ASRi: The Alternative Solutions Resource Initiative presents
David Eisenberg The Bigger Picture: Green Building - Codes and Beyond

Tuesday, October 26th   
6:30 pm Sanctuary, First Metropolitan United Church 932 Balmoral Road, Victoria
Tickets: $10. advance    $12. at the door

ASRi is pleased to invite you to join David Eisenberg for an evening presentation about his work in “deep green” building, and the creation of the crucially needed transition toward sustainable practice in construction and development.

Please visit www.asri.ca for details

Please email tickets@asri.ca if you would like to be notified when tickets go on sale.  Tickets will be available at various places around town and from some ASRi directors. 

David, Director and co-founder of the Development Center for Appropriate Technology (DCAT) based in Tucson, Arizona, will draw on his nearly 20 years working for deep green change in the design and construction of buildings, and his 15 years working to create a sustainable context for building regulation.

His thought-provoking, informative and entertaining presentation will address finding ways to work effectively with people who don't always see the world as you do, offer thoughts about how to maintain hope and sanity in these times, and talk about DCAT's past, current and future work.

He will cover a range of topics from alternative materials and vernacular building, to water issues, civic planning and community participation, green energy and, yes, even building codes.

About David
Since 1996 David has been at the forefront of efforts to introduce sustainable building codes. His three decades of building experience include almost the full spectrum of building materials from steel and glass through structural concrete to masonry, wood, adobe, rammed earth, and straw bale structures.

David has presented workshops, seminars, keynote addresses and lectures at numerous conferences and universities in the U.S. and abroad, including a Congressional briefing and U.S. Department of Interior sponsored symposium on affordable, energy-efficient straw bale housing for Native American communities.

David and DCAT received the 2007 International Code Council (ICC) Affiliate of the Year Award and a 2007 USGBC Leadership Award. He is a widely-published author and recently served on the ICC Sustainable Building Technology Committee drafting the International Green Construction Code. A former two-term member of the U.S. Green Building Council Board of Directors, he founded and chairs the USGBC Code Committee.