I hope Annie won't mind my correcting her, but the OEA's sustainability newsletter, the Minnesota Sustainable Communities Network (MnSCN) Update, now goes out to 2,146 people every two weeks. :-)
If you're curious about this newsletter that so many people are signing up for, you can read it online at: http://www.nextstep.state.mn.us/update.cfm Back issues and instructions for subscribing are also available at this site as well as a host of other nifty sustainability resources, particularly a member directory that can be searched by city, region or topic of interest to find folks who are or want to work on the same things you do. A quick search using Minneapolis turned up 64 names. Hopefully this post will add to that total! So visit http://www.nextstep.state.mn.us/index.cfm and take the next step towards a sustainable future! Mark Snyder Windom Park, Minneapolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 6/20/02 4:46 PM, "Annie Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's about damned time. > As a person who travels all over this country speaking on sustainability and > has worked hard in Minneapolis the past ten years to promote sustainability I > couldn't be more excited to read all of these e-mail posts. I received a > two-year appointment to the Governor's Roundtable on Sustainable Development > under Arne Carlson and spent time with over 30 Minnesota citizens developing a > 3 pronged approach to sustainability for the entire state. (I wonder which > shelf it is sitting on). It was and is a basic principle for doing business at > The Green Institute. I am so, so, so happy to see everyone else finally > pushing the agenda. > I always said If I would have run for Mayor, sustainability would have been > the central theme of my game plan for Minneapolis. > So Fran, Sean and others.... the sustainability choir is just getting larger > and larger every day and hopefully we can make it the shining glitter of our > cities fabric. There are over 1200 list members from around the state to the > OEA's Sustainability newsletter which comes out every two weeks. I also am on > a National listserve looking at cities and counties all over the country that > are incorporating sustainability principles and indicators into their daily > activities - you would be amazed. > Hats off to everyone that is working in some kind of way to integrate the way > we do business in our city with the way Mother Nature thinks we should do > business in our city. > Where is the Mayor? (Didn't we just throw the last Mayor out of office on that > very question?) > Come on, RT - get that Office of Sustainability set up and let's get this city > on track for a sustainable future. It doesn't have to cost a lot of money to > establish indicators that will help promote a basic set of values and > principles that guide us to living on a healthy planet in a healthy eco-city. > Annie Young > East Phillips _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
