-----Original Message-----
From: ntm@getf.org
To: Allan Baer
Sent: 4/27/99 2:11 PM
Subject: National Town Meeting for a Sustainable America

National Town Meeting for a Sustainable America
Detroit, Michigan and Points Across America Highlights
April 27, 1999
5 Days to Go!

****FLASH NOTES***
1. Travel Scholarship Notifications have come to a close.
2. Exhibit space is no longer available….the Exhibit Hall opens Sunday
May 2,
1999.
3. The National Town Meeting on the Internet – Concurrent Events
4. Don’t miss the program on Sunday, May 2, 1999!
****FLASH NOTES****

1. **SCHOLARSHIPS**
The scholarship fund for travel assistance and hotel accommodations
closed. If
you did not receive an official notification via email, the NTM is
unable to
process your request. All approved applicants that applied by the April
8, 1999
deadline were provided assistance. Over 800 individuals have been
provided some
form of scholarship assistance. The NTM is continuing to provide a free
registration to any of the people who request financial assistance.
Please
email kweddingfeld@getf.org if you require any further instructions.

2. **EXHIBITORS**
Exhibit space is no longer available. The Exhibit Hall move in is April
30 and
May 1 from 8:30-4:30. There will be no exceptions! Shipping
instructions for
exhibitors who will be sending their materials directly to the site are
as
follows: Booth Name/Booth Number, National Town Meeting, 1 Washington
Blvd.,
Detroit, Michigan 48226. Shipments must arrive on April 30 or May 1,
1999.
Don’t miss the opening of the Exhibit Hall at 1:00 on Sunday, May 2,
1999. The
Exhibit Hall will be open Sunday,
1-7, Monday 9-5:30, Tuesday 8-12. The Exhibit Hall will be open to the
public
throughout the event.

3. ** THE NATIONAL TOWN MEETING ON THE INTERNET **
If you will not be joining the proceedings in Detroit, please plan to
tune into
the National Town Meeting via the Internet. The plenary sessions being
held
Monday through Wednesday will be cybercast on the Internet and can be
accessed
from the national Town Meeting web site at
www.getf.org/ntmsustainableamerica.
Plans are also being made to feature online chats and to accept a
limited
number of questions via the Internet for question and answer sessions at

certain plenary sessions in Detroit. Satellite broadcasts are also
available.
Check out the website for concurrent events you may participate in
.Please
visit the web site often for the most up to date information on these
activities.

4. ** DON’T MISS THE PROGRAM ON SUNDAY MAY 2ND ! **
If you are not planning to do so already, please make sure to arrive at
the
National Town Meeting on Sunday May 2nd for a great opportunity to visit
Poster
Sessions in the Exhibit Hall, attend the kick-off Learning Sessions,
participate in the Welcoming Reception and join in the Opening Ceremony.

This is our last pre-event notice. We thank you for your support.
Stuart L. Claggett Ken Patterson
President NTM Director
Global Environment & Technology Foundation President’s Council on
Sustainable Development

Poster Sessions

Visit the NTM Exhibit hall from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm for special Poster
Session
Exhibits on leading sustainability initiatives from around the country.
Representatives will be on hand to answer questions about their posters
and
programs.

Learning Sessions

Sunday will provide a great opportunity to select from a number of
interesting,
tool-oriented Learning Sessions. From 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm, learn how
American
communities, organizations, and business are building a sustainable
America.

Sunday Learning Session include:

Building a Smart Growth Business Partnership
Sunday, May 2, 1999, 3:30 p.m.
Room DO-6B
A growing number of American business leaders are beginning to recognize
that
unplanned development can negatively impact their bottom line and
threaten
their long-term profitability. As businesses and local governments
identify the
shared negative impacts of urban sprawl, new partnerships are being
built to
encourage better development practices. This session will highlight a
National
Association of Local Government Environmental Professionals (NALGEP)
project
that seeks to inform American businesses, local communities and
government
officials on the perspectives of those business leaders who are taking
action
to combat sprawl and promote smart growth.
Kenneth Brown
Executive Director
NALGEP
Keith Charters
New Designs for Growth Project Leader
Traverse City, Michigan Area Chamber of Commerce
David Goss
Director
Build Up Greater Cleveland
Bruce Rasher
Vice President
Consumers Renaissance Development Corp.
Greg Rose
Senior Manager of Superfund and Site Remediation
DaimlerChrysler Corporation

