David Owen

David Owen, author of Green Metropolis and The Conundrum.

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David Owen featured in "The Green Apple"
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PBS Television Series
Making "The Green Apple," podcast:

Recent speaking engagements:



"Remaking the Chinese City"
Panel discussion: "Greening the Chinese City"
Asia Society
New York, New York

 

"Invisible Cities: an Urban Biodiversity Conference"
Lecture and panel discussion: "Green Metropolis"
Sonsored by the Ministry of Natural Resources
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, Canada

 

"Locating Leadership in an Uncertain World"
Panel discussion: "Cities Respond to Climate Change"
Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy
New York, New York

 

Aspen Environment Forum
Panel discussions: "The Great Energy Challenge,"
"Going to the Country," "The Book on Energy,"
"A Golden Age for Development?",
"Is the Military a Model?"
Aspen Institute
Aspen, Colorado

 

Lecture: "Cities and Sustainability"
Sponsored by Great City
Town Hall
Seattle, Washington

 

Lecture: "The Conundrum"
Berkeley Carroll School
Brooklyn, New York 

 

Panel Discussion:
"Climate Change and the Imagined Future"
The Comer Symposium
The Field Museum
Chicago, Illinois

 

"A Conversation with The New Yorker's David Owen"
San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association
Adobe Systems, In.
San Jose, California 

 

Panel discussion:
"Is Local Agriculture Good For the Environment?"
Museum of the City of New York
New York, New York

 

Keynote lecture: "Growing a Sustainable City"
Annual Meeting
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
Fort Worth, Texas

 

Lecture: "Green Metropolis"
Chicago Architecture Foundation
Chicago, Illinois

 

Lecture: "The Conundrum"
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Millbrook, New York

 

Lecture: "Green Manhattan"
Sponsored by Global Civic Policy Society
Vancouver Playhouse Theatre
Vancouver, British Columbia

 

WORKTECH10 New York
Keynote lecture: "Why Downtown is Greener Than Vermont"
Sponsored by Unwired
Time & Life Building
New York, New York

 

Queensland Growth Management Summit
Keynote lecture and panel discussion by videoconference:
"Green Metropolis"
Sponsored by State of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia

 

"Bill's Design Talks"
Lecture and discussion: "David Owen and Our Green Metropolis"
Smithsonian Institution
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
New York, New York

 

Panel discussion: "Creating the Next Conservation Movement"
New York Academy of Sciences
& The Nature Conservancy
New York, New York

 

"Between the Lines"
Discussion and interview: "Green Metropolis"
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
Atlanta, Georgia

 

 

Lecture: "Green Metropolis"
Real Estate Development Program
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Columbia University
New York, New York

 


Chancellor's Lecture
"Green Metropolis and Urban Sustainability"
University of Illinois-Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

 

 

"Our Cities, Ourselves"
Panel discussion: "The Future of Transportation in Urban Life"

Sponsored by the American Institute of Architects
The Center for Architecture
New York, New York

 

Aspen Ideas Festival
Panel Discussion: "Is Energy Efficiency a False Promise?"
Aspen Institute
Aspen, Colorado

 

Harriet Elliott Lecture Series
Keynote Lecture: "Greening Greensboro"
University of North Carolina
Greensboro, North Carolina 

 

"Book Talk"
Lecture: "Green Metropolis"
The Skyscraper Museum
New York, New York

 

"Big and Super-Green: From Buildings to Cityscapes"
Keynote lecture: "Green Metropolis"
Sponsored by Architectural Record and GreenSource
McGraw-Hill Companies
New York, New York

 

 

Alfred Deakin Lectures
"Brave New World? The Climate Change Challenge"
Keynote lecture and panel discussion: "Innovating the Cities"
Sponsored by the State Government of Victoria and the Wheeler Centre
Federation Square
Melbourne, Australia
Lecture video



For more information, please contact Megan Halpern, Penguin Speakers Bureau, megan.halpern@us.penguingroup.com, or (212) 366-2263. Penguin Speakers Bureau

 

 

 

Books

  • : The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse

    The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse
    Riverhead 2012

  • : Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability

    Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability
    Riverhead 2010

  • : The Walls Around Us: The Thinking Person's Guide to How a House Works

    The Walls Around Us: The Thinking Person's Guide to How a House Works
    Vintage 1992

  • : My Usual Game: Adventures in Golf

    My Usual Game: Adventures in Golf
    Doubleday 1995

  • : Around the House: Reflections on Life Under a Roof

    Around the House: Reflections on Life Under a Roof
    Villard 1998

  • : The Making of the Masters: Clifford Roberts, Augusta National, and Golf's Most Prestigious Tournament

    The Making of the Masters: Clifford Roberts, Augusta National, and Golf's Most Prestigious Tournament
    Simon & Schuster 1999

  • : The Chosen One: Tiger Woods and the Dilemma of Greatness

    The Chosen One: Tiger Woods and the Dilemma of Greatness
    Simon & Schuster 2001

  • : Hit & Hope: How the Rest of Us Play Golf

    Hit & Hope: How the Rest of Us Play Golf
    Simon & Schuster 2003

  • : The First National Bank of Dad: A Foolproof Method for Teaching Your Kids the Value of Money

    The First National Bank of Dad: A Foolproof Method for Teaching Your Kids the Value of Money
    Simon & Schuster 2003

  • : Copies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg--Chester Carlson and the Birth of Xerox

    Copies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg--Chester Carlson and the Birth of Xerox
    Simon & Schuster, 2004

  • : Sheetrock & Shellac: A Thinking Person's Guide to the Art and Science of Home Improvement

    Sheetrock & Shellac: A Thinking Person's Guide to the Art and Science of Home Improvement
    Simon & Schuster 2006