The Sixth Meeting of the President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) in Washington, DC

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The President's Council on Sustainable Development, a partnership of industry, labor, government, environmental and civil rights organizations, will convene its sixth meeting in Washington, DC. Council members will further discuss PCSD's role in developing recommendations to the President toward the integration of environmental and economic policy and, ultimately, establishing a long- term path toward a sustainable United States by the year 2040. The Council will address the problem statement, in terms of achieving a sustainable future--identifying what types of practices the United States has employed that have take us down a path of unsustainability. Council members will discuss the report derived from the nearly 1,000 public responses to the draft vision statement and 15 defining principles of sustainable development. The PCSD received public comment to the draft vision statement and principles from nearly every state in the nation and a dozen countries around the world.