Building a Sustainable Future: Citizens Networks as Tools for Change
Sunday, May 2, 1999, 3:30 p.m.
Room DO-02A, DO-02B
Local alliances, regional networks, and national and international
connections
are essential building blocks for creating sustainable development
projects and
policies. This session will profile the methods and tools used by The
Citizens
Network for Sustainable Development(CitNet) to create successful
networks.
Panelists will share best practices and successful strategies learned
from
their project experience in agriculture, forestry, and urban and
suburban
development.
Jeffrey Barber
Executive Director
Integrative Strategies Forum
Susan Boyd
Executive Director
CONCERN, Inc.
Jeff Boyer
Director, Sustainable Development Program
Appalachian State University
Linda Elswick
Community Food Security Coalition
Douglas Hunt
Co-Coordinator
The Citizens Network for Sustainable Development (CitNet)
Thomas Rogers
Co-Coordinator
The Citizens Network for Sustainable Development (CitNet)

Community Preservation: Linking People, Places, and Ecosystems
Sunday, May 2, 1999, 3:30 p.m.
Room O2-40
The session will highlight the approach used by the Massachusetts
Executive
Office of Environmental Affairs to balance community growth goals with
the need
for open space, ecosystem protection, and preservation of community
character.
This approach, known as “community preservation,” links statewide
environmental
initiatives such as the Planning for Growth Initiative, the
Massachusetts
Watershed Initiative, and open space programs. Community preservation
expands
the concept of “community” to include not just people, growth, and jobs
but
also historic places, natural resources, biological diversity, and the
watershed. At the heart of this concept is the idea of empowerment --
providing
communities with information, technical assistance, and tools to help
them
refine a vision for their future and craft alternatives to “sprawl”
development. This approach underscores the importance of building local
support
through a network of local officials, local and regional civic
organizations,
watershed associations, land trusts, private environmental groups,
business
leaders, legislators, and development interests. The session will
highlight how
these public/private partnerships can strengthen the linkage between
environmental protection and economic development and how an ecosystem
focus,
such as watersheds or biopreserves, can mobilize community planning
efforts.
Elizabeth Ainsley Campbell
Executive Director
Nashua River Watershed Association
John Lipman
Director of Growth Planning
Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
Sharon McGregor
Asst. Secretary for Biological Conservation
Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
Mark Racicot
Environmental Planner
Metropolitan Area Planning Council

Creating a Community Vision: Global View, Local Action
Sunday, May 2, 1999, 3:30 p.m.
Room DO-07A, DO-07B
Even though change is a fact of life, communities often use piecemeal
solutions
to respond: traffic calming here, open space there, business improvement

districts somewhere else. This session offers a variety of ways to
create a
cohesive community. Using approaches from global, national, regional and
local
levels, participants will discover how they can develop and implement
their own
community vision.
Robert Costanza, Ph.D.
Director
Center for Environmental Science and Biology, Institute for Ecological
Economics, University of Maryland
Mary Means
President
Mary C. Means Associates
Jeff Soule
Policy Director
American Planning Association

Education for Sustainability 101: An Introduction
Sunday, May 2, 1999, 3:30 p.m.
Room O2-42
What are the fundamentals of education for sustainability? How can
educators
combine environmental education with education about equity and
economics to
offer students a chance to become literate in sustainability? This
session lays
the framework for the other education Learning Sessions to be held
throughout
the National Town Meeting by providing a brief history of this evolving
field
and an examination of how it is being practiced in primary and secondary

schools, colleges and universities, and in the community through
lifelong
learning opportunities.
Bunyan Bryant
Professor, School of Natural Resources
University of Michigan
Anthony Cortese
President
Second Nature
Mary Paden
Former Education Director
World Resources Institute
Keith Wheeler
Center for a Sustainable Future

Growing Smarter State by State: Initiatives in the Legislatures
Sunday, May 2, 1999, 3:30 p.m.
Room DO-05B
Across the country, states are developing a variety of administrative
and
legislative mechanisms to support smarter growth. This interactive
session will
compare and contrast some of the more innovative techniques, while
sharing
useful tools to help participants promote reform in their own states.
Highlights will include a national overview of recent state legislative
initiatives, information on state statutory reform models for planning
and land
development controls, and insights on effective coalition-building
strategies.
Sam Edwards
Deputy Executive Director and Legal Counsel
Greater Nashville Regional Council
Stuart Meck, AICP
Principal Investigator
Growing Smart Program, American Planning Association
Patricia Salkin, Esq.
Associate Dean and Director
Government Law Center, Albany Law School of Union University

Open Space Acquisition and Financing: Local and State Examples of Bond
Financing Better America Bonds -- A Smart Tool for Financing Protection

