Information on community planning, resliancy and sustainable economic development activities
Pamela Neronha: Be more than a developer of places; become a developer of communities. Revitalize relationships, not just buildings or land parcels.
Molly brown: Why doesn’t the Market require compostable bags? Well, it turns out that when compostable bags get mixed in with plastic bags in recycling, they literally gum up the works. And it’s very hard to separate compostable bags from plastic bags, because they look pretty much the same.
Pamela Neronha: People need jobs and opportunities that are intentional, self-fulfilling, and evolutionary. Growth is good if it is compatible with natural capital, and indeed necessary for community sustainability.
Molly Brown: Five principles that communities (and individuals) can adopt to create cultures of longevity and justice, which help everyone to live longer and healthier lives.
Pamela Neronha: One of the challenges any community has is facing the fact that individuals in a community often lack a shared vision and goals; that we have mental models that prevent us from dreaming that vision into reality. We put 90% of our efforts into implementation, frequently promoting action of a policy that is not a shared vision.
Arielle Halpern: Rivers meander through towns, parks, and states, careless of who administers the land on which they run. Our forests and watersheds predate the advent of jurisdictional boundaries. So, why should we approach land management in a way that acknowledges the boundaries but not the landscape?
Rising to the challenges of climate change, our area is in a unique position to prosper in 2018 and beyond.
by Molly Brown From Mt. Shasta Herald, February 13, 2015 Ours is a world of peril and transformation. We face the unprecedented challenges of global climate disruption, gross economic inequality, over-population, international financial breakdown, potential epidemics, rising seas, droughts and famine, power-outages, and spiraling fuel costs – with no place to move to, no [...]
We respond to recent newspaper opinion - Crystal Geyser operations pose unknown risks to local wells without putting a dent in our economic challenges. Let's seek real changes that create good jobs!
