Building from climate researcher and architect Carl Elefante’s insight that “the greenest building is… the one that is already built,” Heritage manager for the National Capital Commission, Heather Thomson will lead us in reflection on how heritage conservation practices can work together with climate responsive practices. Click below for more info.

Speaker: A contract instructor in the School of Canadian Studies, Heather is also the Heritage Program Manager at the National Capital Commission.  In that role, she provides advice on heritage conservation for lands under federal stewardship in the National Capital Region (Ottawa-Gatineau).  A professional heritage planner, she has championed heritage conservation within the public service for 25 years, in roles at Parks Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Culture, the Ontario Heritage Trust, among others.

Actions

  • Join in on NCC meetings 
  • Fill out this survey to share your opinions on heritage in Canada: Heritage Reset Project 
  • Research ways on how to care for your own home and think about how if you were the next person to occupy our home, how would you want to find it?  
  • What are some buildings you love? Why?  
  • Become more involved with your local municipality.  
  • learning about buildings histories/stories in your neighbourhood, caring for not only beautiful buildings, but also buildings that maybe do not have aesthetic potential 

Resource List

The following is a list of resources recommended by attendees at our event.

Academic articles and books: 

  • Elefante, “The Greenest Building Is… One That Is Already Built,” Forum Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 62–72, 2012.
  • Carroon, Sustainable preservation: greening existing buildings. Hoboken, N.J: Wiley, 2010.

Newspaper articles and reports:  

Websites: 

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