Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) is a public, open-access, comprehensive community college serving more than 60,000 students through credit and non-credit courses and workshops each year, making it the largest institution of higher education in Utah.  SLCC is concerned with the growing interest in and need for curriculum focusing on various aspects of sustainability.  SLCC already has responded to this need by recognizing that two distinct populations might have an interest in the area of sustainability:  working adults who need training to meet the growing demand for green building, energy management, and related fields, and transfer students who want to acquire expertise in this area.  SLCC has begun to respond to the first group by creating two non-credit courses on Solar Voltaic Installation and Energy Manger Training.  The College has responded to the second group by inventorying and evaluating current credit courses that focus on sustainability issues and considering how to focus and augment those curricula into a Sustainability Certificate.  The purpose of this Certificate will be to train students to meet increasingly complex intellectual and real-world sustainability challenges of the 21^st Century.  Additional information is available on our website: www.slcc.edu

4600 South Redwood Road

Taylorsville, UT  84123

(801) 957-4650

deanna.anderson@slcc.edu

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

> - Why did you choose to come to this sustainability summit?

I believe that this forum will present an excellent opportunity for a wide variety of Utah organizations to share information and insight into challenges facing Urtah, and to share ideas on how to address them.

How do we address the escalating loss of farmland as  food transportation costs become prohibitive?
How do we encourage an environment for small business to flourish, when zoning, taxes, and development goals of local and county government stacks the decks in favor of large chains?
How do we manage and allocate water resources to residents and businesses, in the face of  demands to sell it to the highest bidder, and private property rights that trump sustainability?
How do we educate our neighbors about thinking, investing, sustaining locally?

regarding what you our your group does to support sustainability in the SL valley.

The Green Party of Utah  (www.gput.org Deanna Taylor 801-631-2998 or Eileen McCabe 801-201-0219) supports the 10 Key Values of the Green party of the US, which include grassroots democracy, ecological wisdom,decentralization, community-based economics, responsibility and future focus. We seek to work with local non-profits and local, county and state government entities to  preserve family farms and organic farming, local energy production through small to mid-scale wind and solar projects that are community,farm-cooperative or school district owned and operated; to develop local ordinances that require water use assessments for any development; for changes in local ordinances to  favor local businesses and small mixed use development over large scale mall-type developments.

Thanks!
Eileen McCabe
Alternate Delegate and Local Coordinator,
Green Party of Utah

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Education for evolutionary change in health and wellbeing.


What is Integrative Health (IH)?
•    Health, wellbeing, and healing of the whole person including physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual wellbeing aspects.
•    Vital interconnections for educational dialogue about wellbeing and healing among individuals, families, work or social groups, communities, organizations, institutions, and environments. 
•    Facilitation of individual, group, and community self-awareness, self-empowerment, self-care, and self-development, along with openness and commitment to the healing process. 
•    Promotion of the integrative use of conventional Western medicine and complementary alternative medicine for optimal wellbeing of patients (The Best of Both Is Best).  Yet IH is much broader and deeper than an emphasis on healthcare alone.

What is the Integrative Health Network (IHN)?
•    The IHN is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt, Public Charity licensed in the State of Utah.  It is the first Public Charity organization to pursue education for integrative health and wellbeing in the inclusive scope described here. 
•    The IHN is a charitable organization and association that promotes personal integrative learning and growth process, combined with an educational and communication network that enables healing inner and inter-relationships.
•    The IHN facilitates networking and operational connection among health care and education, healthy community projects, and healthy sustainable environments.
•    The IHN endorses a more expansive view of “community” that includes those of place and those of practice.  This includes, for example, neighborhoods and towns, work and professional groups, and organizations/ institutions/ companies. It also includes the cultural context for and the democratic civic capacity of community in action.
•    The IHN promotes these integrative activities as a Public Charity that enables “for the people” action that is “free” from the operational goals of healthcare consortiums, educational institutions, government or community-related service organizations, or predominantly commercial interests.

