National Preservation Conference - October 13 - 17, 2009
Welcome to Conference Central, your resource for preservation education and information. Over the next few months and into the future, we're building an asset for you – a 24-hour, 365-day resource where you will be able to plan your attendance at the conference. Then, after the conference is over, you'll be able to listen to sessions you missed, view the webcasts, and help build the next generation of the National Preservation Conference. Can't join us in Nashville? Check out our new virtual attendee website.
Take a Road Trip with Vintage Roadside
Our friends at Vintage Roadside are taking their annual road trip to the conference. Read along as they make the trek from Portland to Nashville.
Sustainability
Preservation: The Ultimate Recycling
It’s a new world out there. Suddenly, “sustainability” is a buzzword we hear everywhere, with every imaginable meaning. We’re all looking for ways to sustain our organizations, sustain our neighborhoods, sustain our homes, sustain our heritage, sustain the Earth…and nearly every organization or philosophy now claims to be the standard-bearer for sustainability. All this time, that’s what preservation has been about. Sustaining buildings, the environment, neighborhoods, communities, landscapes, cultures and history. And it all starts by not destroying…and wasting…what is already there.
Get inspired with new ways to sustain your own community and organization at the National Preservation Conference. Discuss the latest research and strategies to place preservation at the center of green practices. Learn what tools your colleagues in the field are using in their hometowns by joining 2,000 of them in Nashville. Get the invigorating education and networking that is the hallmark of the National Preservation Conference. In addition, our discussions will be informed by the cutting-edge research and policy advocacy of the National Trust’s Sustainability Initiative. You’ll return home with new ideas and a fresh perspective on preservation’s role in sustainability, the new economy, and in telling everyone’s stories – Sustaining the Future in Harmony with our Pasts.
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Need LEED?
New this year, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is a USGBC Education Provider. The Trust is committed to enhancing the ongoing professional development of the green building industry through top-quality, third-party reviewed education courses. A logo beside any education or field session in the program indicates that the USGBC Education Provider Program has approved the technical and instructional quality of that course. Learn more about LEED sessions at this year's conference.
