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WORKSHOP AGENDA
Pathways to Urban Sustainability: A Focus on the Houston
Metropolitan Region
January 18-19, 2012
Shell Center for Sustainability
Rice University
Bioscience Research Collaborative Auditorium
6500 Main St.
Houston, Texas
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
9:00 AM .............................. Welcome from the National Academies
Rich Bissell, Executive Director, Policy
and Global Affairs, National Academies
9:05 AM .............................. Welcome and Goals of the Workshop
Jim Lester, Vice President, Houston
Advanced Research Center (HARC)
9:15 AM .............................. Why Sustainability
Katherine Lorenz, President, The Cynthia
and George Mitchell Foundation
Session I: Perspectives on Urban Sustainability
Moderator: Bruce Wilcoxon, Director, Climate Change, ConocoPhillips
9:30 AM .............................. John Randolph, Urban Affairs and
Planning, Professor Virginia Tech
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10:00 AM ............................ Philip Berke, Professor and Deputy
Director, Institute for the Environment,
University of North Carolina
10:30 AM ............................ BREAK
10:45 AM ............................ Armando Carbonell, Chairman, Department
of Planning and Urban Form, Lincoln
Institute of Land Policy
11:15 AM ............................ Panel Discussion
12:00 PM............................. LUNCH BREAK
Session II: Building Bridges
1:00 PM .............................. Natural and Built Capital
Moderator: John Nielsen-Gammon,
Professor and State Climatologist, Texas
A&M University
Lisa Gonzalez, Research Scientist, Houston
Advanced Research Center
Carol Lewis, Associate Professor,
Transportation Studies and Director of the
Center for Transportation Training and
Research, Texas Southern University
Rives Taylor, Director, Sustainable Design,
Gensler
2:15 PM .............................. Human Capital
Moderator: Winnie Hamilton, Director,
Environmental Health, Baylor College of
Medicine
Stephen Klineberg, Professor and Co-
Director, Kinder Institute for Urban
Research, Rice University
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Brenda Reyes, Bureau Chief of the
Community and Children Environmental
Health, Houston Department of Health and
Human Services
Herminia Palacio, Director, Harris County
Public Health and Environmental Services
Natasha Prudent, Health Scientist, National
Center for Environmental Health, Centers
for Disease Control & Prevention
3:30 PM .............................. BREAK
3:45 PM .............................. Breakout groups
Incentives to Change Practice and Advance Sustainability
(Auditorium)
Moderator: ......................... Jennifer Ronk, Houston Advanced Research
Center
Neighborhood and City-Scale Projects (Room 282)
Moderator: ......................... Lisa Lin, Sustainability Manager, Office of
the Mayor, Houston
4:45 PM .............................. Report back in plenary
5:30 PM .............................. ADJOURN
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Session III: Integrating Goals, Measuring Progress, Translating
Results
Moderator: ......................... Walter Peacock, Professor and Director,
Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center,
Texas A&M University
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9:00 AM .............................. Efforts from Government
Peggy Crist, Director, Office of Planning &
Program Development, Federal Transit
Administration - Region VI, U.S.
Department of Transportation
Patrice Parsons, Director of External
Affairs, ICLEI
Jeff Taebel, Director, Community and
Environmental Planning, Houston-
Galveston. Area Council
10:30 AM ............................ BREAK
10:45 AM ............................ Measuring Success
Walter Peacock, Professor and Director,
Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center,
Texas A&M University
Bruce Wilcoxon, Director, Climate Change,
ConocoPhillips
Jim Blackburn, Professor of the Practice,
Rice University
12:15 PM............................. LUNCH BREAK
Session IV: “Moving Forward”
Moderator: ......................... Jim Lester, Houston Advanced Research
Center
1:15 PM .............................. Catherine C. Mosbacher, President and
CEO, Center for Houston’s Future
1:45 PM ............................. Breakout groups
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Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration (Auditorium)
Moderator: ......................... Marilu Hastings, Environment Program
Director, Cynthia and George Mitchell
Foundation
Regional Projects and Plans (Room 286)
Moderator: ......................... Dr. Lester King, Shell Center for
Sustainability, Rice University
2:45 .................................... PM BREAK
3:00 PM .............................. Report back to plenary
3:45 PM .............................. Workshop Re-Cap and Major Themes
Jim Lester, Vice President, Houston
Advanced Research Center (HARC)
4:00 PM .............................. ADJOURN
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