By Lena Babaeva Coradini

We held our third breakfast in the Sustainability Breakfast Series yesterday! Organized by Brian Phelps (a landscape architect from Hawkins Partners), Erica Garrison (an attorney at Waller Lansden) and yours truly, the series focuses on different aspects of sustainability. 

The March topic was: Striving for energy efficiency and alternative energy: Creating synergy in Tennessee's built environment.   Our speakers were:

Tabitha Crawford
CEM | Division President
Balfour Beatty Energy Solutions LLC

Kirk Whittington
Business Development - Energy Solutions
SIEMENS Industry, Inc.

Erik Daugherty, MSc
Co-Owner
E3 INNOVATE LLC

Ryan Gooch
Director of the Energy Policy Office
State of Tennessee Economic & Community Development

Jim Purcell
Energy Services Manager
Nashville Electric Service

Ronald B. Merville, Jr. PE
President/CEO
Energy Source Partners

The breakfast fostered great discussion and we would like to thank the speakers for sharing their insight.  Many thanks to all who attended and to Waller Lansden for providing the food and the space for the breakfast!  Thank you to Brian Phelps for moderating this installment of the breakfast series.

If you are interested in reading about the first installation of the breakfast, please see this blog entry.  For information on the second breakfast, click here.

Listed below are the next events in the series:

April 8th - Increasing connectivity: What transportation changes should be coming down the pipeline in Nashville and Middle Tennessee

May 6th - Retrofitting yesterday's buildings to meet tomorrow's energy demands: To replace or to retrofit-that is the questions?

June 3rd - Striving to become the greenest city in the Southeast-What we can do to achieve this goal.

If you would like to attend, the program starts at 7:30 a.m. with  continental breakfast and the roundtable discussion runs from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.  To register or for more information, please contact Aja Hendrix at 615-850-8899 or via email at aja.hendrix@wallerlaw.com.  There's no cost to attend, but seating is limited.

If you have any questions, feel free to email Erica, Brian or me for information.

Thank you!