One Utah

Sustainability Summit:

Practicing Sustainable Community in Greater Salt Lake

Friday, October 3, 2008, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

The Leonardo (Old SLC Downtown Public Library)

“If we want sustainability at scale, it will only come
from the quality of our relationships with each other.”

Sustainability Friends of the Salt Lake Valley,

We know there are many individuals, groups, and organizations in this valley who are passionate about sustainable community. We know there are many amazing projects, programs, and collaborations. What might happen if we came together to deepen our connection with each other? What might be sparked that could have our individual efforts flourish and expand?

Please join us.

The Salt Lake Center for Engaging Community
with support from the Robert G. Hemingway Foundation
invites you, your organization, your friends and your network
to a Sustainability Summit
Friday, October 3, 2008, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
The Leonardo Third Floor Conference Center (“Terzo”)
209 East 500 South, Salt Lake City

Bring your stories, your experiments, your honesty, your passion, your openness to meeting others in the sustainability movement in this valley. Bring materials from your organization that you might share with others. Join us in a fully interactive and participative process to harvest learning, key questions, key principles of collaborating, dreams of what else might be in this valley, and next first steps that can help you individually, your group, or the community as a whole.

Our format for this summit will be interactive - including large groups, small groups, and personal reflections. Together we will ask questions of each other, reflect, and tell stories. Together we will listen to the wisdom and experience already present in participants. Together we will notice patterns and practices – the work we do. We will imagine new possibilities to practice sustainable community at greater scale in the Salt Lake Valley.

The participant cost is $30 per person (lunch included) to help cover hard costs, or $15 per person and bring your own lunch.

Some of the Questions We Will Address Together

What sustainability do we want to experience in our community?
How can we support each other in the work each one of us is doing?
What, if anything, do we want to create together?
How can we involve others (the non-choir) in the conversation?

Invited Organizations

(in no particular order). **If we have missed anyone that should be there, please help us by forwarding this invitation on to them. **

· HEAL Utah
· Slow Food Utah
· Tracy Aviary
· Utah Society for Environmental Education (USEE)
· Utah Mom’s for Clean Air
· Utah Clean Cities
· Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment
· Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club
· Local First (Vest Pocket)
· Utah’s Own
· Salt Lake Center for Engaging Community
· Citizens for Sustainability
· Post Carbon Salt Lake
· Net Impact
· Save Our Canyons
· Utah Clean Energy
· Tree Utah
· SEED
· ReDirect Guide
· Utah Population and Environment Coalition
· Wasatch Community Gardens
· Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
· Envision Utah
· Green Building Council
· Interfaith Power & Light
· The Leonardo
· Bioneers
· Utah House
· Sustainability Salon
· Utah Rivers Council
· Catalyst
· Utah Environmental Congress
· Friends of Great Salt Lake
· Downtown Alliance
· Western Resource Advocates
· Integrative Health Network
· Eat Local Challenge
· Society for Human Ecology
· Healthcare Vision 2010
· SL Mayors’ Green Team
· One World Café

RSVP or More Information

Register by contacting Allie Kesler,  alliekesler at gmail.com, (801) 608-4508 by September 22, 2008
Limited to the first 250 people to register, so if you’d like to attend, make sure you are one of them!

“Whatever the challenge, community is the answer.
We prepare for an unknown future
by creating strong and sustainable relationships.”

The Berkana Institute

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