Sustainable Communities an Educational Resource

Special thanks for helping with this
project goes to the following people:

Jim Crowfoot
Ruth Carey
Stephanie Mills
Bronwyn Jones
Betsi Burns
Diane Conners
Byte Productions
Jim Moses
Maynard Kaufman
John Schneider
Geradine Simkins
Mac Mcclelland
salon participants who laid the groundwork

In June, 1998, the Neahtawanta Center received a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to help us continue our work on community sustainability. The seeds for this undertaking grew out of a series of salon discussions held at the Neahtawanta Inn over a two-year period. We hope you will find this information useful, in our collective search for more sustainable pathways.

The purpose and objectives of the project are as follows:

Purpose:
The purpose of the project is to raise awareness and increase understanding of local community sustainability in the Grand Traverse Bay Region and to explore the potential of future local currency.

Objectives

1. Expose citizens in the Grand Traverse Bay Region to the basic concepts of sustainable communities.

2. Use independent electronic media (community radio, CD ROM and Internet) to disseminate data, information and ideas on sustainable communities.

Information and sound bites about the radio programs

3. Publish special sections about community sustainability in Synapse, a quarterly publication of the Neahtawanta Center.

4. Determine ownership patterns of retail commerce to explore the feasibility of local currency. From this section you will find graphic maps of ownerhsip patterns of selected areas in the Traverse City region.

Maps graphicly displaying the data for selected areas.

-- Sally Van Vleck and Bob Russell, co-directors