There are quite a lot of people thinking these things over, and the only thing keeping us from having a local sustainability group is that no one has made the commitment to organize it. However, there's quite a bit that has gone on here over the past couple of years, including:
--A group known as the Climate Change Crisis Coalition (4C's) formed several months ago and is responsible for the local Step It Up event last April, the global warming resolution adopted by Clallam County, and the bi-weekly articles on sustainable living written by Diana Somerville and Don Cramer in the PDN.
--The BuiltGreen folks here are quite focused on sustainability issues, particularly Susan Chadd, Clea Rome (Clallam Conservation District), and John Cambalik (Puget Sound Partnership regional liaison). A number of them have attended meetings of the Port Townsend group. And of course, they co-sponsored the "Making It Last" local sustainability event held at the College last March 31.
--I attended a regional conclave of sustainability groups held this summer at GasWorks Park in Seattle, more or less trying to represent the various efforts that are going on here. (Their attachment is included separately under other news at >>Sustainable Communities - SCALLOPS Event/ Fremont Sustainable Commons/ June 16/ 1:30 to 3:15pm/ Gas Works Park.)
There are lots of other local efforts afoot, such as nonmotorized transportation activism, the quest to save local farmland, improving local economic inter-ties, waste reduction, alternative energy and building design. They're just not tied together under the rubric of local sustainability.
I'll be sending your message out to my email list of a couple hundred progressive local folks.
Cheers, Ed
P.S. I just finished reading a good speech by James Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency: http://www.alternet.org/environment/50049
