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Unless noted otherwise, meetings will be held at
City/County Building
City Council Chambers
1 E. Main Street
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
View a Mapquest map
E-mail Regina@Synergid.com with questions.
2008 Meetings
July 3, 2008
at 7:30am: Water
Quality by Matt Jones. The upcoming talk will be on "Sustainable Water
Resources": The EPA "Clean Water" Act; Challenges to water quality; and the
"Green" connection. This presentation will discuss the impact of these
issues on NE IN and the benefits of improving water quality.
July 31, 2008 from 5pm to
8pm: NEIGBC Networking event @ Club Soda. Come meet people in the
environmental and energy field and have some appetizers and drinks.
More information to come.
August 7, 2008
at 7:30am: Wind
Turbines: What are they? How cost effective are they? Can they be used in
our area? by Steve Park and Doug Ahlfeld.
Sept. 4, 2008
at 7:30 am: IPFW Sustainable
Construction Research Facility development Kick-Off
Oct. 2, 2008
at 7:30 am: Doug
Ferrell from REMC will talk about the differences between Energy Star Homes
and Touchstone Energy homes.
Nov. 6, 2008
at 7:30 am:
Follow-up on IPFW Sustainable Construction Research Facility development
Dec. 4, 2008
at 7:30 am: Steve
Park will lead a workshop discussing embodied energy. Just what is required
to put that gallon of milk on the shelves, or that pencil.
January 3rd, 2008: Gardening and Sustainable
Landscaping: What does sustainable gardening and landscaping look like
and what does it take to make it happen. (LOCATION: City/County
Building 1 E. Main St. Fort Wayne, IN 46802 - City Council Chambers).
January 31st, 2008:
Megan Moss, NEIGBC President will be giving a talk on Energy Efficiency
and Sustainable Construction at IPFW in Kettler Hall at 12pm. This
is part of the Focus the Nation program hosted by Advocates for a Global
Future from 10am to 4pm.
February 7th, 2008: Joint meeting with the local
ASHRAE chapter covering the latest standards. (LOCATION: Sweetwater
Sound 5501 US Hwy 30 W Fort Wayne, IN 46818)
March 6th, 2008: Tour of Sweetwater Sound's new
facility - Join us on a tour including some of the key people involved
in the design and construction of this new facility pursuing LEED Gold.
(LOCATION: Sweetwater Sound 5501 US Hwy 30 W Fort Wayne, IN 46818)
April
3, 2008
at
7:30am:
"The beneficial
reuse of waste generated by contractors and industry" by Candace Imbody
Presenting the options that are
available for recycling the non-hazardous waste streams that are generated
daily in our community. How we can make a difference with beneficial reuse
both economically and environmentally in our industry processes. Identifying
the wastes that can be recycled. Using source reduction as a tool for
conserving resources. We will be sharing some national and local statistics
that may be surprising!
May 1, 2008
at 7:30am: Green
Innovation Award - Join us as we announce the winners of this years awards.
Location TBA
June 5, 2008
at 7:30am: Fort
Wayne’s Mayor Tom Henry will speak about the city’s green initiatives.
2007 Meetings
January 4, 2007
at 7:30am: Brainstorming session using open space technology. Where do
we go from here?
Location: 3010
Butler Ridge Pkwy, located 500 feet West of Hillegas Road on the South
side of Butler Road.
February 1, 2007
at 7:30am:
(View slides from presentation) Wendy Barrott, Director of Energy and Environmental Services
for the City of Ft. Wayne &
Mayor Graham Richard’s Green Ribbon Commission recommendations to the
City of Fort Wayne
She will be reviewing
the Green Ribbon Commission Report recommendations and goals and provide
an update on the status of the city's implementation. Fort Wayne has committed to “The 2030 Agreement,”
so what can we citizens do to help us achieve that commitment?
March 1, 2007 at
7:30am: Renewable Energy—How can we capture more of this?
View Slides from Steve Park's presentation
(Second set of slides)
April 5, 2007 at
7:30am: “Participation Design
Charrette for the Habitat Sustainability Project”
Beginning next fall we, the Northeast
Indiana Green Build Coalition, will be collaborating with senior
Construction Engineering Technology students and the Center for
the Built Environment at IPFW, and Habitat for Humanity to
design and build a sustainable residence. Our Coalition is
filled with a diverse group of disciplines and multi-talented
people, which expands the ways in which we can participate in
this project. The purpose of this meeting will be to work
together to identify what we are able to contribute, and how we
will proceed.
