Principles to Support Collective Effort

 

 

Work

Learn

Build Relationships

10:15  

What is going on in the world that makes this gathering on sustainability

important?

Deference to authority

Dependence on oil, coal (pollution, high prices) à Alternatives?

Making $

Centralized utilities

Consumer culture

No one wants pain

 

 

What are you learning about sustainability that helps our collective effort?

Young people – education

Who can set the example? Who will lead?

Bottom up or top down? Meet in the middle

Consumer Culture

 

 

 

 

Nuggets &Gems:

Ecological Education Awareness

Hope Work for the best but prepare for the worst

Networking through hands-on, service learning, technology, barn-raising model

Using crisis in business as usual model to mainstream sustainable values & actions

Make it feel very real & personal

Change social norms thru documented/known to work marketing methods

Transforming crisis to opportunities & re-examining our values

Education (curiosity)

$ - purchase power, boycott, economic feasibility

Institutional changes to make the “me or humanity” question a non-option. Allow educated people to make the necessary actions without affecting (negatively) those who prefer the “me-now” time preference

Modeling & Sharing

Carbon use à buy carbon credits à bottom line does not equal zero à buy more credits

Feel empowered by group

Be the change

Democratic emphasis on community and change – leadership 7 pioneering

Redefine & expand definition of economics

Be at least 50 % sustainable

Conceptualization of a co-ordination & alignment of sustainability resources & efforts, e.g., website, listserve, wiki, sustainability community calendar

Creating connections between community, industry and leaders

What is it? Measure & quantify sustainability

Identifying political candidates who have sustainability as a priority & passing the list to attendees here

Cross the religious divide

No oil, less pollution, more awareness as to what we are eating, no GMOs

Using education and outreach to connect people to their place & their innate motivation to be sustainable in life & community.

We can make positive change without agreeing on the problem.

Focus on what really motivates people (or is a barrier) to change.

We have the tools and the technology.

Education – consumer demand

Bail in Government Venture Capitalists

Create market place for new systems

Adapt message to different audiences

Promoting Open Communication

Living in sustainability because it supports the morals/ethics of: respect, care, kindness, compassion, sharing

Collective website for sustainability: define the vision for SLC; all share on a wiki

Encourage & inform our religious communities about sustainability

à go back to your roots: community; food; connection

 

 

 

 

12:30 What wants to be born here?

 

 

Oneness of humanity

 

Chaos

Education

Reverse-education

Sacrifice zones

Equity – Justice – Equality

 

Wholeness

Willingness for change

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1)      Education – consume/demand

2)      Bail In – Market Place – Gov. Venture

3)      Create new system

1)      How many acres does it take & of what kind of foliageto sequester my annual gas consumption?

 

 

Cap & trade

-         No credits -         All limitation	-         Trade credits -         No limitation
-         No credits -         No limitation (world as it is)	-         <Trade credits> -         With limitations -

 

 

-         survival

-         equilibrium

-         environmental refugees

 

 

 

 

defragmenting ourselves

Choices                  Modeling &Sharing

 

 

Changing energy

 

 

Time of transition

-         to new awareness

-         hope for positive change

 

 

Bangladesh has shown improvement in many areas in last 25 years

 

 

½ of school stays ‘at home’ to learn on computer then change the other ½ at school

 

 

How to connect with our neighbors

 

 

Changing transportation to communications

 

 

Get away from fast, cheap & easy

 

 

 

 

Berkana

Meg Wheatley

Urgency

-         species, civilization survival

-         activate community

green the LDS network

 

 

 

 

Make it feel real                        Generate Visceral sense

Real                                         Make it Real!!

Touch

 

 

                                                Survive without a lifestyle based on “credit”.

                                                Natural or financial

How do we help people understand the urgency?

 

 

Where is the willingness for drastic change in our lifestyles?

 

 

Making all decisions based on what’s best for Every living thing on earth!

