Re: Sustainable Community?

["Sam and Debbie Duncan" <sduncan@turbonet.com>]

Well, I guess we ain't yet sustainable, huh

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> From: Greg Brown <gregb@alaskapacific.edu>
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: Sustainable Community?
> Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 1:23 AM
> 
> Visionaries,
> 
>    Is Moscow a "sustainable community"?
> Pullman?  Compare your community characteristics
> with the criteria below.
> 
> 
> Characteristics of Sustainable Communities
> (Adapted from Beatley and Manning,
> "The Ecology of Place", 1997)
> 
> 1) Compact Urban “footprint”
>   • minimal conversion of natural and open lands
> 2) Restorative and regenerative
>   • degraded and blighted areas are reversed/healed
> 3) Focused on high quality of life
>  • livable, vibrant, and active communities offer safety, adequate and
> affordable  shelter, health care, essential services, humane and
> stimulating work environments
> 4) Integrative and holistic—problems viewed comprehensively
>  • avoids quick fixes that address only symptoms
> 5) “Place” Matters
>  • topography and natural setting, sense of history and character,
> rituals and events  build and strengthen social fabric in community
> 6 ) Promote Full-Cost of Public and Private Decisions
>  • reflect consequences of economic incentives/disincentives and
> governmental action
> 7)  Embodies New Ethical Posture
>  • embraces land ethic, regional contextual, present and
> intergenerational equity
> 
> --
> Greg Brown (gregb@alaskapacific.edu)
> Associate Professor
> Environmental Science Department
> Alaska Pacific University
> (907) 564-8267
> http://polar.alaskapacific.edu/gregb
>