Announcing the 2014 1-day Portland Summer Sustainability Institute (SSI) entitled "Supporting Sustainability, High Density and Livable Design," hosted by Portland Community College with generous support from the National Science Foundation. This year's SSI will:
- Build awareness of the triple-bottom-line (TBL) impacts of the built environment and investigate the importance and benefits of promoting livable, high density design
- Investigate the options for balancing land use needs for housing with needs for agriculture, landscapes and greenscapes, and natural resources.
- Host a Design Charette in which participants will design and envision places that support "conscious living" — places where occupants are actively conscious of the impact they have on their environment and employ practices to mitigate their impact, and conserve and protect natural resources.
This Institute is designed for high school or college instructors in the following fields:
- Architectural Design
- Interior Design
- Landscape Design, Urban agriculture, and Therapeutic Horticulture
- Environmental Studies and Biology
- Building Construction, Real Estate
- Health Professions
- Workshop
- Engineering Technologies
