evening Session #4 – meet the alumni

 

Leadership Main Line Alumni Cocktail Party at George’s in Wayne

Wednesday April 23, 2008

 

What an amazing night!!!  Karen, Jim, and I met in the parking lot of George’s to discuss the progress of the project.  Karen had a great meeting with the landlord of the Chamber.  According to Karen, he was incredibly nice and gave her a lot of great information.  Karen had also found out that it is mandatory in Radnor Township to recycle.  

In calling the landlord, she found an area that had the recycling bins that she thought we may need to purchase for the Chamber (SCORE!).  The landlord also pointed out where there was a recycling container on site which would make it easy for to tenants to recycle.

Jim and Karen talked about their amazing meeting with Kevin Nolan, of Nolan Painting.  Kevin is a very active member of the MLCC.  Kevin recounted for Jim and Karen, that seeing Al Gore’s The Inconvenient Truth changed his life.  He took massive action steps to educate himself on the process of going green and made changes in his business as well.

We came up with many great ideas that night for the presentation.  One idea I had on the way over was “How cool would it be for our presentation to be on video?!?!?  PDFs and a binder were great, but how cool would that be?”  Recently, through some interactions at the Chamber, I had met Craig and Emilia Andrews of Beholder Productions.  I knew of their giving spirit and amazing work.  Karen and Jim thought it would be too cool.

We met in a private room upstairs of George’s in Wayne.   We enjoyed cocktails and hors d’oeuves as we met graduates from previous classes of Leadership Main Line.    We told them about our project and each person told us about their experience with LML and their project.  It was clear that they, too, had formed friendship as happy chatter filled the room. 

After a toast from Stan Schuck, it was officially announced that Jeanne, our facilitator would be taking another position within the Leadership Main Line program. Jim showed off his awesome impromptu oratory skills when he made a toast to Jeanne and the program.

It truly was an incredible evening with incredible people!  

 

 

 

 

Our Name is Born!

We need to name our baby.  Kenyon, our resident technical expert, suggests GO GREEN MAIN LINE vs MAIN LINE GO GREEN and asks if anyone have a preference.

I think I like MAIN LINE GO GREEN because it is an imperative, or plea that the Main Line goes green.  Also, when shortened, MLGG, it is similar to MLCC, which might make it easier for people to remember, especially if it takes on a life of its own and the Chamber decides to register its own domain name MLGG.org

 

As for the slogan, or tag line that explains what exactly what we mean by GO GREEN, I like a snappy tag line like: For a Cleaner & Greener Main Line

Almost all of us are in favor of this.  We all realize that “Going Green” is a process.  No one can be totally green, but the process is where it is at.  There is never enough that can be done, but we have to start somewhere!