ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The Southeast Watershed Forum is working with NOAA’s Coastal Services Center, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Gulf of Mexico Program, TVA and other agencies and organizations on plans for the first Regional Quality Growth conference - Building Sustainable Communities for the 21st Century, scheduled for August 12-14, 2008 in Charleston, South Carolina.

The conference will highlight resource protection programs and management strategies to ensure more sustainable communities in a time of unprecedented growth and development pressures, diminished water availability and threats from climate change. Local case studies and presentation are being sought in the following categories: 1) Building Greener Communities; 2) Saving Habitat, Farmland, Green Infrastructure and Community Character, and 3) Designing Resilient Communities.

The program offers an opportunity to provide regional leadership on issues that will dramatically affect the viability and natural resource base of southeastern communities. The program should attract developers, land use planners, natural resource managers, elected officials, land trusts, watershed groups, universities and local, state and federal agencies in an effort to showcase ideas for creating wiser land use and development strategies for the region. The conference will serve as the Forum’s 11th Watershed Roundtable.

Click here to see the schedule and agenda for this year's conference.

Click here to read about the pre-conference workshops and tours.

For questions about the conference, please contact our office at 615-627-1310 or seforum@southeastwaterforum.org.

REGISTRATION

   Register Online Today!  

Registration for this important conference includes:

• Access to all plenary speakers and concurrent sessions
• Evening Opening Day Reception
• 2 Luncheons
• 2 Breakfasts
• All breaks

$160  Early Registration
$200 Late Registration (after July 18)

Registration Payments may be made by check, invoice or credit card (PayPal) 

If you do not wish to register online
you may print out the online form, fill it out, and mail it to our office:

Southeast Watershed Forum
One Vantage Way, Suite D-105
Nashville, TN 37228

ACCOMMODATIONS

Stay in the heart of one of the Southeast’s most beautiful and historic cities—Charleston, SC!

The planning committee is pleased to announce the location for the conference is the Doubletree Guest Suites in historic downtown Charleston. 

Just steps away from the Charleston City Market, King Street boutiques, Waterfront Park, antebellum mansions and the famous carriage rides. 

The Doubletree Guest Suites is offering all conference attendees a special room rate of $109/night until July 25.

Click here to make your reservations on-line!

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS AND TOURS

Pre-Conference Workshops and Tours will occur on August 12 and are available for a separate fee.  Click here for complete descriptions of each.