[All] In Defence of Robert

Fri Mar 28 10:55:19 EDT 2014

Robert, what you said denegrates all of the work that the members of GREN
and others in our communities have done and dedicated their lives to.

I'm a lurker to this list (and a member of GREN for several years). I
just wanted to jump in to the defence of Robert. What impressions I got
from Robert's email was a sense of humility to the limitations of GREN
and a show of support and optimism for WREN.

I was at WRENE2014 last night and I was blown away with the event and the
positivity in the room. WREN will be different than GREN, but not better.
WREN is focused on collaborations, technological innovation and scaling
projects bigger. 

In my mind, GREN exemplifies "the pen being mightier than the sword"
philosophy and leveraging traditional media. And of course
Lulu Lanteigne, who is a Canadian legend (I don't say that lightly) and
she absolutely deserves a Wikipedia page of her own (but I digress).

What I'm trying to say is this is apples and oranges we're comparing. One
does not nor cannot take away from the other. 

Back to lurking again.

Best,

Jason

On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:25:37 -0400, "Jan Liggett" wrote:

> Does anyone have an actual link to an official website of WREN itself,
not the event? I can’t seem to find anything.
> Robert, what you said denegrates all of the work that the members of
GREN and others in our communities have done and dedicated their lives
to. It is wonderful that a younger generation understands something the
rest of us know already. Some of that knowledge is inherent. What they
don’t have is the historical knowledge that we have through actually
being there. You know the kind of ingrained feeling that makes you skin
tingle or the hair on the back of your neck rise. The kind of feeling
each of us gets because we’ve been there and can’t be snowed; the
nuances, the semantics.
> The world needs us and them also.
>
> From: Eleanor Grant
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:25 PM
> To: GREN2
> Subject: [All] Fwd: #WRENE2014 Update: Network Presenters
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> Is anybody from GREN going to this?
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> Eleanor
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> From: "Waterloo Region Environmental Network"
> Date: Mar 26, 2014 5:25 PM
> Subject: #WRENE2014 Update: Network Presenters
> To: "eleanor7000 at gmail.com"
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> We look forwards to seeing you there tomorrow! If you haven’t had a
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> Sarah Brown ClimateActionWR
> http://www.climateactionwr.ca/ a.. Updates on key projects & momentum
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> Sylvie Spraakman TransitionKW
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