At the end of May this year, 150 leaders from around the region and around the country gathered at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain to take part in an aspirational two-day summit entitled Blue Water in Green Mountains. The goal of the summit was to influence individual behavior as it impacted the Lake Champlain watershed.
What happens next? With the support of the High Meadows Fund, ECHO will host a series of community information sessions in November that touch upon the overall themes that emerged from the summit as well as the themes are being integrated into the Leahy Center’s new strategic plan. This will also be a time where participants and partners from the summit report on the progress they made and the good work being done.
The May 2013 Leahy Environmental Summit created the arena for very far-ranging discussions which led to both specific and broad outcomes and ideas. Over the past six months, we at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain have condensed the outcomes into five broad categories. These categories are what we are working through as we finalize a new strategic plan. Likewise, other summit participants have taken projects and ideas from the summit and started to work towards the shared vision: To spark interest in water and inspire innovative action to cultivate individual and community-wide change in our region and beyond.
All sessions will take place at ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center, 1 College Street, Burlington, VT.
Dates and Times: November 5 at 8:30 a.m. and again at 3:30 p.m. and November 7 at 8:30 a.m.
All sessions are open to the public and breakfast, or afternoon snacks, will be provided.
Summit graphic report can be viewed at www.echovermont.org/leahysummit
ECHO hosts community information series summarizing progress on Lake Champlain initiatives
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