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U of M Explores Sustainability at International Design Conference
The University of Minnesota tackles global climate change this week in a conference that joins administrators and heads of schools of architecture and landscape architecture from around the world. "Preparing for the Inconvenient Truth" is the theme of the annual Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Administrative Conference that will address how academic leaders can prepare future design professionals to meet the challenge of global climate change and create a more sustainable future. College of Design Dean Thomas Fisher and landscape architecture department head John Koepke are co-chairing the conference, which will be held Thursday, Nov. 1 through Saturday, Nov. 3 at Graves 601 Hotel, 601 1st Ave. N., Minneapolis. The event will feature polar explorer and environmental activist Will Steger in a keynote address. This year's ACSA/CELA Administrators Conference will provide information on how academic leaders can help students, faculty, colleagues and constituencies embrace more environmentally responsible ways of learning, teaching, operating and practicing. With construction and building operations in North America releasing over 700 million metric tons of carbon, and transportation another 500 million metric tons, into the atmosphere each year, and with buildings and transportation consuming 75 percent of the energy we use annually, programs in architecture and landscape architecture have an especially important role to play by: * Educating the next generation of practitioners on how to change the ways we shape, operate and maintain our physical surroundings; * Providing knowledge about what it means to live within the environmental footprint of the planet and to minimize greenhouse gas emissions; and * Helping our regions and institutions transform themselves to reduce energy consumption, conserve water, minimize waste and cultivate local ecologies. Conference attendance is limited to design school administrators and other paid attendees. For more information including a schedule of events, visit https://www.acsa-arch.org/conferences/2007admin.aspx ---------- |
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