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Civic Leaders: Designers of Our Future
Our community leaders are the chief designers of our communities and their component parts – central business districts, subdivisions, schools, industries and highways – and hold significant influence over current and future public policies. Civic leaders hold enormous sway over whether or not a new development is a good fit that brings long-term economic benefits without harming the ecological or cultural fabric of the community.
The Nebraska Sustainability Leadership Workshop (NSLW) is part of a new partnership program that is preparing Nebraska’s communities for today’s and tomorrow’s complex ecological challenges.
An uncertain energy future, growing shortages of water and other natural resources, and the unfolding consequences of climate change represent daunting challenges for Nebraska’s community leaders. Whether they live and work in sprawling cities or depopulating towns, all are struggling with myriad problems as natural resources become increasingly scarcer while demands on those resources continue to rise.
Managed by the Joslyn Institute for Sustainable Communities (JISC), the NSLW is a unique opportunity for community leaders from across the state to share their challenges and successes and to discover new ways to address the critical environmental, social-cultural, technological, economic and public policy challenges facing their communities.
This three-year program consists of an annual series of 20 statewide sessions in which mayors, city managers, members of county boards, city councils, school boards and other community leaders engage planning, design and leadership experts. Organized around case-study problems, these small-group workshops are tailored to address issues unique to each participating community while also exploring shared solutions to statewide and regional challenges.
Our community leaders are the chief designers of our communities and their component parts – central business districts, subdivisions, schools, industries and highways – and hold significant influence over current and future public policies. Civic leaders hold enormous sway over whether or not a new development is a good fit that brings long-term economic benefits without harming the ecological or cultural fabric of the community.
The Nebraska Sustainability Leadership Workshop (NSLW) is part of a new partnership program that is preparing Nebraska’s communities for today’s and tomorrow’s complex ecological challenges.
An uncertain energy future, growing shortages of water and other natural resources, and the unfolding consequences of climate change represent daunting challenges for Nebraska’s community leaders. Whether they live and work in sprawling cities or depopulating towns, all are struggling with myriad problems as natural resources become increasingly scarcer while demands on those resources continue to rise.
Managed by the Joslyn Institute for Sustainable Communities (JISC), the NSLW is a unique opportunity for community leaders from across the state to share their challenges and successes and to discover new ways to address the critical environmental, social-cultural, technological, economic and public policy challenges facing their communities.
This three-year program consists of an annual series of 20 statewide sessions in which mayors, city managers, members of county boards, city councils, school boards and other community leaders engage planning, design and leadership experts. Organized around case-study problems, these small-group workshops are tailored to address issues unique to each participating community while also exploring shared solutions to statewide and regional challenges.
