Nasome "Awakening the Dreamer" Facilitators Group
Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream
This group is for people who want to help produce the "Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream" Symposiums to communities north of Marin County, California. The purpose of the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Initiative (originallly created by the Pachamama Alliance) is bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and soc ...learn more
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Created: Sep 25, 2007
Updated: Nov 06, 2009
Membership: Open To Apply
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The Great Gumbo: Stirring the Pot of Community Design
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In this place where conversation itself is an art, we are creating a conference environment that will give us time and space to explore multiple issues in community design, appreciate what is working, and share ways of building community. We plan to celebrate the rich regional cultures of Southern Louisiana—the art, music, food and conviviality. Keynote presenters will include Lolis Eric Elie, columnist for Times Picayune; Carol Bebelle, director of Ashé Cultural Arts Center of New Orleans; Bill Stallworth, Biloxi city councilman and director of East Biloxi Coordination and Relief Center and Clifton James, a long-time ACD member. The conference will also feature "discussion cafés" where we can reflect with our colleagues on our evolving practice and its response to needs for social, environmental and economic justice. Bring your unique experiences and a big appetite for connecting as you never have before.
Additional joint conference features:
• Gala Saturday evening June 2 in New Orleans to honor ADPSR's Lewis Mumford Awardees and celebrate Planners Network's 32nd, ACD's 30th and ADPSR's 25th anniversaries.
• Site visits and service opportunities throughout with New Orleans and Baton Rouge organizations.
Join this unprecedented convention of planners, designers, policymakers, community organizers and community development professionals, academics, and other stakeholders as we address the challenges of our time. Keep an eye out for future notices about conference particulars and registration: www.communitydesign.org • www.adpsr.org • www.plannersnetwork.org
ACD / ADPSR / PN CONFERENCE HOSTS
The Association for Community Design (ACD) is a network of individuals, organizations, and institutions committed to increasing the capacity of planning and design professions to better serve communities. ACD serves and supports practitioners, educators, and organizations engaged in community-based design and planning. Established in 1977.
http://www.communitydesign.org
Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) works for peace, environmental protection, ecological building, social justice, and the development of healthy communities. We believe that design practitioners have a significant role to play in the well-being of our communities. Established in 1981.
http://www.adpsr.org
LOUISIANA CO-HOSTS
University of New Orleans
Louisiana State University
ADDITIONAL SPONSORS
Boston Society of Architects / AIA
Designer/Builder Magazine
Enterprise Community Partners
New Jersey Institute of Technology
New Village Press
Planetizen
Pratt Institute
Tulane City Center
Additional joint conference features:
• Gala Saturday evening June 2 in New Orleans to honor ADPSR's Lewis Mumford Awardees and celebrate Planners Network's 32nd, ACD's 30th and ADPSR's 25th anniversaries.
• Site visits and service opportunities throughout with New Orleans and Baton Rouge organizations.
Join this unprecedented convention of planners, designers, policymakers, community organizers and community development professionals, academics, and other stakeholders as we address the challenges of our time. Keep an eye out for future notices about conference particulars and registration: www.communitydesign.org • www.adpsr.org • www.plannersnetwork.org
ACD / ADPSR / PN CONFERENCE HOSTS
The Association for Community Design (ACD) is a network of individuals, organizations, and institutions committed to increasing the capacity of planning and design professions to better serve communities. ACD serves and supports practitioners, educators, and organizations engaged in community-based design and planning. Established in 1977.
http://www.communitydesign.org
Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) works for peace, environmental protection, ecological building, social justice, and the development of healthy communities. We believe that design practitioners have a significant role to play in the well-being of our communities. Established in 1981.
http://www.adpsr.org
LOUISIANA CO-HOSTS
University of New Orleans
Louisiana State University
ADDITIONAL SPONSORS
Boston Society of Architects / AIA
Designer/Builder Magazine
Enterprise Community Partners
New Jersey Institute of Technology
New Village Press
Planetizen
Pratt Institute
Tulane City Center
SPONSORS NEEDED AND WELCOME Introduction to GSS-SET '08-'09: Interested sponsors should contact Tim Razzaq @ timrazzaq@comcast.net to receive a sponsorship inquiry letter
Click here to visit Green, Smart, and Sustainable Central
http://gss-set.blogspot.com/
BOOST is a creative community solutions network of individuals, organizations, businesses, and institutions dedicated towards providing timely, relevant, reliable, and well-structured information to the general public and target audiences. Green building, sustainable design, smart growth, and environmental economy are all gaining headway as focal points of discussion in both the community and governmental arenas and the need for educational venues facilitated by industry experts is growing rapidly.
