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Sustainability Leadership Awards Dinner: Creating the Tools for Tomorrow
We are sold out! If you are interested in being on the waiting list, please contact Hannah at Hannahk@sustainableseattle.org. Thank you!
Join us in honoring the social and environmental change agents of the Puget Sound region. Come meet, mingle, dine and give at Sustainable Seattle's Sustainability Leadership Awards Dinner. This is our annual fundraiser, an evening to recognize community nominated businesses, organizations, and one exceptional individual for their leadership, innovation and commitments to sustainability.
The event will be held at Daybreak Star in Discovery Park, it's a NW Native locale, surrounded by 20 acres of forest!
Program highlights include:
Welcome remarks by The Honorable Mike McGinn, Mayor of Seattle
Keynote Speaker Chris Rogers, co-founder and CEO of Point32, presenting "The Bullitt Center: The Greenest Commercial Building in the World". Point32 is an award-winning Seattle-based real estate development company constructing The Bullitt Center, the world's most self-sufficient building to have net-zero energy use and 100% onsite renewable energy. This is the first site of it's kind, and it's happening right here in our city!
Awards dinner tickets are $75 (Early Bird price of $60 available when purchased before November 5th). Includes a cocktail hour where wine and beer will be served. Upon arrival, catch a glimpse of your meal -locally sourced salmon- being cooked atop an open fire to be paired with other NW cuisine.
Thank you for supporting us, now let's salute those Creating the Tools for Tomorrow!
PROGRAM
6:00 - 6:45 Cocktail Hour
6:45 Welcome by Sustainable Seattle CEO, Terri Bulter, and Mayor Mike McGinn
7:00 Dinner Served
7:15 - 7:45 Keynote Speaker: Chris Rogers "The Bullitt Center: The World's Greenest Commercial Building in the World"
8:00 - 8:45 Awards
8:45 - 9:00 Closing Remarks
AWARDS
Did you know, since 2001, our award nominees have been chosen by the community? Visit us to learn more about the awards including this year's award nominees: http://bit.ly/S9ihJP.
ABOUT THE BULLITT CENTER
The Bullitt Center, located in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, will be the first to meet the Living Building Challenge--the strictest of all living building standards in the built environment. Built to last 250 years, the mid-rise commercial project will have net-zero energy, net-zero water, onsite sewage treatment, and design aspects that emphasize the neighborhoods natural beauty and promote healthy living.
ABOUT KEYNOTE SPEAKER- CHRIS ROGERS
Chris Rogers is CEO and a founding partner of Point32 (www.point32.com), a Seattle-based real estate development company that is working to transform Seattle's built environment through strong partnerships, quality design and construction, and a commitment to environmental performance. Projects include the award-winning Art Stable, the Bullitt Center and McGilvra Place park, the BelRoy Apartments on Capitol Hill, and the Bethaday Community Learning Space for the Technology Access Foundation. Chris was formerly the Director of Capital Projects and Government Affairs at the Seattle Art Museum where he oversaw the development of the Olympic Sculpture Park. Previously, he created and protected urban parks and landscapes from Alaska to Puerto Rico for the Trust for Public Land, including the creation of a 14-mile stream valley park through the City of Baltimore. Chris has served on numerous non-profit boards, and is currently a member of the Seattle Parks Foundation's Advisory Council and Arcade, the Pacific Northwest design journal. In 2010, he received an Honor Award from the Seattle AIA, and in 2007 was named Seattle magazine's 'Person of the Year'. A Seattle native, Chris has an undergraduate degree in Art History from Bowdoin College and a Masters in Forestry from Yale University.
Founded in 1991, Sustainable Seattle was the first community-based sustainability organization in the country. Our 20+ year history of bringing groundbreaking ideas and methodology to the sustainability movement is as relevant today as it was in the early years of our existence. We seek to advance an integrated vision of urban sustainability by measuring progress, building diverse coalitions and undertaking key initiatives. Sustainable Seattle is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and as such, is focused on work that betters our community. The 2012 Sustainability Leadership Awards Dinner proceeds go to operating Sustainable Seattle's programs. Help us lead the way in building rain gardens and green infrastructure and educating about sustainable business. Please do consider donating even if you aren't able to attend.
www.sustainableseattle.org
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LocationDaybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
3801 West Government Way
Seattle, WA 98199
United States
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