Sustainability is the future of Cleveland
Author: John Funk
The Plain Dealer
Date: 08/12/2009
Edition: onine
Annotation: An AI Summit is held for the Cleveland area Aug 12-14, 2009.
Sustainable Cleveland 2019 runs today through Friday at the Cleveland Convention Center. Nearly 700 invited participants, including senior executives from Continental Airlines and IBM as well as teams of local business executives, students and ordinary people, will try to produce a 10-year blueprint for moving the region toward a sustainable economy -- prospering without wrecking the planet.
Jackson envisions the creation of a summit commission later this year to monitor progress on whatever initiatives are developed this week. He hopes that on the 50th anniversary of the Cuyahoga River catching fire in 2019, the green economy will have taken root in a "sustainable culture."
Jackson got the idea that led to the summit from attending meetings in recent years chaired by David Cooperrider, a professor in Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management.
Online Resources:
Plain Dealer online
Resource Files:
Plain Dealer Article (pdf )
Pre-Summit Document (pdf )
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