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Scaling it Up: Beyond Buildings to Low Carbon Communities
Presenters
Peter Whitelaw, HB Lanarc, Vancouver, BC
Lindsay Cole, Director, Sustainability Solutions Group, Victoria, BC
Will McDowall, Community Energy Association, Vancouver, BC
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This session will look at policy and land use planning opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the neighbourhood and community scale. We will use case studies and policy research to present some ideas about how planners, developers, designers, government representatives, and others can integrate longer term GHG reduction strategies into their building and neighbourhood design, construction and operations.
will discuss some recent GHG scenario
planning that has been undertaken by his firm to assist in and inform
the design and development of buildings in a new block development
project.
Click here to listen to Peter Whitelaw's presentation podcast.
will discuss a recent study done by SSG analyzing the potential future greenhouse gas emissions created by different land use planning options on Salt Spring Island BC. This session will explore the ways in which land use patterns determine greenhouse gas emissions including impacts on transportation patterns and behaviours, building energy use, opportunities for district energy systems, minimized impacts on carbon sinks and embodied emissions in construction.
Click here to listen to Lindsay Cole's presentation podcast.
will
present ideas for how governments, developers, designers and citizens
can encourage the use of microgeneration systems as a way to produce
renewable energy in new and existing buildings, neighbourhoods and
communities.
The group will then discuss strategies, ideas and opportunities for how to integrate this kind of longer-term, planning and policy based GHG reduction work into their professional and civic lives.
Will McDowall is a community energy planner at the Community Energy Association, and an Associate Member of Sustainability Solutions Group. He has a background in sustainable communities, energy and innovation policy, having worked previously as a Research Fellow at London’s Policy Studies Institute, and as a consultant on energy sustainability in BC. He was educated in the UK, with a bachelors in biology from the University of York and a masters in biodiversity and conservation from Leeds University.
Click here to listen to Will McDowall's presentation podcast.
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