Green Cities 09 was a 4-day expo/conference, recently held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Many policy makers, builders, investors, architects, planners, home owners milled and absorbed the latest information on green building and green homes.
It is interesting Queensland was the venue as it has over the last few years been pummeled by extra heavy duty cyclones and floods, causing devastation.
Aptly, the keynote address by Charles Lockwood, was entitled: “Will the economic crisis stall – or kill – green buildings?” about the impact of another crisis of our own making, The Economy.
Taking the aggregate respoonse of the event’s 72 speakers, on the whole, the answer was resoundingly “no.”
There are emissions to be reduced, waste to be cut AND money to be made.
It’s always only the cream of an entire presentation to get the Power Point version only, but nevertheless the expo’s database of the 72 presentations is worth a look, if you weren’t able to be there.
Put it in your diary for 2010.
Why?
Well, just look at what info was dished out this year:
- What investors want from green homes
- How To Build Green Cities
- How the rating tool Energy Star performs
- How to deliver greener residentisl developments
- and that’s just a grab in the barrel…
Of course you can get your own Ozzie Green Building Guide right now and go green today!
And as far as green investing advice goes, it’s not far away…
Cheers
