The new plans will offer organizational approaches that budget our resources, conserve energy, utilize renewable energy technologies, build long lasting structures, develop efficient public transportation, reduce and recycle wastes and supply staple foods locally. Who Should Come Architects, Landscapers, Planners, Builders, Artists, Farmers, Technicians, Urban Activists, Permaculture Designers, and Citizens of Urban Neighborhoods whose interest is to renew cities so that they continue to be places where people come together to celebrate the creativity of urban life. It offers hundreds of attractions and activities to suit all tastes. Participants will stay in 'co-housing' apartments on the University of Prince Edward Island campus. Breakfast and snack foods will be provided in each apartment.
Evening meals can be prepared in the apartments or participants can dine out.
Stores, restaurants and entertainment venues are within walking distance. Workshops will be a short walk or bike ride down the newly completed Confederation Trail, which runs through the centre of the city, to the waterfront. Dr. David Bell, Dean, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University David Bergmark, Architect Carl Brothers, Site Manager of the Atlantic Wind Test Site, North America's most advanced wind energy testing facility. Monique Cote, architect, permaculture designer Dr. Ray Cote, Director, School of Environmental Planning, Dalhousie University. Ray, has developed a system for designing industrial parks as closed ecosystems, recycling and reusing wastes.