Sustainable Tucson’s next General Meeting
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
5:45 pm to 8:00 pm.
Joel Valdez Main Library
101 N Stone Ave. - downstairs
Please join us!
Read our May 2008 email newsletter here.
COMMUNITY ALERT! Opportunity to provide your input regarding the City-County water/wastewater future. Our views are being solicited by the City and County. Read more.
MUST READ ALERT! A new report written for community leaders and activists documents the Sustainability Emergency. Read and hear more about “Climate: Code Red”
Welcome. This is the evolving website of Sustainable Tucson – an up-to-date center for all things sustainable in Tucson.
SUSTAINABILITY MATTERS
Sustainable Tucson supported by a Pulliam Grant in 2008
Sustainable Tucson will benefit from the support of a professional grant writer to bring operational funding to its leadership and affinity groups for providing sustainability education to the public in Tucson and Pima County. Read more
ST distributes flyer on Questioning Growth Assumptions and calls for a Community Conversation on sustainability at the Tucson Growth Forum - Download Flyer here.
Sustainable Tucson’s Core Team calls for community responses to the opportunities of sustainability and transitioning our economy towards sustainable products, services, and practices. Read more.
“Quest for sustainability opens up opportunities”
ST Core Team member Bob Cook’s Guest Opinion “Quest for sustainability opens up opportunities” is published by the Arizona Daily Star on March 5th. This editorial piece is related to the longer ST article above. Read the Guest Opinion.
Mayor Bob Walkup calls for Tucson–A Sustainable City
Building a sustainable economy was Mayor Walkup’s key theme in his inspiring 2008 State of the City speech. Asking probing questions on water, land-use, sustainable technology-driven economic development, he urged everyone to participate in moving our community forward. He said, “We need the business community to engage on environmental issues. Smart business owners are learning more about how climate change is affecting consumer attitudes, methods of production and the bottom line…..We need the environmental community to engage on economic issues. An environmental agenda that focuses on habitat restoration and open space protection is good. But transforming our local economy from one deeply dependent on land development to one focused on high-tech, clean industry is more sustainable.“ Read the speech.
Ciclovia: Bogota, Colombia
Every Sunday and holiday, every week, the City of Bogotá, Colombia closes down over 70 miles of roadways to cars and lets people bike, walk, talk, exercise, picnic, sunbathe. Just watch the video, it’s amazing.
Watch “The Story of Stuff”
The Story of Stuff is a wonderful online video about sustainable production and consumption, a culture of practices we don’t see very much of yet. In addition to the suggested “10 Little and Big Things You Can Do”, there is a pressing need for organized, coordinated action at the grassroots level. This is why Sustainable Tucson is so important. Watch “The Story of Stuff” on your own browser here.
The Drying of the West: Our Future?
UA Regents Professor, Malcolm Hughes recently summarized regional climate science developments aided by UA Dendrochronology Research. Read more.
Call for Federal Biofuels Moratorium
Environmental and social justice groups call for a Federal Moratorium on all incentives, subsidies, and renewable fuels targets for agrofuels (biofuels) in federal energy legislation until standards can be developed to ensure that plant-based fuels show significant environmental benefits over fossil fuels, and that they do not contribute to world hunger or human rights abuses. Watch the video here.
Quote of the Month
“The longer you postpone the necessary, the more expensive becomes the inevitable.” said Chancellor Angela Merkel, the German head of state, regarding the need for decisive, cooperative actions to stabilize the climate. This quote represents the kind of leadership we …..Read more.
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