Relocalization


Affiliated Organizations

  • Baja Arizona Sustainable Agriculture
    "a 501c3 non-profit organization working to increase local sustainable food production and marketing in southern Arizona."
  • Community Gardens of Tucson
  • Desert Harvesters
    Desert Harvesters is a volunteer -run, grassroots organization based in Tucson. We strive to promote, celebrate, and enhance, local food security and production by encouraging the planting of indigenous, food-bearing shade trees (such as the Velvet mesqui
  • Iskashitaa Refugee Harvesting Network
    “We empower refugees by creating opportunities to use their knowledge and skills from Africa to help their families and their own community and to better integrate with the larger Tucson community while gaining life skills that serve them in America.”
  • Natural Systems Solutions
    "community sustainability education and consulting services"
  • Sonoran Permaculture Guild
    An excellent resource for all people wanting to design systems guided by ecology, including building, food production and water harvesting. The site also features workshops taught by Tucson's experts in the field.
  • Tucson Farmers Market
    Tucson Farmer's Market hours, events, favorite vendors, and other info

Other Local Organizations

Local Businesses

Other Resources

  • Green Drinks Tucson
    Every month people who work in the environmental field meet up for a drink at informal sessions around the world known as Green Drinks.
  • Sonoran Permaculture Guild
    An excellent resource for all people wanting to design systems guided by ecology, including building, food production and water harvesting. The site also features workshops taught by Tucson's experts in the field.

Global Organizations

  • EcoCity Builders
  • ReLocalization Network
    The Relocalization Network supports local groups in developing community activities and programs that can be implemented locally and as working models for other communities seeking to increase their resilience.

Local Discussion Groups

  • Green Drinks Tucson
    Every month people who work in the environmental field meet up for a drink at informal sessions around the world known as Green Drinks.
  • Tucson Permaculture discussion group
    Getting started with projects like growing food, harvesting rainwater, harnessing solar energy? This email discussion group is a good place to post questions, share knowledge, and make connections.

Articles

  • New Film: "Food, Inc"
    On July 17: the most-talked about new film, “Food, Inc.” will be shown at The Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd., 520-795-7777, http://www.loftcinema.com
  • ST Gen. Mtg: "The Global Financial Meltdown: Its Causes, and Opportunities for Localized Restructuring"
    What: Sustainable Tucson August General Meeting When: Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 5:45pm- 8:00pm Where: Joel D. Valdez Main Library Downtown, 101 N. Stone Ave (free lower level parking off Alameda St.) Sustainable Tucson is pleased to present a Special General Meeting featuring one of ST's original...
  • Coming: New film 'In Transition'
    These are the emerging plans for the release of the Transition Movement's first major film, "In Transition."  Some of you watched an online screening of the unfinished version June 12-14th. Stage 2. Indie Screenings. We're planning then to make the film available via the Age of Stupid's Indie Screenings...
  • Sustainability Actions Everyone Can Do
    Sustainability Actions Everyone Can Do We in Tucson face an unprecedented sustainability crisis including economic meltdown, climate change, resource depletion, and unraveling of the social fabric.------- Every level of our community is important in the effort to mitigate and adapt to these inter-related...
  • Sustainable Tucson July General Meeting
    What: Sustainable Tucson July General Meeting When: Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 5:45pm- 8:00pm Where: Joel D. Valdez Main Library Downtown, 101 N. Stone Ave (free lower level parking off Alameda St.) At the July general meeting, Sustainable Tucson will show the film "Fresh" and provide time for people...
  • Nabhan: ”Flavors Without Borders: Desert Foods, Regional Food Security and Health”
    Widely acclaimed author, sustainable food advocate, ethnobiologist and co-founder of Native Seeds/SEARCH, Gary Paul Nabhan speaks on ”Flavors Without Borders: Desert Foods, Regional Food Security and Health” as part of the Well University Partnership’s (Well U) Provost Lecture Series, on March...
  • Saving the Suburbs. Walkable Urbanism. Green Redevelopment.
    Tucson's problems are increasing. After two years, we continue to have a glut of approximately 8,000 to 10,000 empty, unsold houses. Home prices are plummeting. Families are abandoning their foreclosed houses, especially in the suburbs. Builders are going bankrupt. Skilled workers are losing their jobs...
  • ST Support Statement for Economic Stimulus, Redevelopment, and Green Jobs
    February 10, 2009 Honorable Tucson Mayor and Council Members, Sustainable Tucson acknowledges the dire economic conditions facing the City of Tucson as well as the people and organizations in our community. While we hope for the best, we also recognize that this emerging situation is unprecedented and...
  • Donate Your Tree's Fruit
    DONATE YOUR TREE’S FRUIT We are Iskashitaa Refugee Harvesting Network, volunteers working with refugees to harvest and distribute over 30,000 pounds of produce annually from your fruit trees and local farms. • Can’t give it away before it spoils? •We’ll pick up, harvest and distribute your...
  • The Transition Movement comes to America
    One response to the global crisis that is gaining enthusiastic momentum in Tucson and around the world is the Transition Towns movement. Sustainable Tucson is taking advantage of many Transition Resources to support our Sustainability Planning Initiative. Jennifer Gray, a pioneer in the Transition Initiative...