Local Governments: Reducing Greenhouse Gases
A Sustainable Silicon Valley Educational Forum
Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Forum hosted by: Green Building Exchange

Forum agenda (PDF)

9:00 Welcome Remarks, Rick Row, Sustainable Silicon Valley

9:10 Don Weden , principal planner (retired), Santa Clara County
Winds of Change: Putting Planning for Climate Change into Perspective (PDF of summary of this presention)

9:45 Timothy Burroughs, Climate Action Program director, City of Berkeley
The Planning Process: Creating a Climate Action Plan (PDF)

10:10 Kris Krasnove, planner, Marin County Community Development Agency
Sustainability and Implementing the Marin Countywide Plan (PDF)

10:35 Break

11:05 Sandra Goldberg, deputy attorney general, Office of Attorney General, State of California
Integrating a Climate Action Plan into a General Plan (PDF)

11:25 Panel: Regional Coordination and Q&A - all speakers, plus R. Alden Felden, regional projects manager, ICLEI U.S.A., & Abby Young, senior environmental planner, Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Moderated by Bruce Riordan, principal, Elmwood Consulting

12:30 Adjorn