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Urban Gardening + Farming Meet Up LEVEL 1, EH1, Meet Up Pavilion 10:45am–11:00am Prosperity in the Face of Climate Change Natural disasters and other shocks are an opportunity for change and demand that we rethink what it means to plan sustainably. Will Travis will discuss why a regional strategy to address climate change and sea level rise, in particular, is key to a resilient future for the San Francisco Bay Area, including best practices for other coastal cities. Will Travis, San Francisco Bay Conservation And Development Commission Straight to the Point | LEVEL 3, Austin Suite 10:45am–1:00pm Convergent Urbanism: A Biomimicry Workshop Nature is an unstoppable niche engineer, building functional capacity and connection where none previously existed. This workshop explores the imprecise and dynamic ways that cities naturally change, challenging approaches to place that are disconnected from living principles. Join biomimicry experts from NYC, Austin and Seattle to ideate and design solutions for existing urban challenges. CEU: AIA/ USGBC Alexandra Ramsden, Rushing; Chris Garvin, Terrapin Bright Green; Daniel Woodroffe, dwg landscape architecture; Kathy Zarsky, Holos Workshop | LEVEL 3, MR 10AB 11:05am–11:20am Turning Flood Waters into Liquid Assets When cities are confronted by sudden deluges, our immediate response is to get rid of the offending water fast. Can we design cities to redirect and leverage the power of storm water, and even turn it into a temporary amenity for our cities? Rives Taylor will present ways we can transform flood waters into liquid assets. Rives Taylor, Gensler Straight to the Point | LEVEL 3, Austin Suite 11:25am–11:40am Can Advertising Save the World? Joseph Dumont will take a look at the future of advertising and show clips of his film, The Naked Brand, featuring leading brands that have embraced the transparency revolution. He will show how advertising is the connection point between consumers and corporations and that the industry can be the linchpin in a revolution that enables corporations to earn billions while moving the planet forward. Joseph Dumont, Questus Straight to the Point | LEVEL 3, Austin Suite 12:00pm–1:00pm Addressing the Excess: Reducing US Food Waste Imagine walking out of the grocery store with three bags of food, dropping one entire bag, and not bothering to pick it up. Seems crazy, but that's what we are doing in the U.S., where about 40 percent of all food goes uneaten. It's even crazier when you consider that one of six Americans is food insecure, and that we dedicate over half our land area and 80 percent of our water to agriculture. standards as users? This talk suggests that design thinking can unpack the underlying assumptions that often go unchallenged and unverified during the service preparation process, and can ultimately help ensure that essential services actually reach their destination. Joshua Goldstein, Princeton University; Merrick Schaefer, World Bank Group; Panthea Lee, Reboot; Priyanka Pathak, Little Cloud Collective; Robert Fabricant, frog Panel/Dual/Solo | LEVEL 3, MR 8C How to Save Power: Information or Automation? How can you get consumers and businesses to curb energy? Two schools of thought have developed: the "behavioralists" believe that consumers will reduce consumption given the right information. By contrast the "automatons" believe that automation is the only way to get around short attention spans and the rapid decision making required. Early results show that both sides are right... and wrong. CEU: AIA Amit Narayan, Autogrid; Eric Dresselhuys, Silver Spring Networks ; Katherine Tweed, Greentech Media; Scott Jarman, Austin Energy Panel/Dual/Solo | LEVEL 3, MR 5ABC Making Carbon Visible in Cities Panel/Dual/Solo | LEVEL 3, MR 9AB How can cities best communicate their carbon stories and aspirations? How do you inform, educate and empower not just specialists but ordinary citizens too? Can visualizing carbon emissions in fun yet accurate ways be helpful? In this session we will discuss success stories from New York City and the huge positive impact that can be achieved when the world's megacities take action together. CEU: AIA Designing for the Science of Service Delivery Antony Turner, Carbon Visuals; Conor Riffle, CDP; Jenna Tatum, New York City Dana Gunders, Natural Resources Defense Council; Doug Rauch, Urban Food Initiative; Kavita Shukla, Fenugreen; Tom Philpott, Mother Jones How can governments and their international development partners design services that alleviate poverty while meeting our own high Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning & Sustainability; Mica Vehik, Environmental Defense Fund; Seth Schultz, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Panel/Dual/Solo | LEVEL 3, MR 8AB SXSW Eco | October 7-9, 2013 | sxsweco.com 61