Alumni Weekend 2010: The Future is Green: Building Sustainable Urban Communities
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
“Going green” is about more than simply planting a tree or recycling a soda can. Achieving a sustainable urban community requires attention to public transit, infrastructure improvements, local agriculture, and much more.
This discussion addressed how cutting-edge science and technology, along with common sense, are creating increasingly sustainable urban environments.
Panelists included Eugenie Birch, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education; Laura Blau, GAR’95, Principal Architect at BluPath Design; Gregory Krykewycz, C’00, Senior Transportation Planner for the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission; Anne Papageorge, Vice President of Facilities and Real Estate Services; and Matthew L. Scullin, C’05, Founder and CEO, Alphabet Energy, Inc.
Duration : 1:17:55
With the current state of the real estate industry, it is important to push and support green real estate with what Dave Porter calls “a sense of urgency.” In this short video, listen as Porter, president of Porterworks Solution Services, talks about the need for synergy and collaboration in the green market, green homes as an investment, and the wide cultural niche that green real estate occupies.
This short video gives a quick introduction to what the Weyerhaeuser Forest Reserve is and why over 600 families have chosen to join our Forest Reserve communities. Come learn more about how the Weyerhaeuser Forest Reserve allows residential living and forestry to co-exist.
Shakespeare, Newton, Lincoln, Einstein, Emerson, Beethoven, Hugo and many more knew this secret. They used it for greater prosperity, happiness and fulfillment. 
This footage is taken from the middle of the street, right in front of lot 108 at La Selva Eco Resort on the island of Roatan. This lot sits between 107 and green area. It has a great central location, being very close to all sporting activities as well as convenient to the villages and chairlift base that goes to the top of the mountain. Lot 108 has mountain and canopy views with excellent ocean views.
Good Earth Homes at Bangalore Eco Friendly builders of sustainable communities
A Green Works symposium panel encouraging investing in green business and green real estate with George Gosieski, Ally LaTourelle, and Douglas Lawrence, setting out the need to broaden notions of profit to include public good so the businesses are sustainable.