Jack Kaplan
This is a large and necessary endeavor, which I support out of my belief that the local community is the basic integer for regenerative, or sustainable, processes” and collaborations which we could then encourage to be replicated and adapted by other communities elsewhere. Noteworthy is the very phenomenon that the collaboration itself re-establishes again the basic community formation which has been sorely weakened and diluted as a construct for sometime now.
The relevant biography which I bring to the roundtable as a panelist is my current activity with Sustainable Novato and Sustainable Marin in promoting the green economy in Marin and Novato, with an effort toward re-localizing our economies and community control; keeping our energy dollars from leaving our community; promoting green building rules for local construction, promoting solar schools, and promoting a new look at progressive revenue formats by which we fund our collective community endeavors mutually through government, business, and non-profits. I'm currently a participant with numerous groups engaged with issues pertaining to environmental, social, peace, spiritual progressive, and political matters. I have owned and operated a small wholesale marketing and distributing business in the Bay Area for 33 years, have raised a family of four children, three of whom attended junior colleges in Marin and Santa Rosa. I co-founded a Novato Education Foundation, instructed at Indiana University Law School, Bloomington, Indiana, worked in the poverty program in San Francisco, and in the affirmative action hiring programs at the University of California, Berkeley personnel office. My degrees are in Law from the University of Wisconsin, and in Government and English from Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin.
The relevant biography which I bring to the roundtable as a panelist is my current activity with Sustainable Novato and Sustainable Marin in promoting the green economy in Marin and Novato, with an effort toward re-localizing our economies and community control; keeping our energy dollars from leaving our community; promoting green building rules for local construction, promoting solar schools, and promoting a new look at progressive revenue formats by which we fund our collective community endeavors mutually through government, business, and non-profits. I'm currently a participant with numerous groups engaged with issues pertaining to environmental, social, peace, spiritual progressive, and political matters. I have owned and operated a small wholesale marketing and distributing business in the Bay Area for 33 years, have raised a family of four children, three of whom attended junior colleges in Marin and Santa Rosa. I co-founded a Novato Education Foundation, instructed at Indiana University Law School, Bloomington, Indiana, worked in the poverty program in San Francisco, and in the affirmative action hiring programs at the University of California, Berkeley personnel office. My degrees are in Law from the University of Wisconsin, and in Government and English from Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin.