CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP — Businesses and public officials can learn about community sustainability at a June 18 conference at the Regional Learning Alliance, 850 Cranberry Woods Drive.

The daylong event, "Engineering Sustainable Solutions for Your Community" will focus on how communities can become more sustainable through infrastructure design. It will feature experts sharing solutions for infrastructure design, including energy policy, water resources systems, buildings and community sustainability initiatives.

Organizations will include Champions for Sustainability, which is southwestern Pennsylvania's sustainable business network; the American Society for Civil Engineers; the Environmental Water and Resources Institute; and the Architectural Engineering Institute, according to a news release from Sustainable Pittsburgh.

There will be a discussion of recent and pending developments in Pennsylvania energy policies by Jan Lauer of 3 Rivers Clean Energy and Patricia DeMarco, Ph.D. of the Rachel Carson Homestead Association.

A building green panel will feature Phyllis Barber of Highmark; Pat Onufer of Children's Hospital; Andrew Rauch of Giant Eagle; Aurora Sharrard of the Green Building Alliance; Catherine Sheane of Astorino; Raymond J. Sinagra of Civil and Environmental Consultants Inc.; Lindsay Baxter, sustainability coordinator for Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, and John Trant, chief strategic planning officer of Cranberry Township.

Scheduled speakers include Janet L. Attarian, project director for Chicago Green Streets, and Jim Pillsbury, hydraulic engineer for Westmoreland County, who will discuss urban stormwater runoff.

There is a cost for the program. Registration is available online at www.C4SPgh.org/know.html, and the deadline is June 16.

For information, call Matthew Mehalik, program manager of Sustainable Pittsburgh, at 412-258-6644 or e-mail at mmehalik@sustainablepittsburgh.org, or call Bob Dengler at 412-922-5575 ext. 378 or e-mail at rdengler@GFNET.com.