IFAS, SMEP collaborate on national green economy conference session
September 9, 2009
IFAS and the Sustainable Michigan Endowed Project are collaborating on a breakout session at the National Council for Science and the Environment’s 10th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment: The New Green Economy. The conference, to be held January 20-22, 2010, in Washington DC, engages leading thinkers and doers from a diversity of disciplines, sectors, and perspectives in a structured conversation about the meaning of the green economy and how investment in green education, research and jobs can help solve both the economic and environmental crises.
The breakout session Public and Private Sustainability Policy: Is a green economy sustainable and how would one know? will be held Thursday, January 21. Session participants will help develop recommendations for using science and education to improve and transform the economy in the direction of sustainability. Such transformation will require an increased appreciation for diversity of thought surrounding the concept of sustainability. Therefore, this session is as much about a process of engagement and changed thinking as it is about resultant standards and associated measurable outcomes.