ReVisioning Sustainability
Thursday, March 11, 2021
@ 5:30 PM
free and open to the public
AIA members earns 2.0 LU/HSW
ReVisioning Sustainability provides a thorough look at the big questions and high-impact solutions for comprehensive sustainability in The City Different. The built environment is the major source of global demand for energy and materials that produce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. In order to avert its worst impacts, how can local policies that govern transportation, water use, renewable energy, and building construction meaningfully contribute to meeting crucial carbon reduction targets in the next 10 years? How can these same measures simultaneously allow Santa Fe to achieve increased density, smarter growth, sustainable preservation, and equitable access to clean energy?
This session is hosted by FASF President and AOS Architects Director of Sustainability Anthony Guida, and moderated by City of Santa Fe Senior Planner Carlos Gemora.
ReVisioning Sustainability is a part of ReVisioning History series. View this entire series here.
ABOUT REVISIONING SUSTAINABILITY PANELISTS
Erick J. Aune
planner & officer, Santa fe metropolitan planning organization (MPO)
Erick is a Transportation and Urban Planner employed with the Santa Fe Metropolitan Planning Organization as the MPO Officer. Inspired by the impacts of roadway design on all elements of the community, he is dedicated to supporting innovative design that improves safety and livability for all users of our roadways. He has practiced land use and transportation planning in the Southwest since 1996 and began his career working for the USDA Rural Development AmeriCorps Program in Aztec, NM. He has served as Planning Director for Aztec, NM, and La Plata County, CO, and worked with the New Mexico MainStreet Program as Aztec’s MainStreet Director, among other roles. Erick also serves as Immediate-Past President of the American Planning Association, New Mexico Chapter, and President of the New Mexico Resiliency Alliance (NMRA), dedicated to bringing resources to underserved communities throughout New Mexico.
resource: Santa fe city plan map (1912)
resource: Santa fe city Plan (1947)
resource: Santa Fe 2020-2045 Metropolitan transportation plan (2020)
resource: santa fe metropolitan bicycle master plan (2019)
resource: santa fe mpo pre-teen & Teen independent transit & mobility plan (2017)
Jesse Roach
director, city of santa fe Water
Jesse is Director of City of Santa Fe Water, where he has led a strategic planning effort and development of long range water resource planning processes, and provided leadership in support of new water resources development. His technical areas of expertise include municipal operations and demand, potential climate change impacts on water resources, surface water-groundwater dynamics, and agricultural operations and demand. He was the technical lead on an assessment of potential climate change impacts to water resources and possible resulting changes to water operations in the Upper Rio Grande basin, and a contributor to the technical evaluation of water utility scale adaptation to potential hydrologic impacts of climate change in Santa Fe. He grew up in Santa Fe and holds Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford, and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in Hydrology and Water Resources. Prior to joining City of Santa Fe Water in 2019, he worked at Sandia National Labs and Tetra Tech Inc.
resource: City water bank ordinance (2010)
resource: water rights transfer ordinance (2009)
resource: Santa fe basin study (2015)
Mariel Nanasi
executive director & president, new energy economy
Mariel is the Executive Director and President of New Energy Economy. She is a civil rights and criminal defense attorney by trade, and since 2008, has used her legal expertise and organizing skills to address climate change and promote clean energy alternatives in New Mexico as a model for the rest of the country.
resource: local choice energy act SBo374 (2019)
resource: local choice energy act one-pager (2020)
Jean Carroon
principal, design—preservation & sustainability, Goody clancy
Jean leads Goody Clancy’s preservation practice, focusing on the opportunities inherent in the stewardship and creative reuse of existing buildings to create a healthy, resilient world. She leads a team dedicated to helping clients and the public connect historic legacies to current realities and future possibilities. Her approach combines a mastery of history and building technology with a commitment to transforming places – redefining their relevance, utility, and flexibility, while sustaining and enhancing essential beauty and value. She has been responsible for the restoration or adaptive reuse of numerous National Historic Landmark buildings.
resource: United Nations sustainable development goals (2015)
resource: The future of our pasts: engaging cultural heritage in climate actioN (2019)
resource: the new net zero (2020)
ReVisioning Sustainability Resources
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Santa Fe 2020-2045 Metropolitan Transporation Plan (2020)
Santa Fe Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)
Considered a “basic human need,” transportation impacts our quality of life, economic prosperity, and environmental well being. Guided by a public engagement process, the plan envisions a well-connected, efficient, integrated, multimodal transportation system which increases access, efficiency, and freedom of personal mobility to everything from higher paying jobs to better schools, affordable housing, and health care. The plan considers various modes of transport, walk and bikeability, fitness, air quality, access to healthy food, traffic volume and congestion, safety, cost, demographics, employment, freight, waste, maintenance, fuel efficiency, technology, funding sources for road improvements, schedule frequency and efficiency, education, culture, sustainability, and connectivity between modes and systems. The transportation sector is acknowledged as the second largest greenhouse gas emitting sector, second to the energy sector.
