Sustainability in the SuperCity
A dialogue for future living
Contributors |
Robin Grove White
Director, Greenpeace UK
Robin Grove-White is Professor of Environment and Society and Chairman of the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change within IEPPP at Lancaster University. Currently a member of the Government's Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission, and Chairman of Greenpeace UK from 1997-2003.
www.greenpeace.org.uk
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Caroline Downey
Director, Mersey Basin Trust
Caroline Downey is the Executive Director of the Mersey Basin Trust, a network of over 600 community and voluntary organizations, businesses and schools, all based within the Mersey river catchment and working towards the sustainable development of the region’s watercourses. Downey has lectured and worked extensively across Europe and Asia and spent 5 years in The Gambia working in agricultural extension, wildlife conservation and national environmental education.
www.merseybasin.org.uk |
Nick Johnson
Director of Development, Urban Splash. A chartered surveyor by profession, Nick has always been interested in design in the built environment. Nick has worked with Urban Splash for over 10 years, first as a consultant and latterly as a director. Nick is currently responsible for over £150m of development projects including the 3 rd Millennium Community project with various architects from Alsops and Fosters to new practices in the northwest . Nick is also a trustee of CUBE ( Manchester ’s ‘Architecture Centre’), a director of Castlefield Gallery – one of Manchester ’s leading contemporary galleries and regional representative for CABE, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. www.urbansplash.co.uk |
Richard Scott
Senior Project Manager, Landlife
Richard has worked for Landlife for 13 years, scaling up the practice and use of wildflowers in public environments and developing the arguments for a new kind of creative conservation which bring attractive and ecologically valuable wildflower landscapes into people’s living environments rather than concentrating them on isolated nature reserves
www.landlife.org.uk |
Tony Milroy
Director, Grassroots Food Network, Arid Lands & Sustainable Communities Trust
Tony Milroy’s career has spanned over three decades, working in the UK and overseas as a pioneer for food-related, urban and rural community/environment development. Highlights involve working as a development consultant to World Bank, UNDP, USAID, established Arid Lands & Sustainable Communities Trust in 1989, including the ‘Urban Oasis Programme’, a practical initiative to demonstrate self-help solutions to the environmental and social problems of derelict, inner-city high-rises and open spaces, one of ODPM’s three ‘UK Beacons of Best Practice’.
www.grassroots.uk.net
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David Haley
Ecological Artist David Haley is a Research Fellow in MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a founder of SEA: Social and Environmental Arts Research Centre, Water & Well-Being and the University Community Group, and leads the MA Art As Environment Course. Haley is an active member of Public Art Observatory, eco-arts network, greenmuseum and a Trustee of Helix Arts and Mersey Basin Trust. In addition to ecological arts commissions, he contributes regularly to international publications and conferences. |
Nick Vaughan
Quality Bus Corridors, Project Executive GMPTE
Nick is a Chartered Town Planner who has worked in transport planning for over 27 years. Nick started his career in London but for the last 15 years he has specialised in public transport planning working for GMPTE. Three years ago Nick became responsible for the Quality Bus Corridors project and before that he was Head of Planning.
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| Schedule 9.30 am Arrival - Tea and Coffee
10.00am Introduction from the Chair, setting the scene for the discussion
10.20am Presentation by Professor Robin Grove-White
Brief introductions from the contributing team
12.30pm Break for lunch
1.30pm Discussion resumes
4:00pm Conclusion of discussion
4.00pm Close |