Neighborhoods/Urban Villages/Cities

Grant Road - the face of Tucson’s future

Affiliated Organizations

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..."

Other Resources

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
  • US Green Building Council
    Green building certification, professional training & accreditation, educational resources...

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

Articles

  • High Performance Building Science Workshop
    Special event at the Village of Civano, Tucson Colors are names, each given to a specific spectrum of visible light. Visible wavelengths are measured in nanometers (nm). Green just so happens to live in the spectrum between approximately 520 and 565 nm. Building performance is also measured using specific,...
  • 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...
  • Registration for the Transition Town training: April 4,5
    TRANSITION TOWN TRAINING April 4 and 5, 2009 ~ La Placita Village, Tucson Click here for Registration Form Workshop Description: This two-day workshop is designed to provide a detailed introduction to the most important skills necessary to successfully set up, develop, and run a Transition project in...
  • The Power of Community (video /documentary on 1990 food & economy crisis in Cuba)
    Urban Food Growing in Havana Cuba: >>See Video How Cuba Survived Peak Oil: >> See Video The whole movie: When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells of the...
  • 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...
  • Deadline for "Form Based Codes - Worth a Try in Tucson?"
    Arizona Planning Association February 19 Breakfast Presentation - RSVP by this February 13th, noon You don't want to miss this event!  Hurry and save your seat! RSVP no later than noon on February 13, 2009. Please RSVP to: southernsectionboard@gmail.com AZPA Southern Section Board is proud to offer...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Public Policy and Urban Planning
    JANUARY General meeting -- Organizing Questions: Policy issues - what can be done? What can be done to speed progress - change of policy & zoning? Education and marketing(?) from government. Why is this not utilized in Tucson, Pima Co.? effective tool. Sustain. Public Participation - full engagement...
  • Neighborhoods
    JANUARY General Meeting -- Organizing Questions: Historic Preservation, beauty, eliminate more mcMansions, shelter to be elegant, simple, beautiful, sustainable. Vegetable Gardening in schools. Food production water(?). Block parties - getting to know your neighbors. How can we get zoning changes...