Speakers Bureau

 

Venues

 

We provide local speakers for groups anywhere in the greater Baltimore-Washington area and most of the eastern shore of Maryland.  For groups of ten or more persons there is no charge.

 

We also provide speakers for venues beyond the aforementioned areas, but we require reimbursement of any substantial travel expenses to distant venues.  

 

Standard Presentation

 

This presentation begins with the 35-minute video, In Growth We Trust.  Following the video, the presenter will conduct a question/answer session – typically lasting 30 to 45 minutes. 

 

Tailored Presentation

 

We are happy to give presentations tailored to meet the needs of a specific audience.  However, we require a larger audience for presentations of this type.

 

The following are excerpts from a Charlottesville, VA newspaper covering a conference at which a tailored presentation was made:

 

Panelists speak out against sprawl

By David Dadurka, Daily Progress staff writer

Saturday, September 13, 2003

 

Sounding as though he were the sage knight guarding the Holy Grail in the film “Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade,” Edwin Stennett praised members of the audience at a sustainable-growth conference in Albemarle.

“You have chosen wisely to educate people about growth,” said Stennett, author of the book “In Growth We Trust,” which discusses strategies for restraining sprawl.  The white-bearded Stennett added, “You have chosen a task that is challenging, ... that requires Galileo-like courage.”

On a quest to teach people about what they see as the impacts of mushrooming demographics, Stennett and other panelists at the conference, sponsored by Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population, spent Saturday morning challenging what they described as the “myths of growth.”