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 frank open forum addressing Tucson’s sustainability challenges and [...]

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” painted on the asphalt, between the moving [...]

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 more effectively.
Anyone may register, but to use the [...]

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 including South Tucson, Nogales, Marana, Pima County, and now the [...]

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 the “free market,” or “capitalism.” Whatever its name, people across the United States and throughout the world [...]

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, producing from 200 to 1,000 percent more per acre than large farms. [...]

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 Economic Localization (CELL) 463-2921 http://www.coastlocalize.org
coastlocalize@mcn.org
Greater Ukiah Localization Project (GULP) http://www.cloudforest.org
cliffpaulin@hotmail.com
Potter Valley Community Planning
http://www.cloudforest.org/Potter_Valley_Community_Planning
Boonville Economic Localization (with local grange)
Laytonville Economic Localization (with local grange)
South Coast Economic Localization (with local [...]

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 this issue …
“They’re making people every day,
but they ain’t makin’ any more dirt.”
- Will Rogers
A sustainable community involves [...]