The Columbus Green Building Forum

2008 GREEN BUILDING EXPO

Join us at the fifth annual Expo for informative technical sessions, world-renowned keynotes and the largest green product tradeshow in the region!

The Green Building Expo has become a signature event in the region with over 700 people participating last year and 80 booths showcasing energy efficient and environmentally friendly building solutions.

For five years the Green Building Expo has served as a catalyst for change!

COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY + GREEN TECHNOLOGY =
NEW ECONOMY

AGENDA & FEES

Conference Schedule:

9:00 am - 11:00 am - Concurrent Education Sessions

11:00 am - Tradeshow begins (Free & Open to the Public)

11:30 am - 1:00 pm - Afternoon Plenary - Dr. Dayna Baumeister

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Education Session / Concurrent Panel Discussions

NEW! Free tradeshow sessions starting at 2 pm in Ballroom 3

Rain Barrels - sustainable water systems for your landscape. Noticed your water costs increasing recently? Learn how to use "free" water for your garden, landscaping and many other things around your home. Chris Luers, Little Square Farm

Sustainable Building Strategies. Columbus State Community College will present about the green certificate course they offer to undergraduates and professionals.

4:30 pm - Tradeshow Closes

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm - Evening Plenary - Hunter Lovins

Program highlights include two-hour sessions on:

CSI Path to LEED specs -
Speaker: Ross Spiegel, co-authored the book on "Green Building Materials: A Guide to Product Selection and Specification"

LEEDing a project - workshop highlighting LEED documentation strategies - Anja Caldwell, Green Building program manager for Montgomery County Public Schools, MD

The Expo has education session tracks, tradeshow and two plenary speakers. The tradeshow is free and open to the public from 11 am - 4:30 pm.

The full day admission for all the education sessions and keynotes is $75. Separately the admission fee to the education sessions is $60 and admission to each keynote is $15 (student rate - $5). Special student rates apply for the full conference.

Registration page

GREEN BUILDING TRADE SHOW
11:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
80 Vendors showcasing the latest in green building technologies
(free & open to the public)

Rust Belt to Green Belt PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Hunter Lovins, Esq.
Co-founded the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and led this organization for twenty years. In 2003, she created the non-profit Natural Capitalism Solutions to implement the ideas of sustainable development on a global scale. Lovins has co-authored nine books and dozens of papers. Her latest book, Natural Capitalism, co-authored with Amory Lovins and business author Paul Hawken, was released in September 1999 and translated into a dozen languages. Named millennium "Hero for the Planet" by Time Magazine, she has received the 1983 Right Livelihood Award (often called the "alternative Nobel Prize"), a 1993 Nissan Award for an article on Hypercars, the 1999 Lindbergh Award for Environment and Technology

Dr. Dayna Baumeister
Co-founder of the Bio-mimicry Guild. Biomimicry – the process of finding sustainable ideas by echoing nature is finding a home in companies, universities, and organizations throughout the world. Biomimicry is a new science that studies nature's models and then
emulates these forms, process, systems, and strategies to solve human problems; sustainably. The Biomimicry Guild and its collaborators have developed a practical design tool, called the Biomimicry Design Spiral, for using nature as model.