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Welcome to Sustainable Tucson

Sustainable Tucson’s Next General Meeting
* Film Showing: “Fresh” *
Tuesday, July 14th, 5:45 to 8:00pm
Joel Valdez Main Library, Downtown
101 N. Stone Ave
Read More here…

Important Local Economy meeting in August

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Sustainable Tucson is now an official U. S. Transition Initiative

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Who We Are (new)

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WORKING TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY

Top Priorities Community-Wide Our citizen-driven planning initiative has distilled the Top Priorities necessary for Tucson to become Sustainable.

Individual Actions, large and small: Everyone can take steps to move our community resiliency.

Climate Change: Cool Cities Committee Report by the Sierra Club Rincon Group: A starter plan for addressing the urgent issues related to Climate Change(pdf)

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Of Interest

Watch “The Story of Stuff”

The Story of Stuff is a wonderful online video about sustainable production and consumption, a culture of practices we don’t see very much of yet. In addition to the suggested “10 Little and Big Things You Can Do”, there is a pressing need for organized, coordinated action at the grassroots level. This is why Sustainable Tucson is so important. Watch “The Story of Stuff” on your own browser here.

The Drying of the West: Our Future?

UA climate scientist Jonathon Overpeck confirms previous studies that Arizona is ground zero for the most extreme warming and drying impacts in the U.S. Read article here. UA Regents Professor, Malcolm Hughes recently completed a new study that shows the last decade was the hottest in at least the past 1300 years.

Upcoming Scheduled Events

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14 July:
- Sustainable Tucson July General Meeting (5:45 pm)
17 July:
- New Film: "Food, Inc" (12:00 am)
31 July:
- High Performance Building Science Workshop (all day)
12 August:
- ST Gen. Mtg: "The Global Financial Meltdown: Its Causes, and Opportunities for Localized Restructuring" (5:45 pm)
9 September:
- Coming: New film 'In Transition' (all day)

See all events.

Stay Informed

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