Management Association’s Sustainability Advisory Committee, about the ICMA’s growing
involvement with sustainability issues and how he is pursuing sustainability as manager
of Alachua County, Florida. Here’s what he had to say:
ICMA does a lot of work involving issues that affect local and county governments in the United States and worldwide. They have been part of the Smart Growth Network for years, and have done a lot of the leading work with the EPA and others on the smart growth idea.
It has been a long-term goal of most local governments to be sustainable—to be building good places for people to live in and to be good environmental steward. That, combined with issues of climate change, changing economies, and the rising cost of energy, made it apparent that sustainability ought to be a major emphasis of our organization. At the ICMA national conference in October 2007, the members passed the resolution recommended by our subcommittee. It targeted ICMA members to be aware that sustainability in its broad context is the issue of our age. That’s how it’s phrased in all of our professional materials: “the issue of our age.”
Read the rest of our talk with Randall Reid in the November issue of CitiesGoGreen.
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