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This year, I spoke at the 2009 Greenbuild Conference in AZ on the panel "OR02: Reviving the Oldest Approach to Sustainable Design - How Cultural Values and a Sense of Place Leads to Green Building Designs"

The panel included myself, David Edmunds from the Pinoleville Pomo Nation (PPN), Michelle Baker from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Kimberly TallBear from UC Berkeley.

During our panel we spoke on about the partnership amongst CARES, PPN, and UC Berkeley and how the utilization of  Co-Design methodology lead to the creation of the culturally inspired  housing design adopted by the PPN.

Overall, Greenbuild was an outstanding success!!.  We got an standing ovation at the end of our panel and we made good contacts with representatives form LEED and USGBC.

Currently, we are planning for another panel and paper on the subject of LEED and Native American Nations for the summer as well.

Until then, check out some other comments and blogs about our presentation here and here.
 
 
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The 2009 Greenbuild International Conference & Expo’s program has been announced.

This conference is the largest dedicated to green buildings and their design.  This year the conference will take place in Phoenix, AZ from November 11-13 2009. 

I will be at the conference this year to serve on a panel to discuss the partnership between CARES and the PPN to build cultural inspired, sustainable.  housing.

You can read more about our session here.