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Growing Livable Communities 3-Day Intensive Workshop

Accelerate your Livable Community Initiative!
Join your peers and leaders in the sustainability, transition and localization movements to start, grow and maintain livability initiatives in your community.
This intensive workshop will give you the framework, tools and connections to launch and sustain your local initiative.

DATES: June 27-29, 2014
Friday, June 27: 8am-9pm
Saturday, June 28: 8am-9pm
Sunday, June 29: 8am-4pm

FORMAT:
Highly interactive, hands-on, engaging and action-oriented

LOCATION:
Alice Ferguson Foundation, Potomac Watershed Study Center in Accokeek, Maryland. This educational facility, designed to meet the Living Building Challenge©, is Net-Zero Energy, Net-Zero Water and Carbon Neutral.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Design a specific and effective roadmap and action plan to jump-start a long-lasting sustainability initiative for your community uniting business, government, academic and community sectors.
2. Learn how to organize and accelerate the sustainability movement in your community with measurable results.
3. Join a network of regional livability hubs to support your initiative.

EXPECTED RESULTS:
As a result of this workshop, you will be able to:
Design a green community hub in your town to accelerate sustainability and grow your local economy
Create a meaningful action plan to identify, launch and grow impactful local programs
Identify and engage key stakeholders in your business, government, academic and community sectors
Develop leadership, entrepreneurship and organizational development skills required to build an initiative
Connect with a network of other green leaders to share resources, establish partnerships and foster collaborations

COSTS:
Workshop Fee: $997 per person
Workshop Fee: $497 for additional people from the same organization