Affiliated Organizations

• Beantree Farm
  consulting/design services, education, workshops, tours, permaculture, green building, earth/cob/straw/recycled materials building, integrated passive/active low energy/water community design, local/native foods, food security, educational staycations, na
• Learn to fix a house
  
• Sonoran Permaculture Guild
  An excellent resource for all people wanting to design systems guided by ecology, including building, food production and water harvesting. The site also features workshops taught by Tucson's experts in the field.
• Tucson Office of Conservation and Sustainable Development
  
• Tucson Sustainability Forum Report 2008
  
• TucsonRecycles.org
  Find out where to recycle anything, and more, in the Tucson region.

Other Local Organizations

• 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
• University of Arizona Sustainability Site
  UA Sustainability Site
• UofA Sustainability Centers
  Various Centers for Sustainability in conjunction with the University of Arizona.

Local Businesses

• Greener Lives LLC
  A licensed, full-service interior design firm that specializes in healthy and sustainable interiors

Global Organizations

• Climate Code Red.net
  There is an urgent need to understand global warming and the tipping points for dangerous impacts that we have already crossed as a sustainability emergency, that takes us beyond the politics of failure-inducing compromise. We are now in a race between c
• Faith Voices .org
  Faith Voices seeks to educate the wider public about the shared values, issues, and ethical concerns of religious people and their organizations. It enhances community interconnections among its diverse member organizations to coordinate efforts to educat
• Handbook for Rooftop Water Harvesting
  This report by the International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC) is a useful guide to rooftop water harvesting. It is intended for the developing world, but as a community that is transforming itself into a desert-adapted community, that is where we ar
• Low Impact Living Calculator
  
• 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

• 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.
• 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

Publications/Media Resources

• The Cat Scan
  A University of Arizona, student-run publication on sustainability.
• 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

• 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."

Site Search

Transition Initiative

Sustainable Tucson is an official U.S. Transition Initiative

Our Mission and Vision

WORKING TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY

Top Priorities Community-Wide - Our citizen-driven planning initiative has distilled the Top Priorities necessary for Tucson to become Sustainable.

Individual Actions, large and small - Everyone can take steps to move our community resiliency.

Climate Change: Cool Cities Committee Report (pdf) by the Sierra Club Rincon Group - A starter plan for addressing the urgent issues related to climate change.