 

 

Reality of oneness of humanity & what does this mean to our own actions?

Talk is cheap

Let’s do!

 

 

                                                                        Create incentives

to recycle

reuse

 

 

 

 

change/influence

our children

on how we

want to be

Connections –

Community

Energy

Flow

 

 

Activism –

Work place education –

Early education

Change

 

 

#1 What are your critical needs?

 

 

#2 How do you make them local?

 

 

Bail in

 

 

(lack of leadership)

Election

Media

Emotional

(survival)

(population)

(resource crisis)

- consumer –

            What is happiness?

(materialistic)>              consumer

(emotional)>                             critical *

needs

in

your

life

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Standards for Sustaianable Business

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Bridgette Steffen

 

 

 

 

Participants:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summary of discussions: What does a business need to be sustainable?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Social Justice - Sustainability

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Jen Colby

 

 

 

 

Participants: Shane Smith, Stacy Blaylock, Emily Smith, Jordan Christopher

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summary of discussions:

-         Complexity of socio-economic & Sustainability Issues

Less complexity à Less consumption

àà perceptions of poverty/lack of access

                        à vs. “Green is expensive – only available for wealthy”

-         example of trying to legalize chicken-keeping in WVC

“wrong image” – immigration

-         example of transit – bus vs. train funding

trains à for middle class/wealthy

buses à poorer people

-         public libraries as open forums to welcome everyone

break down social barriers

-         ways of including a broader diverse group of citizens

in public community design

-         can’t solve many environmental problems without addressing social ones

homeless people, gangs

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

-         Re-defining the American Dream

 

 

Engaging the people who are left out – seen as “problems” into creating solutions – at the library?

 

 

-         start a time bank?

 

 

-         library example – participating management, open to all as long as behavior not disruptive

 

 

-         tangible model – the RebuildingCenter, Portland

 

 

-         need to build affordability into “new urbanism” & downtown redevelopment

-         

 

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Movement in Design

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Allie Kesler

 

 

 

 

Participants: Chris Noble, Mary Whitesides, Kay Robison, Kinde Nebeker, Elise Lazar, Philippe Wyffels

 

 

 

 

Summary of discussions:

Sustainable art movements

(solution 350) 350.org – Awareness carbon levels through photography

SUWA (Google) Project – Women protecting wilderness

SLCC – Fashion Program (get them to do green design event)

 

 

Leonardo – Sustainable art event??

Making bags from extra fabrics (Leonardo)

 

 

Utah Arts Council – Sustainability & Community

                                    Jean Irwin

 

 

 

 

Session Title: How can the average citizen benefit financially by supporting solar power?

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Carl Clark 243-5300

 

 

 

 

Participants: Carrol Firmage, Laura Flower, Mary Whitesides, Eddie Firmage, Deborah McCoy

 

 

 

 

Summary of discussions:

Talked about Concentrated Solar Power – the principles behind it – building one big central plant or putting single ones on each home that would not only supply electricity to home but also would heat and cool it. You can convert your vehicle to an electric car & not need gas either.

 

 

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

Copy what St. George is doing – build a power plant that we can all

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Making Business Green through Education and Action

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Michael Jeppesen

 

 

 

 

Participants: Bridgette Steffen, Kathy Olsen, Paul, Brody Leven, Jennifer Briggs

 

 

 

 

Summary of discussions:

Discussion of what would consumers like to see in sustainable business – Also what can we do for promoting green in business and buildings

 

 

Talked about greenwashing and different certifications

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

Educate Educate Educate

Enroll with E2 – Salt Lake City to market to business

Library discussion groups

 

 

 

 

Session Title: What should go into a complete budget and monthly expense report for SLC Carbon/Eco footprint

 

 

 

 

Convenor: David Hoza

 

 

 

 

Participants: Jay Larsen

 

 

 

 

Summary of discussions:

Gas carbon credit

Budget /Expense Rpt.

