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Greening the Heartland: Water-centric Site Design- The Path to More Sustainable Places

June 22-24, 2008

Location: St. Louis, MO
Speaker: David Yocca, CDF; Tom Price, CDF
Info: www.greeningtheheartland.org

Lake Michigan Watershed Academy Conference: Regional Police and Implementation to Address Lake Michigan Water Quality.

Topic: Stormwater Management and Conservation Design

May 20-22, 2008

Location: The Calumet Conference Center; Purdue University, Calumet
Speaker: James Patchett, CDF
Info: www.cmap.illinois.gov/lmacademy.aspx

2008 Green Tuesdays in the Village of Oak Park, IL

Topic: Integrated Human/Natural Landscapes

Tuesday April 15, 2008

Location: Oak Park Public Library – Small Meeting Room
Speaker: James Patchett, CDF
Info: Admission Free | See announcement here
Contact Michael Iverson 708.383.1189 for further info.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Water Center 5th Annual Water Law, Policy and Science Conference. "Water Quality Challenges in the Great Plains"

Tuesday April 22 & Wednesday April 23, 2008

Location: Embassy Suites, Lincoln, NebraskaL
Topic: Water Quality Issues Important to Nebraska and the Great Plains Speaker: James Patchett, CDF
Keynote Presentation: "Emerging Culture of Green Roof Technology"
Sponsored by: the Sustainable Sites Initiative
Info: UNL Water Center |  Email UNL

Reclaiming the Ravines: Protecting Lake Michigan’s Ecological Treasures

Topic: Management Techniques for Ravine Owners and Municipalities

Thursday April 24, 2008

Location: Chicago Botanic Garden
Speaker: Tom Price, PE – Conservation Design Forum
Info: Download registration materials

Root River Watershed Exhibit and Lecture

Topic: A Watershed History with A Vision For Tomorrow

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Location: Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop, 10976 N. Port Washington
Rd. Mequon, Wisconsin
Speaker: Gerry Wilhelm, Conservation Design Forum
Margot Mazur, Caerulean Collaborative
Info: Click Here

2008 Illinois Association for Floodplain and
Stormwater Management conference Topic:
Retrofitting Urban Areas using Bioswales and Raingardens"

March 12, 2008

Location: Holiday Inn Select & Convention Center,
Tinley Park, Illinois
Speaker: Eric Otto, PE, CDF; Julia Kennedy, Center for Neighborhood Technology
Info: Visit Official IAFSM Website

Dubuque, IA Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD)
"Put A "LID" On It! Low Impact Development Workshop"

March 13, 2008; 8:00 am-4:00 pm

Location: Grand River Center, 500 Bell Street, Dubuque, Iowa
Topic: Keynote Presentation: Design for Sustainable Systems Speaker: James Patchett, CDF
Keynote Presentation: "Emerging Culture of Green Roof Technology"
Sponsored by: the Sustainable Sites Initiative
Info: Eric Schmechel at 563.876.3418 ext. 3.
Email |  Download Registration Form

CSI (Construction Specifications Institute)
Chicago Chapter Meeting: Rainwater Management

March 25, 2008; 6:30 PM Presentation

Location: Union League Club, 65 W. Jackson, Chicago IL
Speaker: James Patchett, CDF
Keynote Presentation: "Emerging Culture of Green Roof Technology"
Sponsored by: the Sustainable Sites Initiative
Info: CSI Chicago |  Email The TT Group

2008 Illinois ASLA Landscape Architecture
Registration Exam (LARE) Review Session

March 29, 2008; 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Location: DePaul University Naperville Campus – Room 206
Instructors: Jason Cooper, RLA, CDF; Andrea Cooper, RLA, CDF
Info: Download Registration Form

2008 Maryland Contractors Association Winter Workshop:
Grow in Winter

February 12-14, 2008.
David's program is Feb. 12th 3:00-5:00 pm

Location: Turf Valley Resort & Conference Center,
Elliott City, Maryland
Topic: Ecological Vegetated Roof Systems—
The Emerging Culture of Green Roofs
Speaker: David Yocca, CDF
Info: Landscape Contractors Association  |  Download Registration

Pennsylvania Landscape & Nursery Conference:
One Drop at a Time, New Resourceful Paradigms
for the Small Scale

February 12-14, 2008

Location: The Penn State Conference Center Hotel
in State College, PA
Speaker: Marcus de la fleur, CDF
Info: Pennsylvania Landscape & Nursery Association

10th annual Autumn Tree Care Experts Seminar: Sustainable Rainwater Management, Ecological Restoration, and Green

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Location: Chicago Botanic Garden
Speaker: James Patchett, CDF
Info: Autumn Tree  |  Email

Integrating Habitats Design Competition – Design

February 21, 2008 - Evening

Location: Fields Ballroom, Portland Art Museum
Speaker: James Patchett, CDF
Info: Metro Region

DuPage Area Engineers Week Speakers Forum Seminar

February 21, 2008 - Evening

Location: IL Institute of Technology (IIT) Rice Campus
Speaker: David Yocca, CDF
Date: Jury: February 24-26, 2008.
Award Ceremony Feb. 26, 6-8:30 pm
Info: Email IIT

Green Matters: Environment, Ethics, Education.

