The Heritage Canada Foundation

Annual Conference

The Heritage Imperative: Old Buildings
in an Age of Environmental Crisis

Toronto – September 24-26 2009
The Fairmont Royal York Hotel

Heritage Canada Foundation Annual Conference
in collaboration with the Ontario Heritage Trust and in cooperation with the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals.

Climate change. Green building. Economic renewal. Older buildings have answers for the biggest questions of our generation.

The 2009 Heritage Canada Foundation conference will bring together delegates and speakers from the fields of heritage preservation, environmental conservation and green building to explore these themes. This is an essential event for advocates, architects, municipal planners, developers, public policy makers, elected officials and property owners. Delegates will learn how the rehabilitation and re-use of older buildings and existing neighbourhoods can help save the planet – and how the green movement and architectural conservation will become more integrated in the process.

Keynote Speaker: T Homer Dixon

Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon is a global visionary and one of Canada’s foremost public intellectuals whose research focuses on how societies adapt to complex ecological, economic, and technological change. The best-selling author of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization (2006) and The Ingenuity Gap (2000), he is Chair of Global Systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo.

Conference Program
Sponsorship Opportunities

Heritage Canada Foundation Annual Conferences

2008: Work That Endures

2007: Big Plans Old Places

2006: Headlines, Hotlinks and Historic Places

2005: Heritage and Sustainability