From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:17:28 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Community Revitalization Alliance at Brownfields 2008 |
Submitted by Deeohn Ferris <gerinc@mindspring.com> of the Sustainable Community Development Group on behalf of the Community Revitalization Alliance Join us in Detroit at Brownfields 2008 at the inaugural luncheon Tuesday, May 6, 2008 celebrating the national Community Revitalization Alliance and our other brownfields conference activities. INVITATIONAL LUNCHEON The Community Revitalization Alliance will be launched in collaboration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other partners at the Agency's national brownfields conference BF 2008 in Detroit. Please RSVP for our invitational luncheon Tuesday May 6, 2008, 12:00pm at Detroit's COBO Convention Center, Room D-3- 16/17/18. Seating is limited so RSVP right away to Felicia Sanders at FeliciaMeetings@gmail.com. Lunch speakers are leaders in the public, private and community sectors. Confirmed speakers: Assistant Administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Susan Bodine and Assistant Administrator for the Office of Enforcement, Granta Nakayama. David Lloyd, Director, U.S. EPA Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization will join us and Mayor Rick Baker, a leader in sustainable redevelopment, is invited. We are co-hosting two other high profile events at the conference that are open to all. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CAUCUS. The Environmental Justice Caucus is scheduled Sunday, May 4, 2008, 5:00pm-9:00pm at Asian Village, 521 Atwater Street walking distance a few blocks away from the Cobo Center. The topic of the Environmental Justice Caucus and a renowned group of presenters is sustainable redevelopment: the green economy, green jobs and environmental health. BF 2008 GENTRIFICATION PANEL. Equitable Development and Gentrification, Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 9:00am-10:30am Room 02-44, Cobo Convention Center featuring a workshop focused on tools and strategies to address equitable development and gentrification. Moderator, Deeohn Ferris, President, Sustainable Community Development Group, Inc. and panelists Chloe Coney, Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa, Inc. (CDC of Tampa, Inc.); Daniel T. Kildee, Treasurer, Genesee County, MI; Vincent Nathan, Director, Environmental Affairs, City of Detroit; and Vernice Miller-Travis, Environmental Support Center. MORE ABOUT THE COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION ALLIANCE. The Community Revitalization Alliance, headquartered in Washington, DC connects a growing number of community development corporations, environmental justice groups, civic associations, faith based organizations, developers and practitioners in these fields from around the nation. The work of the Alliance is guided by an expanding interdisciplinary advisory committee. Our advisors are multi-stakeholder leaders in community and economic development, labor, environment quality, health, social justice, advocacy and law. Sustainable Community Development Group, Inc. hosts and manages the Alliance. Our mission is education and implementation at the national level that leads to sustainable redevelopment of brownfields, vacant and other distressed properties in underserved urban and rural neighborhoods. Our goals include providing insight and ideas to decision makers and influentials in the public, private, academic and community sectors; bridging gaps between sectors that are working on issues; ensuring that the voices of on-the-ground diverse constituencies are better understood; ensuring that these voices, views and best practices drawn from community experiences are integrated into the discourse and decisions. This multi-stakeholder coalition is a change agent - these are voices that are heretofore rarely heard at the highest levels of public policy. From the perspective of the Community Revitalization Alliance, there is a direct relationship between environment and health and the needs, health and vitality of a community. That is our unifying message: Community quality of life, environmental justice, public health and stewardship should be at the center of governmental decisions and programs that involve and affect communities. Sustainable Community Development Group, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation on the forefront of working with the public, private and community sectors to advance environmental sustainability, equitable development and global smart growth. _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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