Santa Fe Metropolitan Bicycle Plan (2019)
Santa Fe Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)
Santa Fe has distinguished itself as a community in support of bicycling: its ideal setting, combined with a passionate and growing number of bicycle advocates, sets the stage for the continued growth and interest in bicycling. The 2019 Santa Fe Metropolitan Bicycle Master Plan (BMP) presents an update to the 2012 Bicycle Master Plan to incorporate current best practicies in municipal planning for bicycles. The 2019 BMP reflects the latest innovation in approaches and sets a goal of creating an 'all ages and abilities' bicycle network. It updates the extensive, prioritized list of projects to guide improvements to the bicycle network and recognizes the growing wave of bicycle-related events and awareness. Since the previous BMP, however, there has been a greater acknowledgement that the majority of the population does not feel comfortable riding in bike lanes at the edge of a busy street, but would feel safe in a protected bicycle lane. The 2019 BMP reflects a shift in emphasis towardsa a vision for a bicycle network that serves all ages and abilities, and that addresses issues of equity and access.
Santa Fe MPO Pre-Teen & Teen Independent Transit & Mobility Plan (2017)
Santa Fe Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)
Santa Fe MPO hired a professional planning team from Sites Southwest to build on the existing Public Transit Master Plan. This effort focused solely on youth between the ages of 10 and 17, how they travel around and through the metro area, and what their perceptions, beliefs and interests are around multiple modes of travel including transit, biking and walking. Emerging national trends show that, specific to youth, the number of transit, bicycle and walking trips have been increasing steadily at the same time that there has been a reduction in the number of vehicle miles traveled (VMT). According to the 2010-2014 American Community Survey there are 13,554 youth ages 10-17 in the metro area. We believe that the travel patterns of youth in this age range are important to study as youth begin to become more independent and transition away from relying on parents for their transportation needs. The goal of this plan is to determine when this transition occurs, which transportation modes youth begin to use, and to what extent they can use these modes independently. Data, information, trends and direct input by local youth will be used to consider investments in our transit and transportation network that supports their and future generations mobility independence.
Water Bank Ordinance (2010)
City of Santa Fe
The purpose of the City Water Bank Ordinance is to establish a city water bank consisting of various accounts holding water rights, water credits and water conservation credits.
Water Rights Transfer Ordinance (2009)
City of Santa Fe
The purpose of the City's Water Rights Transfer Program is to administer water right transfers designated for development projects and water rights transfers designated for the City Water Bank.
Santa Fe Basin Study (2015)
Bureau of Reclamation, City of Santa Fe & Santa Fe County
Climate change, in concert with human development and other changes, promises to alter many aspects of life in the Santa Fe basin, including the availability of water to the City of Santa Fe and Santa Fe County, and the resources that depend on the Santa Fe watershed. The health of forests, fish and wildlife, and other ecosystems, as well as human development, food security, and quality of life are likely to be affected. The Santa Fe Basin Study was undertaken to evaluate these projected changes and to develop potential strategies for adaptation that can be used for future planning.
Local Choice Energy Act SB0374 (2019)
New Mexico Legislature
The Local Choice Energy Act, currently in front of the New Mexico Legislature, opens up the state's electricity markets to competition and puts local communities in control of who supplies their energy. It proposes to allow any local community in New Mexico to pool their electricity demand and create a local non-profit utility, which would then secure electricity supplies based on criteria defined by the local community. This new utility would work with investor-owned utlities in the service area to transmit and distribute electricity.
Local Choice Energy Act One-Pager (2020)
New Energy Economy
The purpose of the Local Choice Energy Act One-Pager is to provide a quick synopsis of the current challenges surrounding investor-owned utility monopolies within New Mexico and the solutions proposed by The Local Choice Energy Act that would bring more equity to the electrical utility market.
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (2015)
United Nations
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
The Future of Our Pasts: Engaging Cultural Heritage in Climate Action (2019)
Climate Change and Cultural Heritage Working Group, International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
Climate Change was not on the agenda in 1966 when ICOMOS was founded with the mission to work for the conservation and protection of cultural heritage places. Yet today, climate change has become one of the most significant and fastest growing threats to people and their cultural heritage worldwide. Cultural heritage offers immense and virtually untapped potential to drive climate action and support ethical and equitable transitions by communities towards low carbon, climate resilient development pathways. Realizing that potential, however, requires both better recognition of the cultural dimensions of climate change and adjusting the aims and methodologies of heritage practice.
The New Net Zero (2020)
Boston Society for Architecture
This recent article from Boston Society for Architecture discusses achieving greenhouse gas mitigation targets through life cycle carbon accounting.