Jason F. McLennan, CEO of the Cascadia Green Building Council will kick off a collaboration between the City of Bend and Cascadia that sprang from a 2011 design competition.
In celebration of a unique and innovative partnership with the City of Bend, Cascadia Green Building Council announced that its CEO Jason F. McLennan will deliver a free public lecture on January 30.
The lecture is sponsored by Bend’s Mayor Jeff Eager and the City Council. McLennan, an internationally renowned speaker, will discuss community transformation and the future of architecture and design. He also will address opportunities for Bend to embrace restorative development principles.
McLennan’s visit to Bend kicks off a unique collaboration between the City and Cascadia along with Cascadia’s parent organization, the International Living Future Institute. The Institute is a nonprofit organization that developed and administers the Living Building Challenge, the world’s most progressive and stringent building standard. Living Building Challenge projects are quickly emerging around the world and demonstrate the highest level of environmental performance currently possible.
The City’s partnership with the Institute began in late 2010, when a group of Bend’s leading architects, planners and engineers came together to enter the Institute’s Living City Design Competition. What emerged was the Bend Living City Project, which was supported by the action items of the BEND 2030 Vision. The Project has since made an important contribution to Bend’s long-range planning. The City now hopes to work with the Institute to apply the Living Building Challenge framework to future planning projects yet to be determined.
“We’re excited about this phenomenal collaboration,” says Mayor ProTem Jodie Barram. “The BEND 2030 Vision, a Central Area Plan that needs re-invigorating, and the Institute’s ability to look at sustainable systems in a way that will benefit Bend long term can be transformative.”
The lecture will be January 30 at the Tower Theatre, 835 Northwest Wall Street, Bend. Doors open at 6pm and the lecture begins at 6:30pm. : http://livingcity.eventbrite.com/
About Cascadia Green Building Council:
Founded in 1999, Cascadia is a proud chapter of both the US and Canada Green Building Councils and serves the green building community in Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska. Cascadia promotes LEED and the Living Building Challenge through a comprehensive program of education, outreach, advocacy and research. A network of fourteen branches located in each of the region’s population centers ensures that Cascadia’s programming is targeted and locally relevant. Cascadia is a program of the International Living Future Institute, which is also home to the Living Building Challenge, The Natural Step Network, USA and Ecotone publishing. Please visit http://www.cascadiagbc.org.
About the International Living Future Institute:
The Institute is a hub for visionary programs like the Living Building Challenge, Cascadia Green Building Council, The Natural Step Network USA and Ecotone Publishing. Our work moves across scales, offering global strategies for lasting sustainability, partnering with local communities to create grounded and relevant solutions and reaching out to individuals to unleash their imagination and innovation.
