I became acquainted with the mysteriously named ICLEI through attending ICLEI-USA’s annual Local Action Summit in Albuquerque, NM, in May of 2008. The 2009 ICLEI World Congress is in Edmonton, Alberta, June 14-18, if you’re interested, which I encourage you to be.
Local governments are leading the way on climate change, and helping local governments do that is ICLEI’s purpose. The level of work done by the few dozen people who comprise ICLEI-USA is astonishing. The importance of that work is impossible to overstate, and the intelligence with which it is conceived and executed is inspiring. With all that, what is perhaps most striking is how happy these people are as they do it.
Read the rest of the article in the September issue of CitiesGoGreen.
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