URBAN REGENERATION FORUM 2: Resilience Through a Regenerative Lens
Wednesday, April 11 is Urban Regeneration Forum 2, an event focused on sustainability discourse. It is located at Walk Auditorium, Ritter Hall at Temple University. A panel from across several "nested scales" of planning in our region will help us to see how the regenerative lens applied to resilience/resiliency programs unlocks greater will and brighter futures! CHRISTINE KNAPP Director of Sustainability, City of Philadelphia BRETT FUSCO Manager, Office of Long-Range Planning, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) FELIX TORRES-COLON Executive Director, NKCDC THOMAS FLAHERTY Deputy Director for Planning and Policy, Energy Coordinating Agency (ECA)
Keynote Speaker Jim Newman will explore the application of REGENERATION to the concept of RESILIENCE/Y for our region. JIM NEWMAN is founder and Principal at Linnean Solutions. He helped found the Massachusetts Chapter of the USGBC and held the position of Chair of the Board of the Chapter for two years. Jim is a founding Board member of a the Resilient Design Institute. Created by Alex Wilson of BuildingGreen, the organization pursues research and education on resilience in the built environment. Jim is also a Board member of CLEAR, the owner of the LENSES regenerative development framework. Previously, Jim worked as the Director of Strategy at BuildingGreen.