As the facilitator of the CSLN Policy Team I led the initiative to submit a CSLN Memo to newly elected Mayor Lightfoot on May 21 2019. The memo is focused on holistically sustainability and based on five key principles, seven “practical and tangible ways” for the City of Chicago to incorporate them, and “reasonable, and catalytic” actions the administration could take in its first 100 days.

To start the process I worked with a subgroup of the Policy Group to update the network’s Suggestions for Citywide Sustainability Programs, Partnerships, revised with the full Policy Group, and then used a network in-person meeting at Plant Chicago office to generate wider input.