Sunday, May 2, 1999, 3:30 p.m.
Room DO-O5A
Sustainable communities need the resources and tools to protect open
spaces.
Many state and local governments have found that bonds allow them to
protect
land at today's prices while spreading costs over a larger, longer tax
base.
Furthermore, voter support for bond financing, as demonstrated in the
1998
referenda is very high. The panelists, led by Eric Draper, one of the
nation's
most successful advocates of bond financing for land protection, will
review
the economics of bond financing for open space acquisition, consider
examples
of voter approved bond financing, and discuss the Administration's
recent
Better America Bonds initiative and other ways local communities can
approach
public land acquisition programs.
Jim Desmond
Director, Open Space Program
City of Portland, Oregon
Eric Draper
Senior Vice President for Conservation Campaigns
National Audubon Society
Jason Ercole
President, Communications Division
Welch, St. Claire & Associates
Matthew Pearson
Vice President, Public Finance
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

Supporting Sustainable Communities with The Natural Step
Sunday, May 2, 1999, 3:30 p.m.
Room DO-01B
The Supporting Sustainable Community project was begun by the Alliance
for
Sustainability to work with a diversity of communities in Minnesota to
save
money, increase employment and support sustainable development. The
basic tools
used are Agenda 21 action planning, sustainability indicators,
ecological
footprint analysis, Manfred Max Needs Basic Needs analysis and The
Natural
Step. The latter tool is a very successful model from Sweden that is
being
adopted and implemented to meet the needs of Minnesota. It is designed
to be
easily replicated in your community, and can be implemented with the
tools and
materials that will be shared with participants.
Terry Gips
President
Alliance for Sustainability

The Trail from Brownfields to Sustainable Development: Collaborative
Partnerships Among Government, Communities and the Private Sector
Sunday, May 2, 1999, 3:30 p.m.
Room DO-03A, DO-03B
This learning session will highlight several nationally acclaimed
programs
selected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of its
Brownfields
Showcase Communities initiative. Sustainability issues such as pollution
clean-
up, environmental protection, environmental justice, community
preservation,
and control of urban sprawl will be addressed.
Marilyn Avinger
Manager, Dallas Brownfields Program
City of Dallas, Texas
Charles Bartsch
Senior Policy Analyst
Northeast Midwest Institute
Isabel Cosio Carballo
Regional Coordinator, Eastward Ho!
South Florida Regional Planning Council
John Martin
Director, Property Utilization and Disposal
Office of Property Disposal, U.S. General Services Administration
Joseph Schilling
Director of Economic Development
International City/County Management Association

Thirty-Five Thousand Years of Sustained Culture and Economy
Sunday, May 2, 1999, 3:30 p.m.
Room DO-04B
Sustainable development: what have we learned over the last several
thousand
years? Native Americans living in the Pacific Northwest, who have
adapted
cultural and economic practices in the face of diminishing resources,
have a
unique perspective on sustainable development. This session will explore
ideas
and practices modeled from Native American nations, that can be applied
to the
modern context of sustainable development. Case studies will illustrate
how
collaborative efforts between Native American and other local
communities, have
enabled businesses to adopt practices that are financially profitable
while
conserving natural resources.
Richard Deer Tracks
Taos Pueblo Nation
Jim Enote
Zuni Nation
Zed Strong
Former Executive Director
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fishing Commission
Rosita Worl, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Alaska

Welcoming Reception

Attend a reception to welcome participants to the NTM hosted by Detroit
Mayor
Dennis W. Archer, the Detroit City Council, Wayne County Executive
Edward
McNamara, Michigan Governor John Engler, and members of the Michigan
congressional delegation. The featured entertainment is the
Grammy-nominated
group “Straight Ahead.”

Opening Ceremony

Join NTM co-chairs Ray Anderson and Carol Browner accompanied by a host
of
special guests in the formal opening the National Town Meeting. The
ceremony
will feature cultural, historical, and spiritual perspectives on
sustainable
development. A special audience participation exercise is planned. The

Opening Ceremony will also feature the King Concert Choir and Madrigal
Singers
of Detroit’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Senior High School. This talented
group
is the recipient of numerous national choral music competition awards.

See you on Sunday!
The NTM is being sponsored by General Motors Corporation, The Dow
Chemical
Company, AT&T, Ford Motor Company, Pepsi, Kmart Corporation, E.I. duPont
de
Nemours & Company, Calvert Group, Monsanto, Surdna Foundation, Solar
Quest
Group, DaimlerChrysler Corporation, DTE Energy, U.S. Environmental
Protection
Agency, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Justice,
Housing,
and Urban Development, TVA, Interior, State and Transportation, the
Appalachian
Regional Commission, Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Small
Business
Administration, General Services Administration, and Department of
Commerce -
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

If you have any comments please email the ntm@getf.org.