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Joslyn Castle Institute serves as an education center and repository for information on sustainable design and related topics: The following page lists various documents, newsletters, and articles on sustainable design. White pages on many of the Institute's projects also appear in this section as well.
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21-Jun-2007 |
Nebraska Building Officials - Green Construction, and Municipal Green Building Programs |
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13-Jun-2007 |
Envisioning Nebraska - Five area partnerships are joining together under the banner Envisioning Nebraska to promote sustainable design through joint and reciprocal research, programming, education and outreach. |
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31-May-2007 |
Multifunctional Rural Landscapes for the Future Presentation - Twyla Hansen addresses the long term implications of farmland conversion for Nebraska and obstacles to slowing its growth. |
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30-May-2007 |
Multifunctional Rural Landscapes - Economic, Environmental, Policy and Social Impacts of Land Use Changes
Economic, Environmental, Policy and Social Impacts of Land Use Changes in Nebraska. Comments are welcome.
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15-Feb-2007 |
Envisioning Regional Design: Flatwater Metroplex Final Report - Summary of results and interpretations of each charrette, including sustainability indicators. |
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16-Nov-2006 |
Natural-Resource Amenities and Nebraska's Economy - ECONorthwest's final report on Nebraska's "Current Connections, Challenges, and Possibilities" with regards to its natural resources and economic development potential. This report was spearheaded by Ernie Neimi on behalf of a coalition consisting of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, the Center for Rural Affairs, American Rivers, the Nebraska Department of Economic Development, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Water Center, Sen. Ben Nelson and Rep. Jeff Fortenberry. |
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30-May-2006 |
Water Presentation - LPRCA Coordinator Rodney Verhoeff's May 18th presentation: "Water Resources in the Lower Platte River Corridor--Today & Tomorrow" |
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05-May-2006 |
21 Recommendations - Cecil Steward's 21 Recommendations for the 21st Century,
a power point presentation. |
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12-Jan-2005 |
Flatwater Metroplex 2004 Final Report - This is the Final 2004 Flatwater Metroplex Regional Report completed in December. The document is intended to be a living document and will be added to as more actions are taken towards improving our region through growth management and cooperative planning. (138 pages pdf format) |
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23-Jan-2006 |
Old Regionalism, New Regionalism, and Envision Utah: Making Regionalism Work - This document, originally published in the May 2005 edition of the Harvard Law Review, addresses the success Envision Utah has enjoyed in its efforts to hold Utah and its municipalities to a collective vision through voluntary and regional collaboration. |
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20-Oct-2004 |
2004 Composite Land Use Map - Sixty Mile Radius Study Composite Land Use Map. 1 page. (2.6 MB) Recommended download to disk. |
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20-Oct-2004 |
2004 Flatwater Metroplex/SRS survey Report Exhibits - Population Growth Charts from the Flatwater Metroplex/Sixty Mile Radius Survey Report. 6 pages (496k) |
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27-Feb-2004 |
2050 Regional Growth Projections - This powerpoint presentation explores future growth within a 60-mile radius of Omaha, NE. |
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11-Apr-2007 |
Graduate Students-University of Alaska - The Five Domains: Keys to Environmental Sustainability |
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11-Apr-2007 |
AIA/USGBC Fairbanks Chapter Presentation - Design and Planning Strategies for Sustainable Development: Building Scale to Regional Planning Scale |
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11-Apr-2007 |
Fairbanks North Star Borough Presentation - Construction & Demolition Waste, Green Design & Construction, & Municipal Green Building Programs |
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11-Apr-2007 |
CCHRC Fairbanks Presentation - Construction & Demolition, Waste, Green Design & Construction, & Municipal Green Building Programs |
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06-Apr-2007 |
Sustainable Communities Public Lecture-Calgary |
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06-Apr-2007 |
University of Calgary-Students Lecture |
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18-Dec-2006 |
International Ecology and Safety Magazine - To Foster Ecological Safety: Achieving harmonious co-existence of human and nature. An interview with Dr. Jiang Mingjun, co-president of North/North Network for Urban Sustainability and Leadership. |
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15-Dec-2004 |
NNN Strategic and Business Plan - Document contains an overview of the North/North Network Organization, mission and projects. |
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15-Dec-2004 |
NNN Potential Partnership - North/North Network Potential Partnerships Organization |
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18-Jun-2004 |
North/North Exchange on Sustainable Development - New Opportunities for the exchange of Best Practices on Urban Sustainable Development |
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05-Sep-2004 |
Aide Memoire and Draft Agenda - Winter Cities World Urban Forum
Barcelona, 13-17 September 2004
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18-Jul-2004 |
Summary of North/North Network International Workshop - Final document of International Workshop
North/North Network for Exchanges of Best Practices for Sustainable Development Organized in collaboration with the Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme of UN_HABITAT and UNESCO Far Eastern Programmes |
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18-Jun-2004 |
North/North Network Agreement - Agreement for creating non-governmental organization "North/North Network" within the bounds of the UN-Habitat program "Best Practices and Local Leadership" and the UNESCO program "Cities as the Worldwide Cultural Heritage" |
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05-Sep-2004 |
Decisions - of "North/North Network" of United Nations - HABITAT program " best Practices for Urban Sustainability and Leadership Meeting.
