Here's a few Clinton Global Initiative Projects in North Carolina.
Cherokee will convey best practices for addressing brownfield redevelopment and environmental issues, managing environmental risk, and leveraging environmental resources; will encourage others to consider redeveloping brownfield properties as an alternative to greenfield development; and will encourage project leaders' strong commitment to the environment. Cherokee also hopes to inspire other corporations to share their own best practices.
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) Foundation commits to partner with the North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc. (NCPC) to address childhood obesity for North Carolina's youngest children, from birth to age five. With a focus on the child care setting, this project will improve the policies and practices around physical activity and nutrition, implement active outdoor learning environments, create a resource for ongoing technical assistance, and ultimately increase the number of young children starting school at a healthy weight.
To respond to the global imperative of climate change, Duke Energy, one of the US's leading energy companies, and Cisco, a worldwide leader in networking technology, in partnership with uptown Charlotte's top business and public sector leaders, commit to develop the Envision Charlotte initiative which will combine smart grid technology and energy education to provide the uptown Charlotte community with a world-class, sustainable model to measure, manage and reduce energy use by 20% in five years. This innovative public-private partnership aims to be a replicable model of a community program that utilizes new technology, new partnerships, and new approaches to help address climate change and develop sustainable communities. See the Envision press conference.
The Energy Foundation commits to launch a major effort to advance clean energy markets in the Southern U.S. Through this effort, the clean energy economy will grow a region that has lagged behind others in experiencing the economic and environmental benefits of the creation and deployment of new energy technologies. Building off of the Energy Foundation's previous successes, this commitment will strategically aggregate funds in order to promote the highest leverage energy-using sector policies and bring new voices to the clean energy discussion.
Mobilize.org will engage and empower Millennials through its Democracy 2.0 model and will invest in this generation's current leadership potential to solve some of this country's greatest problems. In 2010 and 2011, Mobilize.org will convene 3 Democracy 2.0 Summits, each with 150 community college student leaders in attendance and many more participating online through live streaming hosted on www.Mobilize.org. Building off the strong local networks of Mobilize.org, these Summits will take place in Charlotte, NC, New York City, NY and Miami, FL, in partnership with Central Piedmont Community College, LaGuardia Community College and Miami-Dade Community College. In addition to these Summits, Mobilize.org will convene a President's Council of Community Colleges, chaired by Dr. Brian Murphy, President of DeAnza Community College in San Jose, CA, to build a sustainable infrastructure that supports the work innovation that will take place on their campuses and in their communities over the next two years.
