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Monday, March 15, 2010
1:30pm – 5:30pm
Kyoto Grand Hotel and Gardens
120 South Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Los Angeles – JETRO Los Angeles, the City of Los Angeles and the U.S. Green Building Council Los Angeles Chapter (USGBC-LA), held a seminar "Greening the City: Sharing Sustainable Urban Planning and Green Building of LA and Eco-Cities in Japan" at the Kyoto Grand Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

The seminar attracted about 140 professionals involved in city greening efforts, including architects, engineers, city officials and company representatives. Following the opening remarks by Romel Pascual (Interim Deputy Mayor for Energy & Environment, Los Angeles Mayor's Office) and Junichi Ihara (Consulate General of Japan in Los Angeles), the event was divided into 3 sessions: Greening the City, Green Building and Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure. Each session focused on sharing the latest city-level programs and initiatives in Los Angeles and "Eco-Cities" of Japan and was followed by a Q&A and panel discussion session.

A copy of the program is available online here:
Greening the City: Sharing Sustainable Urban Planning and Green Building of LA and Eco-Cities in Japan (PDF, 93 KB)

Speaker videos and presentation slides are available online here:

Opening Remarks

• Romel Pascual, Interim Deputy Mayor for Energy & Environment, Los Angeles Mayor's Office (Video)
• Junichi Ihara, Consulate General of Japan in Los Angeles (Video)

Session 1: Greening the City
Sustainability Programs in Los Angeles and Other Communities

• Beth Jines, Assistant General Manager, EnvironmentLA (Video)
  **Our Commitment to Greening L.A. is Bold (PDF, 905 KB)
• Woodrow Clark, Managing Director, Clark Strategic Partners (Video)
  **Sustainable Communities (PDF, 4.20 MB)

Eco-Model Cities Initiative in Japan: Overview of the Initiative & Case Studies of Two City Programs

• Yoshinao Ogawa, Counselor, Regional Revitalization Bureau, Cabinet Secretariat of Japanese Government (Video)
  **The Eco-Model City Project and Future Directions (PDF, 870 KB)
• Reiji Hitsumoto, Director, Eco-Model City Kitakyushu (Video)
  **Strategy for Growing Environment and Economy, Green Frontier Plan to Eco-Model City, City of Kitakyushu, Japan (PDF, 2.78 MB)
• Shigeru Inoue, Deputy General Manager, City Planning Project Office, Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd. (Video)
  **Otemachi-Marunouchi-Yurakucho District, Towards "the City of the Future” (PDF, 4.16 MB)

Q&A and Panel Discussion

• Session 1 Q&A and Panel Discussion (Video)

Session 2: Green Building
LA's Green Building Program & USGBC/LEED

• Claire Bowin, Planning Department, City of Los Angeles (Video)
  **Building a Green Los Angeles (PDF, 205 KB)
• Lance Williams, Executive Director, U.S. Green Building Council Los Angeles Chapter (Video)

CASBEE (Japan's version of LEED) and Green Building in Japan

• Takashi Akimoto, Professor, Architectural Environmental Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology (Video)
  **What we can learn from CASBEE (Japan's version of LEED) and Green Building in Japan (PDF, 1.92 MB)

Q&A and Panel Discussion

• Session 2 Q&A and Panel Discussion (Video)

Session 3: EV Infrastructure
City EV Programs and Implementation

• Romel Pascual, Interim Deputy Mayor for Energy & Environment, Los Angeles Mayor's Office (Video)

EV Town Initiative in Japan and EV for Sustainable Urban Community

• Stephen Tanaka, Project Coordinator, JETRO Los Angeles (Video)
  **EV/PHV Towns for a Low Carbon Society (PDF, 736 KB)
• Bryan Arnett, Manager of EV Product Strategy, Mitsubishi Motors North America (Video)
  **iMiEV Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle, Mitsubishi Motors EV Commitment (PDF, 1.73 MB)

Q&A and Panel Discussion

• Session 3 Q&A and Panel Discussion (Video)

For additional information about this past event, please contact: green@jetro.go.jp