History of the Sustainability Movement in Sarasota County
"In Their Own Words"
We want to celebrate the progress towards sustainability and take the time to honor those people that have given so much over the years.
On February 22, 2006, Sarasota County Economic Development Corporation and the Florida West Coast RC&D presented a seminar on Natural Capitalism with Rocky Mountain Institute. The Florida West Coast RC&D started collecting the writings and photos, and producing this document with the intent of distributing a finished product at the Natural Capitalism seminar where we hope to launch a new era of the sustainability movement.
However, it is clear we have a seedling collection of stories. But, it's already starting to be a powerful collection of us - we are the people we have been waiting for. In the interest of motivating the procrastinators and shy types and the ghost-writers, this document is hereby declared a work-in-progress (we have a list of over 20 people that have been nominated but have not submitted stories, so let's get going!).
This is the on-line version of our book. So, now there are two steps: one post your story and picture here in "the book" (by adding a child page) and then please submit your photo with caption (.jpeg) and/or writings (.doc or in email text) on your story in the history of the sustainability movement in Sarasota County, "in your own words", to the Florida West Coast RC&D at info@fwcrcd.org or Laura.Morton@fl.usda.gov so I can put it in the hard copy/pdf version. Download pdf here (735K).
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