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Team Sustainable Principles

Our sustainable Development Principles are:
  • Balanced
  • Evolving sense of self worth as a person sense of place
  • Development
  • Consideration of regional impact
  • Enhanced
  • Viable
  • Incremental
  • Political feasibility
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Our Cornerstones of Sustainability are:
  • A balanced, inter-connectional approach to economic, environmental (ecological) and social (equity) issues
  • Thinking long-term, particularly in planning
  • Inclusionary involvement (including interracial and intergenerational)
  • Multidimensional indicators
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The Steps in a Community Process for Sustainability
  • Develop a governance for the effort
  • Create a shared community vision with appropriate guiding principles
  • Set goals and objectives with appropriate indicators
  • Choose and implement activities
  • Evaluate progress and revise activities 
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Maintained by:
Bill Grunkemeyer
Ohio State University Extension
Community Development
Last Updated (February 2000).

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