Neighborhoods/Urban Villages/Cities
Affiliated Organizations
- Barrio Santa Rita Park Neighborhood Association
- Canelo Project
"A small non-profit dedicated to the exploration and education of natural, local and artistic building techniques Workshops in straw bale, earthen and lime plasters... - Community Gardens of Tucson
- CSA - Tucson's Community Supported Agriculture
Locally grown produce - weekly shares program, or trade yours - 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 - Development Center for Appropriate Technology
"...promoting a shift to sustainable construction and development through leadership, strategic relationships and education." - Learn to fix a house
- Pro Neighborhoods
- re-HOME
re-HOME provides various green building services including webinars, workshops, in-home energy assessments, decision support, etc. Patricia Ewanski - Tucson Sustainability Forum Report 2008
- US Green Building Council - Arizona Chapter, Southern Branch
Green building certification, professional training & accreditation, educational resources... - Volunteer Center of Southern Arizona
The Youth Volunteer Corps (YVC) is a program for youth ages 11-18. We provide service learning and leadership opportunities in several different areas including the environment, animals, children, seniors, homelessness, hunger, social justice and more...
Other Local Organizations
- CSA - Tucson's Community Supported Agriculture
Locally grown produce - weekly shares program, or trade yours - Solar Grants for Nonprofits
Technicians For Sustainability is glad to be able to offer a grant program for non-profits who are interested in adding solar systems to their buildings. We offer both matching solar grants and full solar grants. Due dates for applications are March 21 an - Terrasante Community
"Permaculture, organic and biodynamic farming practices, earth architecture, earth as sculpture, architecture as art, and environmentally conscious design..."
Local Businesses
- re-HOME
re-HOME provides various green building services including webinars, workshops, in-home energy assessments, decision support, etc. Patricia Ewanski
Other Resources
- Learn to fix a house
- Solar Grants for Nonprofits
Technicians For Sustainability is glad to be able to offer a grant program for non-profits who are interested in adding solar systems to their buildings. We offer both matching solar grants and full solar grants. Due dates for applications are March 21 an - Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan (Pima County)
"What Pima County has now achieved is the integration of all natural resource protection and land use planning activities into one plan." - Synanim - group idea distilling and document writing
Synanim is social software that enables participants to quickly develop ideas in small groups online. As easy as sending e-mail, It guides you and your group through a series of writing and sharing steps. Each participant benefits from the best ideas, an - Tucson Green Magazine
A monthly publication focusing on Sustainable Living, Community Spirit, Home and Garden, Natural Health, Good Food, Style and Arts, the Outdoors, Social Consciousness, and the Products, Services, Economics and Activities of - Tucson Sustainability Forum Report 2008
- Urban Environmental Accords
Signed by 50 cities worldwide (including Tucson) in 2005, the accords outline 21 steps toward sustainability. - US Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement
The City of Tucson signed this agreement in 2006.
Global Organizations
- City of Portland Office of Sustainable Development
- City Repair.org
"helping people reclaim their urban spaces to create community-oriented places." - Community Solution
Community Service, Inc. (CSI), founded in 1940, is a non-profit organization that educates on the benefits and values of small local community living. We envision a world where people live sustainably and cooperatively in local communities which are diver - EcoCity Builders
- Inhabitat.com
A weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future. - Synanim - group idea distilling and document writing
Synanim is social software that enables participants to quickly develop ideas in small groups online. As easy as sending e-mail, It guides you and your group through a series of writing and sharing steps. Each participant benefits from the best ideas, an
Local Discussion Groups
- Synanim - group idea distilling and document writing
Synanim is social software that enables participants to quickly develop ideas in small groups online. As easy as sending e-mail, It guides you and your group through a series of writing and sharing steps. Each participant benefits from the best ideas, an - 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.
Publications/Media Resources
- Inhabitat.com
A weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future. - Tucson Green Magazine
A monthly publication focusing on Sustainable Living, Community Spirit, Home and Garden, Natural Health, Good Food, Style and Arts, the Outdoors, Social Consciousness, and the Products, Services, Economics and Activities of
Government Relations
- City of Tucson Office of Conservation and Sustainable Development
"OCSD delivers policies and programs that integrate efforts related to energy efficiency, renewable resources, waste reduction and recycling, resource conservation, climate change, green building, and smart growth." - Environmental Accords/Green Cities Declaration and Sustainability Committee (City of Tucson)
Facilitates and monitors the City's progress on the Environmental Accords/Green Cities Declaration and the Kyoto Treaty and advise Mayor and Council on ways to best meet the goals set out in those documents. - Pima Association of Governments
Pima Association of Governments is a nonprofit metropolitan planning organization with Transportation Planning, Environmental Planning and Technical Services divisions. - Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan (Pima County)
"What Pima County has now achieved is the integration of all natural resource protection and land use planning activities into one plan."
Articles
- Cyclovia Tucson
Cyclovia will give Tucson folks the chance to enjoy our great weather, see neighbors, friends and people from throughout Tucson, and get a little exercise – all on city streets that will be closed to car traffic and open to walkers, joggers, cyclists, skaters and all other forms of natural movement... - Put it on the map!
