What a great event! Thanks to all who took part. Click to see more photos at our Flickr site.

By Spencer Critchley, from the Salinas Californian: By now it's clear that the future of the economy is a sustainable one, as global investment trends attest. As the cost of cleaner technologies falls ever lower, sustainability is becoming a question not of limits, but of opportunities.

Imagine, then, the possibilities for a region that combined these assets: world-class academic and defense institutions, excellent infrastructure, a coastal California/Pacific Rim location, some of the most fertile land in the world, a culture of innovation, and a quality of life that attracts talent from all over the planet.

Future Camp: A day of focused work on vision & strategy for regional sustainable prosperity.

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Once a quarter, Future Camp brings together experts from all areas of the sustainable economy to help plan the future of the Central Coast economic region. Participants choose the most important challenges. Then they work together in teams to develop solutions, which they present at the end of the day. Future Camp brings together talent, fruitful topics and compressed time, a mix that often yields extraordinary results.

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Join us for the kick-off of the What’s Next Lecture Series five part Innovation program. The panel will feature Peter Meehan, CEO of Newman’s Own Organics, KoAnn Skrzyniarz, CEO of Sustainable Life Media, and Joshua Levine, Vice President of Socially Responsible Investing at RBC Wealth Management. Sandy Skees, CEO of Communications4Good, will moderate the panel as it explores trends and success factors in companies with a social and environmental mission.

Former Pacific Grove Mayor Dan Cort has made a career of revitalizing historic downtowns across California. Now he has collected his experiences and insights in a new book, Downtown Turnaround, to be published very soon.

Dan will be our featured speaker at the first Imagination Coast breakfast of 2010, this time at the Santa Lucia Cafe at 484 Washington St, Monterey.

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