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.

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" If you make a decision and wonder how it will affect your children, then you are thinking sustainably."
Leslie Lowe, Founder, Klamath Sustainable Communities

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JOIN KSC AT OUR NEXT MEETING!
Discuss planning and democracy with
County Planning Commissioner Eve Oldenkamp.

Learn about current projects and share your ideas
for a more sustainable Klamath community.

Monday, May 19th -- 6:15 p.m.
at the Sugar Pine Cafe
400 Main Street
downtown Klamath Falls

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Check out our Spring 2008 Newsletter
for articles on reducing emissions,
genetically modified food, lawns, composting & more!
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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:
  1. Have levels of pollution, consumption, and population size that are in keeping with regional carrying capacity;
  2. Share an ethic of responsibility to each other and to future generations;
  3. Reflect the social and environmental costs of the provision of goods and services in the prices charged for them;
  4. Encourage informed democratic participation and deliberation in their system of governance, education and civic leadership;
  5. Enhance neighborhood livability and access to greenspace in their design of markets, land use, and architecture;
  6. Make sure that housing is affordable and interrelated with employment, recreation, and shopping areas;
  7. Integrate principles of sustainability into the communityâs Comprehensive Plan and into other planning policies and procedures;
  8. Foster business development policies and procedures that support a sustainable community;
  9. Encourage inter-jurisdiction planning that supports sustainability; and 
  10. Encourage innovative and creative approaches to sustainability. 
This definition was adopted by the League of Women Voters of Klamath County on April 25, 1998.

 

Klamath Sustainable Communities
P.O. Box 1226
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
(541) 882-6509

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