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The sustainability radio show airs every other Friday from noon - 1:00 PM on KKCR. Tune to 91.9 FM island wide or you can stream the show via the internet at www.kkcr.org.
Edward L. Quevedo is the Senior Director of Global Integrity & Sustainability Programs with WSP Environmental North America. Mr. Quevedo has put sustainable community plans together for Portland OR, Quebec and Botswana to name a few. Today he focuses on Kauai in two areas: (1) At the town level and (2) at the island level.
Today's Topics include:
Town Level Discussion
- Overview of Sustainable Communities Model
- Key points of progress and challenge
- Planning and policy issues
- Community economic systems
- Land use and legal issues
- Political positioning - developing a sustainability oriented political agenda
- Successes and failures - what has worked and not worked in other small communities
Island Level Discussion
- Large community self-sustaining models
- Sustainable housing
- Sustainable transport and food
- Sustainable water supply
- Sustainable energy supply
- The future picture of a thriving, regenerative, self-sustaining island community
He will be on island the entire week of January 14, 2008, facilitating a series of community and island level stakeholder meetings with a focus on developing actions plans to implimenting the ideas we have been discussing over the last year of the show.
Ed Quevedo’s practice encompasses domestic and international Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) Strategic Counseling, and EH&S Compliance Counseling. In addition, for over 10 years Ed has advised his clients in the high technology, life sciences, automotive, public agency, academic, and manufacturing industries, on sustainable development practices, strategic EH&S management, environmental product design, green building and facility design, eco-labeling and green marketing, industrial ecology methodologies, and environmental management system implementation.
Ed is Distinguished Scholar in the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, and is on faculty at: the Advanced Environmental Management Program at U.C. Santa Cruz Extension, the New College of California MBA program in Sustainable Enterprise, and the Schools of Business & Economics and Environmental Science and Planning at Sonoma State University. He has lectured on environmental management, applied ethics, sustainable development, and sustainable business practices in the Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley, Tulane University, Cornell University, Ithaca College, Lund University (Sweden), Stanford University, the Technical University of Berlin, and the University of South Carolina. He teaches ecology in Saratoga High School and is has developed a curriculum in Peace Studies for the K-12 level.
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Malama Kaua'i is a Kilauea based non-profit working to raise awareness on the importance of sustainability, to assist in implementing sustainable practices and support sustainable projects beneficial to the community.
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