Beijing, August 1-7, 2004 |
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05-Sep-2004 |
Notes from the Organizing Meeting - North/North Exchange for Urban Sustainability and Leadership
United Nations - HABITAT - Best Practices and Local Leadership Subcommittee
Beijing, China
2 August 2004 |
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30-Oct-2007 |
November Conference Brochure - November 15th, 2007 Fall Conference: Speakers' bios, schedule, registration information |
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17-Oct-2007 |
Building Resource Efficient Communities, November 15th Conference - Dear Partners and Friends:
The Joslyn Castle Institute for Sustainable Communities is sponsoring the Envisioning Nebraska Fall Conference, "Building Resource Efficient Communities," from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 15 at Quarry Oaks Golf Course near Ashland.
This will be a unique opportunity to meet and work with three nationally known experts in sustainable design, including:
• Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism and dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture
• Brad Klein, Environmental Law Institute Fellow with the Chicago based Environmental Law & Policy Center
• Susan Seacrest, founder of the Lincoln-based Groundwater Foundation
The Quarry Oaks venue limits us to 200 participants so we encourage you to register now to ensure a space at the conference. More details about the guest speakers and registration information can be found on the attached flyer. |
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17-Oct-2007 |
November Conference Registration |
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26-Sep-2007 |
WasteCap Nebraska / Dr. John Ikerd Flyer |
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07-Aug-2007 |
Upcoming Green Events - For a listing of green happenings in both Omaha and Lincoln through 2008 select the link below. If we are missing any events, forward the information to JCI@sustainabledesign.org so that we may include it in the Calendar section of the ecospheres.com website. |
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23-Jul-2007 |
Green Omaha Coalition - Strategic Plan and Bylaws |
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23-Jul-2007 |
Green Omaha Coalition Call for BOD Nominations - The Green Omaha Coalition provides a framework for green building initiatives in Greater Omaha. A resource to city government, businesses, education, and citizens, GOC fosters collaboration with key stakeholders to accelerate the adoption of green building practices, policies, and programs.
The GOC is currently seeking candidates for its 2008 Board of Directors. Please visit the link below for further description and instruction. The strategic plan and bylaws of the GOC can be found in the Data & Documents section of the JCI website, ecospheres.com. |
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18-Sep-2007 |
A Design, Planning and Urban Administration Strategy for Sustainability - Buildings, communities, cities and the use of the transportation systems that connect them account for more than seventy-five percent of the energy consumption and the carbon footprint of the developed nations. If one considers the addition of all other manufactured, human-made objects and products for sale and consumption, we quickly approach 100% of the source points for living in
a non-sustainable world. Almost all of these products and environments are subject to design, planning, and administration. This paper presents a paradigm and a tool for guiding the designer, planner, or administrator through a lifetime of conservation-based, sustainable practices. The E/STEPSM methodology for assessments and the use of sustainability indicators is a service-marked process created by the Joslyn Institute for Sustainable Communities (JISC). |
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30-May-2007 |
Sustainable Construction Methodologies - Construction and demolition waste management practices as presented by Cecil Steward and Sharon Kuska at the Ecobuild America, AEC-ST Conference in Anaheim, California on May 16-17 2007. |
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30-May-2007 |
E/STEP - E/STEP: A Metrics Process for Sustainability Design, Planning, and Urban Administration. Presentation given by Cecil Steward and Sharon Kuska at the Ecobuild America AEC-Science and Technology in Anaheim, California on May 17, 2007. |
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26-Oct-2007 |
Updated Five Domains Presentation - Originally given to the Lutheran Midlands College. |
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11-Sep-2007 |
COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION OF HIGH RISE STUCTURES - Sustainable high rise structure is a necessary response to urban sprawl. After several years practice, it is time to summarize the experiences and look forward to the sustainability criterion of the high rise construction. This study is an attempt to assess the high rises with a comprehensive Five Domain sustainable theory, which includes Economic, Technology, Socio-cultural, Environment, and Public Policy. E/STEPSM tool is the application of the Five Domain theory. |
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23-Mar-2004 |
Sustainability Bibliography - A list of publications with a focus on sustainability |
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08-Nov-2003 |
Sustainable Architecture of Nebraska |
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