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"Great overall program. It really helps to be fully immersed in an all-week program that brings in expert speakers and integrates field trip-style learning mechanisms."

-Corporate Sustainability Coordinator

The Summer Sustainability Series offers unique professional programs based on the ground-breaking work of Oregon’s businesses, universities, not-for-profit organizations, and policy makers.  We visit experts and practitioners in the field as they bring their experiences to life. Participants will join other thought leaders from a range of professions, pushing beyond the current thinking to find better solutions.

Meet the Leaders. Innovators. Experts. Champions Sustainability expertise is more than a key strength of Oregon’s business, university, and non-profit leaders. It’s also a central strategy of Oregon’s policy makers. On June 24th, the Governor will lead a joint session, combining our two programs (below), to provide the senior policy perspective on the built environment, agriculture and food systems, and their part in the state’s broader sustainability strategy. Meet our Leaders in Agriculture and Food Systems and Leaders in the Urban Built Environment.

Sustainability in the Urban Built Environment Explore a Living Laboratory: Portland, Oregon, June 22-26, 2009 Portland has earned a reputation of leadership in green building and sustainability, but behind the curtain stands a living laboratory of successes, challenges, and on-going experiments. Examine leading-edge sustainable design principles at work in a mix of commercial, industrial, residential, and infrastructure projects. Hear from previous participants: Architect Video Developer Video Corporate Video		Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems From Farms to Food in Oregon’s Willamette Valley: June 22-26, 2009 This mobile symposium will venture around Portland and Corvallis, Oregon to industry-leading farms and ranches, processors, distributors, markets and restaurants up and down the valley. Join fellow leaders as we wrestle with today’s challenges – economics, water, labor, land, carbon footprints, certifications, customers’ increasing demands – and review attempts at real-world solutions.
A traveling symposium. A hands-on summit. A five-day professional field trip.

• Each day is packed with challenging, interactive learning. More than half of the curriculum and interaction will take place in the field. 
• These unique programs are limited to just 20 professionals and 15 top graduate students – from the region, across the country, and from abroad. Accepted applicants will be enrolled on a first come basis. APPLY NOW.

What you’ll do:

• Visit diverse, industry-leading examples, and talk directly with on-site experts.
• Learn from innovators in all sectors: university, business, government, and not-for-profit.
• Join other leaders in dynamic case-study discussions of the sites you visit, and apply them to your own opportunities and challenges.

What you’ll take home:

• The latest approaches to implementing sustainable strategies and practices.
• Direct input on situations you're facing in your work or your community. (The last day will feature a multi-disciplined team of experts assembled to address your challenges.)
• Powerful tools and models, with strategies to apply them to your situations.
• Connections with a network of fellow thought-leaders, including the presenters and program participants, facilitated by on-going online resources.

Convened by The Oregon Business Council and the Oregon University System.