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Engagement in a community-wide way

Nelson Daily Staff
By Nelson Daily Staff
November 4th, 2010

For the people who attended the recent 2010 Columbia Basin Trust Symposium, consider yourself engaged.

And for those that didn’t, there is still a chance to delve into the topics of economic development, alternate energy, community engagement and building resilient organizations.

Information presented at these sessions can be found online at: www.cbt.org/2010Symposium/Presentations. Videos will also be made available in the coming weeks.

Nearly 300 people from communities throughout the Columbia Basin attended the 2010 Columbia Basin Symposium, Shaping Our Future Together: Take Action, Build Partnerships, Strengthen Communities and attended numerous sessions on community building. Hosted by the Columbia Basin Trust (CBT), the free Symposium took place Oct. 22- 24 in Revelstoke.

In addition to the sessions, delegates participated in a two-part workshop —facilitated by Innovative Leadership’s founder and managing director David Buerle and executive director Juliet Fox — in which attendees were encouraged to consider the key drivers that will shape the Basin and how responses to them could lead to very different, but likely, future scenarios for the region. 

“The conversations we had were invigorating for all involved and will be a catalyst for thinking about the actions we need to take today to put us in a position to deal with tomorrow’s challenges,” said Neil Muth, CBT president and CEO.

“CBT is looking to support collaborative strategies to overcome these challenges and we want to encourage all residents of the Basin to continue to talk with us, share their views and help us create solutions, together.”

CBT’s commitment to the well-being of the Basin is taken seriously and this was shown by implementing several ways to make the Symposium sustainable. For example, based on a carbon offset calculation, CBT donated $1,500 to a Revelstoke environmental organization, the North Columbia Environmental Society.

This donation will go toward initiatives that will further encourage carbon reduction.

CBT donated all unused food to the local food bank and donated $1,500 toward their needs. Other initiatives included working with local caterers to source as much food as possible locally, encouraging carpooling and using reusable, recycled or recyclable products. More efforts are listed online at http://www.cbt.org/2010Symposium/Sustainability.

A final 2010 Columbia Basin Symposium report will be available in the coming weeks.

CBT delivers economic, social and environmental benefits to the residents of the Columbia Basin. To learn more about CBT programs and initiatives, visit http://www.cbt.org or call 1.800.505.8998.

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