Event Cost: $10 | Registrations will close March 7th
Due to weather, our February Event as been rescheduled to March 14th.
Ted Redmond will be doing a presentation on the City of La Crosse Climate Action Plan. This event will be hosted at the Lunda Center. A BBQ buffet, coffee and a drink ticket will be provided. Any dietary restrictions can be specified in the registration form.
Climate change affects us all, every community, every project, every client. Rising temperatures, increasing extreme weather events, and the degradation of ecosystems are an increasingly clear and present danger to communities everywhere. The United States has warmed 68% faster than the planet as a whole and the resulting increase in extreme weather has increased the frequency of billion-dollar disasters from once every four months in the 80’s to once every three weeks. This “Global Weirding” is a direct result of increased human made greenhouse gas emissions.
We as design practitioners, building owners, contractors, and manufacturers have a key role to play in creating a safer and more sustainable world. How we approach our work will, quite literally, determine the success of global efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to changing conditions. With the City of La Crosse’s recently completed Climate Action Plan and historic national legislation passed within the last six months, we have unprecedented opportunity and support in effecting change.
Learn more about climate change in La Crosse, our role in helping society rise to the challenge, and resources and opportunities to contribute climate mitigation and adaptation in La Crosse including:
• The link between human activities, climate change, and the built environment
• Climate change projections in La Crosse
• What the science tells us we must do to avoid the worst of those projections
• What the City of La Crosse is doing about it
• What you can do about it
Ted Redmond
Registered Architect, Urban Planner
Co-Founder, paleBLUEdot LLC
Ted is a registered architect, urban planner, and renewable energy consultant with 30 years of experience leading planning efforts for local governments, institutions, and businesses. His firm, paleBLUEdot, provides sustainability consulting, climate planning, and renewable energy planning for organizations and communities. Since 2014, paleBLUEdot has completed over planning efforts for over 60 municipalities, counties, and tribal communities in 22 States. The firm’s recent experience includes climate planning for the City of La Crosse and City of Dubuque as well as support for the City of Eau Claire’s climate initiatives.
Ted is also a national solar pv technical expert for the US Department of Energy. His work with the DOE includes technical assistance for community driven solar projects nationally as well as serving as a national solar technology trainer for architects and engineers.