Jalone White Newsome, part of the Biden White House Council on Environmental Quality, once noted that:
Addressing climate change equitably requires the integration of strategy and action across academia, industry, and government … Each sector has something to give and something to receive. We can fill in each other’s gaps. No one entity can do it all.
These considerations are among those that drove us to open membership to sectors beyond local governments a year ago. In the interest of ensuring broad participation and reducing silos within agencies, however, we limited membership to organizations, placing no cap on the number of agency members who can participate once the organization pays the membership fee.
Since that time, some of our friends have gently chided us for leaving them out, namely solo GSI practitioners, full-time faculty and students, arguing that the organizational rates really did not work for them. Upon reflection, we agreed, and today I am pleased to announce that our Strategic Planning and Policy Committee has opened membership to these limited categories of individuals. Learn more about how to join on our membership page.