May 3, 2007 at
7:30am: Treasuring and Valuing our
Water Resources
Kent Halloran, PE with DLZ here in Fort Wayne, was the project manager
for the Camp Scott wetland development project, and he'll be speaking about
that project and the general impact of wetlands on water quality. Also, Jane
Loomis, Executive Director for the St. Joseph River Watershed Initiative,
will speak about a number of projects they are conducting and the impact on
our water quality.
June 7, 2007 at
7:30am: Geothermal
Bruce Ritchey with Waterfurnace will be presenting on Geothermal
technology and its benefits.
View WaterFurnace's
YouTube Video Here
View
WaterFurnace's Slide Show from Mr. Ritchey's presentation here
July
12, 2007 at
7:30am: Biomimicry, presented by Theresa Bissell, Chair, Science Dept.,
Ivy Tech. Download the Power
Point here.
August 2nd:
Acres Land Trust.
Jason Kissel, Executive Director of ACRES
will be our speaker next Thursday morning. ACRES is Indiana's
oldest and largest land trust, dedicated to preserving natural
areas in northeast Indiana. ACRES owns and manages 61 nature
preserves totaling over 4200 acres.
Sept 6th: Global
Climate Change presentation
John Steinbach of Grassroots Green will present
slides from the award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
Mr. Steinbach trained with Al Gore so that he was able to provide this
presentation to us.
September 29, 2007: NEIGBC + Habitat +
IPFW Collaborative Design Charette for a sustainable residence for Habitat
for Humanity.
8:00 AM to 3:00 PM in Walb Student Union, room 222-4-6.
This will be a completely creative day! We will be collaborating with
students from IPFW's Center for the Built Environment and Habitat for
Humanity family, staff, board members, and volunteers to design a
sustainable residence. We will be filming the process of the Charette and
will be creating DVD's to send out to Habitat throughout the United States
for training purposes. If you would like to register to participate in the
Charette, please e-mail Regina at leffersr@ipfw.edu. Breakfast and lunch
will be served.
Oct. - "This Old
Green House" by Professor Matt Kubik from IPFW, and Angie Quinn, Executive
Director of ARCH. These two knowledgeable people will use their expertise
to help us understand what we can do in our own homes to make them more
energy efficient. Matt has just completed extensive research on this, and
Angie has just completed greening up an ARCH home.
November 1st at
7:30am IPFW + NEIGBC + Habitat design presentation
Students
will be presenting the final design prints and specs for our professional
feedback and final "tweaking" of any design/sustainability problems.
Northeast Indiana Green Build Coalition and Habitat for Humanity to
provide feedback (to be filmed). This will be at Water Furnace.
Dec. 6th, 2007 -
Doug Ahlfeld presents on Solar Hot Water
Heating at Water Furnace.
January 5, 2006 at 7.30 am "Biomimicry"
- Read summary of meeting
We will have a panel discussion on Janine Benyus' book, Biomimicry. Matt Kubik from IPFW, Steve Park from Moake Park, and Theresa Bissel, Chair of Science Dept. at Ivy Tech will be the panelists. It won't be necessary for people to read the book before the meeting, though it is one of the "bible's" of Green literature. More information on the subject is also available at the biomimicry website. It promises to be a very interesting program.
February 2, 2006 at 7:30am "New Urbanism"
- Read summary of meeting
We will be viewing a brief video of Andres Duany's "new urbanism" and green communities, with a panel discussion. Jay Abernathy will lead the panelists: Beth Beams, Ann Helmke, Rose Newman Clevinger and one additional community leader (to be announced).
March 2, 2006 at 7:30am "Winning the Oil End Game"
Download book
Cheryl Ryan, Director of Business Development at SES, will lead a group discussion on the book: Winning the Oil End Game, by Amory Lovins, one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain Institute. We can download it from the internet at www.oilendgame.com.
April 6, 2006 at 7:30am "Construction Experiences in Building Green"
Luke Gascho, Executive Director of Merry Lea Environmental Center of Goshen College, will present Construction Experiences in Building Green. Work began on the first phase of Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center's collegiate facility in May 2005 with occupancy in March 2006. This project is registered at the platinum level with the U.S. Green Building Council. Luke will share a photographic journey of the construction processes. The presentation will highlight how the top rating criteria are being achieved in the site and landscaping, energy efficiency, water conservation, interior air quality, as well as innovative aspects. This is a great opportunity to hear how a carefully integrated design has been constructed and to better understand the LEED rating system. Challenges and achievements will be noted. The seminar will conclude with a time for questions and answers.
