Announcing Our Expo 2024 Theme!

Dear AERO  friends and allies – 

At the 2022 MOA conference, keynote speaker Nikos Kavanya introduced me to the Well-Being of Future Generations (Wales) Act of 2015.  

It turns out that Wales is the first country in the world to pass legislation requiring public bodies at all levels of government to improve the country’s economic, social, environmental, and cultural well-being. The Act requires published objectives and action across seven goals: resiliency, health, equality, cohesive communities, vibrant culture & heritage, global responsibility, and prosperity (including being responsive to climate change).  

Jane Davidson, the Act’s architect, wrote her book #futuregen: lessons from a small country describing how the Act got written and passed, as a primer for others across the globe who want to make change where they live.

 Here at AERO, we understand that the well-being of future generations is at the heart of AERO’s mission: promoting a more sustainable Montana for all.  So, we thought: what better opportunity than AERO’s 50th Anniversary (aka Expo 2024, happening this October in Billings, AERO’s birthplace) to create space for co-designing a blueprint for the well-being of Montana’s future generations?  

Announcing our 50th Anniversary/2024 Expo theme:

#futuregenMT: designing a path for the well-being of Montana’s future generations.