Who is the IHN?
•    IHN members consist of health professionals and educators, complementary/ alternative therapists, community service professionals, those concerned about optimal environments for health and wellbeing, community residents and citizens, and consumers passionate about the integrative process for optimal health and wellbeing.
•    IHN includes individuals and groups who want to participate in a community-based forum for group-conversation, self-help and self-healing, and action-orientation.


 
What does the IHN do?  
•    Educate, mentor, support, and integrate for health and wellbeing: (1) individuals such as health and community service professionals, as well as the general public; (2) groups such as health professionals, complementary/ alternative therapists, and community service organizers; (3) institutions such as colleges/ universities and hospitals/ clinics, together with community, government, and service organizations; and (4) special needs populations, such as soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and their families.
•    Hold quarterly meetings and annual conferences on integrative health and wellbeing topics.
•    Orchestrate the Charitable Purpose project:  Supporting Our Returning Soldiers and Veterans: A Community-Based, Educational, Outreach Program to Include Spouses and Significant Others. 
 

Educational  and  Charitable  Service  Action  Projects
IHN Regular Meetings
    Over the past five years, the IHN has held over 6o regular meetings, on an approximately monthly basis, for educational presentations concerning both the science and the experience of a variety of holistic health practices.  The intent of the meetings is to provide a forum for academic faculty, conventional medicine and complementary practitioners, and the general public to dialogue and network on issues concerning Integrative Health as described above.  Selected previous presentation topics and presenters are provided below.
Title    Presenter
Integrative Health. Why Now?   The U of U College of Health Integrative Health Graduate Program    Glenn Richardson, PhD; Uof U faculty; Jim Overall, MD, President IHN; John Kesler, JD, Chair, IHN Board
Big Mind Process for Integrative Health:
Eastern Wisdom for the Western Mind    Genpo Merzel Roshi, Abbot
 Kanzeon Zen Center, SLC
Clinical Hypnosis: Evidence-Based Support    D. Corydon Hammond, PhD, Psychology, Pain Clinic,    
U of U Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Clinic
Optimal Nutrition for the Prevention &Management 
of Atherosclerosis: An Inclusive Approach    Joseph Carlson, PhD, RD, Foods & Nutrition Division, U of U College of Health
Biophysics and the Body/Mind/Spirit Connection    Hugo Rodier, MD, Family Practice and Integrative Medicine, Pioneer Medical Clinic, Draper, UT
Laser Detection of Carotenoid Antioxidants in
Human Skin and Eye: Potential Correlation with
Nutritional Status in Disease and in Health    Werner Gellermann, PhD,  Research  Professor,  Department  of  Physics,  University  of  Utah
Energy Medicine: Meridians and Chakras
Anatomical and Theoretical Perspectives    Yeou-Lan Chen, RN, PhD, Professor, School of
Nursing and Health Sciences, Westminster College

Integrative Health Conferences  
    Over the past five years, the IHN has sponsored four conferences for local conventional and complementary health providers and educators, community service professionals, and the general public.  The conference themes and dates are listed below:
Theme    Date
Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine    October, 2003
Integrative Health and Wellbeing: More Than Medicine    May, 2005
Integrative Health: Many Pathways to Wellness    May, 2006
New Paradigms for Healing: The Science of Integrative Health    May, 2007

 
From 120 to 150 attended each two-day conference in Salt Lake City.  The general format included four to five one-hour plenary presentations, and four breakout sessions each with four to five simultaneous 1-2-hour workshops (16to 20 total).  Academic co-sponsors with IHN for these conferences included The Colleges of Health and of Nursing at the University of Utah, the College of Nursing at Brigham Young University, and the Dumke College of Health Professions at Weber State University.

2008 IHN-Sponsored Conference: 
    An exciting, three-day, five-event conference was held May 15-17, 2008, Freedom from Stress and Addictions Through THE WORK of Byron Katie, at the Varsity Room on the 6th floor of the Tower of the U of U Rice-Eccles Stadium.  This event was a working partnership between Byron Katie International (BKI, http://www.thework.com/ and the IHN.
For these events, Katie and the BKI generously donated two different free workshops on May 15 for: (a) leadership individuals and health professionals from regional Military and federal/state Veterans Affairs institutions and facilities and (b) another event for returning soldiers, veterans, and their families.  In addition, Katie and the BKI donated all the profits from three additional paying events on May 16 and 17 to the IHN for use of THE WORK and other holistic educational / training modalities for returning soldiers, veterans, and their families.  Flyers and other information for these events are available: http://www.ihealthnet.org/.  See the next section for the soldier/veteran-related events.  

