Saturday, July 10, 2010

Sustainable Live Event with HUD, DOT and EPA

Sustainable Communities: Live Event with HUD, DOT and EPA Leadership!

Click on Sustainable Communities Event participate. Whitehouse.gov is hosting a live online event on July 14th at 2pm EDT/11am PDT on sustainable communities, and they want you to develop the questions. Submit your ideas, vote on other people's questions, then come back to Planetizen to see a live feed of the event. The Partnership for Sustainable Communities is a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U. S.Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to help improve access to affordable housing, increase transportation options, and lower transportation costs while protecting the environment in communities nationwide.

Representatives of all three agencies will be on hand to answer questions.

Speakers:

Shelley Poticha, Director for the Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities
Beth Osborne, Deputy Secretary for Policy with the DOT
Tim Torma, Deputy Director of the Office of Sustainable Communities at the EPA

Moderated by Derek Douglas, Special Assistant to the Presidenton Urban Policy at the White House.
Submit your questions on the topic of 'sustainable communities' and vote on your favorites. They will select the top 7-10 questions to be asked by Derek Douglas on the 14th.

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