This series of blog posts shares the reasoning and major elements of Sustainable Hudson Valley's draft 2012 strategic plan. We hope interested folks will comment and help us improve it!

Sustainability 2.0

Sustainable Hudson Valley is the ideal organization to make good use of this resource.  We are inventive, frugal, nimble, and well-connected in the Valley’s communities.  Our mission is to speed up the shift to a low-carbon economy with high quality of life for all, integrating the work of climate change response and economic development through local and regional planning and direct action projects.  We advance our mission through the basic strategy of engaging and inspiring the wellsprings of talent that live within all our communities.

The need: While many communities, businesses and institutions are making initial movements to reduce their carbon footprints and prepare for a changing climate (both environmentally and economically), progress overall has been slow compared to the acceleration of the crisis.

Recommendations to the Hudson Valley Regional Economic Development Council
Prepared for submission by Sustainable Hudson Valley, October 13, 2011

As the Regional Economic Development Council prepares its five-year
strategic plan,   Sustainable Hudson Valley’s board offers seven
recommendations for  low-carbon, innovative, equitable and durable
development strategy that will grow economic opportunity while shrinking
carbon footprint.