Charitable Service: Program Supporting Returning Soldiers, Veterans, and their Family/Friends
•    Importance of Project.  The public is well aware of the pain and suffering the lives of returning soldiers, veterans, and their significant others.  The IHN’s charitable efforts are directed towards this population.  We provide an educational/training program to enable relief and inspire freedom from pain and suffering in physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing dimensions in their lives. As a nation, we have an obligation to care for those who have served their country. 
Over the past two years, the IHN has offered community-based, free, weekly, educational evening programs for this purpose.  Weekly programs were offered initially in Midvale with the support of Mayor JoAnn Seghini, and then in Ogden with the support of Bruce Penland, Executive Director, Operations and Support Services for Ogden City Schools.   Significant collaborative ded to market and “get the word of mouth” going among returning soldiers, veterans, and their families/friends.  However, the turnout was too small to continue the effort.
The IHN is now working in collaboration with professional medical and family support leadership in regional military and Veterans Affairs facilities to offer charitable programs for the leadership and health professionals, as well as for returning soldiers, veterans and their families/friends.  The working partnership with Byron Katie in the workshops described above is the initial offering in this new and inspiring effort to serve and facilitate the healing process for military personnel and their families.
•    Project Support will come from philanthropy, proposals to foundations where this project fits within their mission, grants from civic and government service agencies, community fundraising efforts, and IHN resources.
•    Offerings are provided free of charge to veterans, spouses, close family members, and significant others.

Kathy Wilson
 

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

-         Why did you choose to come to this sustainability summit?

I would like to learn about the issues surrounding sustainability in Salt Lake. I would also like to look at what solutions are being offered.

- What are your most burning questions about sustainability in the SL valley?
What is being done to reduce the pollution (white, air, water, etc)?

- Share one paragraph on your organization, including contact information, regarding what you our your group does to support sustainability in the SL valley
Salt Lake Solutions is a project-based approach to engaging the community in public decision-making.  Salt Lake Solutions projects involve the community, all levels of government, business and non-profit organizations in collaboratively solving problems that cannot be achieved without the integration of public and private support.  The Salt Lake Solutions program is jointly funded by the Salt Lake City Council and Mayor Ralph Becker’s Office.  Our next project will identify and implement community-based activities to reduce air pollution levels across the Salt Lake Valley; the recent anti-idle campaign at elementary schools is an example of this type of collaboration.  Contact information:  Michele Straube, Mediator/Facilitator, 801-535-7971, SLSolutions@slcgov.com.  More information about Salt Lake Solutions projects is available at www.slcgov.com/SLSolutions.  

 via Molly Jones

Michele Straube, Mediator/Facilitator

Salt Lake Solutions

SLC Mayor's Office

451 South State Street, #306

P.O. Box 145474

Salt Lake City, UT  84114-5474

801-535-7971 (o); 801-455-5789 (cell)

SLSolutions@slcgov.com

www.slcgov.com/SLSolutions

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

As I indicated originally, I represent Great Salt Lake Audubon and will be particularly interested in issues related to creating perpetual sustainable habitats for the non-human inhabitants of the area in the face of ever-increasing encroachment by we human inhabitants.  We are currently managing a project along the Jordan River at 106th South to restore 120 acres of former farmland to wetlands and wildlife habitats which will eventually become a Wild Bird Sanctuary. 

Contact information:

Bruce Heath, Executive Director

Great Salt Lake Audubon

P.O. Box 520867

Salt Lake City, UT 84152-0867

801-512-7290 cell

bruce@greatsaltlakeaudubon.org

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Ben Mates, Operations Manager, The Robert G. Hemingway Foundation

I am participating in this event because I know there is power in being in conversation with others who share their passion with me. Together we may be able to take action to ignite others to shift to a community that works for everyone and lives in harmony with all of life.

