Creating Sustainable Communities: Process, Tools and Techniques

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Creating Sustainable Communities Process, Tools
and Techniques

• 2005 NACDEP
• Conference

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• Welcome to the Sustainable Communities Futures
  Council
• City of Anywhere

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Introductions

• Please introduce yourself to the
• Futures Council members by sharing
• Your name
• The name of an organization that you often
  partner with through your job responsibilities

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Four Cornerstones of Sustainable Communities

• Interconnected
• Economy, Society, Environment
• Long term focus
• Inclusionary
• Multidimensional indicators of achievement

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Organizations Commitment

• Each organization nominated to join the
• Futures Council will be asked to
• Endorse the City of Anywhere Sustainable
  Communities Process
• Select a member of their organization to serve on
  the Futures Council

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Conducting Vision Sessions

• Locations for individual sessions will be
  designed to break down barriers to participation
  by
• Going to where the selected organization normally
  gathers
• Holding sessions during a regularly scheduled
  gathering
• Facilitated by community members

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Creating an Inclusionary Futures Council

• What organizations would you nominate to be
  members of the City of Anywhere Sustainable
  Communities Futures Council to balance out the
  values circle of Lasswells Wheel?

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Conducting a Vision Session

• Question One
• What is it that you value about the City of
  Anywhere?
• Question Two
• What do you hope the City of Anywhere will become
  for your grandchildren and great-grandchildren?

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Interconnections

• What interconnections do you see between the
  economic, social and environmental lists of hopes?

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Multidimensional Indicators

• Name an indicator for the economic hope
• Name an indicator for the social hope
• Name an indicator for the environmental hope

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Myra MossExtension Specialist, Economic
Development and Sustainable CommunitiesOhio
State University Extensionmoss.63_at_osu.eduBill
GrunkemeyerInterim Assistant Director/Interim
Center DirectorOhio State University
ExtensionCommunity Developmentgrunkemeyer.1_at_osu.
eduwww.ag.ohio-state.edu/esco