Ecocity Builders can provide experienced and engaging speakers for your event or conference, and offers classes and workshops for a wide range of audiences, including city government, community groups, NGOs and businesses. We also offer exciting and in-depth classes and workshops for grades K through 12, as well as college level classes on ecological city design and planning. For more information, contact Kirstin Miller.
RICHARD REGISTER
Richard Register is one of the world's great theorists and authors in ecological city design and planning. He is also a practitioner with three decades of experience activating local projects, pushing establishment buttons and working with environmentalists and developers to get a better city built and running. Click here for a full biography.
The following is a sample of some of the organizations and events that Richard has addressed:
Stockholm Conference (alternative event)
Rio de Janeiro Conference (alternative event)
Johannesburg Conference (alternative event)
Habitat II, Istanbul
Smithsonian Institution
National Council for Science and the Environment
Open University for the Environment. Curitiba. Brazil
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
California College of Arts and Crafts
World Futures Society Conference
Eco Wave Conference on Ecological Architecture
...as well as university classes, architectural firms, futurist conferences, student body events at colleges, Lions Clubs, Rotary Clubs, business councils, small local creek restoration groups, city government agencies, transportation departments, scientific associations, and the various conferences and workshops that he himself has organized.
Richard's speaking fee average $5,000, plus transportation and expenses, depending on the nature of the event.
Kirstin Miller is an environmental activist, community organizer, and a writer and editor. She has been with Ecocity Builders since 1997 and currently serves as Executive Director. Kirstin has presented for the organization locally, nationally and internationally. She was a plenary speaker at the 7th World Wilderness Congress in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in 2001 and the Towards CarFree Cities III conference in Prague, Czech Republic, 2003. Her articles and essays on ecocities, urban ecology and the environment have appeared in a number of publications, including Orion Afield, Ecotecture and Wilderness and Human Communities, The Spirit of the 21st Century.
Kirstin works closely with Ecocity Builders' President Richard Register in the development of the organization's "toolbox" of strategies, such as car free by contract housing, environmental restoration transfer of development rights, centers oriented development, ecological demonstration projects and ecological zoning overlay mapping.
She also helps coordinate an alliance of local environmental organizations working to promote and advance ecologically healthy urban policies and projects, including the development of an ecological demonstration project in the heart of Berkeley, CA.
In 2001-2002 Kirstin was a key organizer of a coalition of over 100 mostly local community groups and businesses working to push for stronger ecological policies in the City of Berkeley’s General Plan revision. In 2004 she organized a Berkeley community field trip of over 40 local leaders, including the Mayor, to San Luis Obispo to visit their successful downtown creek restoration and greenway project. In May of 2005, Kirstin organized a major “Green City Visions” conference in Oakland as part of the 2005 United Nations World Environment Day events, featuring Sierra Club's Executive Director Carl Pope, Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, Rainforest Action Network's Randy Hayes, "Powerdown" author Richard Heinberg, Ecocity Builders' President Richard Register and others.
Kirstin previously worked as an elementary and GATE (gifted and talented education) teacher. She was awarded "Best New Teacher," 1990, Fremont Unified School District. She has a B.S. in Humanities and Fine/Performing Arts from Southern Oregon State University and a California State Teaching Credential from Cal State, Hayward.
