During the week of October 21, 2007, Sustainable Blacksburg, the Town of Blacksburg and Virginia Tech held the first Sustainability Week in Blacksburg.
Keynote speakers
Robin Chase, Founder and CEO, GoLoco
Mike Tidwell, Executive Director, Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Rebecca Flora, President, Green Building Alliance, Chair Elect, US Green Building Council
L. Preston Bryant, Jr., Secretary of Natural Resources, Commonwealth of Virginia
E. Scott Geller, Ph.D., Director, Center for Applied Behavior Systems, Virginia Tech
Workshops
DEQ Green Lodging Program
Acting Locally: A Preliminary Energy Use and Green House Gas Inventory for Blacksburg and Virginia Tech
Town of Blacksburg Apartment Recycling Program
Watersheds and Sustainability
Vegetative Roofs
Geothermal Heat Pumps for Homes
Movies
The 11th Hour at the Lyric
What a Way to Go: Life at the End of the Empire
Sustainability Week 2007 events
Read the executive summary (706 kb PDF).