February 22, 2008

Location: Brookside Gardens, 1800 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton, MD
Speaker: Tom Price, CDF
Keynote Presentation: "Emerging Culture of Green Roof Technology"
Sponsored by: the Sustainable Sites Initiative
Info: Registration/Information
Download the PDF Poster

2008 WESTERN Nursery and Landscape Association
Annual Meeting and Trade Show
Keynote Presentation - "Emerging Culture of Green Roof Technology"

January 6-8, 2008

Location: Overland Park, Kansas
Speaker: David Yocca, CDF
Info: Western Nursery & Landscape Association

DuPage Environmental Summit – Clean Water:
We Can't Live Without It. Water Conservation in Homes

Monday, January 9, 2008

Location: Benedictine University; Krasa Center; Lisle, IL
Speaker:Marcus de la fleur, CDF
Info: The Conservation Foundation

2007 USGBC Greenbuild
Off-Site Workshop-Sustainable Site Initiatives

November 8, 2007; 3:00-6:00

Location: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, IL
David Yocca, CDF
http://www.greenbuildexpo.org

2007 USGBC Greenbuild
Green Roof Technologies

November 7-9, 2007; Exact Time TBD

Location: The New McCormick Place West Building, Chicago, IL
Marcus de la fleur, CDF
http://www.greenbuildexpo.org

Open Your “L.I.D.” – A Low Impact Development Tour and Seminar Session #3
Components of LID, Design Your LID and Implement LID and Ordinance Development

October 24, 2007

Location: West Pottawattamie Soil and Water Conservation District;
305 McKenzie Avenue, Council Bluffs, IA
James Patchett, CDF; Thomas Price, CDF; Jason Navota, CDF
www.pottswcd.org or call 712.322.2987

College of Lake County Continuing Education Classes – Green Roof Seminar
Green Roof Technology Seminar and Tour

October 19, 2007; 9:30 am-12:30 pm

Location:Vernon Hills Southlake Education Center
David Yocca, CDF
Call 847.543.6504

2007 ASLA Annual Meeting & Expo
“Designing with Nature: The Art of Balance”

October 4-9, 2007

Location: San Francisco, CA
www.asla.org

USGBC LEED Faculty Retreat
New Trends in Green Thinking.

September 9-10, 2007

Location: Washington, DC
Gerould Wilhelm, CDF

Discovery Science Channel: Building Green featuring CDF's Chicago City Hall Green Roof and an interview with David Yocca, CDF

August 22, 2007; 9:00-10:00 pm

A new, "green" generation of builders, scientists, architects and designers, like Conservation Design Forum, are rethinking how we build.
Their revolutionary approach to sustainable building environments and intelligent, eco-friendly architecture, is transforming the way we live.
Discovery Science Channel (also known as The Science Channel)
Website

Open Your “L.I.D.” – A Low Impact Development Tour and Seminar; Tour #2 and Session #2: "Design Your LID"
Components of LID, Design Your LID and Implement LID and Ordinance Development

August 2, 2007

Location: West Pottawattamie Soil and Water Conservation District;
305 McKenzie Avenue, Council Bluffs, IA
James Patchett, CDF; Thomas Price, CDF; Jason Navota, CDF
www.pottswcd.org or call 712.322.2987

Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning-
Watershed Planning Seminar:
Conservation Design: Principles, Policies, and Practices

July 12, 2007; 9:00-4:00

Location: University of Illinois, Extension- Illini Room, 2501 N. 8th Street
(Illinois State Fairgrounds) Springfield, IL
Thomas Price, CDF
http://www.chicagoareaplanning.org

Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning-
Watershed Planning Seminar:
Conservation Design: Principles, Policies, and Practices

June 28, 2007; 9:00-4:00

Location: Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning-
233 South Wacker Drive, Suite 800, Chicago,IL
Jason Navota, CDF
http://www.chicagoareaplanning.org

Faith In Place Environmental Program. "What Would It Take?"

Green Design

June 3, 2007

Location: Fox Valley Presbyterian Church, Geneva, Illinois
Trish Beckjord, CDF
www.faithinplace.org

Chicago Wilderness and Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning Seminar

Understanding and Influencing the Transportation Process: Biodiversity and Green Infrastructure in Project Planning, Design and Implementation

June 1, 2007; 9:00 - Noon

Location: Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
233 S. Wacker Drive, Ste 800 Chicago, IL
David J. Yocca, CDF
Free Event, E-mail jrawl@cmap.illinois.gov

Stormwater Best Management Practices Training for Northeastern Illinois
BMP Practices

May 31, 2007; 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM (breakfast and lunch included)

Location: Kendall County Courthouse, 110 West Madison Street, Yorkville, IL
Tom Price, CDF
www.delta-institute.org/SBMP.php

