Hello everyone:
This week I spoke at the Gaining Ground Summit in Victoria. I had the opportunity to make some brief remarks on the plans to pilot the Global Urban Sustainability Solutions Exchange (GUSSE) this fall in the metro Vancouver region, and my broader view of the potential impacts and opportunities associated with Expo 2010 in Shanghai. These are both themes that I hope to explore with this blog over the ensuing months.
GUSSE is an innovative online community that brings together the most current, valuable and trusted solutions for urban sustainabilty and then refines and applies them within a "social networking" framework that harnesses collective wisdom and experience on a global scale.
Expo 2010 is a world exposition themed "Better City, Better Life" to run from May 1 - Oct 31, 2010. Over 170 pavilions are confirmed -- 143 of these are national pavilions. Expected attendance is 80 million people.
Check out these sites and then let me know your views on either of these undertakings. I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles
Friday, June 8, 2007
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Welcome to the CPA Blog
Welcome to my first blog as the "returned" Chairman of the Canadian Public Affairs Consulting Group (CPA).
After two years of stepping out of my private sector life to take on the responsibility of the Commission General of the United Nation's World Urban Forum 3 (WUF3), I have returned to private practice with a new outlook and hundreds of new friends from around the world.
Through this blog, I hope to share our new global perspective, new alliances and projects that we will be undertaking over the months ahead.
I also hope to use this forum to interconnect the many colleagues I have met, and to report and share our ongoing initiatives to move our ideas on urban sustainability into actions.
June 6, 2007, I will be speaking at the Gaining Ground Summit in Victoria, BC. I am most interested in meeting at the event, a delegation of 15 Chinese officials, some of whom represent the planning organization for WUF 4 in Nanjing and the National Training Center for Mayors in Beijing.
I look forward to your comments and feedback.
Charles
After two years of stepping out of my private sector life to take on the responsibility of the Commission General of the United Nation's World Urban Forum 3 (WUF3), I have returned to private practice with a new outlook and hundreds of new friends from around the world.
Through this blog, I hope to share our new global perspective, new alliances and projects that we will be undertaking over the months ahead.
I also hope to use this forum to interconnect the many colleagues I have met, and to report and share our ongoing initiatives to move our ideas on urban sustainability into actions.
June 6, 2007, I will be speaking at the Gaining Ground Summit in Victoria, BC. I am most interested in meeting at the event, a delegation of 15 Chinese officials, some of whom represent the planning organization for WUF 4 in Nanjing and the National Training Center for Mayors in Beijing.
I look forward to your comments and feedback.
Charles
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