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An Insightful Future Oxford Expo

Saturday, 22 April 2017 08:43

The Future Oxford Expo has wrapped up for another year.

The Future of Oxford County was on display at the Oxford Auditorium on Thursday.

Those who attended were given a chance to test drive a Tesla and they heard from three keynote speakers. Warden David Mayberry tells Heart FM the guest speakers did a great job.

"Sort of providing a big vision of what we can do if we want to with the development in London and the General Motors presentation explaining how they see the future and where we can go from there, you sort of just feel very hopeful."

The key note speakers were Doug Yates, Director, Environment & Energy, GM Canada, Dr Chih C. Chao with Cantech Environmental Services and Milfred Hammberbacher who's the Co-Founder and CEO of s2e Technologies Inc.

One of the original members of the Future Oxford Steering Committee Cher Sprague tells Heart FM what she hopes people took away from the Expo.

"I'm hoping they go home and think about what it means to be sustainable. It's a very nebulous concept, when you can see ideas that will make it so that we are not using up all of our resources and making our environment better, our living environment, our social environment, woodlands and rivers better. It will give people an idea of what they can do because it is everybody that needs to contribute, it's not just the administrators, or the people that are in a company or doing something specific, it is everybody who needs to help."

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