Presenters:

Scott Lewis, CEO Brightworks Sustainability Advisors, Portland, OR

Duke Castle, Principal, The Castle Group, Lake Oswego, OR

Paul Horton, Director of Sustainability, David Evans and Associates, Inc., Portland, OR

 The True Sustainability workshop is a hands-on, interactive working session for practitioners to develop and enhance their ability to integrate a more meaningful vision of Full Sustainability into their design efforts. The workshop is structured around a new conceptual framework for sustainability called the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD), which was developed at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden and released in its current form in May 2008. It is an expansion on the concepts first elaborated in The Natural Step (TNS) framework, but extended to put the TNS framework into a context that ranges from the systems level to the tools level, as follows:

• Systems Level - Nature’s laws & science; Social and economic principles
• Success Level - Natural Step “system conditions,” ”Triple Bottom Line,” etc.
• Strategy Level - “Backcasting”, ABCD Planning Process
• Action Level - Recycling, green building, renewable energy, water conservation, etc.
• Tools Level - Natural Capitalism, Cradle-to-Cradle, EMS, Life Cycle Analysis, LEED, Living Building Challenge

The FSSD, in short, describes the relationship between scientific principles, sustainability frameworks such as The Natural Step, implementation models and tools, and tactical strategies, and offers an essential perspective for the effective execution of LEED and Living Building projects. This workshop will provide practical instruction on how to use the model to meaningfully improve the performance of any type of project.

Presenter Bios

Scott Lewis

Scott Lewis is the founder and CEO of Brightworks, a Portland, Oregon-based sustainability advisory service with offices in Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Scott is a graduate of Stanford Law School, a member of the Natural Step coaching team and author of books on rainforest conservation and drinking water issues. Brightworks clients include Cisco, Disney, HP, Visa, Yahoo!, BP, NOAA, and many of the largest real estate development firms and REITs in the US.

Duke Castle

Duke Castle was part of a group that introduced the Natural Step sustainability framework in Oregon in 1997 and has conducted over 300 sustainability trainings and briefings throughout the State of Oregon and other parts of the Pacific Northwest. Duke’s business experience includes ten years as a marketing manager at Hewlett Packard and fifteen years as a strategic planning consultant. He has a BS degree from Cornell University and an MBA in marketing from Stanford.

Paul Horton

Paul Horton has dedicated his career to resource conservation. He is currently Director of Sustainability for the Portland, Oregon based engineering and design consulting firm, David Evans and Associates, Inc. From 1998 to 2008, Paul was Executive Director of Climate Solutions, a non-profit research and advocacy organization working to accelerate practical and profitable solutions to global warming. Prior to co-founding Climate Solutions, he was Executive Director of the non-profit Energy Outreach Center (1992 to 1998).