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Marc posts this over at the Hotel Bruce blog:

"Cleveland�s brain drain just sprung a major leak. Sadhu Johnston, founder and executive director of the Cleveland Green Building Coalition, is leaving Cleveland for Chicago. Johnston accepted a position as Mayor Richard Daley�s special assistant for sustainability, joining that city�s effort to be the greenest city in America. Beginning in October, Johnston will work with the heads of Chicago's city departments such as the Office of Environment (and its 100 staff persons) to develop and manage all of the city�s green building and sustainability initiatives...Lesson to be learned? We can cuss out Chicago all we want for stealing our best and brightest, but the energy would be better spent creating our own city Office of the Environment and making Cleveland the greenest city in America."

You've got to admire Marc for making lemonade out of lemons. I think there will always be talent coming and going. Wouldn't it be great if we could attract someone to that position from somewhere else? I'm thinking of someone like Ed Morrison, who I finally met for the first time yesterday. Ed is the new director at REI, and is taking the culture of that organization to new levels. I expect something similar over at the Cleveland Green Building Coalition.