Educational Resources
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All Educational Resources are copyrighted and may be used for educational purposes without a fee unless so noted.
I. Curriculum
- The Web Book of Regional Science, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University: Key Concepts in Sustainable Development by Grunkemeyer and Moss (copyright belongs with RRI)
- Sustainable Comp Planning goes beyond traditional comp planning in the following ways:
- It is based on an inclusionary, shared community vision
- It thinks long-term to future generations
- It balances and interconnects the social, environmental and economic sectors of the community
- It uses multi-dimensional indicators to measure success
- Sustainable Communities In-Service
II. Conference/Community Presentations
Video Presentation
PowerPoint Presentations
- Toledo Local Government Leadership Academy: Building Sustainable Communities
- NACDEP Conference: Go Big Network
- Extension Tourism Conference: Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Tourism Planning Through First Impressions
- Community Development Institute East: Trends and Issues in Community Development: Building Sustainable Communities
- NACDEP Conference: Creating Sustainable Communities: Process, Tools and Techniques
- Emerging Issues Along Urban-Rural Interfaces Conference: Regional Convergence Toward Sustainability in Northeastern Ohio
- International Conference on Whole Life Urban Sustainability and its Assessment, Glasgow, Scotland:Using Resident Formulated Multi-Dimensional Indicators to Assess Urban Communities' Progress Toward Meeting Sustainability Goals
- Ohio Township Association Leadership Academy: Building Sustainable Communities
- Van Wert Area Chamber of Commerce: Qualities of a Business Supportive Community PPt and Qualities of a Business Supportive Community PDF
Papers
- OSU Knowledge Economy Conference: Building Capacity to enter the Knowledge Economy by Creating Entrepreneur Friendly Communities
- International Conference on Whole Life Urban Sustainability and its Assessment, Glasgow, Scotland: Using Resident Formulated Multi-Dimensional Indicators to Assess Urban Communities' Progress Toward Meeting Sustainability Goals
Posters
Factsheets
Microsoft PowerPoint or PowerPoint Viewer 2007 is needed to view presentations. The viewer can be downloaded for free from Microsoft.
III. Sustainable Communities In-Service
The following steps can be used in a community to facilitate a sustainable community building process. These steps and process are designed as a general guide and can be modified as needed to address the unique needs of a particular community or situation.
Follow this link to Sustainable Communities In-service
Sustainable Communities In-Service Page
Last modified 2008-08-05 10:36
Welcome to the Sustainable Communities Inservice. We are happy that you can join in this discussion of:
What is Sustainable Development?
How can we build Sustainable Communities?
The purpose of this section is to provide a common understanding among the Inservice participants regarding the above two questions. We hope this goal is accomplished through three activities:
- sharing a common tutorial regarding Sustainable Communities
- sharing our individual reactions and thoughts to the topics presented in the tutorial
- individually providing additional web reference materials for greater depth of understanding
The following tutorial is designed as a beginning discussion piece for the participants of this In-service. This tutorial was designed in cooperation with the United States Environmental Protection Agency through the CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES, Cascadia Community and Environment Institute, University of Washington. Contained in the tutorial are nine sessions:
- Session 1: History and Definitions of Sustainability
- Session 2: Foundation for Sustainable Communities
- Session 3: Discussion of Ecology
- Session 4: Discussion of Economics
- Session 5: Discussion of Equity
- Session 6: Linking Ecology, Economics and Equity
- Session 7: Steps for a Sustainable Community
- Session 8: Indicators
- Session 9: Educational Exercises in Sustainable Communities
