Green Roofs and Community Greens

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Green Roofs & Community Greens



This event is the 13th in a series of Green Infrastructure Forums and Workshops to discuss park, forest cover, open space, and recreational land approaches within the metropolitan Washington region. Featured at this forum will be:

h Remarks by guest speakers Katrin Scholz-Barth, civil engineer and educator from Washington, DC, and Kate Herrod, Director of Community Greens of Arlington, VA and

Ms. Scholz-Barth will provide an introduction to green roofs and the local benefits of this approach. Katrin will tie green roofs into the green infrastructure program, identifying buildings in metropolitan DC area suitable to retrofit with some concrete outcomes and brief case studies.

Ms. Herrod will discuss the work of Community Greens and how she is being a catalyst for creating community greens in residential neighborhoods. Kate will describe how she is working with, and looking for, developers, public officials, and other community leaders who are interested in piloting the Community Green approach in their cities and neighborhoods.

h A brief status report on the "Metropolitan Washington Green
Infrastructure Demonstration Project” partnership including news about the Green Infrastructure Conference being planned for September 2004.


Background Information:

Katrin Scholz-Barth is a Washington, DC-based civil engineer and a nationally recognized expert in Green Roof technology. She helped this design phenomenon gain momentum in the United States and advocates its use as an innovative stormwater management tool to ease stormwater permitting and as a tool to earn multiple LEED credits when pursuing a U.S. Green Building certification.



Katrin Scholz-Barth leads efforts in ecological planning and design. Her work demonstrates how Green Roofs can become an integral, performing and cost-effective building element to reduce their environmental footprint and to protect waterways while increasing biodiversity and quality of living in urban areas. She teaches "Ecological Landscape Design for Watershed Protection" a graduate course at the University of Pennsylvania.

Katrin was the former Director of Sustainable Design at the HOK Planning Group--one of the world's largest architectural planning firms. Her work was featured in 2003 at the "Potomac International Urban Watershed Management Exchange at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Washington, DC.


Kate Herrod is the Director of the Northern Virginia-based "Community Greens: Shared Parks in Urban Blocks".
http://www.communitygreens.org/

Community Greens is a partnership between Ashoka: Innovators for the Public and The National Trust for Historic Preservation. The mission of her organization is to catalyze the development of community greens in residential neighborhoods across the United States.

Kate has worked in both the for-profit and non-profit worlds. Prior to establishing her own consulting practice, Ms. Herrod served as the Deputy Director of Development for The Nature Conservancy, overseeing Planned Giving, Trade Lands, Conservation Fundraising, as well as Foundation and Corporate Support. She was also Vice President of commercial real estate at Citibank, Chemical Bank, and Security Pacific Bank in New York City and San Francisco where she underwrote large, commercial real estate projects. Her consulting clients have included the California Center for Land Recycling (formerly a division of The Trust for Public Land), the International Sustainable Development Foundation, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, and the Cameroon Conservation Foundation.


TO RSVP AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Contact either Brian LeCouteur via e-mail at: blecouteur@mwcog.org, or Glenn Eugster at: Glenn_Eugster@nps.gov or call COG (202) 962-3393 or NPS (202) 619-7492.

Directions:
The Nannie J. Lee Memorial Recreation Center is west of US 1/ Patrick Street just before Route 1 crosses Interstate-395 near the Wilson Bridge. From US 1, going south, make a right on Gibbon Street and then turn left on Fayette Street and Jefferson Street.
The forum will be in the auditorium. For more information:
http://www.tapestrytheatre.com/njlee.html