9:46 AM
October 20, 09

Green Networking at the Bright Green Future
Conference Reception

Join speakers and other attendees from the Bright Green Future Conference
on
Friday, October 23
6 - 8pm

UCSD Price Center
Ballroom East
$20
Great appetizers
No host bar

Bright Green Future: Global Challenges, San Diego Solutions

Reserve online:
http://www.BrightGreenFuture.net

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Friday, October 23, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
WherePrice Center, University of California: 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093
Age limitAll ages
CategoriesCommunity, Lectures
Cost$20 - $75
The public and media are invited to the Bright Green Future, a two-day conference bringing together experts on San Diego's regional energy, natural resources, transportation, green business, job training, sustainable living and building, and much more.

Bright Green Future provides useful, real-life information on how individuals, businesses and government agencies can address the economic and environmental challenges they are facing. The event will demonstrate what it takes to ensure a "Bright Green Future" for the San Diego region.

WHEN:

Friday, October 23rd 9 A.M. - 6 P.M.
Business and Government sessions

Saturday, October 24th 9 A.M. - 5:15 P.M.
Public Interest sessions; "International Day of Climate Action"

WHO:

The Bright Green Future Conference represents a collaborative civic effort among dozens of groups and individuals including San Diego EarthWorks, Rady School of Management at UC San Diego, San Diego Gas & Electric, U.S. Green Building Council - San Diego Chapter, San Diego Workforce Partnership, 10News Sustain San Diego, San Diego Business Journal, California Center for Sustainable Energy, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego Foundation, CleanTECH San Diego, San Diego State University College of Extended Studies, University of San Diego Go Green, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego, San Diego Green Business Network, San Diego Regional Sustainability Partnership, San Diego Canyonlands, Citizen's Climate Lobby, Move San Diego, Walk San Diego, San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Project, and the San Diego Chapter of the Sierra Club.

WHERE:

Price Center, University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, Get Directions

TICKET INFORMATION:

Friday & Saturday (Breakfast and Lunch included)
$100 if purchased before September 25
$125 if purchased after September 25
$135 if purchased at the door
Single Day:
$60 if purchased before September 25
$65 if purchased after September 25
$75 if purchased at the door
Friday reception not included - cost is $20 per person
Half-day prices are available

*Reservations placed BEFORE October 20 may be paid for by calling the EarthWorks office at 858-272-7370 to pay by credit card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express or Discover), by mailing a check to San Diego EarthWork (PO Box 9827, San Diego CA 92169)

**After October 20, purchase your tickets at the conference.

For more information, please visit http://www.brightgreenfuture.net


Additional dates:

Saturday, October 24
Related links

Presentations
Reservations & Tickets
Event Schedule

SOME OF THE SATURDAY SESSIONS
ARE ESPECIALLY INTERESTING TO THE LOCAL
FOODIES

Building a Bright Green Food Future - Local Solutions in Food Sustainability
Saturday, 2:30pm session
This presentation will cover the effects, problems, and challenges created by a global, industrialized food system on our local communities and then showcase the local solutions being developed and implemented to address these issues. From environmental sustainability to social justice, the food choices we make every day have vast impacts on the health of ourselves, our communities, and the Earth at large. Eating is always an environmental act and we must address our food system to create a bright green future!


Matt Finkelstein
President, The San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Project

Matt Finkelstein, an alumnus of UCSD, is currently working as President of The San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Project, a local non-profit organization dedicated to educating, cultivating, and empowering sustainable food communities in San Diego. Coordinating events, workshops, communications and public outreach, he also serves as Community Advisor for The Sustainable Food Project at UCSD, a student organization working to enhance student awareness and involvement in the creation of a more sustainable campus food system.

Passionate about environmental issues and social justice, Matt is working to educate and inspire those around him to actively rekindle our relationship with nature, utilizing food as a catalyst for understanding our interconnectedness. He also works as a consultant for FutureSense, Inc., a management consulting firm specializing in organization and people.

Matt currently resides in Escondido on an organic farm, La Milpa Organica. For more information about the projects he is involved in, please visit http://www.sandiegoroots.org,
http://www.futuresense.com,
and http://www.milpaorganica.com.


Enjoying Local Places: Sharing Nature with Children
Saturday, 2:30pm session
Children are happier, healthier and smarter when they spend time in nature and outdoor play, whether it is in their backyard garden, nearby open space, or wilderness. They develop their curiosity and creativity, get a sense of place, and learn about stewardship of the environment and their community. School classes can walk to nearby canyons to learn in their "nature classroom," and families can hike, watch birds, bicycle, and garden together. Locally, the San Diego Children and Nature Collaborative is bringing educators, ecologists, community leaders and others together, modeled after the national "Children and Nature" movement, which was inspired by local columnist Richard Louv's book, "Last Child in the Woods."


Anne Fege, Ph.D.
San Diego Natural History Museum,
San Diego State University

Anne Fege, Ph.D., is Botany Research Associate at the San Diego Natural History Museum, adjunct professor in the Department of Biology at San Diego State University, partner in Business and Ecology Consulting, and retired Forest Supervisor of the Cleveland National Forest. She is widely known as co-founder of the San Diego Partners for Biodiversity, San Diego Fire Recovery Network, and San Diego Children and Nature Collaborative. Dr. Fege's thirty years of accomplishments in natural resources management encompass biodiversity and habitat conservation, urban forestry issues, wilderness management, wood energy research, community involvement, and environmental education.