Green, Smart and Sustainable Stakeholder Education and Training is the natural outgrowth of three years of research, community organizing, network building, and over one hundred small group meetings, focus sessions, conferences, workshops, and seminars produced by dozens of stakeholders in the BOOST network. Our activities have been featured in newspapers, magazines, program books, radio, and on the internet and the expectations and demand for producing more focused, leading-edge, and geographically broader programming have lead us to this point.
Our 2007-08 activities have include:
¨ Community outreach programming that brought in over 1,000 curiosity and residency seekers to the newly renovated historic, sustainable design Broad Street Bank mixed-use multifamily apartment complex in New Jersey’s capital, Trenton (NJ)
¨ Community Building Forum #3 (January 20, 2007)with over 100 in attendance and media coverage) featuring seven presenters of nearly three dozen programs for local residents to take advantage of regarding job, career, housing, education, cultural, and business options and opportunities in the Trenton region;
¨ Workshop by Bob Blakeman for P. S. & S. Keyspan on “Current Best Practices in Green Building;
¨ Workshop by John Cusack for NJHEPS on “Leadership by Example: Creating Sustainable College Campuses”;
¨ (2) workshops by Mel Leipzig for Mercer County Community College on the “Role of Arts and Artists in Revitalizing Older American Urban Centers;
¨ Workshop by Terri Jover for New Jersey Future on “How Citizens can Measure Smart Growth Using NJF’s Municipal Smart Growth Scorecard”;
¨ (3) workshops by Greg Jones for USA Closers on “Smart Credit Building: How to Development Personal, Business, and Community Credit”;
¨ (2) workshops by Angelica Redpath-Perez for Green Design Now on “How Everyday Citizens can ‘Green-up’ their Home and Offices”;
¨ (2) workshops by Robert Estock for MCCC on “Continuing Education and Training Options and Opportunities at Community Colleges”;
¨ (4) public talks/Q & A by Richard Libbey for Bayville Holdings LLC – the developer of the newly renovated historic green Broad Street Bank Building – on “Real-Time Experiences on Adaptive Reuse Green Building: Hidden Assets and Challenges” – several n newspaper articles generated and presentation for NJHEPS (2007) created;
¨ (2) focus sessions with Princeton Area Community Foundation on behalf of Atlantic Philanthropies “Community Experience Partnership: Engaging Older Americans for Civic Good” at two Trenton sites;
¨ (5) workshops by Tim Razzaq for BOOST on “Three Major Challenges to Community Benefits: Leadership Matters” in Asbury Park (NJ) and several Trenton-Mercer locations;
¨ (6) workshops, “Invitation to Civics Education” in association with The Civic Formation Inc.; and
¨ (12) forums featuring (MCCC) Professor Alvyn Haywood’s Documentary Viewings & Community Discussion Series timely and relevant issues of import at Classics Used and Rare Books.
This year, we are building on these relationships and forum-production activities by expanding both our network of partners and geographic reach. Sundance TV Channel, Rutgers University’s Leading Institute, GreenWorks Studio, New Jersey and Company Magazine, and five New Jersey Community Colleges are a few of our new associates as we move from our Trenton-Mercer base into five major regions throughout the Garden State.
We are committed to bring residents of the Tri-State area and our potential sponsors and opportunity to grow their personal, organizational, and business capacities to engage effectively in the new and emerging eco-economy and related industries and are inviting you to be a part of our efforts.
Interested sponsors should contact Tim Razzaq @ timrazzaq@comcast.net to recieve a sponsorship inquiry letter.