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Our Initiative: We want California to lead the nation in implementing a Green Plan, an integrated, comprehensive plan of action, to ensure the health of the environment, which is the foundation of a sustainable economy.

California Leaders Under Pressure is a knowledge map that describes the complex interrelationships of the social, environmental and governmental challenges that face Californians today. Read More.

WELL NETWORK ADVANCES GREEN PLAN STRATEGY

WELL Network is working with CODE Green Agency to bring business leaders to the table to develop a California Green Plan. Bonnie Nixon, who attended the 2009 Fort Baker Leadership Summits as then-Director of Environmental Sustainability at HP, and Darian Rodriguez Heyman, former director of the Craigslist Foundation, recently founded CODE Green Agency to help clients identify and seize the opportunities and solutions inherent within the green economy. The consultants are helping WELL build a California Sustainability Council to refine an approach to a Green Plan and framework and sustainability indicators recommended in "Re-imagining California, A Sustainable Future For The Golden State," the report that came out of the Fort Baker Leadership Summits. Bonnie and Darian also are researching regional and sustainability plans that could serve as models for a California Green Plan.

REPORT CALLS ON CALIFORNIA TO PLAN FOR SUSTAINABILITY

A new report, "Re-imagining California, A Sustainable Future For The Golden State," contains the recommendations of leading business and nonprofit executives, policymakers, scientists, academics, and program managers that took part in the Fort Baker Leadership Summits at the Institute for the Golden Gate in Sausalito, California. The three summits, convened by WELL Network in spring 2009, focused a range of thinking on how California can ensure a strong economy and healthy environment for an increasingly diverse population. As a result of the summits, Dominican University's California Environmental Finance Center is working on a gap analysis comparing select legislation, plans, and programs that address sustainability.

The goal is to have the state's policy- and opinion leaders adopt the recommendations and develop a long-term, integrated Sustainability Agenda for California. Read more.

CONNECTING THE DOTS
Well Network has long advocated Green Plans--a long term, integrated approach to managing the environment as if sustainability mattered. New York Times columnist Tom Friedman has read the signs and gotten on board. Read More.

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