Dan Beard, Green the Capitol Initiative, Washington DC
Dan Beard is Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) for the House of Representatives. His three decades of experience in policy affairs and management issues include positions with the Senate, White House, Interior Department, the Library of Congress and the House Appropriations and Natural Resources Committee. When Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation in the Interior Department, Beard promoted water conservation among agricultural and urban water users. He also served as Senior Vice President for Public Policy at the National Audubon Society. He is currently leading House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “Green the Capitol” initiative.
Wulf Daseking, Director of Planning, City of Freiburg, Germany
Wulf Daseking has been the director of city planning in Freiburg, Germany, since 1984. For six years before that, he held a similar role at Müllheim/Ruhr. At Freiburg, Wulf is responsible for urban development, land development, landscape planning, master plan development and individual projects. He is an associate member of the German Federation of Architects, a member of the German Academy of Urban and Rural Development/Berlin and a member of the expert committee city planning of the German Congress of Cities. Wulf is also a lecturer in city planning at Freiburg University and at Darmstadt/University of Architecture
RIchard Register, on behalf of Fiona Ma, presented Jaime Lerner with an award of recognition for his accomplishments and influence on the State of California.
Here’s video, followed by a 5 minute interview with Mr. Lerner.
The full video (compliments of James Minton) in a much higher quality form will post first thing Thursday (once we have our ops in order). In the mean time, Ian brought a digital camera into the main hall and grabbed this preview of our opening plenary.
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