Last night the Village of Key Biscayne held a Town Hall Meeting on Energy & the Environment. MC’d by David Adams of the Fueling Station, the meeting was kicked off with Mayor Robert Vernon conducting a ceremonial signing the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. He officially signed the agreement at the April 10 Council Meeting where it was a resolution on the agenda. The agreement had already been signed by his predecessor, but we’re happy to see that he’s on board, as well.
Additionally, Roberta Fernandez, an environmental consultant and climate change messenger came with her presentation from The Climate Project. This is the program that Al Gore helped create to train messengers to deploy into their communities and teach people about climate change. If you’ve seen An Inconvenient Truth, it was very similar information, but presented right in front of you and without all of those slow shots of Al Gore on a plane and on his farm.
Finally, we heard from Tim Center of Council for Sustainable Florida, which I don’t think I knew about until last night. A cool guy, and a great organization that I can’t wait to learn more about. He gave us some crazy statistics about the kind of growth we should expect in South Florida over the next several decades. (Five million today to 10 million in 2060.) He pointed out that this is an amazing opportunity. "Most of the build environment that will exist is 2030 has yet to be built…it’s an amazing opportunity…to look at how to do things."