Clarke Snell (right), Managing Director of the Nauhaus Institute, with Christian Sterns, Greensboro HUD Field Office Director, and Gary Dimmick, Community Planning and Development Director for Greensboro HUD, discussing opportunities for affordable housing developments using low embodied impact materials.

We attended an informal brainstorming workshop with federal officials representing Housing and Urban Development (HUD) the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Labor, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Transportation (DOT), green-collar workforce developers, and urban planners. The meeting was held with hopes of launching a number of demonstration projects and pilot projects in support of the Sustainable Communities Partnership in Western North Carolina. We’re excited to attend the first of these conversations about sustainable communities and how government agencies can participate.