California Green Building Policy

and

Revolutionary Green Communities

Thursday, April 16th 2009

5:30 - 8:00 pm

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION

Amid the crush of negative news on the economy and construction markets worldwide, there are bright signals of opportunity in the sustainable development and green building industry.  The federal government is taking steps to implement massive job creation packages tied to a green economy and California agencies are charting action plans to achieve the State’s goal for curbing green house gas emissions.

If you are involved in new of existing buildings in the Inland Empire, all of this translates into exciting new opportunities.  Opportunities to save money and cut emissions, opportunities to create state-of-the-art general plans for cities, and opportunities to plan new developments that will be out in front of the new regulatory environment that is headed our way.  Our presentation includes two dynamic speakers and will address both sides of the issue; future development policy and possible alternatives that meet expected challenges:

California Green Building Policy-Panama Bartholomy, California Energy Commission

Panama Bartholomy of the California Energy Commission will discuss the State’s adoption of AB 32 and explain what this will mean for the future of California development.  He will describe in detail the variety of climate and energy policies that the State has decided to implement and how they directly impact our jobs and communities.

Revolutionary Green Communities-Chris Velasoco, PLACE

Chris Velasco, from PLACE, will then introduce a groundbreaking development called E-Generation™. Imagine a mixed-use, mixed-income, creative urban community designed to include a compact power facility capable of converting waste into clean, renewable energy. A safe, sanitary, nearly invisible system built into the development will process all the waste produced on site: one hundred percent of the garbage, recyclables and liquid waste, or black water. A super-efficient system captures heat and methane from the waste and converts it into green energy.  The process produces no odors -- just clean, abundant, renewable energy. Mimicking biological systems, an E-Generation community operates as a perfectly efficient life cycle: community life generates waste, which is used to generate energy for community life. The only input is the sun.  The super efficient system creates as much as 1.7 megawatts of renewable energy. The facility is fully enclosed, safe, sanitary and will create up to eight new green collar jobs. E-Generation is a new model for cities to create communities that can heal the environment.