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"

Other Local Organizations

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.

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

  • Visiting team points Tucson greenward
    Hundreds of Tucsonans participated in the three-day Sustainable Tucson Forum on June 11-13 to share their vision of a sustainable Tucson and talk about the details of accomplishing that goal. The 2-hour community conversation on the first night was the highlight event with everyone giving voice in an...
  • What Bike Friendly Looks Like
    What "Bike Friendly" Looks Like (Bicycle Neglect #4) Posted by Alan Durning on 05/17/2007 at 06:30 PM What if cities had no sidewalks and everyone walked on the road? Or, for urban recreation, they walked on a few scenic trails? What if the occasional street had a three-foot-wide “walking lane”...
  • Collaboration Tools
    The Living Directory The Living Directory is a “network of trust” that serves dozens of groups worldwide. Sustainable Tucson is one of those groups, and everyone involved in the coalition is encouraged to register and post their information so that we might know about one another and collaborate...
  • Tucson City Manager Invites Public Voices
    Tucson City Manager Invites Public Voices; Sustainability and Culture are Priorities Dateline March 7, Tucson, AZ by Lindianne Sarno Mike Hein, City Manager of Tucson, spoke March 6 at a breakfast meeting of the Sun Belt World Trade Association. He has worked for several Southern Arizona local governments...
  • Local Economies, Local Choices
    Independence from the Corporate Global Economy by Ethan Miller http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1545 The old story says we have to depend on big corporations. The new story tells us we can earn a livelihood, gain freedom, and build community through cooperation. Call it "globalization," or...
  • Picture Southeast Arizona Full of Small Farms!
    What's So Beautiful About Small by Peter Rossett http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=353 Are small farms as bountiful as they are beautiful? Can they really compete with large farms in the agriculture of the future? The answer is yes on both counts. Here's why. . Small farms are far more productive,...
  • Relocalization URL list
    This list of URLs on relocalization comes from one of Eugene, Oregon's great activists, Kathy Ging. Community is the Solution: http://www.communitysolution.org/solution.html ECONOMIC LOCALIZATION HAS BEGUN: Willits Economic Localization (WELL) 459-1256 http://www.willitseconomiclocalization.org Coast...
  • Bio-Intensive Gardening for Self-Sufficient Cities
    Cultivating Our Garden, by John Jeavons http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC42/Jeavons.htm Biointensive farming uses less water, land, machinery, and fertilizer - and more human labor One of the articles in A Good Harvest (IC#42) Fall 1995, Page 34 Copyright (c)1995, 1997 by Context Institute | To order...