La Plata Sustainability Dialogues

"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....

2009 Schedule

March 12. "Focus on Local Government"

Event Date: November 12, 2009

Following on the heels of a visit to Durango by Michelle Long, Executive Director for the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) and co-founder of the group Sustainable Connections in Bellingham, WA, November's LPSD will focus on policy innovations to support the development of a thriving local living economy that can allow La Plata County to become more self-reliant.

Full details here.

"The current upwelling of support for localizing our food system, for higher quality, sustainably produced, more nutritious food, for fair prices for producers, and for access to good food for all, calls for a reordering of priorities in our food system—essentially taking ownership and control starting on the local level."