Dear Community Friends and Partners: The first print edition of the Green Pueblo Map showcasing our community’s favorite “green” places and spaces will be available later this year. If you haven’t already done so, we encourage you to “make your mark” on the map by nominating your favorite... - SAGCC Launch and Luncheon
The Southern Arizona Green Chamber of Commerce invites you to their Launch and Luncheon at the Tucson Assoc. of Realtors Meeting Room 2445 N. Tucson Blvd. Enjoy our luncheon speaker, MC Gina Murphy-Darling: "Mrs Green Goes Mainstream" Learn how you can benefit through: Green Education Green Business... - The Water Project
Celebrate our most precious and endangered resource -WATER -with the The Water Project: Tucson’s Synergistic Water Festival on March 26-28, 2010. This event combines the energy of Tucson’s sustainability community with the vibrant arts community to provide an opportunity for the public to experience... - Really Really FREE Market!
A Community Celebration of Sharing, Reusing, and Recycling. Bring something to share: useful items, a vegetarian snack, music or poetry, skills (haircuts, painting, knitting, etc.), or just your smile. Take home what you need or want. 3rd Saturday of every month at Himmel Park. Meet east of the tennis... - Brainstorming Gathering
Come help plan the Water Festival! Come to the Brainstorming Gathering. Doors open / Sign in: 6pm Discussion / Activities: 6:30-8:30pm Armory Park Center 220 S. 5th Avenue, Tucson AZ (On 5th Avenue, South of 12th St) At the Community Brainstorm Gathering you will have the opportunity to: Learn more... - ProNeighborhoods Workshop
What's Working: A roundtable of resident experts Many of the problems neighborhoods face have found a successful solution somewhere in Tucson. This workshop will touch on crime, the environment, streets and transportation projects,development/redevelopment and infill, tracking proposals before the Mayor... - Transition Town's Local Currency
In what is surely one of the more interesting convergences of economics and design in recent memory, the multiethnic, small-business-dominated London neighborhood of Brixton recently started printing its own currency. For more information see the NY Times blog. - Sustainable Tucson General Meeting
The focus of the Sustainable Tucson General Meeting will be Food Sustainability. On February 8, your view of food sustainability in Tucson ’s future may change forever. The Sustainable Tucson Working Group on Food & Agriculture will engage your mind and your tastebuds in thinking about the sources... - Green Streets and Neighborhoods Festival
Tucson-based nonprofit Watershed Management Group and the Rincon Heights Neighborhood Association are hosting a block party and cookout to celebrate and share their successful model program installing \"green infrastructure\" in the neighborhood. Green infrastructure is vegetated infrastructure that...
Meetings and Events
- Cyclovia Tucson
Cyclovia will give Tucson folks the chance to enjoy our great weather, see neighbors, friends and people from throughout Tucson, and get a little exercise – all on city streets that will be closed to car traffic and open to walkers, joggers, cyclists, skaters and all other forms of natural movement... - Put it on the map!
Dear Community Friends and Partners: The first print edition of the Green Pueblo Map showcasing our community’s favorite “green” places and spaces will be available later this year. If you haven’t already done so, we encourage you to “make your mark” on the map by nominating your favorite... - SAGCC Launch and Luncheon
The Southern Arizona Green Chamber of Commerce invites you to their Launch and Luncheon at the Tucson Assoc. of Realtors Meeting Room 2445 N. Tucson Blvd. Enjoy our luncheon speaker, MC Gina Murphy-Darling: "Mrs Green Goes Mainstream" Learn how you can benefit through: Green Education Green Business... - The Water Project
Celebrate our most precious and endangered resource -WATER -with the The Water Project: Tucson’s Synergistic Water Festival on March 26-28, 2010. This event combines the energy of Tucson’s sustainability community with the vibrant arts community to provide an opportunity for the public to experience... - Really Really FREE Market!
A Community Celebration of Sharing, Reusing, and Recycling. Bring something to share: useful items, a vegetarian snack, music or poetry, skills (haircuts, painting, knitting, etc.), or just your smile. Take home what you need or want. 3rd Saturday of every month at Himmel Park. Meet east of the tennis... - Brainstorming Gathering
Come help plan the Water Festival! Come to the Brainstorming Gathering. Doors open / Sign in: 6pm Discussion / Activities: 6:30-8:30pm Armory Park Center 220 S. 5th Avenue, Tucson AZ (On 5th Avenue, South of 12th St) At the Community Brainstorm Gathering you will have the opportunity to: Learn more... - ProNeighborhoods Workshop
What's Working: A roundtable of resident experts Many of the problems neighborhoods face have found a successful solution somewhere in Tucson. This workshop will touch on crime, the environment, streets and transportation projects,development/redevelopment and infill, tracking proposals before the Mayor... - Transition Town's Local Currency
In what is surely one of the more interesting convergences of economics and design in recent memory, the multiethnic, small-business-dominated London neighborhood of Brixton recently started printing its own currency. For more information see the NY Times blog. - Sustainable Tucson General Meeting
The focus of the Sustainable Tucson General Meeting will be Food Sustainability. On February 8, your view of food sustainability in Tucson ’s future may change forever. The Sustainable Tucson Working Group on Food & Agriculture will engage your mind and your tastebuds in thinking about the sources... - Green Streets and Neighborhoods Festival
Tucson-based nonprofit Watershed Management Group and the Rincon Heights Neighborhood Association are hosting a block party and cookout to celebrate and share their successful model program installing \"green infrastructure\" in the neighborhood. Green infrastructure is vegetated infrastructure that...

