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3rd Annual Citizen Planners Conference
Sustainable Housing:
community
affordability
energy efficiency
in an environmentally-friendly way
Saturday April 5th, 2008
9:00AM-2:45PM
Vermont Law School
Registration: $35 online before 3/21
$45 at the Door or
Print and mail the registration form
Questions? Email Corb Moister or call him at (802)291-9100 ext 114
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9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Registration
9:15 - 9:45 a.m. Introduction
L. Kinvin Wroth and Anne Duncan Cooley
9:45 - 11:00 a.m. Panel 1
Efficiency and Affordability:New and Current
Gwen Hallsmith, Montpelier Planning Director: What are green building standards and their relation to affordability/sustainability?
Pat Haller, Efficiency Vermont: Economic return on energy efficiency investments and programs available
Bob Walker, SERG: Response at the local level
11:00 – 11:15 a.m. Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:30 p.m. Panel 2
Social Sustainability: Intentional Communities Sustainability Institute/Cobb Hill, Hartland, VT
The Pinnacle Project, LLC, Lyme, NH
East Village and Champlain Valley Cohousing,
Burlington, VT
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 – 2:45 p.m. Panel 3
Putting It All Together
Lori Hirshfield, Hartford’s Planning Director:
Implementing planning objectives
Chuck Lief, The Hartland Group: The Gile Project in Hanover
Donald H. Sienkiewicz, Rath, Young & Pignatelli, PC: Green Developments in New Hampshire |
“Sustainable Housing: Community, Affordability,and Energy Efficiency in an Environmentally-Friendly Way,” the third annual Citizen Planners Conference, will engage citizen planners and local experts in discussions facilitated by speakers on three panels.
The first panel will address green building, LEED and other environmental standards, and their connection to long term affordability. Panelists will discuss the long-term benefits of increasing energy efficiency in new houses, existing houses, and mobile homes. They will
address the economic return on efficiency investments and the programs available to assist homeowners and communities.
The second panel will examine cohousing, a form of intentional communities, as a way to create sustainable communities. Speakers will describe the basics of what cohousing is and the benefits. Panelists will speak to the challenge of affordability in cohousing. They will provide definitions and resources for planners and communities interested in how resident-controlled
housing can contribute to sustainability.
The concluding panel will provide the stories of communities that have been successful in putting together affordable, efficient, and socially sustainable solutions.
Sponsored by Upper Valley Housing Coalition, Vermont Law School and The Land Use Institute
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