2014 BSA Sustainability Summit The Greenbrier Resort — October 27-30, 2014 Event Agenda Monday, October 27 6:15 – 7 p.m. — Welcome Reception 12 - 7 p.m. — Registration Location: Crystal Room and Terrace Location: Upper Alcove Lobby 7 – 9 p.m. — Opening Dinner 2 - 5 p.m. — Pre-Conference Option: Remarks from John F. Stewart, BSA Principles of Sustainability Sustainability Director Designed for Scouting professionals Keynote presentation: John Picard, architect and and volunteers CEO, John Picard and Associates Location: McKinley Room Location: Cameo Ballroom Tuesday, October 28 12:30 – 1:45 p.m. — Hornaday Awards 7 – 8:15 a.m.— Breakfast buffet Luncheon Location: Eisenhower Foyer Flag ceremony, Pledge of Allegiance, and invocation 8:15 – 8:45 a.m. — Welcome Featured speaker: Robert Birkby, outdoorsman John F. Stewart, BSA Sustainability Director and author Opening remarks: Wayne Brock, BSA Chief Location: Cameo Ballroom Scout Executive Location: Eisenhower Room 2 – 2:50 p.m. — Sustainability and Youth Culture 8:45 – 10:15 a.m. — Leadership for Kathleen Gasperini, SVP, Label Networks Sustainability and Change 1: Cynthia Scott, Location: Eisenhower Room Ph.D., MPH Location: Eisenhower Room 3 – 4:30 p.m. — Leadership for Sustainability — 8:45 – 8:55 a.m. — Sustainability is and Change 2: Cynthia Scott, Ph.D., MPH a Strange Attractor for Change and Location: Eisenhower Room Leadership — 3 – 3:30 p.m. — Overcoming Resistance — 8:55 – 9:25 a.m. — Assessing Readiness for to Change Sustainability —3:30 – 4 p.m. — Finding Focus for Success — 9:25 – 9:30 a.m.— Creating a Roadmap for — 4 – 4:30 p.m. — Personal Sustainable Change Leadership Practice — 9:30 – 10:15 a.m. — Understanding and Leading the Human Side of Change 4:30 – 5 p.m. — Personal and Organizational Vision Setting 10:15 – 10:30 a.m. — Mid-morning refreshment Location: Eisenhower Room and networking break Location: Eisenhower Foyer 6:15 – 7 p.m. — Networking reception and book signing 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. — Sustainable Leadership Location: Crystal Room and Terrace Focus: Tom Easterday, EVP, Subaru Location: Eisenhower Room 7 – 9 p.m. — Environmental Explorers Dinner Keynote presentation: Sir Robert Swan 11:15 – 11:45 a.m. — Leadership and Vision Location: Cameo Ballroom Interview with Tom Easterday and Hayes Barnard 9 – 10:30 p.m. — Movie: FRESH Location: Eisenhower Room Introduction by Joel Salatin, farmer and author 11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. — Sustainable Location: Greenbrier Theatre Leadership Focus: Hayes Barnard, CRO, SolarCity Location: Eisenhower Room Wednesday, October 29 10:15 – 11 a.m. — Keynote presentation 7 – 8:15 a.m. — Breakfast buffet Creation Care—Serving God and Saving Location: Eisenhower Foyer the Planet: Dr. Matthew Sleeth, speaker and author 8:15 - 8:45 a.m. — NESA World Explorer Alex Location: Eisenhower Room Houston and Sir Robert Swan Location: Eisenhower Room 11 – 11:50 a.m. — Caring for the Environment Sustainability Resources and Growing in Faith Roundtable 8:45 – 9 a.m. — NESA World Explorer Laurence Hosted by Rabbi Peter E. Hyman, National Gumina Jewish Committee on Scouting Location: Eisenhower Room Location: Eisenhower Room 9 – 9:30 a.m. — Youth Leadership 12 – 1:45 p.m. — Greenbrier Farms “Farm to Panel Discussion Table” Luncheon Location: Eisenhower Room Lunch with a Lunatic Farmer Featured speaker: Joel Salatin, 9:30 – 10 a.m. — Sustainability Leadership farmer and author in Scouting Roundtable Location: Cameo Ballroom Hosted by Zach Carson, BSA Sustainability Consultant 2 – 2:20 p.m. — Leadership and Legacy Location: Eisenhower Room Featured speaker: John Lanier, Director, Ray C. Anderson Foundation 10 – 10:15 a.m. — Mid-morning refreshment Location: Eisenhower Room and networking break Location: Eisenhower Foyer 2:20 – 2:45 p.m. — Sustainable Leadership Focus Location: Eisenhower Room 3 – 4 p.m. — Break-out Sessions sfiprogram.org Session Name Presenter Room Open Conversation With… Joel Salatin, farmer and author Taft Brian Glass, BSA Architect; Dave Cornell, BSA Architect; Best Practices in BSA Properties Hayes and Zach Carson, BSA Sustainability Consultant Raising More Money Through Brad Farmer, BSA Assistant Chief Scout Executive, McKinley Sustainability Development and Government Affairs 4 – 4:15 p.m. — Afternoon refreshment and book signing Location: Conference Center Hallway living-future.org/lbc 4:15 – 5:15 p.m. — Break-out Sessions usgbc.org/leed Session Name Presenter Room Open Conversation With… Dr. Matthew Sleeth, speaker and author Taft BSA Sustainability Long-Range Scott Harmon, BSA Sustainability Consultant Hayes Planning 5:45 – 7:15 p.m. — Next Steps networking reception Location: Cameo Ballroom treadlightly.org 7:15 – 8:30 p.m. — Closing Dinner and BSA Sustainability Awards Location: Cameo Ballroom Thursday, October 30 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. — Tour: Summit Bechtel 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. — Breakfast buffet Family National Scout Reserve Location: Eisenhower Foyer 8 a.m. — Pick up boxed lunches for tour greentodeepgreen.org greentodeepgreen.org Sustainability Timeline 1910 The Boy Scouts of America is founded. 