Burning questions: What vision for our seventh generation of descendants do the participants of this summit hold? How can we mobilize the resources we have right here and right now to create and sustain healthy communities, healthy people and a healthy environment?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  Jane Holt - Salt Lake Center for Engaging Community

       I am a Minister and Counselor by training.  I am a community activist by passion. I have been in the practice of living simply for many years.  I have a deep concern for the future. What am I leaving for the generations who will come after me?    

       I am committed to this Sustainability Summit because I believe the only way we will come through the environment crisis we face is by talking, visioning and working together to solve the myriad of challenges we face.  Being in conversation with each other is a powerful way to be inspired. I look forward to listening to what people have to say and also sharing my vision of what a sustianable future means.

       My "Burning" question is: How can we who are committed to a more sustianable future,  inspire more citizens to be actively involved. People will become more aware if there is a personal reason. How can we make this environmental crisis more important in people lives, beyond expensive fuel.

______

Ed and Carrol Firmage are founding members of Be the Difference (www.bethedifference.net), a new community of citizens committed to practicing sustainable lifestyles that include growing food locally, supporting local economy, retrofitting homes and commercial spaces for energy conservation and efficiency, using energy from clean and renewable sources, and most importantly creating a culture of community in which these practices flourish. Ed and Carrol started Be the Difference in part out of a sense of frustration with the present political climate, in which real progress toward sustainability is stymied, and in part from a growing sense of their own need to live more sustainably as a family. This Sustainability Summit is an outgrowth of Be the Difference in its infancy. The burning question they bring to the Summit is to discover how we as a community can begin to take bigger, more meaningful strides towards true sustainability.

Ed makes his living as a fine art photographer in Salt Lake City. He is the author and publisher ofRed Rock Yellow Stone, an award-winning combination of photographs of the American West and haiku from Japan. Ed is also a board member of HEAL Utah, an alliance of citizens and organizations working to protect the health of Utahns from nuclear and toxic waste.
 
Carrol, a homemaker and mother of four, is presently a graduate student in environmental humanities at the University of Utah. The principal force behind her family's garden, Carrol hopes to become a master gardener.

Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) is a public, open-access, comprehensive community college serving more than 60,000 students through credit and non-credit courses and workshops each year, making it the largest institution of higher education in Utah.  SLCC is concerned with the growing interest in and need for curriculum focusing on various aspects of sustainability.  SLCC already has responded to this need by recognizing that two distinct populations might have an interest in the area of sustainability:  working adults who need training to meet the growing demand for green building, energy management, and related fields, and transfer students who want to acquire expertise in this area.  SLCC has begun to respond to the first group by creating two non-credit courses on Solar Voltaic Installation and Energy Manger Training.  The College has responded to the second group by inventorying and evaluating current credit courses that focus on sustainability issues and considering how to focus and augment those curricula into a Sustainability Certificate.  The purpose of this Certificate will be to train students to meet increasingly complex intellectual and real-world sustainability challenges of the 21^st Century.  Additional information is available on our website: www.slcc.edu

4600 South Redwood Road

Taylorsville, UT  84123

(801) 957-4650

deanna.anderson@slcc.edu

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

> - Why did you choose to come to this sustainability summit?

I believe that this forum will present an excellent opportunity for a wide variety of Utah organizations to share information and insight into challenges facing Urtah, and to share ideas on how to address them.

How do we address the escalating loss of farmland as  food transportation costs become prohibitive?
How do we encourage an environment for small business to flourish, when zoning, taxes, and development goals of local and county government stacks the decks in favor of large chains?
How do we manage and allocate water resources to residents and businesses, in the face of  demands to sell it to the highest bidder, and private property rights that trump sustainability?
How do we educate our neighbors about thinking, investing, sustaining locally?

regarding what you our your group does to support sustainability in the SL valley.

The Green Party of Utah  (www.gput.org Deanna Taylor 801-631-2998 or Eileen McCabe 801-201-0219) supports the 10 Key Values of the Green party of the US, which include grassroots democracy, ecological wisdom,decentralization, community-based economics, responsibility and future focus. We seek to work with local non-profits and local, county and state government entities to  preserve family farms and organic farming, local energy production through small to mid-scale wind and solar projects that are community,farm-cooperative or school district owned and operated; to develop local ordinances that require water use assessments for any development; for changes in local ordinances to  favor local businesses and small mixed use development over large scale mall-type developments.

