Mayor Battle Participates In ‘Planet Forward’ Discussion

Mayor Tommy Battle was in Washington, D.C. this week to talk about Huntsville’s sustainability.  He participated in a panel discussion for the World Wildlife Fund and Planet Forward.

Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory and D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray also participated, talking about ways to build a ‘sustainability generation’.  They talked about things that work in their cities and things that don’t, and how they began thinking about a greener planet.

“Huntsville was working on sustainability before it was cool,” said Mayor Battle. “When NASA engineers first developed the capsule that would take humans into outer space in the 1960s, they had to think about self-contained environments where everything was used and recycled. We have been working on it in Huntsville ever since.”

Planet Forward is a project of the Center for Innovative Media at George Washington University.