Wowie Zowie ! Of course, this kind of correction is always accepted. Thanks, Mark And check it out folks. Also some great websites of other cities include Sustainable Cleveland (yes, Cleveland), Chattanooga, Tennessee, Santa Monica, California and many more cities and counties that are incorporating sustainable principles and practices into everyday life of government in these places. Hennepin County even has done some stellar work, especially on Green buildings (wonder where they got that idea from???)
Annie Young East Phillips At 10:49 PM 6/20/02 -0500, Mark Snyder wrote: >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 _______________________________________ 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
