NEWPORT – A three-day sustainable development seminar described by local organizers as the only event of its kind in the United States will debut in Newport this October.
The 2008 Sustainable Development and Restoration Congress, scheduled for Oct. 15 through 17, will be held by Source Newport as the first installment of a planned annual event.
The event’s keynote speaker will be architect, educator and urban designer Marianne Cusato, creator of the “Katrina Cottages,” a line of modular homes that she developed as an alternative to trailers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and that now is available via Lowe’s stores nationwide and her own Cusato Cottages LLC.
Paul F. Miller, curator for the Preservation Society of Newport County, will host “Lost Mansions,” a “shocking story of desperate historic destruction in the guise of economic sensibility.” Other conference presenters will include J. Scott Wolf, executive director or Grow Smart Rhode Island; Keith W. Stokes, executive director of the Newport County Chamber of Commerce; and Ross Cann, founder of Newport-based A4 Architecture + Planning.
“Join us for this important conference and expo in beautiful Newport, the City by the Sea, as many of the most active members of the global community join together to uncover valuable solutions to challenges faced by us all, solutions that re-engage Americans in intelligent and responsible dialogues,” writes Robert Bailey, Source Newport’s founder and “chief nudge.”
For more information about Source Newport and its 2008 Sustainable Development and Restoration Congress, visit www.SourceNewport.com.
