A scheduled CACOR Live meeting.
Topic: Keep Our Counties Great: Implementing Limits to Growth at the Local Level.
Speaker: Dave Rollo
Time: 17 July 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Summary:
Economic growth requires ever expanding materials and energy throughput that is unsustainable, and at odds with planetary biophysical limits. Dave will describe the aim of CASSE’s Keep Our Counties Great initiative, and how local communities can opt out of the growth paradigm. A key blueprint for communities is their Comprehensive Plan that is the means to incorporate protection of a county’s biocapacity – its ecological productivity – including the ecological services needed for human sustenance.
Biography:
Dave Rollo is a Policy Specialist at the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) focused on the Keep Our Counties Great program. With degrees in biology and plant sciences, Dave has also served in elected office as City Councilor in Bloomington, Indiana city for 22 years. During his tenure in office Dave spearheaded numerous sustainability initiatives, served on many boards and commissions, and participated in creating several key planning documents for his community.
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