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

A blog or website to be set up and e-mails sent out to everyone in the know requesting during a comment period

a) everything that needs to be put on a residential or small business budget & expense report

b) any information or any  information location-person, book, website – where specific footprint information on specific behaviors or purchases or consumptions already exist.

           

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Global Warming

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Mike Mielke, Naomi Franklin

 

 

 

 

Participants: Hans Ehrbar, Devon Hill, Elise Lazar

 

 

 

 

Summary of discussions:

This meeting is called Sustainability Summit. We should organize to coordinate and coalesce the actions of organizations represented in this meeting.

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Learning Center/Model/Prototype

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Ben Mates

 

 

 

 

Participants: Tom Tilton, Helen Peters, Ramona Sierra, Carol Curtis, Monika Ferreira, Deanna Anderson, Philippe Wyffels, Kathy Wilson, Bonnie Christiansen, Andy Hultgren, Deb McCoy, Jay Larsen

 

 

Summary of discussions:

Center for workshops

Education         – reach out to schools, Roots& Shoots, USEE

-         elementary, high school university

Coalition? SLCEC to sponsor

Create an identity

Does any org. already exist who is doing it? Post Carbon?

Org. that transcends all the issues          LOHAS (lifestyles of health and sustainability)

Master org. w/ other org’s as members

Coordinated calendar

Include industry, business, gov’t (State Legislature)

Information clearinghouse to stream line, summarize

Be part of 211 functionality on telephones?

Meeting space - booked by member org’s as needed

Beaming Bioneers model would obviate the need for travel – UEN

Bldg. to embody the principles we are teaching

Here at the Leonardo?

Sustainability award

Discussion of the vision of the Leonardo

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

Plan an event within the next year to launch the larger association

Steering committee to meet and create a plan

Circulate an invitation to sign up to be informed of meeting to further explore these ideas and include others

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Sustainability & LDSChurch

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Ed Firmage

 

 

Participants: Don Adolphson, JordanRichmond, Susan Hayward, Cherise Udell, Willy Littig, John Kesler, Deb McCoy

 

 

Summary of discussions: Good discussion about resources for wanting to get the LDSChurch involved in sustainability

 

 

Another good discussion about one practical way for making this happen by approaching women in the church both at a grassroots level and at an institutional level in conjunction with the Utah Moms for Clean Air group.

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

Coordinate in several cases with Cherise Udell, the founder of Utah Moms.

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Local Ecological Food Gardens/Farm

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Eileen/ Paul/Vaughan

 

 

Participants:Chris Riggle, Doug Stark, Benjamin Rivkind, Paul Overall, Eileen McCabe, Pat Sanders, Tim DeChristopher, Joan Gregory, Kathy Lung, Renee Zollinger, Dave Hoza

 

 

Summary of discussions:

We need a way to grow our own food in an ecological way; families & neighbors sharing, growing, trading, creating local exchange rates

Gardens in schools

How to facilitate connections between people & land

Socio-economic issues of computer access & language

Creation of knowledge network

LDS Church & their knowledge

*water issue must always be addressed

Craigslist style trade/barter food & services board

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

Kathy: will become central contact point – starting neighborhood block gardens & compost project

Kay: will take tomatoes to UnitarianChurch to teach food preservation

Vaughan & Tim: will work w/ Fred & Office of Sustainability at U to work on connecting interested students to available land

Vaughan: will work w/ Greta @ Catalyst on ideas for spreading the word

Eileen: will talk to Wasatch Community Gardens & Baxters Restaurant to determine their interest re garden project w/ SLCC

Benjamin: volunteering w Open Space Lands

Paul: landscape/garden

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Solar Power Net Metering to encourage renewable energy in Utah

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Jim Frnech, Andy Schoenberg

 

 

Participants: Bob Berets, Chris Noble, Kathy Olsen, Bonnie Christiansen

 

 

Summary of discussions:

Solar power to the people is a no brainer.

