Green initiatives advocate Mary Norman was the featured guest Sept. 8 at Springfield Business Journal's "12 People You Need to Know" event at the Clarion Hotel's Newsroom Café.
Norman helped found the Partnership for Sustainability, a partnership between a litany of local government, school, health care and community organizations dedicated to encouraging green practices throughout the area, in 2008.
Even though her position with the partnership has since been eliminated, which she attributed to budget constraints, she says the groups involved - the city, county, City Utilities, Community Foundation of the Ozarks, the city's major universities and the Discovery Center - are looking to make sustainability a lasting issue.
She says the best reminder of the concept of sustainability is an old Iroquois saying: "Every decision we make today, we need to think of the impact for 250 years."
Here, Norman receives a plaque commemorating the event from Arvest Bank Senior Vice President and Springfield Sales Manager Michal Moss Early.
Green initiatives advocate Mary Norman was the featured guest Sept. 8 at Springfield Business Journal's "12 People You Need to Know" event at the Clarion Hotel's Newsroom Café.
Norman helped found the Partnership for Sustainability, a partnership between a litany of local government, school, health care and community organizations dedicated to encouraging green practices throughout the area, in 2008.
Even though her position with the partnership has since been eliminated, which she attributed to budget constraints, she says the groups involved - the city, county, City Utilities, Community Foundation of the Ozarks, the city's major universities and the Discovery Center - are looking to make sustainability a lasting issue.
She says the best reminder of the concept of sustainability is an old Iroquois saying: "Every decision we make today, we need to think of the impact for 250 years."
Green initiatives advocate Mary Norman was the featured guest Sept. 8 at Springfield Business Journal's "12 People You Need to Know" event at the Clarion Hotel's Newsroom Café.
Norman helped found the Partnership for Sustainability, a partnership between a litany of local government, school, health care and community organizations dedicated to encouraging green practices throughout the area, in 2008.
Even though her position with the partnership has since been eliminated, which she attributed to budget constraints, she says the groups involved - the city, county, City Utilities, Community Foundation of the Ozarks, the city's major universities and the Discovery Center - are looking to make sustainability a lasting issue.
She says the best reminder of the concept of sustainability is an old Iroquois saying: "Every decision we make today, we need to think of the impact for 250 years."
Green initiatives advocate Mary Norman was the featured guest Sept. 8 at Springfield Business Journal's "12 People You Need to Know" event at the Clarion Hotel's Newsroom Café.
Norman helped found the Partnership for Sustainability, a partnership between a litany of local government, school, health care and community organizations dedicated to encouraging green practices throughout the area, in 2008.
Even though her position with the partnership has since been eliminated, which she attributed to budget constraints, she says the groups involved - the city, county, City Utilities, Community Foundation of the Ozarks, the city's major universities and the Discovery Center - are looking to make sustainability a lasting issue.
She says the best reminder of the concept of sustainability is an old Iroquois saying: "Every decision we make today, we need to think of the impact for 250 years."
Green initiatives advocate Mary Norman was the featured guest Sept. 8 at Springfield Business Journal's "12 People You Need to Know" event at the Clarion Hotel's Newsroom Café.
Norman helped found the Partnership for Sustainability, a partnership between a litany of local government, school, health care and community organizations dedicated to encouraging green practices throughout the area, in 2008.
Even though her position with the partnership has since been eliminated, which she attributed to budget constraints, she says the groups involved - the city, county, City Utilities, Community Foundation of the Ozarks, the city's major universities and the Discovery Center - are looking to make sustainability a lasting issue.
She says the best reminder of the concept of sustainability is an old Iroquois saying: "Every decision we make today, we need to think of the impact for 250 years."
