Iowa Disaster Recovery Conference
Learning from the Past/Planning for the Future
(note: includes practical applications of sustainable models and green concepts)
December 9-10, 2008
Marriott Coralville Hotel & Convention Center
Coralville, Iowa
Who Should Attend: This conference will provide useful information and helpful resources to architects, engineers, contractors, small businesses, industries, city, county and community leaders, consultants and the general public who are rebuilding after a natural disaster, including overviews of recovery efforts, environmental regulations and requirements, and examples and practical applications of sustainable models and green concepts that can have economic, environmental and social advantages.
Attendees will have the opportunity to meet Mayor Bob Dixon of Greensburg, Kansas, which was devastated by a tornado in May 2007. Mayor Dixon will share his experience of rebuilding Greensburg, including incorporating green design into its rebuilding efforts. Former Maryland governor, Parris Glendening, President of the Smart Growth Leadership Institute will be the keynote speaker on the second day of the conference. Also, Major General Ron Dardis, Iowa National Guard, will discuss issues Iowa communities faced during the floods of 2008.
For for more information click here:
http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=667587
CONFERENCE AGENDA
Three concurrent breakout session tracks are planned:
Disaster Recovery, Regulatory Compliance and Sustainability/Green Design
For a downloadable copy of the agenda click here: http://www.iowalifechanging.com/downloads/iowarecovery/drcagenda.pdf
Registration: $100 per person for this 2-day event. See conference announcement for details and hotel block rates.
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This is great thing!!! Nice
This is great thing!!! Nice to know that there are still concern people wanted to help those in need like this tragedy that happened to Iowa. I hope this conference will really help for the fast recovery of Iowa. It is inevitable that a person will face some sort of emergency during their lifetime. An emergency could be anything from getting laid off to facing a natural disaster. There are precious few areas on the earth that are disaster free, so a person would do well to have some sort of a plan. One of the best things to do is to build up food storage. Obviously, you don’t want to have perishables, but a few months’ worth of food supplies in case anything goes wrong. A month or two to a year’s storage is what is recommended. You never know when an emergency will strike.
Disaster Recovery Conference - Attendee Feedback?
If you attended this conference, please share some highlights with the rest of us who could not attend. Which speaker, plan, or agenda was most impressive to you? What did you come away with that has affected or will affect how you move foreward to help Iowa recover from the Great Flood of 2008?