[SustainableTompkins] Contact Needed

[Thomas Shelley]

At 04:44 PM 3/4/2008 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi TC Sustainers:
>A high school teacher in the Croton on Hudson High School in Westchester
>county wants to invite a speaker to her class to discuss sustainability to
>her students. Does anyone on this list have any personal or organizational
>contacts in that area?


Tony--Humm....  Westchester has a very strong sustainability movement.  I'm 
more than a little surprised that your acquaintance doesn't have some 
connection to this movement that would lead them to a speaker.  For 
example, see:

http://www.nylawline.com/_Media/sustainability_working_draf.pdf

http://www.byramhills.org/curriculum/Curriculum_Committee_0110_08.pdf

Westchester is one of the few places to develop a comprehensive global 
warming action plan, similar to what the Mayor is somewhat trying to do 
here in Ithaca:

http://www.westchestergov.com/environment_globalwarming.htm

Westchester even has a Department of Environment and Land Use with much 
information about a variety of sustainability issues:

http://www.westchestergov.com/environment.htm

There are numerous contact people scattered through these documents and Web 
sites, so I would think that there would be someone your acquaintance could 
find to present at the local level.  Take care.   Tom

Tom Shelley
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Ithaca, NY 14850
607 342-0864
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"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present 
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own 
needs."

The World Commission on Environment and Development,
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987

MY NOTE:  Sustainable development does not mean "sustainable growth" as 
growth per se is not sustainable.  And the term "sustainable" has to mean 
"for a very long time" (A. Bartlett).

"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives."        Sioux proverb