Regional Livability Summit

The Coalition for a Livable Future’s 5th Annual Regional Livability Summit,

is at Portland State University Smith Center Ballroom, this Thursday, April 19th, 2007, 8 am – 4 pm.

Most of the following is from a CLF press release, except where I changed it.

The keynote speaker is Denis Hayes, termed a “Hero for the Planet” in that link to a TIME.com gallery. National Coordinator of the first Earth Day, he has been in the center of the modern environmental movement for years. He has served in top positions with many prominent academic institutions (Stanford, for one), non-profits and government agencies. As the current President of the Bullitt Foundation (which just awarded CLF a big grant to support our work – THANK YOU!), he aspires to make the Pacific Northwest – “the best-educated, most environmentally aware, most progressive corner of America” – a global model for sustainable development.

After the keynote, the program will engage participants in developing collaborative strategies-for-action that focus on how we can take sustainability to the next level in our region:
* What trends are emerging?
* What opportunities for leverage do we see in these trends?
* What can we accomplish or set in motion by working together that we cannot achieve by ourselves?

Cost: $45 for non-CLF members; $35 for CLF members; Living lightly option – pick a price that meets your budget.

To learn more about it or to register, please click here.