[EyesOnIvy] 9/13/03 conference: Beyond the Myths of Growth

[Brian Wheeler]

Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population (ASAP)

 

presents a conference:

  


Beyond the Myths of Growth


 

Saturday morning, September 13, 2003, 9:00 to 1:00

Registration 8:30-9:00 (There is no registration fee, though donations
are welcome.)

 

Albemarle County Office Building, Main Auditorium

 

 

8:30 - 9:00                 Registration 

 

9:00 - 9:10                 Welcome  and  Goals of conference  -- Rich
Collins, Director,

UVA Institute of Environmental Negotiation

 

9:10 - 9:35                 Local growth:  Inconvenient facts and
antiquated myths  -- Jack Marshall, President of ASAP

 

9:35 - 10:00               Myth # 1:  Growth is good   -- Edwin
Stennett, Author of In Growth We Trust

 

10:00 - 10:10             Questions from the audience

 

10:10 - 10:40             Myth # 2:  Growth is necessary for economic
prosperity  -- Kenneth Townsend, Professor of Economics at
Hampden-Sydney College

 

10:40 – 10:50            Questions from the audience

 

10:50 - 11:05             BREAK

 

11:05 - 11:30             Myth # 3:  Growth can’t be slowed or stopped
-- Julie Pastor, Director of Planning for Loudoun County, VA

 

11:30 - 11:40              Questions from the audience

 

11:40 - 12:25             Panel discussion and questions from the
audience

 

12:25 - 12:35             Summary  -- Al Weed, Vice President of ASAP

 

12:35 – 12:45            Concluding Remarks  --  Rich Collins


Beyond the Myths of Growth

 


A conference organized by Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle
Population (ASAP) on September 13, 2003


 

            Goals:

a)   To critically review some antiquated myths about local growth

b)   To inform the community about ASAP

c)   To discuss the need for slowing, and eventually stopping, local
population growth

 

 

Rich Collins, Ph.D.   Moderator              

 

Dr. Collins is Lewis Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning in
the UVA School of Architecture, and Founder and Chair of the Institute
for Environmental Negotiation. He combines teaching, writing, and
facilitation/mediation in the fields of land use, environmental policy,
and sustainable community planning. Active in the community, he served
as Chair of the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority.

 

Jack Marshall, Ph.D.   “Local growth:  Inconvenient facts and antiquated
myths” 

 

Dr. Marshall, an applied anthropologist, has retired from a career in
international population and family planning.  He taught at the
University of North Carolina, worked as a scientist at the World Health
Organization, and lived in India and Indonesia.  He is currently
President of ASAP and on the Board of Planned Parenthood of the Blue
Ridge.

 

Julie Pastor, AICP   “Myth:  Growth cannot be slowed or stopped”

 

Ms. Pastor has been the Director of Planning for Loudoun County, VA,
since 1992.  She has over two decades of land use planning experience.
As Planning Director, she oversaw the development of Loudoun County’s
controversial Revised Comprehensive Plan, which the Board of Supervisors
adopted in 2002.  The Plan seeks to combat suburban sprawl in one of the
nation’s fastest growing counties by concentrating development in the
eastern half of the County while preserving open space and farmland in
the western half.

 

Edwin Stennett   “Myth:  Growth is good” 

 

Edwin Stennett is President of the Growth Education Movement, Inc., of
Gaithersburg, MD, and author of In Growth We Trust:  Sprawl, Smart
Growth, and Rapid Population Growth.  His book details the problems of
population growth in the metropolitan Washington, DC, area, the
economics of growth, and strategies for restraining growth.  Mr.
Stennett holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering from
George Washington University.

 

Kenneth N. Townsend, Ph.D.   “Myth:  Growth is necessary for economic
prosperity” 

 

Dr. Townsend is the Elliott Professor of Economics at Hampden-Sydney
College in Farmville, VA.  He and Herman E. Daly co-edited Valuing the
Earth:  Economics, Ecology, Ethics.  This collection of 20 essays
vividly demonstrates that the planet’s resources are finite, that
continued growth cannot be physically or economically sustained, and
that continued growth is morally undesirable.  A common theme is that a
stationary-state economy is more healthful to life on earth than
unlimited growth.

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