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.