Green Planning Reports Archives
Conferences

The Resource Renewal Institute has hosted several conferences over the years with the aim of bringing together leaders and practitioners in the field of green planning to share knowledge and experiences. The success of these conferences has served to measure the progress of this idea to date.

Programs and documentation about specific conferences are available on request; please contact info@rri.org.

2000

Silicon Valley Environmental Conference: Solutions for Sustainability, Evaluating Our Global Performance, February, 2000

Workshop co-hosted with Pacific Industrial and Business Association, Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group, UCSC Extension, and the Commonwealth Club-Silicon Valley. RRI and the Commonwealth Club convened a panel on Comprehensive Strategies for Building a Sustainable Region.

1999

Innovations in Environmental Management: Successful Models for a Sustainable California, Berkeley, California, October 1999

Workshop co-hosted with California EPA. Included participants from across California, and guest speakers from the Netherlands, Minnesota, Oregon, New Jersey, and Wisconsin.

Mexico Green Plan Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, October 1999

On October 14th and 15th, RRI co-hosted a conference in Mexico City with the Mexican Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Fisheries.

1998

Green Plan Leadership Program Launch, San Francisco, December 1998

As part of the launch of the Resource Renewal Institute's Green Plan Leadership Program, RRI hosted a two-day seminar featuring leaders from the Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Chattanooga, and elsewhere.

1997

Private Sector Innovation in Environmental Management: The Dutch Green Plan Story, Seminar Series in Minnesota, Oregon, and California, February

RRI sponsored a visiting delegation of the 85,000 member Confederation of Netherlands Industry & Employers (VNO-NCW). Events included:

• Oregon Meeting with Governor John Kitzhaber and Natural Resource Agency Heads in Salem.
• Dinner Symposium in Portland co-sponsored by Associated Oregon Industries and Miller Nash, Wiener, Hager & Carlsen law firm.
• California Luncheon, Marin County co-sponsored by Marin Community Foundation.
• Luncheon in San Jose co-sponsored by the City of San Jose, Santa Clara Valley Manufacturing Group, and the San Jose Chamber of Commerce.
• Symposium at Hewlett Packard Headquarters, Palo Alto, sponsored by the Environmental Resources Management Program of Menlo College.

1995

Innovations in Cooperative Environmental Management, Washington D.C., September 1995.
RRI assisted the Royal Netherlands Embassy, with the involvement of the U.S. EPA, in the first conference of top-level multi-sector leaders in innovative environmental management in the Netherlands and the U.S.

2nd Conference of the International Network of Green Planners (INGP), San Francisco, California, June 1995.
Sponsored by RRI, the U.S. EPA, and the INGP, this conference was a three-day session in San Francisco attended by federal and state representatives, corporate officials, and nonprofit leaders from across the U.S. and from 40 nations around the world.

1993

Green Plans for the 21st Century: The Pacific Rim, San Rafael, Marin County, California, October 1993

Sponsors included the U.S. EPA, Marin Community Foundation, 3M Corporation, Bank of America, Fred Gellert Foundation, PG & E, Western Center for Comparative Risk, The World Bank, Coalition for the Presidio Pacific Center, Commonweal, International Healthy Cities and Communities Project, the Nautilus Institute, Pacific Rim Council on Urban Development and Synergos Institute.

1992

Green Plans: National Policies Toward A Green Century, San Rafael, Marin County, California, March

Cosponsors included the government of the Netherlands, Canada, and Norway and the U.N. Environment Program, the Council of State Governments' Center for Environment and the Marin Community Foundation.

1991

New Environmental Strategies for Urban Prosperity, San Rafael, Marin County, California, March 1991

RRI was host to this international environmental workshop on cities at which urban sustainability issues were the focus. Sponsors included Marin Community Foundation, the Global Cities Project, Greenbelt Alliance, International City/County Management Association, and the Local Government Commission.