Pliny will be a featured speaker at the Gulf Coast Green Symposium on Thursday, April 15 at 4pm. His session topic will be ‘Eco-Balance Planning’.

Gulf Coast Green is the leading green building conference targeted to design and construction professionals within the Gulf Coast region. The conference theme this year is ‘reframing our built environment’, with three separate conference tracks: ‘ the business of green’, ‘renovating the future’, and ‘geography of change’. The event will run Thursday, April 15 and Friday, April 16 at the Hilton at University of Houston.

Gulf Coast Green is organized by the Houston AIA committee on the environment.

CMPBS is pleased to announce that H-E-B has selected Earth Share of Texas to be the beneficiary of its in-store coupon promotion for April, in recognition of Earth Day. This means that customers can tear off and add check-out coupons worth $1, $3, or $5 to their total bill to support environmental work in the Central Texas, Houston, Gulf Coast, Rio Grande Valley and Border, plus North Texas Central Markets. In November, H-E-B’s San Antonio region stores will feature Earth Share of Texas — giving H-E-B’s San Antonio customers the opportunity to support environmental work in the San Antonio area.

H-E-B has supported many Earth Share of Texas organizations with corporate grants or in-kind contributions. The April tear-pad promotion enables H-E-B customers to support the environmental program work of more than three dozen Earth Share of Texas organizations. CMPBS will benefit, because the contributions will be divided among Earth Share of Texas organizations with program work in Texas.

Help support Earth Share of Texas and the Texas environment - look for the Earth Share of Texas display and tear-off coupons at the checkout stands in more than 200 H-E-B and Central Market stores in most areas of Texas in late March through April. 

CMPBS Co-Directors Pliny Fisk and Gail Vittori will be participating in Living Future 2010 in Seattle, Washington on Thursday, May 6th and Friday, May 7th.

Pliny will be giving the ‘Big Bang Dinner Keynote’ on Thursday, May 6 at 6:30 PM.

Both Gail and Pliny will sit on the “Pioneers of the Green Building Movement” Panel from 10 AM - Noon on Friday, May 7th. Jason McLennan, CEO of the Cascadia Green Building Council, will moderate the panel which also includes Bob Berkibile, Kath Williams, Bill Reed and Kathleen O’Brien.

The Living Future unconference will run Wednesday May 5th, to Friday, May 7 at at the Westin Seattle. The event is organized by the Cascadia Regional Green Building Council.

For additional information on schedule, location, speakers, etc., visit the Living Future website.

In Theory – Missing Haiti from TAMU College of Architecture on Vimeo.

CMPBS co-director Pliny Fisk was a recent guest on Texas A&M University Associate Professor Peter Lang’s Internet talk show “In Theory.” In this episode, entitled “Missing Haiti” CMPBS co-director Pliny Fisk joins Lang for a discussion of the recent earthquake in Haiti and the “wider ramifications of emergency relief, long term reconstruction projects and strategies for preserving existing community structures.”

Other panelists include Carla Prater, faculty fellow with the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, Walter Peacock, HRRC director and holder of the Rodney L. Dockery Endowed Professorship in Housing and the Homeless; and Cecilia Giusti, assistant professor of urban planning.

The episode also features a special segment filmed at the CMPBS site in which Pliny describes the Center’s recent work in disaster relief housing for Haiti and other small island territories.

A video of the show is available here.

CMPBS Co-Director Pliny Fisk will lead a three hour workshop covering a range of design and planning issues related to the use of photovoltaics on large and small buildings and urban environments.

The workshop is presented by Mississippi State University College of Art and Design and AIA Mississippi chapter. Pliny will be speaking from 10:45AM - 2:30PM on Thursday, March 25th at 2226 Switzer Road, Jackson, MS 39201.Please visit the AIA Mississippi website or download this flier for more information about this event.