***NEW: After Party at the Good Karma at the Wilma Theatre! nexus.ticketleap.com/urf-after-party/ (Free to attend! Featuring acoustic tunes from Robyn Mello. Beer, wine, food available for purchase!)***
In the tradition of the Urban Sustainability Forum (hosted by the Academy of Natural Sciences) and Conversations Toward a Sustainable Philadelphia (hosted by the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia and Judy Wicks) we are pleased to introduce the Urban Regeneration Forum.
The first event will be on Monday, January 22nd, hosted in a 200+ person venue in Center City at Jefferson University, and will feature Bill Reed from Regenesis as well as a panel of local leaders walking the Regenerative talk. Bill's lecture will provide an overview of Regeneration and provide a luanchpad for local, larger-scale discourse around regeneration.
Coffee will be provided by Good Karma Cafe and baked treats will be provided by High Point Cafe.
(Be sure to eat dinner before the event or bring something along with you!)
Each event in the Urban Regeneration Forum series will
- Have a different theme (Introduction to Regenerative Thinking, Regenerative approach to Resilience, to Re-Industrialization, to Life Cycles & Supply Chains, to Food Systems, to Communities, etc)
- Highlight local leaders within that arena
- Be supported by partnerships with many of the region's sustainability non-profits and higher ed institutions via their sustainability programs (see our amazing line-up of partners on the event page), as well as international leaders in regeneration advocacy
- Rotate among universities for physical location
Local leaders panel on January 22:
- Melissa Lee, CEO of the GREEN Program
- Fern Gookin, Director of Sustainability, Revolution Recovery, and Co-Founder of RAIR (Recycled Artist in Residency)
- Sylvester Mobley, Executive Director, Coded by Kids
This event is possible thanks in part to collaboration with our international partners at: AASHE, CLEAR, the Cloud Institute, ILFI, and Regenesis;
our regional partners at The City of Philadelphia Office of Sustainability, Green Building United, and the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia;
and our local academic partners at Drexel University's Urban Strategy program, Temple University's Division of Architecture and Envioronmental Design, Penn Design's Center for Environmental Building and Design, Penn State at the Navy Yard, Villanova University Sustainability, and Lincoln University's Department of Environmental Science.
