Shoulder program commences:
see accompanying shoulder program schedule for activity/event detail

Workshops and Salons

Reception for conference delegates
Sponsored by the Centre for Sustainability and Social Innovation, Sauder School of Business and the Center for Sustainable Business Practices, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon.

Shoulder program begins at 7:30pm.

Planning Down – What if Can Do Can’t?, Bill Rees, Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia

Workshops and Salons

• Community, City, Business—a new model for sustainability collaboration, Majora Carter, President, The Majora Carter Group
  
  
• The Practice Essentials of Living System Design (Carbon Neutral Only Gets
  Us Halfway Home), Bill Reed, Principal, Integrative Design Collaborative
  
  
• Media That Matters at Resilient Cities, Facilitated by media strategist and Media that Matters founder, Bill Weaver and Leif Utne, VP of Community Development, Zanby
  
  
• Planning Metro Vancouver as if Food Matters, Moderator Peter Ladner, Fellow, SFU Centre for Dialogue, former Vancouver City Councillor and Vice Chair, Metro Vancouver; Michael Ableman, author (Fields of Plenty, On Good Land, Beyond Organic) organic farmer (Foxglove Farm, Centre for Art, Ecology and Agriculture), founder Center for Urban Agriculture, Fairview Gardens, Goleta California; Kent Mullinix, Institute for Sustainable Horticulture, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, former commercial orchard grower; Jane Pickering, Director of Planning, District of Maple Ridge; John Savage, President of the Delta Farmers' Institute; former B.C. Minister of Agriculture, Delta municipal councillor, head of B.C. Federation of Agriculture, and chair of the Cranberry Association; and Harold Steves, rancher, Richmond Councillor, Chair, Metro Vancouver Agriculture Committee. (open to public) more info
  
  
• The Power of Partnerships: Aligning efforts to create sustainable communities, Sponsored and moderated by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). Panelists include Chris Mattock, Principal, Habitat Design + Consulting Ltd.; Paul Bouman, BC Hydro; Chris Frye, Policy Analyst, Alternative Energy Policy Branch, BC Ministry of Energy, Mines, and Petroleum Resources; David Ramslie, Sustainable Development Program Manager, City of Vancouver; Jonathan Tinney, UniverCity - Director of Community Development, SFU Community Trust; Allan Dobie, Research and Information Transfer, CMHC BC Region
  
  
• Resilient Communities: A Community-Municipality Collaboration Model for Achieving Sustainability Goals, Led by Deborah Curran, Principal, Deborah Curran & Company and Senior Instructor, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria; Shannon Gordon, Manager, Whistler2020 Community Initiatives, Whistler Centre for Sustainability; and Jim Diers, Author, Neighbor Power: Building Community the Seattle Way and Professor, University of Washington
  
  
• Revolutionary Cycles of Transformation, Graham McGarva, Principal, VIA Architecture; Ian Smith, Manager of Development, Southeast False Creek and the Olympic Village; Lance Berelowitz, founding Principal of URBAN FORUM ASSOCIATES Town Planning + Urban Design + Communications; Roger Bayley, Principal, Merrick Architecture; and Sean McEwen, Vancouver City Planning Commission and Southeast False Creek Stewardship Group
  
  
• Solve the Sustainable Community Energy Mystery: An Interactive Game,
  Robyn Wark, Senior Key Account Manager, BC Hydro’s Sustainable Community Group; Jorge Marques, Manager, Technology Innovation for BC Hydro Power Smart; and Alex Tu, Senior Strategic Technology Specialist within the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, BC Hydro
  
  
• Rethinking the Good Life in Cities, Bill Rees, Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, and Director, One Earth ; Nicole-Anne Boyer, Managing Director, Adaptive Edge and Associate, One Earth; Vanessa Timmer, Co-founder and Director, One Earth; Vincent Tan, Executive Vice President - Planning Group, Ayala Land Inc.; and Mariken van Nimwegen, Graphic Recorder

• The Many Roles for Zero Waste in a Sustainable City, host and sponsor: Recycling Council of BC. Brock Macdonald, moderator and panelist -  Recycling Council of Executive Director; Eric Lombardi, panelist -  Eco-Cycle Executive Director; Dr. Jeff Morris, panelist - Sound Resource Management Group; David Ranson, panelist - Director of the Environmental Quality Branch with the BC Ministry of Environment; and Helen Spiegelman, panelist  - Vancouver-based solid waste and recycling activist and blogger
  
  
• Creating Resilient Communities through Whole Systems Change: Presentation by the Fidelis Resource Group, Cori Barraclough, Chris Corps, Patrick Lucey, Jon O’Riordan, and Stephen Salter
  
  
• Vancouver’s Greenest City Action Team: Reflections on engaging people and change, Moderator: Keith Jardine; Gordon Price, Director, SFU City Program; Moura Quayle, Professor UBC Sauder School of Business; Robert Safrata, CEO Novex Delivery Solutions; and Melina Scholefield, Manager, City of Vancouver Sustainability Group
  
  
• Governance for Resilient, Sustainable Cities: A practical, interactive workshop on transforming governance and decision-making, Chris Lindberg, Senior Consultant with Stratos Inc. and Associate of the Centre for Sustainable Community Development at Simon Fraser University; With guest expert interveners: Sean Connelly, Post-doctoral fellow with the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance; Rob Abbott, Director of Sustainability, Stratos Inc.; Rob Bennett, Executive Director, Portland + Oregon Sustainability Institute; Kim Fowler, Director of Sustainability, City of Victoria; Mark Roseland, Director, SFU Centre for Sustainable Community Development; Cheeying Ho, Executive Director, Whistler Centre for Sustainability; Tom Osdoba, Director, Center for Sustainable Business Practices, University of Oregon; and Pong Leung, Sustainability Advisor, The Natural Step Canada
  
  
• "Fast Track to Factor Ten" BCIT Sustainability Charrette outcomes. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development calls for reduction of energy and materials consumption by 90%. Can it be done? Find out what we learned by applying an ecocity approach to the adaptive restructuring of a portion of BCIT's Burnaby Campus.
  

Workshops and Salons End (free evening, shoulder program begins at 6:00pm)

Welcome, Lois Jackson, Chair, Metro Vancouver

4,000,000 People, 100º–Phoenix Challenge, Jon Fink, Director Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS), Arizona State University and Rob Melnick, Executive Dean, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University