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Attack of the Dodo-Sapiens - An Evening with Green Architect & Author, Eric Corey Freed
Rogue Green is pleased to present a special evening with my friend and colleague, Eric Corey Freed! Every year Eric makes a new, amazing presentation that he gives all over the world. This will be his 3rd year coming to support Rogue Green & I have no doubt this will be his best presentation yet! My co-hosts for the evening will be AZ Green Living magazine & Wayne Rainey, MonOrchid owner.
Main event sponsor - Green ID and owner David Byrnes
Tickets - $10.00 ($11.34 w/service fee)/advance OR $20/cash door $5/cash door student w/ID
Drinks & refreshments provided. Amazing cupcakes provided by Tiffany Brown of Kiss Me Cakes!
Evening Agenda:
6p - 6:45 - Networking
6:45p - 7p - Change By Us PHX Updates (http://changebyusphx.org)
7p - 8:30- Eric's Presentation + Q & A
8:30p - 9p - Community announcements + Door prize winners (Must be present to win)
* If you would like to donate a door prize to promote your business, please send an email to Stacey at: champion@cox.net. I am also still seeking one additional event co-host/sponsor!
SPEECH TOPIC:
Attack of the Dodo-Sapiens: innovative new models for sustainable development
Our way of life is killing us. Whether by tradition or habit, the human race does some silly things that hurt us all in the long term. Our cities, buildings and surroundings have been designed around abundant and cheap oil, but now we have painted ourselves into a corner and are stuck there.
The next generation of buildings will have to do better than just energy efficiency and recycled materials. Our lack of foresight has made our building toxic, wasteful and unaffordable. Simply "being less bad" isn't enough and will delay our progress for generations. In order to undo the damage of the past, we need innovative, new models for how to build deep green, bio-based buildings.
In this talk we will explore how the lessons learned from biomimicry, crowdfunding, psychology and history can provide new insight into ways to design and finance living, regenerative buildings for everyone in a matter of decades. We'll uncover specific, bold ideas for how to retrofit our existing cities and suburbs. Using case studies, we will discover new tools to design and fund a new wave of innovative buildings.
Using biomimicry and organic principles as a guide, we'll uncover tangible, deployable lessons we can apply to our built environment. With specific examples, you'll learn innovative methods to sell clients on these ideas, while creating healthier buildings in the process.
This brand new talk is "bullet-point free" (no boring, text heavy slides used). Using rich graphics and video, this presentation will expand your imagination and and provide you a list of actions to take into your own community. Presented by the acclaimed speaker, architect and author of "Green Building for Dummies."
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
* Discover how biomimicry (study of nature as designer) can teach us how to transform built environment
* Understand new financial models for developing sustainable building
* Uncover hidden opportunities to radically transform our existing cities and suburbs, and sell it to local agencies
* Discover how voluntary programs don't go far enough, and the bold initiatives you must implement in your city
* Learn about how to achieve bio-inspired design, solving some of the building industry's most difficult challenges
* Learn about some incredibly exciting design solutions modeled on designs found in Nature.
About Eric Corey Freed:
Eric Corey Freed, LEED AP, Hon. FIGP, is Principal of organicARCHITECT, an architecture and consulting firm in California, with 20 years of experience in green building.
Eric co-developed the Sustainable Design programs at the Academy of Art University and University of California Berkeley Extension. He is on the boards of USGBC Inland Empire, Architects, Designers & Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR), and West Coast Green, as well as the advisory boards of a dozen other organizations.
He was the founding Chair of Architecture for The San Francisco Design Museum and one of the founders of ecoTECTURE: The Online Journal of Ecological Design. He is a regular contributor for Sustainable Industries Journal, Luxe, Natural Home, Metropolitan Home and dozens of other publications. Eric lectures around the country at 40+ conferences a year, and his work has been featured in Dwell, Metropolis, Town & Country, Natural Home and Newsweek. He has been seen on television on Fox News, HGTV, The Sundance Channel and PBS.
When Eric was just 25 years old, noted architect and critic Philip Johnson described him as "one of the real brains of his generation". Today, Eric continues the tradition of "Organic Architecture", first developed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
He is a founding board member and current Chair of the Coachella Valley branch of the US Green Building Council, and sits on the Sustainability Commission for the City of Palm Desert. He has received awards from several Mayors, and worked with dozens of municipalities around the country to help implement sustainable policies.
Eric is the author of four books, including "Green Building & Remodeling for Dummies", a bestseller with over 200,000 copies in print, and "Sustainable School Architecture." His latest, "Green$ense for your Home" won the 2011 Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Eric is considered a leader in the field; named by San Francisco Magazine "Best Green Architect" in 2005; "Best Visionary" in 2007; and "Green Visionary" by 7x7 Magazine in 2008. In 2012, he was named one of the 25 "Best Green Architecture Firms" in the US, and one of the "Top 10 Most Influential Green Architects."
MORE INFO ON ERIC:
http://www.organicarchitect.com
FULL CV:
http://www.organicarchitect.com/press/ecf_resume.pdf
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LocationMonOrchid Gallery (View)
214 E. Roosevelt Street
Phoenix, AZ 85004
United States
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