8:30 - 9:00	Registration
9:00 - 9:15	Opening Remarks
9:15 - 10:15	Impacts of Greenspace on Urban Areas Keith Crenshaw - Urban Biologist, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Houston
10:15 - 11:45	Greenspace Panel: Roksan Okan-Vick - Houston Parks Board Gary Woods - Trees for Houston - The Benefits of Trees Anne Olson - Buffalo Bayou Partnership Linda Shead - Trust for Public Land
11:45 - 12:30	How Land Use Decisions are Made, Urban Planning David Crossley - President of the Gulf Coast Institute
12:30 - 1:15	Lunch
1:15 - 2:15	Building Solutions: A Maximum Potential Perspective Pliny Fisk III - Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems
2:15 - 3:45	Green Building Panel - Conceptual Solutions from the Built Environment Rives Taylor - AIA, LEED Carl Hacker - UT Health Science Center Michael Myers - Aspen Building Systems
3:45 - 4:45	Ron Jones - Sierra Custom Builders, Placitas, New Mexico
4:45 - 5:15	Closing Remarks Brian Yeoman - Houston Advanced Research Center

This conference is hosted and run entirely by students from the Rice Environmental Club.
Contact the officers at enviclub@rice.edu.

Sponsored by:
Center for the Study of Environment and Society (CSES)
Environmental and Energy Systems Institute (EESI)
Shell Center for Sustainability