Just a little writeup about the recent “Green Enterprise Conference” in Satsop at which GHP’s own David Quigg spoke and moderated a panel. Take a looksie! Link after jump.

Most of the time with Daily World bits like this though, I would normally just Tweet and leave it at that. Trudging through the normal newspapery writing throughout, it actually wasn’t until the end when I stumbled upon a sentence that made my mind consider a fairly hefty concept:

If we can do it right here, and if we can sharpen our saw and build our relationship here, we’re going to be able to grow our regional green economy… and then it  won’t be any job at all for anybody else to duplicate it.

Lisa Smith – Executive director of Olympia-based Enterprise for Equity

Through the peppering of pronouns and adverbs, there is a huge idea there that makes incredible sense and then it dawned on me: if nothing else, this could be a huge first step for any region to discover their “greener” economy. This is the concept I gather:

“Going green means finding what the area can do best with what it has and do that better than anyone else can.”

Mind you, this is my take so, if anyone can read it differently, let me know.

It seems like industry has always made room for this idea in some sense: there’s no reason to force trees to grow in a desert or plant wheat in the mountains, it’s just not efficient or [gulp] profitable. Now, though, we have shifted our concerns and are trying to find ways to do business without taking more than is necessary. The stakeholders in the same equations are broadening: considerations for our fellow community members have now expanded to those that we will never see but are affected in some way by our decisions… thousands of miles away and many generations forward.

So, in an effort to trim down that lengthy quote and wrap up what was just a moment of my pondering, I offer this up as another way to look at the same concept:

Love where you live.

Bonus: Googled “love where you live” before I typed it out here to make sure it wasn’t a song or movie or some catchphrase but I found this little video. I quite like it as a broad idea before it becomes a BBC ad.

Link: Daily World: Daylong conference examines “going green” movement