Press release:
Asheville Sustainability Center Announces Green Mondays
ASHEVILLE, September 17, 2008 – The Asheville Sustainability Center announced today it will launch its monthly Green Mondays series on Monday, September 29, at the Chamber of Commerce’s second floor conference room, from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Green Mondays will provide experts, regional leaders, citizens and students with an open forum for understanding and advancing possible pathways to sustainability. Speakers will be followed by the main event, a community conversation on the given topic for each particular month.
The session on September 29 will focus on how to communicate sustainability options to decision-makers and the general public. Speakers will include Ian Booth of Sustainable Now and the producer and co-host of URTV’s Green Radio Bistro; journalist Rebecca Bowe, a staff writer and contributing editor at Mountain Xpress who has been writing the “Green Scene” environmental news column since 2006; Andrew (Drew) Jones, program director of the Sustainability Institute, who creates system dynamics simulations to help organizations develop strategies to address complex problems such as climate change; and Joseph Malki, co-founder and vice president of Seven-Star, the nation’s leading green event planning and production company that is based in Asheville.
About the Asheville Sustainability Center
The mission of the new Asheville Sustainability Center is to drive knowledge into action, solving societal problems today and for generations to come by harnessing world-class environmental, economic, and energy research to collaborations among researchers, educators, entrepreneurs, government officials, and community activists.
Through its Green Mondays series, the Asheville Sustainability Center intends to share information, solicit new ideas, and develop consensus in pursuit of sustainable community and economic development. It also hopes Green Mondays will continue to build momentum for the Asheville Hub’s new sustainability focus and efforts.