Course description:
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities is hosting its annual regional conference Grey to Green 2015 on June 1st and 2nd in Toronto with a focus on local and regional food systems and designing for resilience. Presentations, tours and training sessions will explore new developments in urban agriculture and green infrastructure that are enabling leading designers and practitioners to integrate food production into the built environment.
For more information visit: www.greytogreenconference.org
List of speakers:
Roger Schickedantz, Principal, William McDonough + Partners/ Eric Corey Freed, Vice President, International Living Future Institute/ Dr. Cathrin Winkelmann, Project Manager, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority/ Jeffrey Bruce, Principal, Jeffrey L Bruce & Co. Landscape Architecture/ Hamid Karimi, Deputy Director - Natural Resources Administration, DC Department of Environment/ Jennifer Mallard, Associate, Diamond Schmidt Architects/ Heela Omarkhail, Manager of Community Partnerships, Daniels Corporation/ Lauren Mandel, Project Manager, Roofmeadow, LLC & Owner, Eat Up, LLC/ Ben Flanner, Head Farmer and President, Brooklyn Grange/ Mark Winterer, Owner & Director of Operations, Recover Green Roofs, LLC/ Dr. Youbin Zheng, Professor, University of Guelph/ Liat Margolis, Director, GRIT Lab, University of Toronto/ Dr. Paul S. Mankiewicz, Director, The Gaia Institute/ Lauren Baker, Food Policy Coordinator, City of Toronto's Food Policy Council/ Debbie Field, Executive Director, FoodShare and many more!
Date, Time and Location:
When: Monday June 1, 2015 8:30AM - 6:30PM & Tuesday June 2, 2015 8:30AM - 4:30PM
Where: Ryerson University - Department of Architectural Science - 325 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario
Link or contact of the registration page and or process:
Registration Page: http://greytogreenconference.org/index.php/registration
Contact: Vincent Javet, 416-971-4494 x 234 or vjavet@greenroofs.org