Welcome to the Sustainability Alliance of Southwest Colorado

Our mission is to promote the sustainability movement in Southwest Colorado by facilitating communication, collaboration, and integrated solutions among individuals and organizations, with a primary focus in La Plata County.

To get involved with sustainability activities in the community, please check out our current projects:

Community Collaboration Project
Education & Outreach
Food & Agriculture
Local & Regional Policy
Smart Energy
Sustainable Local Economic Development (SLED)

La Plata County Comprehensive Plan public meetings

Submitted by Dick White on Fri, 07/30/2010 - 17:19

The draft La Plata County Comprehensive Plan and associated Strategy Matrix are now available for review.  There will be a series of meetings early in August to solicit public input on the proposed strategies.

Strategy Prioritization Workshop, Thursday, August 5, 6-8 p.m., Smiley Building Auditorium, Durango.

Essay: Re-establishing Citizens Rights in America

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 04/22/2010 - 22:00
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Tom Riesing“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its power in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”   - The Declaration of Independence of the United States.

With these words Colonial America swept away English culture and law and began a new chapter, a new experiment in American self government. Or so they thought.

Help Increase Future Chemical Free Parks and Schools in the Durango Area

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Keep Brookside Park Chemical Free and Increase Future Chemical Free Parks and Schools in the Durango Area

Please help us in our efforts to let the City of Durango's Parks and Recreation Department know that we as a community appreciate Brookside Park, the only (so far) Chemical Free Park in Durango.

Write or call Cathy Metz at the Parks and Rec Department to let her know of your appreciation and/or concerns and requests!

"Transition from Coal to Clean Energy Makes Good Business Sense - Economic Study Demonstrates Profitability for Utilities"

Submitted by Kim Herb on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 12:24
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LONGMONT, Colo. – Utilities and other large-scale energy providers with significant percentages of coal in their generation portfolios can profitably transition toward more flexible and less capital intensive efficiency and renewables technologies using a business approach outlined in a new economic study released today. http://www.natcapsolutions.org/CoalPlantsinTransition.pdf

La Plata Sustainability Dialogue: Sustainability 3.0 — Thriving as a Community of Collaboration

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"The urge to form partnerships, to link up in collaborative arrangements, is perhaps the oldest, strongest and most fundamental force in nature. There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every form of life is dependent on other forms. —Lewis Thomas

What is the Triple Bottom Line?
How have businesses elsewhere addressed these goals?
How could we collaborate to enable our businesses and our communities to thrive socially, environmentally, and economically?
How can the principles of Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives (ZERI) be applied to our local community?

View slides from the Sustainability Alliance's January 2010 La Plata Sustainability Dialogue, "People, Planet, Profit - Thriving as a Community of Collaboration," to find answers to these questions, and more....

 

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