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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.

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.

CALIFORNIA HAS KEEN INTEREST IN COPENHAGEN

The inconclusive results of the climate negotiations have made the state's leadership in climate policy all the more important. California's aggressive actions on auto emission standards, renewable energy, building weatherization and solar panels are encouraging other states and cities in the United States and around the globe to plunge ahead with their own similar policies.

But the stalemate in Copenhagen may also increase the political risk in California, where resistance to the state's climate policies is gathering force. Read more.

OBAMA ORDERS INTEGRATED STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABILITY
On October 5, 2009, the President issued an executive order to make the federal government a leader in sustainability through a number of actions to improve energy efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, encourage reuse, eliminate waste, and prevent pollution. The order calls for a multi-year Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan and a new position of Federal Environmental Executive to oversee and coordinate the effort across departments. 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.

"A woman is like a tea bag — you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt