Rising sea level, the urbanization of America and the world, and rising energy prices, are major conditions impacting how we think about and how we will design our next buildings and create whole places.

Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) pulls together the diverse disciplines of builders, developers, engineers, property management companies, and professional service providers.  I thought that you would find valuable resources at this conference to help you more effectively understand and handle these environmental conditions as they impact the creation of healthy buildings and places.

In addition, for the past 34 years, this group has been home to the best talent in the northeast regarding high performing/green buildings, renewable energy, and sustainable transportation. What sets NESEA apart is its commitment to solutions, proven results, pioneering technology, and collaborative whole systems thinking.  I have worked with these good folks off-and-on since 1994 and have found them to be an exceptional resource and a remarkable professional association of practitioners.  Currently, I am working on strategy and governance with them.

Every March, NESEA puts on its Building Energy (BE) conference in Boston for over 3,000 professional practitioners.  Couple of highlights from this year's program:

• Conference theme is: Real Solutions. Real Experts. Tuesday, March 10 to Thursday, March 12, 2009 Boston MA.  Checkout: www.BuildingEnergy.nesea.org for the conference program. 

• This year's keynote talk on "Deep Energy Retrofits of Existing Buildings" will be delivered by Marc Rosenbaum, a colleague of ours since the early 90's. 

• A variety of tracks to weave the conference together.  I co-designed Whole Systems in Action, track 7, along with some of New Commons' closest NESEA colleagues:  John Abrams, Amelia Amons, Paul Lipke, Bill Reed and Jamie Wolf (see our bios here). We all plan to deliver a highly practical and interactive program.  Our aim is to raise the level of understanding and the practice of whole systems collaboration.  This one tool will help us all more effectively handle climate change and the reality that oil levels are at post-peak.    Click here to see our track content: http://buildingenergy.nesea.org/trackseven.php

I hope to see you at NESEA-BE09.  It will be worth your time!

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