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By Karen Robes Meeks LONG BEACH - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is slated to speak at the Downtown Long Beach Associates' fifth annual State of the Downtown event in November, the DLBA announced Wednesday. Kennedy will address an estimated 500 to 600 civic, business and community leaders Nov. 21 at the Westin Hotel and discuss his work as an environmental activist. A chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and the chairman of Waterkeeper Alliance, Kennedy also will speak on...

Sustainability. The word is defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a condition or state of existence that requires "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who will be the keynote speaker at the Southwest Washington Sustainability Conference, Trade Show and Greenfest in Vancouver next week ( www.cityofvancouver.us/ conference ), put it this way in an April 18 speech in Oklahoma...