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Guelph, RBG Join Forces on Symposium
“Shades of Green: Exploring Biodiversity, Human Values and Urban Planning” is the topic of a March 8 symposium being sponsored by the University and Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG). The afternoon event will be held at the RBG Centre in Burlington.
Participants will discuss protection of natural areas, urban planning, rural issues and human values involving such developments as the Ontario greenbelt, the growth and sustainability of urban communities and the development of liveable cities.
Guest speakers are landscape architecture professor John Ahern of the University of Massachusetts- Amherst, Dawn Bazely of York University's Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability, and William Sullivan of the Environmental Council at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The symposium was developed under a formal partnership struck last year between U of G and RBG. Other sponsors of the event are Environment Canada's Biodiversity Convention Office, Botanic Gardens Conservation International and the Patrick Colgan Memorial Lectureship Fund.
Admission is $25 general, $10 for students. For more information, call 905-527-1158, Ext. 524, or send e-mail to greenspace@rbg.ca.