacturers and Suppliers

More information at http://www.antimonygreen.com/conferences.html

ECOWEEK 2011 at Athens

12 December 2011  

Ben Gill, One Planet Communities Country Manager, will be speaking during ECOWEEK 2011(12 – 18 December) in Athens, Greece.  Details below:

Time: 14:00-15:00

Date: 12 December 2011

Title: Creating Healty & Happy Communities (in a crisis): the One Planet Community approach

For a full programme, please click here.

A COP17 side event hosted by World Green Building Council and BioRegional

29 November 2011  

28th November – 8th December 2011

Durban, South Africa

At COP17 we want to  share the lessons from our international portfolio of One Planet case studies with delegates, we are:

  • exhibiting in the UNFCCC exhibition and;
  • holding a joint side event with the World Green Building Council ‘Voices from South Africa’ taking place in Room 3 at the International Conference Centre at 6.30pm on the 3rd December. For event details please download the flyer.

You can also follow our blog to find out more about our activities and get inside information on the negotiations.

31 Aug-1 Sept 2011, Melbourne: Government Sustainability Conference

15 July 2011  

31 August  – 1 September 2011: Government Sustainability Conference (Hall Edit) One Planet Regions – A practical tool to assist local authorities in achieving sustainability

Melbourne, Victoria – Edward Niembro, One Planet Communities network Australia Representative, will give a presentation on the One Planet Regions program that is assisting councils to fill in gaps in their sustainability policies and how Australian councils can be recognised as green councils at next years Rio Earth Summit in June 2012.

For more infomation on the conference, please visit:

http://www.halledit.com.au/leadsustaingov2011

26-27 July 2011: Critical Mass On-line Planning Institute of Australia Conference

15 July 2011  

26-27 July , 2011: Critical Mass On-line Planning Institute of Australia Conference Ideas and Innovation – One Planet Communities

Edward Niembro, OPC Australia representative, will give a presentation on the successful One Planet Communities program that is creating ‘green’ flagship communities around the world.

To join the online conference, please click here.

Speaking at Tedx Oxbridge – Business as unusual

2 June 2011  

4th June 2011, Oxford

BioRegional’s co-founders are speaking at TEDxOxbridge – an event bringing together over 20 notable activists, business mavericks, designers, engineers, musicians, politicians, and scientists to share their ideas worth spreading.  Over 250 carefully-chosen attendees will be coming from both Oxford and Cambridge universities and their networks to explore how commerce, science, technology, and the humanities can collaborate to redraw the lines of business.

The event will take place all day Saturday, June 4th, 2011 at Said Business School in Oxford.   Presentations and performances will range from 4 to 18 minutes in length, leaving plenty of space for networking and overflow conversations with fellow attendees and speakers.  Afterward, there will be a drinks reception followed by self-organized topical dinners with speakers, and a late-night after-party featuring two DJ guests.

In person tickets for the event are now sold out but you can watch the talks on a big screen for free at the nearby Jamfactory and get tickets for the after party.
http://tedxoxbridge.com/guest-registration

BioRegional at Ecobuild, 1st – 3rd March 2011, London

28 February 2011  

If you are involved in building, regeneration, design, energy or sustainability you will probably have the UK’s biggest green building expo already ringed in your diary.

We’re running seminars and workshops on all three days to share our 15 years of sustainability experience with you. We’ll be bringing all the Ecobuild ideas together to help create a holistic sustainability framework for your project or business. And our experts will be looking at some hot topics: Big Society, Biomass Energy, Green Deal, BedZED, Green Entrepreneurship and Green Behaviour Change.

We look forward to seeing you there!

To find out more click here.

One Planet Communities film to be broadcast on CNBC this weekend

29 October 2010  

One Planet Communities is the focus of the next episode of the Responsible Business Television series, broadcasting on CNBC around the world this weekend.

Tune into your region’s CNBC channel at the following times to see several of the ground-breaking projects showcased and an interview with International Director,  Pooran Desai OBE:

CNBC Asia

1st Broadcast: 30 October 17:30 SIN/HK Time

2nd Broadcast: 31 October 09:30 SIN/HK Time

CNBC Europe

1st Broadcast: 30 October 08:30 CET

2nd Broadcast: 30 October 13:30 CET

CNBC USA

Single Broadcast: 30 October 16:00 EST

If you miss the broadcast the film will go up on www.oneplanetcommunities.org early next week.

Oct 27 2010, Portland OR: One Planet Training at EcoDistricts Summit

27 September 2010  


Tuesday October 26 2010 @ 10:45am PST. Greg Searle of BioRegional North America and Indigo Teiwes of Carbon Advantage will be speaking on metrics and footprinting at the EcoDistrict Summit in Portland. The conference will focus on learning from integrated district-scale sustainability projects and will explore the topics of district utilities, green buildings, smart grid, transportation, urban habitat, water management, waste management and community development.

Wednesday October 27 2010 @ 9:00am PST. ONE PLANET TRAINING COURSE. Eco-districts + Eco-lifestyles = One Planet Communities. Learn from Geof Syphers, Chief Sustainability Officer at Sonoma Mountain Village, how this 1,900 unit masterplanned, solar-powered community is being designed to create an 83% reduction in total carbon footprint of its residents — and creating thousands of green jobs with its green business incubator. The workshop goes on to teach the practical implementation of the One Planet Living process, including strategies for Zero Carbon, Zero Waste, and Sustainable Food and Transportation. You will help create a Sustainability Action Plan for a real-world new project and learn the science and process of the One Planet Living program through its application. The program will emphasize “fostering” and “enabling” eco-lifestyles for residents in new build and existing building situations, which have been shown at the BedZED eco-neighborhood in the UK to have contributed 42% of total carbon savings. Learn from Greg Searle, Executive Director at BioRegional North America and a former BedZED resident, how this eco-lifestyles program succeeded and is evolving in One Planet Communities around the world. Read More.

Oct 19-20 2010, Mexico City: One Planet Lectures at Universidad Iberoamericana

27 September 2010  

Mexico City. For the second year, Greg Searle of BioRegional North America will be giving a 2-night seminar and workshop for a Diploma Course in “Design of Sustainable Communities at the Architecture Department of the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City October 19-20. He will be joined by Daniel Viliesid of newly-formed BioRegional Mexico.

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