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Capital Region Sustainability Plan: Public Forums Round 1

Capital Region Sustainability Plan: Public Forums Round 1. July 23-25, 2012. What is sustainability?. Sustainability is meeting the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations to meet their own needs

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Capital Region Sustainability Plan: Public Forums Round 1

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  1. Capital Region Sustainability Plan: Public Forums Round 1 July 23-25, 2012

  2. What is sustainability? Sustainability is meeting the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations to meet their own needs “..do onto future generations as you would have them do onto you.”

  3. The Triple Bottom Line

  4. Cleaner Greener Communities Program • Launched by New York State in 2010 • Two phase Regional Sustainability effort • Phase I: Planning – Must be Complete by end of 2012 • Phase II: Implementation • Funded by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) • Phase I: $10 million • Phase II: $90 million

  5. Capital Region Sustainability Plan: Albany Columbia Greene Rensselaer Saratoga Schenectady Warren Washington

  6. Topic Areas for the Plan • Climate Adaptation • Economic Development • Energy • Food Systems • Land Use and Livable Communities • Transportation • Solid Waste • Water

  7. The Players • Executive Committee • Consists of one rep from each county, each technical committee chairs, and the lead municipality rep • Oversee the process, provide framework for initiative identification, make final decision on what is included in the Plan • Technical Committees • Develop goals and identify and prioritize initiatives for each focus area • Review and comment on draft sustainability plan • The Public • Provide feedback and suggestions for goals and initiatives for each focus area • Review and comment on draft sustainability plan

  8. Basic Process Executive Com. Public Forum #1 Public Forum #2 Plan Technical Com. ACTION Online Open House * Note there are many feedback loops among the public and committees that are not represented directly here.

  9. Public Workshops

  10. Agenda • Welcome • Overview of the Cleaner Green Communities Process • Keypad Polling: Check-in on Vision • Technical Committee Results • Goal setting exercise • Interactive Session #1: Best Practices and Existing Projects • CHANGE TABLES: SELECT THE TOPIC YOU ARE MOST INTERESTED IN • Interaction Session #2: Review and Update Goals/Benchmarks • Interactive Session #3: Identifying Strategies • Wrap-Up

  11. Next Steps • Continue contributing during the online open house • http://SustainableCapitalRegion.org • Click on Share Ideas to access the exercises from tonight • Input wqillbe summarized and reported out after the open house • Find us on Facebook: Sustainable Capital Region • Twitter: @SustainCapReg • Sign up on our mailing list

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