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

Solar should become mainstream, like a furnace. Net metering should be improved to encourage renewable

1)      Excess power production should be credited at least the retail rate

2)      Increase the total net-metered power limit from 0.1% to 2% to 5% of RMP total power generation in 2007

Lobby Public Service Commission

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Identify & Resolve Perceived Barriers to Sustainable Behaviors in SL Valley

 

 

Convenor: Andy Hultgren

 

 

Participants: Laura Flowers

 

 

Summary of discussions:

Finding ways to spark individual interest in order to create community activism.

 

 

How do we connet with people who aren’t as interested in sustainability?

 

 

Survey of sustainable (or non-sustainable) behaviors and what are motivations/barriers behind them. Use that data to indentify & address barriers

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

Lack of expertise to execute on this!

 

 

 

 

Session Title: New Ways to talk about sustainability

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Christopher

 

 

Participants: Lisa Romney, Sherri Krassner, Paul, Vanessa, Jeff Ward, Sophia, Sarah Grant

 

 

Summary of discussions:

Looked at instances where “sustainability” or “environmental” was a liability – what were the judgments behind that?  Then brainstormed words that describe sustainability

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

Go back to our work, family, neighbors, and see if the way we’re talking about sustainability matches the words we came up with

 

 

-         communicate about more topics to more constituencies

-         bigger forums to talk about sustainability

-         building cooperative diverse community

 

 

People in survival mode – naturally consume less, ride bus à not cool if by necessity

 

 

à Frugality, getting the most from a dollar

à Community aspect, connectedness

à Consciousness

à Discomfort w/ term “environmentalist”

 

 

What are impediments to spread the word? “Righteousness” “Constraints”

Evaluation Question (mail-in) What is alive now for you that was not present before the Sustainability Summit?

 

 

Responses:

- That people in SLC care about sustainability

- I gained an appreciation for the approach to sustainability by various members of the community.

Principles to Support Collective Effort

 

 

Work

Learn

Build Relationships

10:15  

What is going on in the world that makes this gathering on sustainability

important?

Deference to authority

Dependence on oil, coal (pollution, high prices) à Alternatives?

Making $

Centralized utilities

Consumer culture

No one wants pain

 

 

What are you learning about sustainability that helps our collective effort?

Young people – education

Who can set the example? Who will lead?

Bottom up or top down? Meet in the middle

Consumer Culture

 

 

 

 

Nuggets &Gems:

Ecological Education Awareness

Hope Work for the best but prepare for the worst

Networking through hands-on, service learning, technology, barn-raising model

Using crisis in business as usual model to mainstream sustainable values & actions

Make it feel very real & personal

Change social norms thru documented/known to work marketing methods

Transforming crisis to opportunities & re-examining our values

Education (curiosity)

$ - purchase power, boycott, economic feasibility

Institutional changes to make the “me or humanity” question a non-option. Allow educated people to make the necessary actions without affecting (negatively) those who prefer the “me-now” time preference

Modeling & Sharing

Carbon use à buy carbon credits à bottom line does not equal zero à buy more credits

Feel empowered by group

Be the change

Democratic emphasis on community and change – leadership 7 pioneering

Redefine & expand definition of economics

Be at least 50 % sustainable

Conceptualization of a co-ordination & alignment of sustainability resources & efforts, e.g., website, listserve, wiki, sustainability community calendar

Creating connections between community, industry and leaders

What is it? Measure & quantify sustainability

Identifying political candidates who have sustainability as a priority & passing the list to attendees here

Cross the religious divide

No oil, less pollution, more awareness as to what we are eating, no GMOs

Using education and outreach to connect people to their place & their innate motivation to be sustainable in life & community.

We can make positive change without agreeing on the problem.

Focus on what really motivates people (or is a barrier) to change.

We have the tools and the technology.

