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3rd Annual Potomac Watershed Trash Summit
Trash Free by 2013!
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

A Signature Event that Commits Elected Officials and Provides Outreach

Join us at the Potomac Watershed Trash Summit  -- A gathering of 300 key stakeholders to educate, dialogue, plan and take action on strategies that lead to a Trash Free Potomac Watershed by 2013. This event provides a venue for Congressional, state and local elected officials, citizens and youth leadership to collaborate on strategies to eliminate trash from our waterways, communities, streets and public lands – including regional public policy, model Best Management Practices, business actions, and public education.

Online registration for the 3rd Annual Potomac Watershed Trash Summit is now open. Please call the Alice Ferguson Foundation at 202-518-7415 to register by telephone.

  • LEARN how eliminating trash will restore the waters of the
            Potomac River Watershed
  • DISCUSS regional solutions and implementation techniques to
            solve the trash problem
  • PLAN strategies for regional collaboration
  • TAKE ACTION on opportunities and incentives for becoming
            TRASH FREE by 2013!

Flags, photo by B. Townsend Hosted at:The World Bank
Preston Auditorium
1818 H Street NW
Washington, DC  20433
Schedule:Tuesday, June 17, 2008
8:15am - Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00am - 4:30pm - Trash Summit

We are pleased to announce our Featured Morning Plenary Speaker this year is Sandy Wiggins Principal, Consilience LLC, Immediate Past Chair U. S. Green Building Council, and Chair of e3 Bank

Sandy Wiggins is founder and principal of Consilience, LLC a national consulting and real estate development firm with a mission to build environmentally, socially and economically sustainable communities and is Chair of e3 Bank, a new triple bottom line, full service bank focused on catalyzing the emerging green economy. He has been responsible for the development of dozens of LEED commercial projects and the nation’s first LEED Gold certified homes, which are also net zero energy consumers. He has also led development of sustainable municipal master plans and regional public policy sustainability initiatives. Sandy is Immediate Past Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council, serves as a juror for the Delaware Valley Smart Growth Alliance. He was founding Chair of the Delaware Valley Green Building Council – a Chapter of USGBC, a member of the LEED for Neighborhood Development Core Committee, and a founding member of the Pennsylvania Green Building Forum, a state-wide collaborative focused on public policy for the built environment. He has also served as a Director of the Energy Coordinating Agency, Earth Force of Delaware Valley, and the Pennsylvania Resources Council. During his three decade career in the real estate development and construction industries, he has worked with project teams through the development, design and construction of projects totaling over one billion dollars.

Agenda Highlights:
  • Ceremonial Signing of the Potomac Watershed Trash Treaty by elected officials, with media coverage
  • Energizing regional and national leadership panels, presentations and keynote speakers
  • Regional Education and Awareness Campaign for Trash (REACT) for the Potomac River Watershed
  • Results from the inaugural 2008 Litter Enforcement Week
  • Models for trash reduction
  • Legislating solutions
  • Regulating TMDL's and MS4 Permits
  • Learning from others: plastic bag ban and bottle bills
  • Trash "hot spots" and monitoring
  • Findings of Alice Ferguson Foundation's Visible Trash Survey
  • Exhibits
 Who Should Attend:
  • Elected Officials
  • Government Agency leaders
  • Business Community
  • Groups Taking Action in their Own Regions
  • Non-profit organizations & NGOs
  • Media
  • Private Citizens
  • Cleanup Volunteers
  • Faith-based Groups
  • Students

The Alice Ferguson Foundation (AFF) is coordinating this effort to address our serious regional trash problem from a watershed-wide approach in collaboration with a diverse network of key leaders and decision makers on federal, state, local and non-governmental levels. Last year, many leaders attended the 2nd Annual Trash Summit from major jurisdictions in the Potomac Watershed and Capitol Hill. They collectively showed support and commitment to work together to address this important issue.

The network is committed to action-oriented, problem-solving efforts that will lead to a Trash Free Potomac by 2013 – and we need your support. This is an important follow-up to AFF’s 20th Annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup, which took place this month in more than 360 sites in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The 1st and 2nd Potomac Watershed Trash Summits were day-long gatherings at The World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 2006 and 2007 with approximately 300 key stakeholders that included model technology exhibits, expert speakers and local success stories that increased community education and awareness of the trash problem and recommended actions to reduce and prevent it.

Click to view Potomac Watershed Trash Treaty The Potomac Watershed Trash Treaty commits signers to achieving a Trash Free Potomac by 2013, and to:

  • Support and implement regional strategies aimed at reducing trash and increasing recycling;
  • Increase education and awareness of the trash issue throughout the Potomac Watershed;
  • Reconvene annually to discuss and evaluate measures and actions addressing trash reduction.

Alice Ferguson Foundation
2001 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek, Maryland 20607
Telephone: 202-518-7415 or 302-292-5665
trashsummit@fergusonfoundation.org
www.trashfreepotomac.org
Photo Credits: B. Townsend, R. Marks, Rebecca Hale (NGS)