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Definition: "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." [World Commission on the Environment and Development. Our Common Future, (Bruntland Report). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1989, p. 8]
Sustainable development is growth in welfare without physical growth. It is a process, not a state, and therefore does not necessarily imply that the population or the economy are static or stagnant. (Ibid., p. 200)
Vision: Sustainable, self-determining economic development in the Redwood Empire based on:
Based on a template created by The Politics of Trust Network
Sustainable Community Economics (Skaggs Island Foundation)
A comprehensive database of literature and resources for sustainability.
A learning and action community promoting sustainable development and lifestyle in Sonoma County.
Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy
Giving community leaders the knowledge and skills to advocate and implement sustainable development.
Sustainable Enterprise Coalition
Sponsors of the annual Sustainable Enterprise Conference.
A menu of options for sustainable, high quality local living. Go to http://www.livabilityproject.org/communities for information on Sebastopol.
Sonoma State University Health Care Crisis Project
Things we can do locally to address the health care crisis without waiting for the federal or state governments to solve the problem.
Performance Management Institute
Tools for improving accountability and performance.
New College (Santa Rosa) Green MBA
Educating business leaders who can make a difference.
New Economy, Working Solutions
An organization that generates policy studies supporting sustainable smart growth.
Affordable housing.
On the Commons.org /Tomales Bay Institute
The ecological and economic importance of the commons.
Companion to Edgar Cahn, No More Throw-Away People (2nd ed.&endash; Washington, DC: Essential Books, 2004).
Companion to Lester Brown, Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003).
Companion to Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, & L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Boston, Little, Brown & Co, 1999).
Send suggestions for additional sites to Artwarmoth@aol.com
The table below outlines a conceptual framework
for thinking about the economics of the commons (socially
necessary and collective produced and/or consumed goods and services)
in Sonoma County.
ìAccounting Mediaî are the social and accounting systems responsible for resource allocation, ideally including planning and assessment, in the economy of the commons.
ìCriticalî implies that these
are systems where the comprehensive redesign of system management
strategies is needed for the solution of chronic social problems.
They are also major areas of opportunity for economic growth.
There are many other ways of looking at the systems that make up the
commons, but many of these are not in crisis, or are in crisis mainly
because of the mismanagement of these critical systems. For
example, the principal threat to sustainable rural land use is the
encroachment of housing and urban land use. Problems such as
homelessness and gang violence would go away of these systems were
appropriately managed.
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Skip Robinson and the Sonoma State University Health Care Crisis Project have been developing a county-wide needs and resource assessment and a comprehensive strategy in the area of health care. For more information, contact Skip at <skip.robinson@sonoma.edu> or see the Sonoma State University Health Care Crisis Project Web Site.
Art Warmoth, chair of the Psychology Department, and colleagues at Sonoma State University are working on coordination and planning in the area of eduation and social services. Needs assessment in the area of children and families has been developed by the Sonoma County Child Care Planning Council <plancouncil@aol.com>. Information on the elderly is available from the Council on Aging. For more information, contact Professor Warmoth at <art.warmoth@sonoma.edu>.
Correcting the Design Flaws in Capitalism. A Dialogue between Art Warmoth (Sonoma State University) & Doug McDavid (IBM Business Transformation Architect)Arthur Warmoth. The Economic Metacrisis in Sonoma County. (2001).
Arthur Warmoth. Threats to Sustainable Development in Sonoma County (2006)
Arthur Warmoth. Outline of the Crisis of the Commons in Sonoma County (2003)
Arthur Warmoth. The Economics of Health Care and the Economics of the Commons (2003)
Arthur Warmoth. Some Possible Tax Reform Options (2003)
Bernard Lietaer & Arthur Warmoth. (1999). Designing Bioregional Economies in the Context of Globalization. In Joseph Kruth & Andrew Cohill, Eds. Pathways to Sustainability.
Introduction to Complementary Economics:
Arthur Warmoth. Governingthe Commons (2003)
Arthur Warmoth. Complementary Economics & Sustainable Economies
& The Five Basic Principles of Complementary Economics (2003)Web Sites:
Sustainable Community Economics (Skaggs Island Foundation)