The Living City Campus - Saturday, September 27
Take a tour of the Living City Campus at the Kortright Centre for Conservation, one of Canada's largest environmental education centres. Over the past 20 years, Kortright has become a centre of excellence in demonstrating sustainable building design, technologies and practices. This tour will include a visit to the Earth Rangers Centre, a LEED gold education building; Restoration Services Building, a LEED platinum environmental-operations building; and a semi-detached LEED gold and platinum house. See how the Living City Campus inspires its 130,000 visitors to adopt more sustainable technologies and practices.
Tour Guide: Kortright manager Alex Waters graduated from the University of Waterloo in environmental studies and from the University of Toronto in education. For the past 20 years, he has designed and implemented many innovative renewable-energy and energy-efficiency projects, demonstrations and programs for children and adults at Kortright. He has also assisted in the design of educational materials for the Waterloo Green Home, the Toronto Healthy House and Enerworks solar water systems.
ST01 - Tour Details: Saturday, September 27
- 9:45 AM - Bus departs from the Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place
- 10:30AM - 12:30PM - LEED Tour of Living City Campus commences
- 12:30 PM - BBQ lunch (included)
- 2:30 PM - Bus departs the Living City Campus to return to the Direct Energy Centre
Fee: $95
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