Thanks!
Eileen McCabe
Alternate Delegate and Local Coordinator,
Green Party of Utah

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Education for evolutionary change in health and wellbeing.


What is Integrative Health (IH)?
•    Health, wellbeing, and healing of the whole person including physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual wellbeing aspects.
•    Vital interconnections for educational dialogue about wellbeing and healing among individuals, families, work or social groups, communities, organizations, institutions, and environments. 
•    Facilitation of individual, group, and community self-awareness, self-empowerment, self-care, and self-development, along with openness and commitment to the healing process. 
•    Promotion of the integrative use of conventional Western medicine and complementary alternative medicine for optimal wellbeing of patients (The Best of Both Is Best).  Yet IH is much broader and deeper than an emphasis on healthcare alone.

What is the Integrative Health Network (IHN)?
•    The IHN is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt, Public Charity licensed in the State of Utah.  It is the first Public Charity organization to pursue education for integrative health and wellbeing in the inclusive scope described here. 
•    The IHN is a charitable organization and association that promotes personal integrative learning and growth process, combined with an educational and communication network that enables healing inner and inter-relationships.
•    The IHN facilitates networking and operational connection among health care and education, healthy community projects, and healthy sustainable environments.
•    The IHN endorses a more expansive view of “community” that includes those of place and those of practice.  This includes, for example, neighborhoods and towns, work and professional groups, and organizations/ institutions/ companies. It also includes the cultural context for and the democratic civic capacity of community in action.
•    The IHN promotes these integrative activities as a Public Charity that enables “for the people” action that is “free” from the operational goals of healthcare consortiums, educational institutions, government or community-related service organizations, or predominantly commercial interests.

Who is the IHN?
•    IHN members consist of health professionals and educators, complementary/ alternative therapists, community service professionals, those concerned about optimal environments for health and wellbeing, community residents and citizens, and consumers passionate about the integrative process for optimal health and wellbeing.
•    IHN includes individuals and groups who want to participate in a community-based forum for group-conversation, self-help and self-healing, and action-orientation.


 
What does the IHN do?  
•    Educate, mentor, support, and integrate for health and wellbeing: (1) individuals such as health and community service professionals, as well as the general public; (2) groups such as health professionals, complementary/ alternative therapists, and community service organizers; (3) institutions such as colleges/ universities and hospitals/ clinics, together with community, government, and service organizations; and (4) special needs populations, such as soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and their families.
•    Hold quarterly meetings and annual conferences on integrative health and wellbeing topics.
•    Orchestrate the Charitable Purpose project:  Supporting Our Returning Soldiers and Veterans: A Community-Based, Educational, Outreach Program to Include Spouses and Significant Others. 
 

Educational  and  Charitable  Service  Action  Projects
IHN Regular Meetings
    Over the past five years, the IHN has held over 6o regular meetings, on an approximately monthly basis, for educational presentations concerning both the science and the experience of a variety of holistic health practices.  The intent of the meetings is to provide a forum for academic faculty, conventional medicine and complementary practitioners, and the general public to dialogue and network on issues concerning Integrative Health as described above.  Selected previous presentation topics and presenters are provided below.
Title    Presenter
Integrative Health. Why Now?   The U of U College of Health Integrative Health Graduate Program    Glenn Richardson, PhD; Uof U faculty; Jim Overall, MD, President IHN; John Kesler, JD, Chair, IHN Board
Big Mind Process for Integrative Health:
Eastern Wisdom for the Western Mind    Genpo Merzel Roshi, Abbot
 Kanzeon Zen Center, SLC
Clinical Hypnosis: Evidence-Based Support    D. Corydon Hammond, PhD, Psychology, Pain Clinic,    
U of U Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Clinic
Optimal Nutrition for the Prevention &Management 
of Atherosclerosis: An Inclusive Approach    Joseph Carlson, PhD, RD, Foods & Nutrition Division, U of U College of Health
Biophysics and the Body/Mind/Spirit Connection    Hugo Rodier, MD, Family Practice and Integrative Medicine, Pioneer Medical Clinic, Draper, UT
Laser Detection of Carotenoid Antioxidants in
Human Skin and Eye: Potential Correlation with
Nutritional Status in Disease and in Health    Werner Gellermann, PhD,  Research  Professor,  Department  of  Physics,  University  of  Utah
Energy Medicine: Meridians and Chakras
Anatomical and Theoretical Perspectives    Yeou-Lan Chen, RN, PhD, Professor, School of
Nursing and Health Sciences, Westminster College

