Sharing Our Knowledge and Resources

CDRC-Boston's programs and events provide learning opportunities for community members, building industry professionals, public agencies and other participants in shaping our buildings and spaces.  We host and sponsor public forums, lectures and discussions, and training sessions to build collaborative, participatory design skills.

All of our programs are directed towards the creation of healthy, sustainable communities equally accessible to all; participatory design and planning activities that encourage the contributions of many voices and viewpoints; and generating knowledge and capacity to shape the built environment that will be available for our communities long into the future.

• Designing Neighborhood Solutions Youth Summit - What happens when Boston's young people, community organizations and building industry professionals come together to find solutions to persistent neighborhood safety challenges?  Click here to find out more, and join us in June!

• Perspectives on Sustainability Roundtable - What does sustainability really mean? What does it meant to be a “sustainability organization”? How do you address the triple bottom line – integrating economic, social, and environmental sustainability? What do projects based on sustainability principles look like?
  
  On Wednesday, April 30th at Adaptive Environments (180-200 Portland St., Boston), The Green Roundtable hosts CDRC-Boston and three other local organizations for a panel discussion about their Perspectives on Sustainability. Through the lenses of community design, universal design, environmental justice, and green jobs and business development, the panelists will explore what sustainability means in their work and how they seek to achieve it. A lively Q & A will follow the panel discussion.
  
  Speakers include CDRC-Boston’s Brandy Brooks; Valerie Fletcher from Adaptive Environments; Marina Spitkovskaya and Bob Terrell from Alternatives for Community and Environment; and Galen Nelson from the Boston Redevelopment Authority. Kira Gould from William McDonough + Partners will moderate the panel. To RSVP, contact Aaron Desatnik at aaron@greenroundtable.org or 617-374-3740 x127.