The Ashkin Group urges all DestinationGreen readers to ACT FAST and register right away for the 2010 Imperative: Global Emergency Teach-In on February 20th from 12 noon to 3:30 p.m. EST. This special online event is a FREE, interactive “webcast” that is expected to engage more than 500,000 people in a dialogue about transforming design education to make an impact on global climate change. This interactive event will offer opportunities for discussion and Q&A by participants. Click here to register for the Teach-In.

The registration form takes no more than a minute to fill out and might be a terrific event for your customers and prospects who are interested in Green Buildings and Climate Change --- especially those in academic settings.

About the 2010 Imperative
To successfully impact global warming and world resource depletion, it is imperative that ecological literacy become a central tenet of design education. Yet today, the interdependent relationship between ecology and design is virtually absent in many professional curricula. To meet the immediate and future challenges facing our professions, a major transformation of the academic design community must begin today. To accomplish this, The 2010 Imperative calls upon this community to adopt the following:

Beginning in 2007, add to all design studio problems that: "the design engage the environment in a way that dramatically reduces or eliminates the need for fossil fuel."

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