Discount Airfare

Monday, June 4, 2007

Discount Airfare

The setting is magnificent: a lakeside mountain retreat in Colorado.

Perhaps the perfect place to discuss the fragile planet and how to protect it.

At least that’s what dozens of public officials in the Kansas City area figured when traveling at taxpayer expense to Shadowcliff lodge in Grand Lake, Colo., for the past few years for workshops on conservation, recycling and other environmental topics.

This weekend, seven Jackson County officials are at Shadowcliff at a cost likely to approach $1,000 apiece. This summer, Discount Airfare Johnson County will send about 15 people to Shadowcliff, the city of Mission will send 23, and the local Environmental Protection Agency office, 10 to 20.

Shadowcliff is owned by the Kansas City nonprofit agency Bridging the Gap and co-directed by environmentalist Robert Mann, the agency’s founder. Workshops at the retreat cost $750 per person, including meals, dormitory-like lodging and seminars led by authorities on the environment Discount Airfare.

People who have been to Shadowcliff said the trip pays for itself in what they learned about energy efficiency and working together on environmental initiatives.

This weekend’s trip by Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders and six staff members to a five-day workshop called “Climate Discount Airfare Change and Sustainable Choices: What Each of Us Can Do” comes when the county’s financial struggles led to recent layoffs.

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