Conversations to Continue: - Conversation of benchmarks, standards, certifications, etc - How to democratize green - make it affordable and accessible - Conflict between unsustainable nature of consumption and how to influence corporate practice - Where do you set the bar to reach mainstream with high standards - Sustainable consumption: what does that look like? what will it take to consumer fewer resources? Open offer for breakfast club discussions. - Electricity reduction vs paper reduction - How to accelerate the spread of the best ideas - we need them to outrun the problems. Suggestions/Evaluations: - Include more people in future unconferences who aren't green, target the "not so good" guys to attend - Food choices - no processed foods, wasteful packaging, more veggie/vegan foods - More strategic networking - More diversity of sectors/participants/classes/races, etc - More lead time to think about the topics discussed beforehand to help propose better topics - Agenda generation based on people's feedback was refreshing and successful - Use EPA's public comment list for invitees to increase diversity - Push the idea of creating actionable ideas, perhaps make part of each section - Perhaps come up with critical starting point ideas, and build upon in successive sessions - What's the follow up? Provide setup for folks who want to form working groups around specific topics - Share contact information - Build in more time to chill - think about having lunch be off limits in the future - Encouraging more specific actionable items for agenda in the future - Integrating sustainability into aspects of our personal lives - Invite a few scientists to bring technical expertise Finally: Celebration! Gratitude! Appreciation! - Thanks to Michael for sharing about Goodness500 - Thanks to Odin for a great job

(Additional notes from final seession/wrap-up)

What did we learn?

- green certifications hot topic

- theme of not reinventing the wheel

- behavioral impacts on sustainability

- debate between whether being green means being economical or if it means being something different from a company perspective - two things that impact behavior are peer pressure (more than awareness ) and procedural knowledge = these two things foster

behavioral change

- “stealth green” is a better color than “green green” to facilitate change

- role of government in being green – how it is helping over how it’s hindering progress

- cooperators thrive in the long term (survival of the fittest for cooperators)

- how do we widen the circle of those attending these types of gatherings? expand the circle from do-gooders to include everyone –

everyday people

- electricity reduction vs. paper reduction debate during lunch (paper won)

What does this mean for where we go now?

- benchmarks, certifications, and standards – we need to continue this discussion and answer this question

- conflict between businesses quest for growth and the unsustainable growth of consumption – need to be able to convince

companies that they can be successful without selling more “junk’

Suggestions/Comments

- would have liked more strategic networking included in this event

- need more participant diversity

- more time to think about the topics – a bit more knowledge about the format

- vegan option for lunch

- successful format – individual choice to pop in and out was refreshing

- EPA’s list for future participants

- good for talking about ideas, less successful at generating ideas on how to tackle problems/take-aways

- common gold-fish bowl for business cards for networking

- have lunch be an actual break so people can relax

- that the event was free helped with attendance

- encourage less high-level ideas to discuss

- target “not so good guys” to attend the event

- invite scientists

Next Steps

- creation of working groups around some of the specific topics from the event?

- sustainable consumption chat?

- goal of this event is to get ideas and innovations flowing faster through society – how do we accelerate the spread of the best ideas (D. Strelneck, Ashoka) and turn them into action?