Upcoming Events"Building a Great City: Now's a Good Time" - Presentation by Hans Butzer
Wednesday, April 26, 7:00 p.m. Join Sustainable OKC at OCU's Watson Lounge for a presentation by architect Hans Butzer on the historical factors that have influenced Oklahoma City's growth and solutions to create a more attractive, lively, and livable community. The presentation will examine the financial, environmental, and social costs of growth.
Hans Butzer is Principal of Design of TAP/Butzer Studio (www.taparchitecture.com), an Oklahoma City-based architecture, interior design and planning firm. Under his direction, TAP/Butzer Studio focuses on promoting sustainable, community-oriented projects of various scales. He is well known as the co-designer of the internationally-acclaimed Oklahoma City National Memorial. Butzer is also Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, where his teaching and research focus on sustainability as an extension of ethics, efficiency, community and design.
A map of the OCU campus is available at http://www.okcu.edu/map/map.asp. The Bishop Angie Smith Chapel is number 19 on the map.
For more information, email jennifer@sustainableokc.org.
“The Next Industrial Revolution” – Free Movie Night
Thursday, May 11, 6:30 p.m., Gold Dome at N.W. 23rd & Classen, Rm. 214, entrance on north side. BYO brown bag dinner or snack.
THE NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION is a new 55 minute film that communicates the work and vision of architect William McDonough and chemist Dr. Michael Braungart, two leaders in a growing movement to transform the relationship between commerce and nature.
McDonough and Braungart work with corporations with over half a trillion dollars in annual sales, companies like Ford and Nike, to redesign buildings, processes, and products to work according to nature's rules.
"When we follow nature's rules, growth is good," says Bill McDonough. "The question before us is not growth versus no growth, It is: what would good growth look like? And this is a question of intent, of design. What if we grow health instead of sickness, home ownership instead of indigence, education instead of ignorance?"
Using the stories of five projects that represent a revolutionary change in the direction of the human economy, THE NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION inspires people to: reconsider their current efforts for the environment, reinvent their businesses and institutions to work with nature, and redefine themselves as consumers, producers, and citizens to promote a new sustainable relationship with the Earth. |
