Nearly 100 GR businesses join Community Sustainability Partnership
The movement to achieve sustainable development continues to grow across west Michigan. The Community Sustainability Partnership has attracted nearly 100 members in less than a year.
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In existence for just over a year, the Community Sustainability Partnership (CSP) is gaining momentum and members.
Fueled by a grant from the Wege Foundation, five partners – the city of Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids Community College, Aquinas College, Grand Valley State University and Grand Rapids Public Schools – have been joined by more than 90 businesses, nonprofits and governmental entities.
“Through the partnership we’re all able to work together as a common team. Grand Rapids is kind of a special community right now that is looked at quite heavily by folks doing research,” said Courtland Overmeyer, Grand Rapids’ director of environmental services who will become the city’s sustainability manager in January 2007. “As you can well imagine, with government, schools, major universities and industries, we can make a huge impact in our environmental footprint.”
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