
| WELL Network produced "Being
WELL," an 8-minute film that includes
interviews with WELL members and leading
international spokespeople for environmental
health and green planning. Click here to watch the
streaming video. |
Green plans are comprehensive,
integrated national, state, and local programs that
solve environmental problems in systematic, rather than
piecemeal ways. Unlike conventional approaches, green
plans treat the environment as it really exists— as a
single, interconnected system.
The California Green Plan: Connecting
Vision to Action
The California Green Plan: Connecting
Vision to Action
Frequently Asked Questions
In our Green Planning campaign, WELL Network has taken a
lead in the following initiatives:
In 2009 WELL Network convened the Fort
Baker Leadership Summits (FBLS), bringing together forty business executives,
policymakers, scientists, academics, and foundation
and nonprofit leaders to explore how to overcome the
fragmented policymaking and planning that stand in the
way of a sustainable future for California. The
summits led to a series of recommendations published
as a report, "Re-Imagining
California, A Sustainable Future for the
Golden State," intended
to inspire and guide California's policy- and opinion
makers to adopt a Sustainability Agenda, based on
principles of economic prosperity, environmental
health, and broad public participation in decisions
affecting the lives and future of all Californians. 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 Fort Baker
Leadership Group (FBLG) produced a vision
and guiding principles
as the basis for the discussions, which can also serve
a model to guide California's elected leaders. The FBLG
generated many ideas, which were then distilled into
specific recommendations intended for state leaders to
build upon and implement.
The Summit recommendations are:
- Establish an alliance to develop and
advance a Sustainability Agenda for California.
- Develop and implement a
Sustainability Agenda in each of the nine regions of
California.
- Implement a statewide communications
campaign to build common values among Californians for
a sustainable future.
The Resource Renewal
Institute's
Green Plans in Action website describes
integrated, environmental policies
successfully used in The Netherlands, New
Zealand, Singapore, the European Union, the
United Kingdom, and Mexico City. The site
also provides a summary states and regions
in the U.S. that have adopted green planning
principles to address climate change.
http://www.rri.org/greenplans_states.html |
The FBLG also addressed the question: What will it
look like if we succeed?
- Californians will take personal
responsibility for the environment and the future.
- There is a higher level of political
engagement.
- There is greater "green" economic
activity.
- Economic, environmental and equity
indicators improve.
- Environmental health and social
fairness are valued equally with "economy."
- Sustainability is a "binding force"
among Californians.
WELL Network's Green Plan Campaign activities:

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WELL Network
produced "Being WELL," an 8-minute film that
includes interviews with WELL members and
leading international spokespeople for
environmental health and green planning. Click here to watch the
streaming video. |
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WELL Network hosted a
panel on the opening day of the UN World
Environment Day in San Francisco featuring
Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown; Rachel Richman, chief
of staff for California Assembly member Wilma
Chan; Jaime Lerner, former mayor of Curitiba and
governor of the state of Parana, Brazil; and
Bianca Oudshoff, a senior analyst with The
Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs. The
discussion included an overview of the Dutch
green plan, EU chemical policy, and the need for
a comprehensive chemical policy for California.
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WELL Network hosted a
policy tour of The Netherlands for our members,
members of Rachel's Network, and Resource
Renewal Institute to learn first hand about The
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WELL Network hosted a
presentation by Dr. Tom Fookes, commissioner of
the New Zealand Environment Court; an architect
of New Zealand's green plan (Resource Management
Act); and professor emeritus in Planning at the
University of Auckland. WELL
Network hosted a presentation by Dr. Heddy
Riss, project manager for the California-EU
Regulatory Cooperation Project at the
Institute of Governmental Studies, UC
Berkeley. The project's goal is to create a
California-EU Task Force to explore the
relationship between the regulatory policies
of California and the EU, focusing on health,
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"We have a chance to build the
framework for reducing emissions and global
warming across the board in California with the
people's and industry's support of relevant
legislation and an integrated approach that can
change the destructive course we are on and lead
the nation. I am grateful that the women of
California and Well Network are supporting these
efforts above all, while consistently advocating
for the environmental health of our children and
communities."
California
Assemblymember
Fran Pavley
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Among the activities WELL
has participated in to address global warming are:

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WELL Network
sponsored a presentation by California Assembly
member Fran Pavley, author of the historic
greenhouse emissions legislation for California.
She became a lead sponsor of AB 32, the Climate
Solutions Act of 2007. |

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WELL Network hosted a
presentation by Dr. Devra Wang, a senior
scientist with the Natural Resources Defense
Council who spoke on the successful
collaboration of business, NGOs, and government
to pass the Climate Change Solutions Act, signed
into law in 2007 by Governor Schwarzenegger.
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