KLAMATH SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
a group of people working for a healthy future in the Klamath Basin through education and community activities.
Our focus is community well-being, environmental stewardship, and economic prosperity.
"If you make a decision and wonder how it will affect your children, then you are thinking
sustainably."
Leslie Lowe, Founder, Klamath Sustainable Communities
SAVE ENERGY $$$ WHERE YOU LIVE AND WORK
Seminars and information on topics including how to get free energy audits and access to incentives and loan funds,
as well as the Woodstove Replacement Program.
View the complete Energy Forum Program here.
Saturday, October 2nd, 9am to 2 pm with lunch by Wubba's BBQ
Sky Lakes Community Health Center -- 2210 N. Eldorado Ave.
$12 registration includes lunch
HOW TO REGISTER:Download the REGISTRATION FORM here (PDF File).
Print and complete the Form and submit by mail, fax, or in person.
You can include a check or money order payment with the form,
or submit the form and then pay on-line with a credit card or PayPal
using the BUY NOW button at the bottom of the Energy Forum Program page. ******************************
Our Summer 2010 Newsletter is available
** click on NEWSLETTER-Current in the site menu above
Check out the Klamath Green Welcome Wagon website
and help us build a community website devoted to sustainability!
Check out the Forums for information on the Local Food Network and more!
Klamath Green Welcome Wagon
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A DEFINITION OF SUSTAINABILITY:
A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY respects its own diversity, values the complexity of the natural
world, and accepts responsibility for the social, economic, and ecological
well-being of present and future generations through individual and
collective actions. It balances regenerative and degenerative processes
by applying the following principles:
- Rates of use of renewable resources do not exceed their rates of regeneration.
- Rates of use of nonrenewable resources do not exceed the rate at which sustainable renewable substitutes are developed.
- Rates of pollution emission do not exceed the assimilative capacity of the environment.
A sustainable community advocates an economy that equitably provides satisfying livelihoods in a safe, healthy environment that protects its natural resource base and the viability of natural systems on which all life depends.
Specifically, sustainable communities:
- Have levels of pollution, consumption, and population size that are in keeping with regional carrying capacity;
- Share an ethic of responsibility to each other and to future generations;
- Reflect the social and environmental costs of the provision of goods and services in the prices charged for them;
- Encourage informed democratic participation and deliberation in their system of governance, education and civic leadership;
- Enhance neighborhood livability and access to greenspace in their design of markets, land use, and architecture;
- Make sure that housing is affordable and interrelated with employment, recreation, and shopping areas;
- Integrate principles of sustainability into the community's Comprehensive Plan and into other planning policies and procedures
- Foster business development policies and procedures that support a sustainable community;
- Encourage inter-jurisdiction planning that supports sustainability; and
- Encourage innovative and creative approaches to sustainability.
This definition was adopted by the League of Women Voters of Klamath County on April 25, 1998.
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DONATE to KLAMATH SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES on-line using a credit card or PayPal.
KLAMATH SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization.
Donations are tax-deductible.
