[CPEO-BIF] CPEO events in New England

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

(Please excuse duplicate postings/messages.)

CPEO's Brownfields Assistance Project* is planning two events in New 
England this Fall, and we're looking for environmental justice and other 
community activists to work with us to ensure that they are useful to 
people within the region.

--- First, we plan a regional workshop in Worcester, Massachusetts on a 
Saturday (TBD) in September. The workshop, co-sponsored by Worcester 
Community Project Center,** will have two sections:

1) In the morning, we will have educational sessions on two or three 
topics, such as "Building Homes on Brownfields" or "Restoring Greenspace 
in Urban Environments."

2) In the afternoon, we will collectively develop brief position papers 
on the topics discussed during the morning educational sessions. Working 
with volunteers, we will refine those papers in time for the national 
Brownfields conference November 13-15, 2006 in Boston.

--- Second, just before the national Brownfields conference at the 
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (November 13-15), we will 
convene the annual National Environmental Justice/Community Brownfields 
Caucus. Unlike recent years, we will meet BEFORE the conference, 7 pm to 
10 pm on Sunday evening, November 12, at the conference venue. This will 
make it easier for community activists to attend, but it means that we 
will need help notifying potential participants before they come to the 
conference.

At the Caucus meeting, we will finalize the position papers developed at 
the Worcester workshop for distribution to the larger conference. CPEO 
is also working to ensure that the Brownfields 2006 technical program 
includes EJ and community perspectives and addresses issues of concern 
to our constituency.


Please let us know if you want to help plan either of these events, 
and/or forward this message to activists in your area.

Lenny Siegel and Bob Hersh
CPEO

* The Center for Public Environmental Oversight provides information, 
technical assistance, and training to community groups across the United 
States on brownfields revitalization, military environmental issues, and 
other environmental topics. For more information, see http://www.cpeo.org.

** The Worcester Community Project Center (WCPC) develops projects 
around five core competencies: 1) planning for community sustainability, 
2) green energy and building design, 3) economic development, 4) 
historic, cultural, and environmental preservation and outreach, and 5) 
environmental justice.


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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