Conferences and Events

• June 22 - 24, 2008 -- Greening the Heartland Conference, St. Louis. Leonardo Academy President Michael Arny will be speaking on the Economics of LEED during the June 24th breakout sessions. To view the conference program, click here.

• July 12 - 15, 2008 -- OFA Short Course 2008, Columbus, Ohio. Amanda Raster will be speaking on the development process of the Sustainable Agriculture Draft Standard for Trial Use: Sustainable Agriculture Practice Standard for Food, Fiber and Biofuel Crop Producers and Agricultural Product Handlers and Processors (SCS-001). To learn more, click here.

• October 15 - 17, 2008 -- IFMA World Workplace 2008 Conference & Expo, Dallas. Michael Arny will be recognizing IFMA for achieving Cleaner and Greener® event certification by reducing and offsetting the emissions generated by conference activities. To learn more about Cleaner and Greener certification for IFMA 2008, click here.

• October 23 - 24, 2008 -- Achieving Corporate Sustainability Conference, Chicago

Leonardo Academy has partnered with Active Communications International to promote the 2nd National Achieving Corporate Sustainability Conference. This conference is a two-day strategic event that will focus on how to effectively integrate sustainability into your organization's mission statement, business model and operations. Topics include:

• Learn to manage, organize and design sustainability programs for your organization
• Implement general best sustainable practices to increase your organization's profitability
• Incorporate renewable energy and the most up-to-date technologies to reduce overhead costs
• Become a LEED Certified Green Building
• And more

Senior Level Executives, Vice Presidents, Directors and Managers, Consumer Advocates, Healthcare Administrators and other professional who are involved with their organization's day-to-day greening and sustainability operations and initiatives are encouraged to attend. Click here to view the list of confirmed speakers, for registration details or to learn more.

• November 19 - 21, 2008 -- Greenbuild 2008 International Conference & Expo, Boston. Michael Arny will be chairing a panel on new sustainability standards and will be speaking on the development of the Emissions Inventories, Offsets, Reduction Credits and TAGs Draft Standard for Trial Use (LEO-500-2001).