Sustainable Tennessee

Yesterday was the final day of the three day Summit for a Sustainable Tennessee here at Lipscomb University in Nashville.
Each of the working groups Air, Water, Land, Sustainable Energy, Solid Waste/Recycling, Healthy Communities, Quality Growth, Natural Infrastructure made presentations with recommendations that had been voted on in each group session held Thursday and Friday. [...]

Afternoon breakout sessions for the Summit for a Sustainable Tennessee moved into several working groups; Sustainable Energy, Healthy Communities, Quality Growth, and Natural Infrastructure.
I attended the Healthy Communities session which was focused on things such as food security, sustainable agriculture. Some of the points presented were…
Small farms are good. For every 6 or 7 [...]

Day two of the Summit for a Sustainable Tennessee started out in the morning with breakout sessions on Air, Land, Water, Energy and Solid Waste. Participants focused on developing some action items for the coming year for each breakout group.
The solid waste and recycling breakout session which I attended, was an informative look at some [...]

Day two breakfast talk had Tony Massaro from the League of Conservation Voters speaking about 2008 election polls. They did some election night polling in 11 battleground states on issues related to the environment. Some of the findings were:
68 percent are concerned with issues dealing with the environment
77 percent consider global warming as a threat
62 [...]

The remainder of the first day for the Summit for a Sustainable Tennessee was spent in smaller focus groups based upon regional groups. First we broke into urban, suburban and rural subgroups to discuss issues that pertain to each place. Then we broke into statewide regional groups. Western, Middle and Eastern Tennessee had separate [...]