PlacerSustain: Voices of Placer County's Sustainability Community

I thought this article was apropos given our discussions last night about community and school gardens:

http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/big-city/133921/data-farming-demonstrating-benefits-urban-agriculture?goback=%2Egde_108551_member_229907847

While researching for  ideas on community building and creating local economies I came upon this checklist for "Locality Development." It is a checklist of reason for building local communities and I believe many of these reasons are why Placer Sustain exists. Happy reading.

http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/sub_section_tools_1054.aspx

Not quite as beautiful as a real tree but may be necessary in some settings to reduce carbon footprints and save money.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_18730466?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com