Regional River Parkways: Connecting Communities and Restoring Wild Places
Saturday, 2:30pm session
Locally, river parkways are drawing increased attention. These projects often have different starting points - protecting wildlife, providing recreation, or improving water quality. Successful parkways bring multiple goals together to advance a new relationship between communities and nature.

Imagine a day when you can walk or ride to a regional network of trails and parks along a river. Local rivers with their "flood or forgotten" characteristic have largely been ignored, piped, or channelized. Parkway plans are creating a "big" vision for our local waterways while providing eco-centric urban lifestyles.


Rob Hutsel
The San Diego River Park Foundation

Rob Hutsel is the executive director of The San Diego River Park Foundation, a nonprofit established in 2001 to raise awareness of the San Diego River and to serve as a catalyst in creating a 52-mile-long river park system. Since its founding, Rob has led an effort to create a coalition of 70 non-governmental organizations to partner with the River Park Foundation and helped create California legislation to create a new state agency dedicated to the San Diego River.

Rob attended UC San Diego where he studied Urban Studies and Planning. He has been a guest lecturer at UCSD, SDSU and at several national and state conferences. Rob was named the 2008 National River Hero for his leadership with the River Park Foundation and his more than 20 years of volunteering in San Diego. In 2009, he was awarded the President’s Award by San Diego State University’s President Weber for his work on the San Diego River including working with SDSU to develop what is called “the first wireless watershed in the nation.”

Currently, Rob serves on the board of directors of the California Watershed Network, the San Diego Association of Nonprofits and other organizations and serves on the County of San Diego’s Park Advisory Board and other committees. Rob is known by many as “River Rob” for his passion and dedication to creating a better future for the San Diego River and his work to improve the quality of life in San Diego.

Sustainable Living: Planning a Zero Waste Community
Saturday, 4pm session
In the next 20 years, we can have the collection and processing systems online worldwide to reuse, repair and recycle 90 percent of our discards. It's human nature to reuse material rather than throw it away. In the United States, we are returning to our recycling roots. Recycling is, and always has been, the American way for discard management. If recycling containers are as convenient and recognizable as trash containers, the right material will get in them. Mr. Anthony will discuss planning a zero waste community.


Richard V. Anthony
Principal, Richard Anthony Associates
Zero Waste San Diego
Richard V. Anthony began his career in Public Administration in 1971 as a manager of the California State University Long Beach Recycling Center. He received a MS in Public Administration in 1974. Mr. Anthony has worked his entire career in environmental program management positions. He is an internationally recognized and published expert in the area of resource management using the Zero Waste Systems approach.
Sustainable Living: Reduce the Footprint of Your Food
Saturday, 4pm session
The average meal travels 1500 miles to reach your plate, yet San Diego is part of one of the nation’s most diverse agricultural areas. We can access a greater variety of locally-grown food than almost anywhere else — or take advantage of our climate to grow our own. Learn what is available locally, where to access it, and how to put your yard, patio, even a tiny balcony to work growing some of your own food.


Scott A. Murray
Organic Agricultural Consulting
Scott A. Murray, President of Murray Sustainable Development Group and Murray Farms, has built upon his success as an organic farmer for over 35 years to develop a consulting practice in Sustainable Farming and Agro-Eco-Industrial planning and development. While continuing his organic farming business growing specialty vegetables and culinary herbs for top restaurants in the region, he consults on the conversion of chemically dependant farms to sustainable agricultural practices. Murray specializes in the integration of holistic solutions into complex systems with sustainable practices replacing unsustainable practices. Through soil building, organic fertility management, water harvesting, optimized water use, better land use planning and smart growth strategies, he helps farmers achieve a profitable transition to organic and sustainable practices.

Murray has been growing organic food and selling to the best restaurants nationwide since 1974. He has extensive experience in post harvest handling, packaging, modified atmosphere packaging and shipping by air and truck. Murray worked with International Champion Skateboarder Bob Burnquist to develop Burnquist Organics. Murray designed and developed the handling and bio-safety systems for a $ 1.5 million dollar culinary herb processing, cooling, packaging and shipping facility built near Mexico City. His farm participates in the MESA international sustainable agriculture training program, hosting and training nine farmers from Peru, two farmers from Thailand, six farmers from Ecuador, 3 from Sri Lanka and one each from Bolivia, Kenya, and France in the last nine years.

Mr. Murray has served as President of San Diego EarthDay, an environmental education nonprofit organizing Earth Day events; President of the Board of Directors of Mission Resource Conservation District, which works to conserve and manage natural resources; President of the Board of Directors of the South Coast Resource Conservation and Development Council, which manages and develops natural resources from Ventura County to San Diego County (the largest urban-rural interface area in the United States); Vice President of the Board of Directors of the California Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils and chairs the Boards committee on Green Infrastructure and Smart Growth for the revitalization of California’s economy. Mr. Murray is the Chair of the San Diego County Integrated Pest Management Committee that overseas the reduction in the use of chemicals for managing pests in San Diego County.

Currently Mr. Murray is working to develop a unique and innovative agricultural program that involves designing, teaching students and planting the agricultural system for the San Pasqual Academy. The Academy is a foster care group home for 136 teenagers with their own High School located on a 250 acre farm in San Diego County. The quality of nutrition offered in schools today is one of the number one issues across the world. The system Mr. Murray is developing will allow students to earn credit and internship income building and working on an organic farm that will provide most of the produce, eggs and much of the grass feed meat the students will eat on campus. The whole campus is being developed into The San Pasqual AgroEcology Research Center which will do sustainable and organic production work to benefit all farmers in Southern California.


 

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