Education – consumer demand

Bail in Government Venture Capitalists

Create market place for new systems

Adapt message to different audiences

Promoting Open Communication

Living in sustainability because it supports the morals/ethics of: respect, care, kindness, compassion, sharing

Collective website for sustainability: define the vision for SLC; all share on a wiki

Encourage & inform our religious communities about sustainability

à go back to your roots: community; food; connection

 

 

 

 

12:30 What wants to be born here?

 

 

Oneness of humanity

 

Chaos

Education

Reverse-education

Sacrifice zones

Equity – Justice – Equality

 

Wholeness

Willingness for change

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1)      Education – consume/demand

2)      Bail In – Market Place – Gov. Venture

3)      Create new system

1)      How many acres does it take & of what kind of foliageto sequester my annual gas consumption?

 

 

Cap & trade

-         No credits -         All limitation	-         Trade credits -         No limitation
-         No credits -         No limitation (world as it is)	-         <Trade credits> -         With limitations -

 

 

-         survival

-         equilibrium

-         environmental refugees

 

 

 

 

defragmenting ourselves

Choices                  Modeling &Sharing

 

 

Changing energy

 

 

Time of transition

-         to new awareness

-         hope for positive change

 

 

Bangladesh has shown improvement in many areas in last 25 years

 

 

½ of school stays ‘at home’ to learn on computer then change the other ½ at school

 

 

How to connect with our neighbors

 

 

Changing transportation to communications

 

 

Get away from fast, cheap & easy

 

 

 

 

Berkana

Meg Wheatley

Urgency

-         species, civilization survival

-         activate community

green the LDS network

 

 

 

 

Make it feel real                        Generate Visceral sense

Real                                         Make it Real!!

Touch

 

 

                                                Survive without a lifestyle based on “credit”.

                                                Natural or financial

How do we help people understand the urgency?

 

 

Where is the willingness for drastic change in our lifestyles?

 

 

Making all decisions based on what’s best for Every living thing on earth!

 

 

Reality of oneness of humanity & what does this mean to our own actions?

Talk is cheap

Let’s do!

 

 

                                                                        Create incentives

to recycle

reuse

 

 

 

 

change/influence

our children

on how we

want to be

Connections –

Community

Energy

Flow

 

 

Activism –

Work place education –

Early education

Change

 

 

#1 What are your critical needs?

 

 

#2 How do you make them local?

 

 

Bail in

 

 

(lack of leadership)

Election

Media

Emotional

(survival)

(population)

(resource crisis)

- consumer –

            What is happiness?

(materialistic)>              consumer

(emotional)>                             critical *

needs

in

your

life

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Standards for Sustaianable Business

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Bridgette Steffen

 

 

 

 

Participants:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summary of discussions: What does a business need to be sustainable?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Social Justice - Sustainability

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Jen Colby

 

 

 

 

Participants: Shane Smith, Stacy Blaylock, Emily Smith, Jordan Christopher

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summary of discussions:

-         Complexity of socio-economic & Sustainability Issues

Less complexity à Less consumption

àà perceptions of poverty/lack of access

                        à vs. “Green is expensive – only available for wealthy”

-         example of trying to legalize chicken-keeping in WVC

“wrong image” – immigration

-         example of transit – bus vs. train funding

trains à for middle class/wealthy

buses à poorer people

-         public libraries as open forums to welcome everyone

break down social barriers

-         ways of including a broader diverse group of citizens

in public community design

-         can’t solve many environmental problems without addressing social ones

homeless people, gangs

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

-         Re-defining the American Dream

 

 

Engaging the people who are left out – seen as “problems” into creating solutions – at the library?

 

 

-         start a time bank?

