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.

 

Activities and handout materials

From local Leagues and Inter-League Organizations:

Publications

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

Distributed at Presidents Council, May 2000 Distributed in 1998 Resource Kit (information here on obtaining additional copies):
  • 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)

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

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  • 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

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Acknowledgements

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
We also thank local League and LWVC Sustainability Committee members for their contributions to this kit. Committee members were: Roma Armbrust, Jane Bergen, Tat Blesch, Roberta Borgonovo, Linda Cole, Carol Churchill, Marilyn Hempel, Mark Namenic, Doris Olsen, Marilee Scaff, Richard Seeley, Sally Seven, Barbara Tokmakian, Robin Tokmakian, and Lorraine Unger. Rudy Ramp and Lois Chaney also contributed reports on their Leagues' activities.

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.