Integrative Health Conferences  
    Over the past five years, the IHN has sponsored four conferences for local conventional and complementary health providers and educators, community service professionals, and the general public.  The conference themes and dates are listed below:
Theme    Date
Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine    October, 2003
Integrative Health and Wellbeing: More Than Medicine    May, 2005
Integrative Health: Many Pathways to Wellness    May, 2006
New Paradigms for Healing: The Science of Integrative Health    May, 2007

 
From 120 to 150 attended each two-day conference in Salt Lake City.  The general format included four to five one-hour plenary presentations, and four breakout sessions each with four to five simultaneous 1-2-hour workshops (16to 20 total).  Academic co-sponsors with IHN for these conferences included The Colleges of Health and of Nursing at the University of Utah, the College of Nursing at Brigham Young University, and the Dumke College of Health Professions at Weber State University.

2008 IHN-Sponsored Conference: 
    An exciting, three-day, five-event conference was held May 15-17, 2008, Freedom from Stress and Addictions Through THE WORK of Byron Katie, at the Varsity Room on the 6th floor of the Tower of the U of U Rice-Eccles Stadium.  This event was a working partnership between Byron Katie International (BKI, http://www.thework.com/ and the IHN.
For these events, Katie and the BKI generously donated two different free workshops on May 15 for: (a) leadership individuals and health professionals from regional Military and federal/state Veterans Affairs institutions and facilities and (b) another event for returning soldiers, veterans, and their families.  In addition, Katie and the BKI donated all the profits from three additional paying events on May 16 and 17 to the IHN for use of THE WORK and other holistic educational / training modalities for returning soldiers, veterans, and their families.  Flyers and other information for these events are available: http://www.ihealthnet.org/.  See the next section for the soldier/veteran-related events.  

Charitable Service: Program Supporting Returning Soldiers, Veterans, and their Family/Friends
•    Importance of Project.  The public is well aware of the pain and suffering the lives of returning soldiers, veterans, and their significant others.  The IHN’s charitable efforts are directed towards this population.  We provide an educational/training program to enable relief and inspire freedom from pain and suffering in physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing dimensions in their lives. As a nation, we have an obligation to care for those who have served their country. 
Over the past two years, the IHN has offered community-based, free, weekly, educational evening programs for this purpose.  Weekly programs were offered initially in Midvale with the support of Mayor JoAnn Seghini, and then in Ogden with the support of Bruce Penland, Executive Director, Operations and Support Services for Ogden City Schools.   Significant collaborative ded to market and “get the word of mouth” going among returning soldiers, veterans, and their families/friends.  However, the turnout was too small to continue the effort.
The IHN is now working in collaboration with professional medical and family support leadership in regional military and Veterans Affairs facilities to offer charitable programs for the leadership and health professionals, as well as for returning soldiers, veterans and their families/friends.  The working partnership with Byron Katie in the workshops described above is the initial offering in this new and inspiring effort to serve and facilitate the healing process for military personnel and their families.
•    Project Support will come from philanthropy, proposals to foundations where this project fits within their mission, grants from civic and government service agencies, community fundraising efforts, and IHN resources.
•    Offerings are provided free of charge to veterans, spouses, close family members, and significant others.

Kathy Wilson
 

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

-         Why did you choose to come to this sustainability summit?

I would like to learn about the issues surrounding sustainability in Salt Lake. I would also like to look at what solutions are being offered.

- What are your most burning questions about sustainability in the SL valley?
What is being done to reduce the pollution (white, air, water, etc)?

