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Author: US Citizens Summit Blog Team
Skating to the Puck: Lessons on Sustainability from the Hockey Rink
“Some people skate to the puck, I skate to where the puck is going to be.” –Wayne Gretzky It seems fitting that Gary Tabor began yesterday morning’s panel on Sustainable Water and Land Conservation with this quote. Gretzky, as a former Canadian professional ice hockey player, is […]
Water and Land Conservation: Let’s Do What Works
Agreeing that we should use the tools and knowledge we already possess helped set a positive note during the ‘Sustainable Water and Land Conservation Panel’ Saturday morning at the US/Canada Citizens Summit Conference. The idea of employing strategies that we already know work differs from […]
Making Environmental and Sustainable Issues Non-Partisan
Day 2 of the Citizens Summit starts off in a haze, as participants come bright and early to Kroon Hall and its cloudy cover, to begin small group discussions and panels. Today speaks of solutions and practicality. In this globalized world, where we all feel small and helpless in these international negotiations, we try to discuss and agree on what […]
Opening Remarks from Day One
What a day of thought provoking discussion! The summit kicked off with a panel entitled “Twenty Years After Rio, Why are We Not There Yet?” According to Daniel Esty, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environment, we have mishandled the need for firm analytic metrics of success, we haven’t properly acknowledged uncertainties, and our solutions haven’t been […]