ITS Events
THE 2009 LEON HOFFMAN URBAN TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
Date: May 27, 2009
Description:
Transportation and Land Use Strategies in Climate Action Planning.
In the 2009 Leon Hoffman Urban Technology Symposium on Climate Action Planning we will bring together leading practitioners and researchers to address the questions facing those tasked with climate action planning, focusing on effective, meaningful compliance with a still-evolving set of state legislation and regulations. The program will emphasize practical ideas and practice grounded in the best available research.
For more info:
http://www.spa.ucla.edu/up/LeonHoffman09/
Sustainable City Finance
Date: Jan 07, 2010
Description:
"Sustainable City Finance"
January 7, 2010
at 7 World Trade Center, NYC
A green economy must be environmentally and monetarily sustainable. Paying for green technologies, jobs, buildings, cars, and infrastructure will require innovations in how we see, use and exchange money and credit. A dual crisis -- of the environment and of the banking system -- provides us with a 'magic moment': to enable sustainability in cities and regions, plus provide adequate financing for those local governments to utilize new technologies and transition to a cleaner and greener urban age.
Sustainable cities are home to green consumers, triple bottom line green businesses, entrepreneurial nonprofits and government agencies. Financing for the best initiatives is delayed and inadequate. Unconnected pieces and spigots left over from the carbon-based economy are corrosive legacies, and their investment practices do not suit the sustainable city's financial needs. We must think anew about credit, money, banking, ratings and investment.
"Sustainable City Finance" will gather thought leaders and pioneers who are working to implement solutions, to share their views of what exists, what is needed, and how sustainable cities can best leverage the reform of banking and credit markets.
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