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Session - Funding Environmental / Healthy Research
Convener: Charles Blumberg, blumberc@ors.od.nih.gov
Participants: Charles Blumberg, blumberc@ors.od.nih.gov
Ken Floyd
Don Horn, Donald.horn@gsa.gov
Peggy Harwood, pharwood@fs.fed.us
Leslie Cook, cook.leslie@epa.gov
Jonathan Lunardi, jon@sinapseconsulting.com

Headlines:
  • Designing sustainable building, landscape, green open space (for children).
  • What will sustainable communities look like.
  • What are the economic issues in providing for healthy / sustainability communities.
  • The research needed to understand cultural impacts upon our choices.
  • Looking for better results in areas of health, well-being and productivity and sustainability's role in supporting these interests.
  • Building sitting - demo models.
  • More collaboration between business and environmental research bridging the gap. (improves communication….).
  • Inspiring creative use of public funding.
  • Looking at weather reports and projections to determine any environmental connections.
  • Researching existing funding sources to be applied to specific uses.
  • Website and all other media to improve communication and educate.
Actions/Next Steps:
  • Identify network use via say websites.
  • Places to provide feed back.
  • Pull together post and present research and find and fill any gaps.
  • Designing productive networks.
  • Meet to continue discussions on all of the above.
  • Getting the word out.