June 15th

Session #6
Sustainability Agenda for Philadelphia - Where are we on the Sustainability Index? What is our Agenda for the future? - 6-8:30 pm. Academy of Natural Sciences.

6:00 pm - 6:30 pm Reception / Registration / Partner Organization Displays
(Auditorium lobby)

6:30 pm - 6:35 pm Welcoming remarks by The Academy of Natural Sciences (Roland Wall, Academy Senior Scientist)

6:35 pm - 6:50 pm Introduction and summary of the USF and review of USF Benchmarks - (Rob Diemer, Delaware Valley Green Building Council and AKF Engineers)

6:50 pm - 7:10 pm Sustainlane 2006 Sustainable City Rankings - Warren Karlenzig (Introduction by Rob)
-Where does Philadelphia rank compared to other cities?
-What does Philadelphia do well?
-Where does Philadelphia need to improve and what are other cities doing in these areas?

7:10 pm - 7:20 pm Rob will direct questions to Warren based on the Sustainable City Rankings

7:20 pm - 7:45 pm Presentation of the USF report findings with emphasis on the goals and signature projects - Fred Conner, Temple University (introduction by Rob)

7:45 pm - 7:55 pm Wrap-up, summary of the Next Great City initiative and introduction of the Steering Committee (Rob)

7:55 pm - 8:25 pm Audience Q & A (Rob to moderate with responses by the Steering Committee as appropriate)
-Overall theme - reaction to report, signature projects, what issues are important to you, what would you like the USF to address next year?

8:25 pm - 8:30 pm Closing remarks - (Rob)

Contact Roland Wall (rwall@acnatsci.org <mailto:rwall@acnatsci.org> or 215-299-1108) for more info on the panel presentations.