Zero Carbon Communities Symposium
Center for Sustainable Development
On Friday, August 28, 2009, the Center for Sustainable Development began the active integration of the various disciplines working with the built environment with a half-day symposium where faculty and partners discussed how their work responds to the question:
How can communities be designed to maximize the quality of life, while reducing the impact on the environment to zero?
Wilfried Wang
Changing Paradigms in Building Culture
Elizabeth Mueller
An Equity Approach to Livable, Environmentally Sustainable Communities
Steve Windhager, Mark Simmons, & Emily Manderson, LBJ Wildflower Center
Optimizing the Potential of Urban Green Infrastructure for Ecosystem Services Production
Ming Zhang
Transport-related emissions: Implications for Designing Zero-carbon Communities
Kent Butler
Sustainable Water Infrastructure Planning
Michael Oden
The Price is Right: Pricing Environmental Externalities in the Development of Green Industries
Steven Moore
Can we Code Sustainability into Existence?
Karl Rábago, Austin Energy
Sustainable Energy Opportunities
Michael Gatto, ACDDC
Building Affordable, Net Zero Subdivisions: Lessons from the Field
Jim Walker, UT Director of Sustainability
Towards a Carbon Neutral University
Werner Lang
Building Envelopes for ‘Energy Positive Buildings’
Sarah Dooling and Patricia Wilson
Systems Diagramming and the Pecan Street Project