 

 

-         library example – participating management, open to all as long as behavior not disruptive

 

 

-         tangible model – the RebuildingCenter, Portland

 

 

-         need to build affordability into “new urbanism” & downtown redevelopment

-         

 

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Movement in Design

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Allie Kesler

 

 

 

 

Participants: Chris Noble, Mary Whitesides, Kay Robison, Kinde Nebeker, Elise Lazar, Philippe Wyffels

 

 

 

 

Summary of discussions:

Sustainable art movements

(solution 350) 350.org – Awareness carbon levels through photography

SUWA (Google) Project – Women protecting wilderness

SLCC – Fashion Program (get them to do green design event)

 

 

Leonardo – Sustainable art event??

Making bags from extra fabrics (Leonardo)

 

 

Utah Arts Council – Sustainability & Community

                                    Jean Irwin

 

 

 

 

Session Title: How can the average citizen benefit financially by supporting solar power?

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Carl Clark 243-5300

 

 

 

 

Participants: Carrol Firmage, Laura Flower, Mary Whitesides, Eddie Firmage, Deborah McCoy

 

 

 

 

Summary of discussions:

Talked about Concentrated Solar Power – the principles behind it – building one big central plant or putting single ones on each home that would not only supply electricity to home but also would heat and cool it. You can convert your vehicle to an electric car & not need gas either.

 

 

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

Copy what St. George is doing – build a power plant that we can all

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Making Business Green through Education and Action

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Michael Jeppesen

 

 

 

 

Participants: Bridgette Steffen, Kathy Olsen, Paul, Brody Leven, Jennifer Briggs

 

 

 

 

Summary of discussions:

Discussion of what would consumers like to see in sustainable business – Also what can we do for promoting green in business and buildings

 

 

Talked about greenwashing and different certifications

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

Educate Educate Educate

Enroll with E2 – Salt Lake City to market to business

Library discussion groups

 

 

 

 

Session Title: What should go into a complete budget and monthly expense report for SLC Carbon/Eco footprint

 

 

 

 

Convenor: David Hoza

 

 

 

 

Participants: Jay Larsen

 

 

 

 

Summary of discussions:

Gas carbon credit

Budget /Expense Rpt.

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

A blog or website to be set up and e-mails sent out to everyone in the know requesting during a comment period

a) everything that needs to be put on a residential or small business budget & expense report

b) any information or any  information location-person, book, website – where specific footprint information on specific behaviors or purchases or consumptions already exist.

           

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Global Warming

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Mike Mielke, Naomi Franklin

 

 

 

 

Participants: Hans Ehrbar, Devon Hill, Elise Lazar

 

 

 

 

Summary of discussions:

This meeting is called Sustainability Summit. We should organize to coordinate and coalesce the actions of organizations represented in this meeting.

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Learning Center/Model/Prototype

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Ben Mates

 

 

 

 

Participants: Tom Tilton, Helen Peters, Ramona Sierra, Carol Curtis, Monika Ferreira, Deanna Anderson, Philippe Wyffels, Kathy Wilson, Bonnie Christiansen, Andy Hultgren, Deb McCoy, Jay Larsen

 

 

Summary of discussions:

Center for workshops

Education         – reach out to schools, Roots& Shoots, USEE

-         elementary, high school university

Coalition? SLCEC to sponsor

Create an identity

Does any org. already exist who is doing it? Post Carbon?

Org. that transcends all the issues          LOHAS (lifestyles of health and sustainability)

Master org. w/ other org’s as members

Coordinated calendar

Include industry, business, gov’t (State Legislature)

Information clearinghouse to stream line, summarize

Be part of 211 functionality on telephones?

Meeting space - booked by member org’s as needed

Beaming Bioneers model would obviate the need for travel – UEN

Bldg. to embody the principles we are teaching

Here at the Leonardo?

Sustainability award

Discussion of the vision of the Leonardo

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

Plan an event within the next year to launch the larger association

Steering committee to meet and create a plan

Circulate an invitation to sign up to be informed of meeting to further explore these ideas and include others

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Sustainability & LDSChurch

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Ed Firmage

 

 

Participants: Don Adolphson, JordanRichmond, Susan Hayward, Cherise Udell, Willy Littig, John Kesler, Deb McCoy

 

 

Summary of discussions: Good discussion about resources for wanting to get the LDSChurch involved in sustainability

 

 

Another good discussion about one practical way for making this happen by approaching women in the church both at a grassroots level and at an institutional level in conjunction with the Utah Moms for Clean Air group.

