GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The issue of sustainability on a local, state
and national level will be discussed by a panel of local and
university experts at Grand Valley State University.
The event, Grand Valley Summit on Sustainability, is sponsored
by Grand Valley’s Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies and will
be held Wednesday, April 7, beginning at 8 a.m. in Loosemore
Auditorium, DeVos Center, on the Pew Grand Rapids Campus, 401 W.
Fulton St.
The schedule of panelists is as follows:
8 a.m.: Sustainability and Leadership
• Mayor George Heartwell, Grand Rapids
• Christina Keller,
Cascade Engineering
9:15 a.m.: Sustainability at Grand Valley
Moderator: Norman Christopher, director of Sustainability
Initiative
• Wendy Wenner, dean of the College of
Interdisciplinary Studies
• Jann Joseph, associate dean of the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Selma Tucker,
organizational efficiency analyst, City of Grand Rapids
• Emily
Martin, Sustainability Community Development Initiative
10:45 a.m.: Sustainability in the 2010 Election
• Bob Synk (D) - Kent County Commission incumbent
The event is free and open to the public. For more information,
contact the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at (616)
331-2770 or visit www.allpresidents.org.
Grand Valley holds sustainability summit
Apr 2, 2010
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