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Strengthening Your Bottom Line through Energy Improvements

Cincinnati
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The 2011 3E Summit was held on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 from 8:00 a.m.—1:30 p.m. at the University of Cincinnati’s Tangeman University Center

 

What is the Energy, Economics, and Environment Summit?

A Summit dedicated to strengthening the organizational bottom line through energy improvements.  Top panelists from local leaders will host breakout sessions on topics such as energy and water saving techniques, adopting a sustainability program, green building, waste management programs and more. 

 

Who is Organizing the Summit?

The 3E Summit Task Team is a volunteer team of local community leaders dedicated to helping local organizations reduce their energy and water consumption.  This year’s Summit is being spearheaded by the City of Cincinnati and the Uptown Consortium.

 

Why is the Summit Needed?

The tepid economic rebound and the end of federal countercyclical stimulus have left many organizations wondering not how much to trim from budgets but where to find those cuts.  Several Cincinnati institutions from the Zoo & Botanical Gardens to the University of Cincinnati to the City of Cincinnati have found smart savings by reducing energy costs - enabling fewer cuts to resources central to organizational missions. 

 

Becoming more resource efficient is the core of the Cincinnati Energy, Economics and Environment (3E) Summit.  The Summit is the affordable way to learn how local institutions like yours are saving energy and money all the while protecting the environment and lowering their greenhouse gas footprint.

 

Featured Speaker

Sustainability Sponsor

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

Mitchell Thomashow


Dr. Mitchell Thomashow devotes his life and work to promoting ecological awareness, sustainable living, creative learning, improvisational thinking, social networking, and organizational excellence. Currently he is engaged in teaching, writing, and executive consulting, cultivating opportunities and exchanges that transform how people engage with sustainability and ecological learning.

Most recently, from 2006-2011, Thomashow was the president of Unity College in Maine. With his management team, he integrated concepts of ecology, sustainability, natural history, wellness, participatory governance, and community service into all aspects of college and community life. This included construction of The Unity House, the first LEED Platinum President's Residence in North America, the TeraHaus, a passive house student residence, comprehensive campus energy planning, an integrated approach to growing food on campus, and a new academic master plan.

Thomashow serves on the board of the Coalition on Environmental and Jewish Life (COEJL) and the advisory board of Orion Magazine. He is a founding member of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD), a national organization that supports interdisciplinary environmental studies in higher education. He serves as a consultant to Second Nature and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).

He is the author of two influential books, Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist (The MIT Press, 1995) and Bringing the Biosphere Home, (The MIT Press, 2001). A recent essay (2010), The Gaian Generation: A New Approach to Environmental Learning provides radical new concepts for teaching about global environmental change. Another essay, "The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus" provides a comprehensive template for transforming campus living and learning environments.