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Going Green
Going Green: Conventions and Conferences
The effort to go green has created a new growth industry conventions and conferences on the environment. Click on Google and search environment conferences. Just one selection taps you in to 935 upcoming events in this country and all around the world. Conferences like the Green Building Conference recently held in Syracuse.
"This conference is really all about educating the public about green building processes. We have green building materials. We have three tracks tomorrow. We have green housing, green energy and building science," said Maureen Wakefield, Continuing Education Coordinator, SUNY-ESF.
Our first annual green building conference was really nothing more than 50 enthusiasts in a room up on our campus, but in just a few years, the conference now attracts nearly 300 attendees and a very diverse group of vendors with new green products.
Our vendors have everything from recycled materials that are going on roofs, new energy systems. We have a gentleman here who actually makes sinks and countertops from concrete and it ends up looking like slate and marble. We have a diverse approach to materials used and the way we build our homes and our public facilities.
Many of these environmental conferences focus in on specific issues. Such as waste management in Kuwait, the latest in hydrogen and fuel cell technology in Columbia, South Carolina while the conference in Syracuse zeroed in on using green building concepts in local projects.
The green building movement is really about change in the Central New York community. It's really about efficient use of energy. It's about changing our communities, revitalizing and renovating, the near West Side initiative, our schools.
It's really about changing the way we live and the way we think about waste. We're really taking waste and reusing it to create new materials, change our whole building process and our approach to living.
