Following on a similar bike tour in September (see: Buildings, Bikes, and Gardens with DesignDC ), the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health (@KPTotalHealth) hosted this one, as part of the very large Greenbuild International Conference and Expo that was in Washington, DC this year.
In addition to demonstrating the ways that health care contributes to a healthier built environment (who, us?) the following speakers dialogued with the group on work to promote bicycling:
- Jim Sebastian of @DDOTDC
- Steve White, director of Fentress Architects and president of AIA DC (@steve_aiadc)
- Paul Balmer, legislative assistant to Congressman Earl Blumenauer from Oregon on the Congressional Bike Caucus (@PBalms)
- Caron Whitaker from the Bike League (@CaronWhitaker)
A lot of where this comes together at Kaiser Permanente can be found at our Westside Medical Center, in Hillsborough, Oregon, which is one of the few (less than 60) LEED Gold certified medical centers in the world. You can read more about it here.
Thanks for letting us take part in Greenbuild!