MAY 2006
May 4, 2006 at 7:30am "Sustainable Landscaping"
- Read summary of meeting
Greening for the summer. Beth Beams and panel members: Dan Earnst from Earth Source, Mo Palmer, landscape designer and Sue Kruse, Master Gardener will talk about sustainable landscaping and practical applications for homes.
JUNE 2006
June 1, 2006 at 7:30am "Permaculture Design: A case study"
Carol Tunell, an Architect who is relatively new to Fort Wayne and who has twenty years of experience as an architect specializing in permaculture design, and Sister Rita Weinken from the Earth Literacy Center in Tiffin, Ohio, will talk about a completed permaculture project and will explain how it benefits the entire community. The project is the renovation of an abandoned dairy barn into an Earth Literacy Education Center. Carol will explain the basic principles of Permaculture design and then Sister Rita will talk about how they applied the principles to the barn renovation. Sister Rita is currently immersed in adding a Community Supported Agriculture farm, named “Hope Farm” to the facility.
July 6, 2006 at 7:30am "Design
Charette for the Mayor's Green Ribbon Commission" Read the notes
from the charette
Design charette to help the Mayor's Green Ribbon Commission generate ideas for goals for
the city in the area of air quality and energy use. Steve Park will be
leading the charette. It will be highly participatory, so people should
come with the idea that they will be involved in the process. It should be
both fun and
interesting.
August 3, 2006 at 7:30am "Sustaining our Local Markets"
with Rachel DeRyk
Presentation and group discussion
September 7, 2006 at 7:30am "Cohousing and New Urbanism"
Megan Moss, leader of Northeast Indiana Cohousing will give a brief explanation of cohousing, its history and its possibilities for this area as well as introducing the concept of New Urbanism. This will be followed by a group discussion. Cohousing is a type of housing that allows for greater resident interaction through the design of the community. For more information visit
www.cohousing.org
or www.newurbanism.org
October 5, 2006 at 7:30am "Green Construction Costs"
Jonathan Moss, President of Moss Construction Cost Management will present an
overview of key cost issues relating to sustainable construction
with particular focus on LEED NC certification. Jonathan has been costing and managing construction in the US and internationally for 22 years, and is pioneering cost analysis techniques in the field of green construction. Jonathan worked on the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center, one of the earliest LEED certified buildings.
NOVEMBER 2006
IPFW and
Northeast Indiana Green Build Coalition co-hosting
showing of
two films
highlighting global climate change
As a Prelude to both movies, the room will
open at 6:00PM with a variety of "learning stations" set up.
Both movies will start at 7 PM in Walb Ballroom. Following the
movies those who wish to stay can participate in a discussion
about the films.
November 9, 2006
HBO documentary Too Hot
Not to Handle
Jenny
Weatherford, Office of International Programs, Regina Leffers,
Dept. of Civil and Architectural Engineering Technology, and
Wendy Barrott, Energy and Environmental Services for the City of
Fort Wayne
will give brief introductions before the film.
November 28, 2006
Al
Gore's
An Inconvenient Truth
Just before the movie begins,
Chancellor Wartell will welcome
the group to IPFW, and speak for a couple of minutes about
sustainability at IPFW, both now and in the future
.
For more information about the movie go to
http://www.climatecrisis.net/
For more information, e-mail Regina
Leffers at
leffersr@ipfw.edu.
December 7, 2006 at 7:30am "Greening the Holidays and Christmas Party"
Location: Summit Club, 25th floor, National City
Bank Building, 110 W. Berry St., downtown Fort Wayne.
Very good food is involved, so there is a cost this
time: $10 for members; $15 for non-members.
Schedule:
7:15am to 7:45am - coffee, orange
juice, and we actually get to talk to each other!!!
7:45am - food presentation by
Chef Edwardo -- organic food with a South American flair!
7:45am to 8:15am - Eat great
food!
8:15am - present Green Innovation
Awards.
*** You will need to reserve your seat for this event because Chef
Edward is preparing food for us. You can do that by e-mailing
Steve Park at spark@moakepark.com.***
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