LifeSource Water Station

Alt Build will have a complimentary filtered water station, hosted by LifeSource. To help decrease Alt Build's eco-footprint, please consider bringing your own water bottle and feel free to fill it up at the water station.

In an effort to minimize throwaway plastic water bottle use at the show, non-leachable sports bottles and stainless steel canteens will be available for purchase.

Book Signing
Friday, 3:30pm

Global Green’s “Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing” book signing with Matt Petersen, President and CEO, Global Green Walker Wells, Director of Green Building Programs, Global Green.

Books available for purchase through Global Green

BOOKSTORE

The Livingreen Shades of Green Bookstore has a great selection of books on green and sustainable topics as well as beautiful design books. The selection is hand-picked to represent some of the best titles on a variety of subject matter including--energy efficiency, building with green materials, green interior design, creating a healthy home and our favorite primers on the green movement.

Book Signings
Carol Venolia, Saturday 11:45 am, author of “Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green-House”
Harry Wiland, Saturday 3:45 pm, author of “Edens Lost & Found: How Ordinary Citizens are Restoring Our Great American Cities”

Sign-Up for Your Complimentary Energy Efficiency Kit from The Gas Company.

Ever wondered how much "nature" your lifestyle requires? You're about to find out.

This Ecological Footprint Quiz estimates how much productive land and water you need to support what you use and what you discard. After answering 15 easy questions you'll be able to compare your Ecological Footprint to what other people use and to what is available on this planet.

Hands-On Highlights

Separate from the panels there will be on-going demonstrations/mini classes throughout the event for composting, changing out sprinkler heads for the MWD and DWP rebates and more

FREE BICYCLE PARKING
VALET SYSTEM

FREE BICYCLE PARKING
VALET SYSTEM
The City of Santa Monica's Transportation Management Division/Office has implemented a FREE bicycle parking valet system at the Sunday Main Street Farmers' Market and the Thursday night Twilight Dance Series on the Pier. Implemented on July 10th,, 2006, the highly successful valet service has since handled over 14,000 at the market and 4,100 at the Pier.

The resulted benefits from the service includes less traffic congestion, less congested and safer sidewalk walking conditions, better air quality, more convenience and quality family/friends outings. Users believe this to be one of the City's best programs. Families love it. Tourists/residents of others city's praise it and express their jealousy.

Green Cities California Debut

For the first time in history, the majority of the planet's population now lives in cities, and continued urbanization creates a new set of environmental challenges and opportunities.

To address the urgency and gravity of these environmental and social issues, sustainability professionals from a number of major cities in California came together in late 2007 to create Green Cities California (GCC). The purpose of this new collaborative is to cooperatively and collectively take action to accelerate local, regional, national and international efforts to achieve sustainability. Participating cities currently include Berkeley, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica and the County of Marin, which together collectively represent over 8 million California residents.

GCC will make its inaugural presentation at the AltBuild Expo, led by Dean Kubani and Shannon Parry of Santa Monica's Sustainable City Program. The presentation will highlight sustainability initiatives that GCC member cities have already taken as well as collaborative GCC campaigns, their collective impact to date, and GCC goals for the coming year. Representatives from several GCC member cities will be available for a question and answer panel discussion after the presentation by Kubani and Parry.

The USGBC Presentation at AltBuild is the follow up session to the following program at the USGBC Municipal Green Building Conference & Expo

Title: Municipal Solar Programs: We’re Beginning to See the Light
Date: April 17, 2008
Time: 2:15
Location: Energy Resource Center, The Gas Company, Downey, CA

This panel will look at local programs that promote solar and energy efficiency: how they are structured, successes and challenges, and lessons learned. A follow up to this session will be held at the AltBuild Expo in Santa Monica on April 25th, offering tips for design professionals on how to design buildings now that can easily be fitted with solar later.

Jewish World Watch “Solar Cooker Project”

Jewish World Watch is a coalition of almost 60 synagogues working together to mobilize synagogues, their schools, members and the entire community to combat genocide and other egregious violations of human rights around the world.  Jewish World Watch chose the genocide in Darfur as its first advocacy campaign. Since its inception, these synagogues have actively mobilized to stop the genocide in Darfur and have allocated more than $1,000,000 in direct assistance to the people in Darfur.
 
JWW created the Solar Cooker Project to address the rapes and attacks women face when they hunt for firewood outside the refugee camps. At present, the Solar Cooker Project has supplied and trained over 4500 women in the Iridimi and Touloum refugee camps with solar cookers and has distributed over 15,000 cookers.  Women are hired and trained to manufacture the solar cookers, providing them with a new skill and an opportunity to generate income for their families.  According to a recent evaluation, the trips outside the camp to collect firewood have decreased by 86%. Now, more than one half of the women report that they never leave the camp to collect firewood and the other trips have been reduced.

At Alt Build Expo, representatives of Jewish World Watch will be demonstrating the solar cookers and discussing the impact the project has had on Darfurian women in refugee camps in Chad. For more information, please visit http://www.jewishworldwatch.org

MARTINI KINGS - “A TRIBUTE TO BAMBOO”

Performing Friday and Saturday 4:00 - 5:00pm.

www.martinikings.net

March Panel Discussion: Green Home Tour Sneak Preview
Tue 3/25/08

Come join us to a sneak preview on the upcoming AltBuild Expo's Green Home Tour! The homes that are included in this tour will showcase different green design features and building methods. One of these homes is in the process of achieving US Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification!

Green Building Resource Center has invited the architects and builders of the Tour's green homes to speak at this panel discussion. Our panelists include Isabelle Duviver from Duviver Architects (http://www.idarchitect.com), Jesse Bornstein from Jesse Bornstein Architecture (http://www.bornarch.com), Rafe Eddington from Eddington Design (http://www.eddingtondesign.com), Russell Shubin from Shubin + Donaldson Architects (http://www.shubinanddonaldson.com), and Roger Kurath from Design 21 (http://www.godesign21.com).

Date: Tuesday 3/25
Time: 6:30-8:30PM
Location: Santa Monica Public Library
601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401

This event is free of charge and open to the public.

Questions:
phone 310.452.7677
gbrc@globalgreen.org