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SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES TOOLKIT

Local League Resource Kit

This "Toolkit" was distributed to all local Leagues in California in September, 2000.

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Tools

The publications in this kit were selected to provide a variety of levels of activity that Leagues and others can undertake.

• Examples of local League projects

 
• Sustainability Action Policy, LWVC

 
• Report, LWVC Task Force on Sustainable Communities.  
   
• Bibliography and Resources list (from 1998 Toolkit)

 
• Choices for a Vital Community: Which way do we go? (in PDF). See also a usage guide.

 
• Definitions of Sustainability (reprinted from 1998 kit)

 
• Sustainability Glossary from Izaak Walton League, Community Voices for Sustainability: A Workshop Guide, p. 30, Feb. 1998

 
• Grids: LWV positions vs. community indicators (reprinted from 1998 kit) {LWVPosGRID.xls and LWVPosGRIDclr.xls}

Activities and handout materials

From local Leagues and Inter-League Organizations:

• Venetoulis, Jason and Monty Hempel, Leaving Shallow Footprints, Ecological Footprint calculation sheet. LWV-Humboldt has placed this on their web site at http://www.lwvhc.org/vote/footprints.htm

 
• LWV-San Diego VOTER article on their Treasure Hunt

 
• Handout, LWV-LA County, "Sustainability - Basic to Life and League"

 
• Materials from LWV-Fresno:
• "12 Ways to Make Our Community a Better Place" handout
• Handout, "wheel" - good graphic showing interrelatedness of sustainability aspects
• Bay Area Monitor, August/Sept. 2000, LWV-Bay Area http://www.bayareamonitor.org/aug00/toc.html

 
• LWV-Los Angeles County population position

 
• LWV-Bay Area regional planning position
. To request a copy, please send an email to lwvba@lwvba-ca.org.
 

Enclosed with the September 2000 Resource Kit (unless otherwise noted):

• Corbett, Judith and Joe Velasquez, "The Ahwahnee Principles for Resource-Efficient Communities," Western City, September 1994 http://www.lgc.org/ahwahnee
   
• Sacramento Region Quality-of-Life Index 2000, Valley Vision / Regional Action Partnership http://www.valleyvision.org/ or email: editor@valleyvision.org

 
• Santa Barbara Region Economic Community Project, Preserving Our Future: Land-use Principles for the Next Generation. http://www.sbecp.org/documents.htm
   
• Sierra Business Council, Planning for Prosperity: Executive Summary. The most important portions of this document can be found at http://www.sbcouncil.org/pfp2.htm

 
• Population Coalition, Population Press, Special Issue: Life in My Community - a Survey, June 2000.   http://www.popco.org/press/index.html

 
• Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), How Many Californians?http://www.ppic.org/publications/CalCounts1/calcounts1.pdf

 
• PPIC, City Competition for Sales Taxes: Symptom of a Larger Problem? (Research Brief, July 1999) http://www.ppic.org/publications/PPIC121/PPIC121RB/ppic121.rb.pdf

 
• PPIC, Should Local Fiscal Authority Be Strengthened? (Research Brief) http://www.ppic.org/publications/PPIC127/PPIC127RB/ppic127.rb.pdf

 
• Report of the Commission on Local Governance for the 21st Century, Executive summary http://www.clg21.ca.gov/clg21_final_report.pdf

 
• Report of Speaker's Commission on State and Local Finance (March 2000). Excerpts were in Toolkit - The entire report can be found at http://speaker.metroforum.org/report.html

 
• Santa Monica Sustainable City Program, adopted September 20, 1994 http://pen.ci.santa-monica.ca.us/environment/policy/adopted2.pdf

 
• Lovins, Amory B., L. Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken, "A Road Map for Natural Capitalism," Harvard Business Review, May-June 1999. Also at http://www.natcap.org/

 

• Green Plans Primer - Working Strategies for a Sustainable Future, Resource Renewal Institute http://www.rri.org/greenplans.html or http://www.rri.org/bestpractices/primer.pdf

 

• Chiras, Daniel D., and Julie Herman, "Sustainable Community Development: A Systems Approach," reprint (contact the LWVC office at 1-888-870-8683 or email lwvc@lwvc.org for a copy)

 

• Hempel, Lamont C., Sustainable Communities, From Vision to Action (To order: send check or money order for $5.00 each made out to " Population Coalition ", see http://www.popco.org/press/ , PO Box 7918, Redlands, CA 92375. For more information, email mhempel@earthlink.net )

 

• Hempel, Marilyn, Sustainable Communities, Guide for Grassroots Activists See http://www.popco.org/press/ (Population Coalition, see above for ordering information)

 

• President's Council on Sustainable Development, Executive Summary. Several other reports by the Council are also available from the Government Printing Office and on the Clinton Presidential Materials Project website. See http://clinton4.nara.gov/PCSD/Publications/index.html

 

• Sustainable San Mateo County, an activity of the Tides Center, Indicators for a Sustainable San Mateo County (Updated, 2002 report is available online at www.sustainablesanmateo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=indicators.welcome )

 

• Izaak Walton League: Community Voices for Sustainability, A Workshop Guide (available from Sustainability Education Project, Izaak Walton League of America , 707 Conservation Lane, Gaithersburg, MD 20878. Phone: 301-548-0150, Fax: 301-548-0146, E-mail: sustain@iwla.org. )

 

• Community Environmental Council, Gildea Resource Center, Santa Barbara, Sustainable Community Indicators: Guideposts for Local Planning (available online at http://www.communityenvironmentalcouncil.org/publications/ )

 

The League of Women Voters of California thanks the following organizations for their generous donation of publications:

Population Coalition, Public Policy Institute of California, Resource Renewal Institute, Santa Barbara Region Economic Community Project, Sierra Business Council, Valley Vision / Regional Action Partnership

Special thanks to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for their generous grant supporting the Sustainable Communities Project and development of the Choice Book, and to all those local Leagues and individuals who have contributed matching funds.