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Sustainable Development Committee
Chair
Katherine Howard, landscape architect
Next meeting:
No meeting currently scheduled (meets 2nd Thursdays at 8:30am)
The Sustainable
Development Committee is committed to exploring ways to influence local policy
and to implement the San Francisco Sustainability Plan. Our membership
encompasses people from a wide variety of backgrounds, including architects,
ecologists, urban planners, water-use specialists, engineers, and members of
various City departments. We welcome everyone interested in promoting
sustainability policy in San Francisco, no matter what their background. Your
level of involvement is up to you! For information or to be added to our
e-mail list, contact Committee Chair Katherine Howard.
Currently, the
Sustainable Development Committee is focusing on the following subject
areas:
- Green Roofs -
Last summer, Paul Kephart of Rana Creek, the designer for the Green Roof on
the California Academy of Sciences, gave an inspiring presentation on Green
Roofs at a Sustainable Development Committee meeting. After preliminary
planning, it was decided to hold a charrette to further explore the
opportunities and constraints for Green Roofs in San Francisco. In November
2005, the Committee held that charrette, which was coordinated by HOK. A
series of Next Steps was arrived at, and various task forces have been formed
to implement them.
Other activities: The
Sustainable Development Committee has continued to meet monthly, with a wide
variety of speakers to inform the membership on state-of-the-art topics and
discuss possible policy proposals. Some of the speakers have been:
- Marshall Foster,
Mayor's Office of Greening, who has been a guest speaker twice, just last
month speaking on Green Building Incentives in San Francisco.
- Mark Palmer, SF
Environment, spoke on that department's various programs and how the
department is working with other City departments in encouraging green
building in all new and retrofit projects.
- David Pascal, the
Operations Director for the Global Citizen Center, talked about the current
challenges of green building incentives and policies.
- Warren Mead, Chair
of the BOMA Recycling Task Force (which has since become the BOMA Committee on
the Environment) talked about that committee. Our committee members also
attended a BOMA meeting and welcomed its members to work with SPUR on
Sustainability issues.
- Julie Kirschbaum, SF
County Transportation Authority, presented the Geary BRT Plan. This resulted
in a review of the project by the committee and a letter written in
conjunction with the SPUR Transportation Committee, requesting implementation
of more sustainable practices in the project.
- Committee members
presented information on the latest developments in Biodiesel in San
Francisco, which resulted in a full Brown Bag program at SPUR.
- The Green Landscape
and Infrastructure Sub-Committee are putting the final touches on a report,
soon to be presented to the Committee and the SPUR Board.
Relevant documents
2006
The Living Machine: Ecological Wastewater Treatment at the Living Classroom, March 16, 2006 [PDF, 0.6Mb]
2005
Michael Hanemann, Climate Change, August 15, 2005 [PDF, 1Mb]
Sustainable Development Committee minutes, April 2005 [PDF, 72kb]
Sustainable Development Committee minutes, March 2005 [PDF, 34kb]
Sustainable Development Committee minutes, February 2005 [PDF, 24kb]
Sustainable Development Committee minutes, January 2005 [PDF, 34kb]
2004
Sustainable Development Committee minutes, October 2004 [MS Word, 84kb]
Sustainable Development Committee minutes, September 2004 [MS Word, 68kb]
Sustainable Development Committee minutes, August 2004 [MS Word, 64kb]
Sustainable Development Committee minutes, July 2004 [MS Word, 68kb]
Green Brown Bag Lecture Series flyer [PDF, 528Kb]
Rich Chien's Green Project Tour flyer [PDF, 2.9Mb]
Sustainable Development Committee minutes, May 2004 [MS Word, 68Kb]
Sustainable Development Committee Agenda, January 2004 [PDF, 160Kb]
2003
Sustainable Development Committee minutes, September and October 2003
Suggested Edits to Residential Guidelines for Outdoor Lighting Issues - Summary, October 2003
Solar Affordable Housing Description
GRID's Fall 2003 Newsletter [PDF, 387Kb]
Sustainable Development Committee minutes, August 2003
SPUR Sustainable Econ. and Comm. Dev. Working Group plan
Green Landscape Sub-Committee minutes, July 2003
Sustainable Development Committee minutes, June 2003
Green Landscape Sub-Committee minutes, June 2003
Sustainable Development Committee minutes, May 2003
Green Landscape Sub-Committee minutes, April 2003
Sustainable Development Committee description flyer for Green Building Expo, Anshen + Allen, 6/11
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