Protect America’s
Environment.
For Our Families…For
Our Future.
The multitudes remained plunged
in ignorance of the simplest economic facts, and their leaders, seeking
their votes, did not dare to undeceive them.
Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering
Storm, The Follies of the Victors
An Ohio Sierra Club program:
Northeast Ohio
Suburban Sprawl
Education Project
Funded by the George Gund
Foundation through the Sierra Club Foundation
Goal of the Northeast
Ohio Suburban Sprawl Education Project:
To make it possible for citizens
to act for their future, and their children's future, out of knowledge,
not ignorance. If enough citizens act with knowledge of sustainability,
their representatives will respond to the calls for sustainability. This
is to be accomplished through the education of a broad spectrum of citizens
in Ohio on the costs of suburban sprawl and the benefits of sustainable
development practices.
Objectives of the Northeast Ohio Suburban Sprawl Education
Project:
1) To synthesize
various research results into an introductory program on suburban sprawl
and sustainability. Produce programs that have enough local emphasis to
attract interest while at the same time educate audience members on the
effect that state controlled public policies have on their home communities.
2) To educate
the general public in older urban and suburban areas of Northern Ohio on:
a) the effects of suburban sprawl, b) the need for sustainable development
patterns, and c) the legislative tools that have been used in other states
to institute changes necessary to make sustainable development patterns
possible.
3) To provide
a program that will be presented to interested parties in other Ohio cities,
and to make the show available to many presenters as a basis for their educating
influential urban and suburban constituencies across Ohio.
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NEO SSEP release of
January 17, 1999 - Lee Batdorff, author and webmaster, 216-321-9152: neossep_ohsc@adva.com