Second Conference on Sustainability: Environmental Equity & Resilience in the Cedar Valley & Beyond

Please join the University of Northern Iowa and the Community as we discuss a sustainable Cedar Valley and a sustainable world as well as the transformation needed to achieve it. Students, community, faculty and staff are invited to attend and contribute to this shared dialogue. The conference will feature nationally renowned livable/walkable communities’ speaker, Mr. Robert Ping.  He will also be doing a walk-around tour of downtown Waterloo the morning following the conference sessions.  Conference tracks will integrate the themes of local environmental equity and resilience around the topical areas of food, natural resources/energy, policy, and health.  Conference tracks will feature UNI and Cedar Valley experts and projects. The first day of the program will also conclude with an overview of campus facilities/projects that model sustainability practices, followed by a social hour.

Keynote Speaker at the year's event-  Robert Ping

  A self-described ‘bikeaholic’ and a passionate transportation advocate, Robert has focused nearly his entire career on getting people more active, especially children and youth, and especially on bicycles. Robert has become well-known throughout the country for his work in developing Safe Routes to School programs and policies. He helps communities and advocates to improve the built environment and increase safety, social equity, and physical activity through bicycling and walking. Robert also has more than two decades of experience managing non-profit organizations and programs, with experience in Complete Streets, Smart Growth, Social Equity, policy change at the state, regional, and local levels, program development, technical assistance, public speaking and community organizing. He was the founding manager of Portland, Oregon’s comprehensive citywide program. For fifteen years, Robert managed the Bicycle Transportation Alliance’s bicycle education program and supervised hundreds of youth classes reaching nearly 40,000 students. Robert’s experience also includes community organizing and serving on many national and state committees such as the Bicycle-Friendly Communities advisory committee. He founded the Active Transportation Diversity Task Force and spearheaded the “Making Public Schools Diverse and Walkable” framing paper with PolicyLink and ChangeLab Solutions. 

Lunch Ticket and Parking Pass

Registration will close on FRIDAY March 6th. If you would like to have lunch    and/or a parking pass provided you will need to register before this date.