Soil and Water Conservation District of Lake County – 50th Anniversary Celebration
Green Design, Alternative Stormwater Applications & Conservation Subdivisions

May 23, 2007

Location: University Center Facility, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
Tom Price, CDF
www.lakeswcd.org

Congress for New Urbanism-
National Congress
Village Green/Green Village: An Approach to Civic Ecology

May 17-20, 2007

Location: Philadelphia, PA
David Yocca, CDF
http://www.cnu.org

Open Your “L.I.D.” – A Low Impact Development Tour and Seminar, Tour #1 and Session #1:"Components of LID"
Components of LID, Design Your LID and Implement LID and Ordinance Development

May 17, 2007

Location: West Pottawattamie Soil and Water Conservation District;
305 McKenzie Avenue, Council Bluffs, IA
James Patchett, CDF; Thomas Price, CDF; Jason Navota, CDF
www.pottswcd.org or call 712.322.2987

Designing Bio/Infiltration Best Management Practices for Stormwater Quality Improvement:
Porous pavement, Rain Gardens, Swales and Green Roofs

May 7-9, 2007

Location: Laurel Point Inn, 680 Montreal Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Thomas Price, CDF
http://www.epd.engr.wisc.edu/webJ237

Central States ASLA Chapter Conference
Inside the Outside Environment:
Emerging Technologies in Landscape Architecture

April 20, 2007

Location: Kansas City, MO; Country Club Plaza Embassy Suites Hotel
Thomas Price,CDF, David Yocca, CDF
http://www.pgasla.org

Chicago Area Metro Managers Annual Luncheon
Green Design: Villa Park Police Station

April 19, 2007

Location: Fusion Fire Restaurant, Villa Park, IL
Andrea Cooper, CDF

Green Tech U Lecture Series:
Stormwater Management in an Urban Environment

April 12, 2007; 6:00-8:00 PM

Location: Chicago Center for Green Technology
Trish Beckjord, CDF
http://www.cityofchicago.org

AIA Chicago – 2007 Professional Development Conference
Green Urban Design

April 12, 2007; 10:00am-11:30 am

Location: McCormick Place South, 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive
Jim Patchett, CDF; Douglas Farr, Farr Associates (Moderator); Michael Berkshire, Chicago Dept. of Planning; Randall Chapple, Goettsch Partners
http://aiachicago.org

LARE Review Session
(Landscape Architecture Exam Review)

March 31, 2007

Location: DePaul University, Naperville Campus
CDF's Jason Cooper, RLA;
& Andi Cooper, RLA;
www.il-asla.org/news_events.html

Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum -
Environmental Science Issues for Chicago Public High School Students

March 17, 2007

Location: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Jason Addington, Conservation Design Forum

Illinois Association for Floodplain and Stormwater Management (IAFSM) Annual Conference

March 13-14, 2007

Location: Springfield, IL
Tom Price, CDF; Eric Otto, CDF
www.illinoisfloods.org

USEPA Midwest Sustainability Summit
Sustainable Redevelopment Principles and Best Practices

March 6-8, 2007

Location: Drury University, Springfield, MO
Jim Patchett, CDF
http://www.epa.gov/region7/land_revitalization/newsroom/press.htm

Drury University Architecture Department Lecture
Integrated Site Design

March 6-8, 2007

Location: Springfield, MO
Jim Patchett, CDF

Wildflower Association of Michigan: "Back to the Future –
What Have We Learned?"
The Learned Aesthetic of Native Landscapes: A Perspective From the Trenches

March 4-5, 2007

Location: Lansing, Michigan
Trish Beckjord, CDF
http://www.wildflowersmich.org/

Wild Things 2007 Conference
Documenting Hydrological Problems at the National Lakeshore by Using Plants

March 3, 2007

Location: Northeastern Illinois University
Gerould Wilhelm, Ph.D.
http://www.habitatproject.org

Low Impact Development Stormwater Best Management Practices and Conservation Design Land Development Workshop
Conservation Based Design and Stormwater BMPs

February 27, 2007 (Overview Presentation)
February 28, 2007 Hands on Technical

Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Tom Price, CDF; Jason Navota, CDF
Registration: Email workshop coordinator, Kent Holm

2007 Sustainability Symposium Series.
Design for Sustainable Systems

February 11, 2007

Location: Community Building in Elizabeth, Illinois (Galena area)
Jim Patchett, CDF
Info: Sponsored by Natural Land Institute, Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation, Natural Area Guardians, Audubon Society, and The Prairie Enthusiasts

For Religious Facilities: Cost-Effective Ways to Go Green Inside and Out
The Annunciation Byzantine Church Master Plan

January 30, 2007; 8:30-10:00 am

Location: Annunciation Byzantine Church, Homer Glen, Illinois
Andi Cooper, CDF

Iowa Association of Landscape Contractors
Keynote Address

January 26, 2007

Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Jim Patchett, CDF