1911 The first American Handbook for Boys introduces the Conservation merit badge. To earn the badge, Scouts must learn about timberland, water pollution, farming, and nearby game animals. 1914 Dr. William T. Hornaday, director of the New York Zoological Park and founder of the National Zoo 17M in Washington, D.C., establishes the Wildlife Protection Medal, which will later become the service hours William T. Hornaday Award. performed by Scouts 1917 In support of the war effort, Scouts plant 12,000 victory gardens, sell more than $355 million in Liberty Loan bonds and war savings stamps (more than $6 billion each year in 2014 dollars), collect 100 railroad cars of nut hulls and peach pits for gas-mask manufacture, locate 21 million board feet of black walnut trees for gunstocks and airplane propellers, and distribute more than 300 million pieces of government literature. 1938 After the death of Dr. William T. Hornaday, the BSA assumes responsibility for the Wildlife Protection Medal and renames it in Hornaday’s memory. 11.5M 1942 The government requests 69 war-related projects of the BSA. Scouts collect Total number of natural sciences 210,000 tons of scrap metal, 590,000 tons of waste paper, and enough milkweed floss to make nearly 2 million life jackets. They distribute millions merit badges earned of government posters, plant 184,000 victory gardens, and plant nearly two million trees to replace those harvested for the war effort. More than 126,000 Scouts help shorthanded farmers harvest their crops. 1945 Nearly 300,000 Scouts receive the General Eisenhower Waste Paper medal for collecting at least 1,000 pounds of waste paper. The General MacArthur Gardening Award goes to 20,000 Scouts for outstanding achievements in gardening in support of the war effort. Scouting introduces the Outdoor Code, which inspires 22M 1948 Total number of outdoor recreation generations of Scouts to be clean in their outdoor manners, be careful with fire, be considerate in the merit badges earned outdoors, and be conservation-minded. 1954 The BSA conducts a National Conservation Good Turn, The approximate number of distributing 3.6 million conservation posters. In parks, rural areas, and wilderness areas, Scouts plant 6.2 million trees, build and place 55,000 bird-nesting boxes, and arrange William T. 41,000 conservation displays. 4722 1970 Project SOAR (Save Our American Resources) is launched, Hornaday Awards encouraging Scouts to participate in conservation efforts. earned over 1971 Scouts collect more than 1 million tons of litter on the last Scouting Keep America Beautiful Day. 1972 The BSA introduces the Environmental Science years merit badge, which becomes required for the Eagle Scout Award. Scouts learn about ecology, 99 ecosystems, and water, land, and air pollution. recognizing significant More than 2.7 million Scouts will earn the badge by 2013. contributions to conservation 1974 Scouting Environment Day is held on April 27. 1984 The BSA releases a new edition of its venerable Fieldbook, which reflects a heightened awareness on minimum-impact camping. The book begins with a chapter on reducing our impact and ends with a section on appreciating the environment. 1991 The BSA releases its first Conservation Handbook, which helps Scout leaders establish positive relationships with land managers and guides them in planning conservation projects. 1998 The BSA adopts Leave No Trace as Scouting’s guideline for protecting the environment while conducting outdoor activities. Many Scout volunteers will go on to serve as Leave No Trace master educators. 2008 Through the ArrowCorps5 project, more than 3,800 Scout volunteers contribute more than $5 million worth of labor to five national forests. It’s the BSA’s largest national service project since World War II and the largest such project ever to benefit the U.S. Forest Service. 2009 The BSA issues the twelfth edition of the Boy Scout Handbook. Printed on recycled paper that was made using environmentally friendly processes, the handbook features artwork and quotations from all previous handbooks. 2010 The BSA forms a partnership with Tread Lightly!, a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote responsible outdoor recreation through ethics education and stewardship. BSA Outdoor Ethics will eventually grow to incorporate principles of both Tread Lightly! and Leave No Trace. 2013 The 10,600-acre Summit Bechtel Reserve opens near Beckley, W.V. The Summit is also its greenest facility yet, Printed on SFI employing geothermal and solar energy, graywater recycling, and locally harvested and milled lumber. certified paper The BSA introduces the Sustainability merit badge. An alternate to Environmental Science for the Eagle Scout Award, the badge engages Scouts in projects related to water, food, community, energy, and “stuff.” 2014 The BSA releases the first Sustainability Report with its 5-Year Sustainability Timeline and appoints its first Sustainability Director..