Birmingham Charter Summit this weekend
As Birmingham Weekly reported previously, some of the world’s leading green building experts, including acclaimed Indian architect Karan Grover, will hold a sustainability summit in Birmingham from Sept. 25-27 to help create a new set of protocols for environmentally sound development worldwide. The organizers hope to present the resulting document, which they are calling the Birmingham Charter, to the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Copenhagen in December of this year.
James Smith of Green Building Focus
According to James Smith, CEO of Birmingham-based firm Green Building Focus and one of the event’s organizers, Grover will be joined by such luminaries as Charles Kibert, a University of Florida professor who helped coin the term “sustainable development,” and David Eisenberg, director of the Development Center for Appropriate Technology in Tucson, Ariz.
The summit will take place at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the Urban Studio at the Young & Vann Building downtown, according to Smith.