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

Coordinate in several cases with Cherise Udell, the founder of Utah Moms.

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Local Ecological Food Gardens/Farm

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Eileen/ Paul/Vaughan

 

 

Participants:Chris Riggle, Doug Stark, Benjamin Rivkind, Paul Overall, Eileen McCabe, Pat Sanders, Tim DeChristopher, Joan Gregory, Kathy Lung, Renee Zollinger, Dave Hoza

 

 

Summary of discussions:

We need a way to grow our own food in an ecological way; families & neighbors sharing, growing, trading, creating local exchange rates

Gardens in schools

How to facilitate connections between people & land

Socio-economic issues of computer access & language

Creation of knowledge network

LDS Church & their knowledge

*water issue must always be addressed

Craigslist style trade/barter food & services board

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

Kathy: will become central contact point – starting neighborhood block gardens & compost project

Kay: will take tomatoes to UnitarianChurch to teach food preservation

Vaughan & Tim: will work w/ Fred & Office of Sustainability at U to work on connecting interested students to available land

Vaughan: will work w/ Greta @ Catalyst on ideas for spreading the word

Eileen: will talk to Wasatch Community Gardens & Baxters Restaurant to determine their interest re garden project w/ SLCC

Benjamin: volunteering w Open Space Lands

Paul: landscape/garden

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Solar Power Net Metering to encourage renewable energy in Utah

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Jim Frnech, Andy Schoenberg

 

 

Participants: Bob Berets, Chris Noble, Kathy Olsen, Bonnie Christiansen

 

 

Summary of discussions:

Solar power to the people is a no brainer.

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

Solar should become mainstream, like a furnace. Net metering should be improved to encourage renewable

1)      Excess power production should be credited at least the retail rate

2)      Increase the total net-metered power limit from 0.1% to 2% to 5% of RMP total power generation in 2007

Lobby Public Service Commission

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session Title: Identify & Resolve Perceived Barriers to Sustainable Behaviors in SL Valley

 

 

Convenor: Andy Hultgren

 

 

Participants: Laura Flowers

 

 

Summary of discussions:

Finding ways to spark individual interest in order to create community activism.

 

 

How do we connet with people who aren’t as interested in sustainability?

 

 

Survey of sustainable (or non-sustainable) behaviors and what are motivations/barriers behind them. Use that data to indentify & address barriers

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

Lack of expertise to execute on this!

 

 

 

 

Session Title: New Ways to talk about sustainability

 

 

 

 

Convenor: Christopher

 

 

Participants: Lisa Romney, Sherri Krassner, Paul, Vanessa, Jeff Ward, Sophia, Sarah Grant

 

 

Summary of discussions:

Looked at instances where “sustainability” or “environmental” was a liability – what were the judgments behind that?  Then brainstormed words that describe sustainability

 

 

What will we do now? What needs to happen next? 

Go back to our work, family, neighbors, and see if the way we’re talking about sustainability matches the words we came up with

 

 

-         communicate about more topics to more constituencies

-         bigger forums to talk about sustainability

-         building cooperative diverse community

 

 

People in survival mode – naturally consume less, ride bus à not cool if by necessity

 

 

à Frugality, getting the most from a dollar

à Community aspect, connectedness

à Consciousness

à Discomfort w/ term “environmentalist”

 

 

What are impediments to spread the word? “Righteousness” “Constraints”

Evaluation Question (mail-in) What is alive now for you that was not present before the Sustainability Summit?

 

 

Responses:

- That people in SLC care about sustainability

- I gained an appreciation for the approach to sustainability by various members of the community.