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Nomination
for a First Annual Sustainability Award
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Nominator
Cape Cod Center for Sustainability, Inc. (CCCS)
Nominee Sustainability
Indicators Council (SIC) The Sustainability Indicators Council (SIC) wrote the Sustainability Indicators Report 2003 that we published and released on August 21, 2003. The Cape Cod Center for Sustainability had convened the twelve volunteers who made up the SIC more than a year previously to solicit and receive input from nearly a hundred other community leaders regarding ways to track changes in our community that would help us as shape efforts to sustain Cape Cod. The publication speaks for itself and can be read by going to our Web site www.SustainCapeCod.org.
Exemplary
Leadership in Sustainability
The volunteer members of the SIC
produced a document that has stimulated discussion and subsequent action
across the region. The Cape Codder newspaper published excerpts of the
report for fifteen weeks that maintained the public focus and interest in
the SIC's product. Radio station WQRC is broadcasting periodic interviews
with the writers of the report that continue the public dialogue and
encourage substantive consideration. As a result, the contribution to our
organization as measured by the interest in the community to discuss
topics of sustainability and to get directly involved with sustainability
has increased noticeably.
The SIC's efforts established a working collaboration among nonprofit
institutions, businesses, and local government. One outcome that
immediately followed the release of the report last August was the
successful "Sustainability Fair" in Orleans, Massachusetts, last
September. The fair drew approximately 2,000 people and thirty exhibitors
interested to display their products, ideas, and services, as well as
their interest to sustain Cape Cod by looking for connections that link
our economic, environmental, and social welfare concerns. (Application continues.)
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