- GCW'09 HOMEPAGE
- REPORT FROM GCW'09
- FOCUS/BREAKOUT GROUPS
- GREENING THE CONVENE
- SPONSORS OF THE GCW'09
- GCW'09 SCHEDULE
- JULY 10-12, 2009
@ Forecastle Festival
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Green Convene WINTER 2009
Friday night featured a presentation by King Elementary School students (Tahaza, Emerald and Elizabeth), and wonderful words of support Antonia Lindauer, Tom Owen, Cass Harris, Cynthia Knapek, and David Tandy. Saturday's conference featured an introduction from John Yarmuth and Mark Isaacs, intense focus group discussions, and a fitting account by Carol Besse, "I Believe in Revolution.".
Click here for a complete SCHEDULE of events.
Click here for a list of the FOCUS GROUPS.
Click here to see how the event was "Greened."
What Did You Think?
Please, let us know your thoughts on the Winter'09 Convene:
We would like to thank everyone for their participation this weekend. And we remind you that this was just the first step in building a coalition. Stay in touch over the next several days as the Green Convene Steering Committee reviews the input gathered from this weekend and moves forward to build the coalition and impact local public policy. We have taken the first step. Help us move forward.
As We Move Forward
In an ongoing effort to GREEN the Green Convene, we ask that you bring your own beverage container to all future meetings and convenes to help us reduce the need for disposable (still recyclable) options.
In the spirit of the Green Convene, we ask that you walk the walk and find a way to: carpool, bike, ride the bus, walk or skate to future meetings and convenes. Thank you.
By filling out the Survey online, you not only help inform the path the Green Convene will take, but you also help position yourself within the Convene. Your input and participation are valuable and necessary. Thank you.
Winter 2009 Objectives:
- Publicly launch a cooperative movement.
- Identify 10 Priority Focuses.
- Identify 2 Wide-Impact Focuses.
- Draft a Statement of Purpose, Unity and Intent.
- Identify Next Steps in Coalition Building.
The Green Convene in LEO
SPROUT - by Jennifer Oladipo
"Tonight’s occupants are the volunteers of Green Convene, a coalition whose aim is to organize Louisville’s many, disparate environmental groups into a cohesive political force. In a way, they want to create a green lobby that is to the mayor’s office what the Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, Greenpeace and the rest of the gang are to Congress. What started as grumblings, then rumblings, then a manifesto, now appears to be a bona fide coalition, complete with its own eponymous convention — happening this weekend." (Read full article here!)
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