- Share one paragraph on your organization, including contact information, regarding what you our your group does to support sustainability in the SL valley
Salt Lake Solutions is a project-based approach to engaging the community in public decision-making.  Salt Lake Solutions projects involve the community, all levels of government, business and non-profit organizations in collaboratively solving problems that cannot be achieved without the integration of public and private support.  The Salt Lake Solutions program is jointly funded by the Salt Lake City Council and Mayor Ralph Becker’s Office.  Our next project will identify and implement community-based activities to reduce air pollution levels across the Salt Lake Valley; the recent anti-idle campaign at elementary schools is an example of this type of collaboration.  Contact information:  Michele Straube, Mediator/Facilitator, 801-535-7971, SLSolutions@slcgov.com.  More information about Salt Lake Solutions projects is available at www.slcgov.com/SLSolutions.  

 via Molly Jones

Michele Straube, Mediator/Facilitator

Salt Lake Solutions

SLC Mayor's Office

451 South State Street, #306

P.O. Box 145474

Salt Lake City, UT  84114-5474

801-535-7971 (o); 801-455-5789 (cell)

SLSolutions@slcgov.com

www.slcgov.com/SLSolutions

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

As I indicated originally, I represent Great Salt Lake Audubon and will be particularly interested in issues related to creating perpetual sustainable habitats for the non-human inhabitants of the area in the face of ever-increasing encroachment by we human inhabitants.  We are currently managing a project along the Jordan River at 106th South to restore 120 acres of former farmland to wetlands and wildlife habitats which will eventually become a Wild Bird Sanctuary. 

Contact information:

Bruce Heath, Executive Director

Great Salt Lake Audubon

P.O. Box 520867

Salt Lake City, UT 84152-0867

801-512-7290 cell

bruce@greatsaltlakeaudubon.org

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Ben Mates, Operations Manager, The Robert G. Hemingway Foundation

I am participating in this event because I know there is power in being in conversation with others who share their passion with me. Together we may be able to take action to ignite others to shift to a community that works for everyone and lives in harmony with all of life.

Burning questions: What vision for our seventh generation of descendants do the participants of this summit hold? How can we mobilize the resources we have right here and right now to create and sustain healthy communities, healthy people and a healthy environment?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  Jane Holt - Salt Lake Center for Engaging Community

       I am a Minister and Counselor by training.  I am a community activist by passion. I have been in the practice of living simply for many years.  I have a deep concern for the future. What am I leaving for the generations who will come after me?    

       I am committed to this Sustainability Summit because I believe the only way we will come through the environment crisis we face is by talking, visioning and working together to solve the myriad of challenges we face.  Being in conversation with each other is a powerful way to be inspired. I look forward to listening to what people have to say and also sharing my vision of what a sustianable future means.

       My "Burning" question is: How can we who are committed to a more sustianable future,  inspire more citizens to be actively involved. People will become more aware if there is a personal reason. How can we make this environmental crisis more important in people lives, beyond expensive fuel.

______

Ed and Carrol Firmage are founding members of Be the Difference (www.bethedifference.net), a new community of citizens committed to practicing sustainable lifestyles that include growing food locally, supporting local economy, retrofitting homes and commercial spaces for energy conservation and efficiency, using energy from clean and renewable sources, and most importantly creating a culture of community in which these practices flourish. Ed and Carrol started Be the Difference in part out of a sense of frustration with the present political climate, in which real progress toward sustainability is stymied, and in part from a growing sense of their own need to live more sustainably as a family. This Sustainability Summit is an outgrowth of Be the Difference in its infancy. The burning question they bring to the Summit is to discover how we as a community can begin to take bigger, more meaningful strides towards true sustainability.

Ed makes his living as a fine art photographer in Salt Lake City. He is the author and publisher ofRed Rock Yellow Stone, an award-winning combination of photographs of the American West and haiku from Japan. Ed is also a board member of HEAL Utah, an alliance of citizens and organizations working to protect the health of Utahns from nuclear and toxic waste.
 
Carrol, a homemaker and mother of four, is presently a graduate student in environmental humanities at the University of Utah. The principal force behind her family's garden, Carrol hopes to become a master gardener.