Sustainable Aging in Place

Yesterday, Matt and I had a wonderful and wide-ranging discussion (and I had one too many ginger snap cookies) yesterday with Marcia Cooper, president of Green Decade, who was supportive of our idea for building a coalition which promotes the quality of life in Newton’s villages.  She was very helpful in suggesting who else we need to meet in her group and in the community.

One of the most exciting topics we conversed about is “sustainable aging in place” and work being done by David Del Porto, a Newton resident with a long career working on sustainable strategies and ecological engineering. Please see his paper from October 2008 here.

Aging in place is a compelling topic, one we have already identified, and exciting not only because of Del Porto’s work but because others have identified this issue as an important one, among them the Harvard School of Public Health, which earlier this year was designing a “course/studio on the multifaceted topic of sustainable aging in place” and wanted Del Porto’s help in “identifying a local site/community that can serve as a host and reference case for green and sustainable development.” (Panera Bread is comparatively small potatoes.)