SL 121: Organizing Sustainable Communities
Mar 31 - Apr 1 2007

How can individuals foster awareness in their community of the need to live sustainably, and what can be done after they understand this need? This workshop draws from the instructors. Experience in Willits, California, where the need to localize food, energy, and the production of basic goods has garnered broad political appeal.

Learn how to frame messages around common values, motivate action based on the tension between fear and desire, and outline the case for economic localization as the only logical reaction to ecological overshoot.

In this inspiring workshop you will receive hands-on instruction from the Willits Economic Localization project organizers, and learn from sessions covering:

-Fostering public awareness of the need to localize
-Learning how to conduct a local asset and natural resource assessment
-How to build a coalition local stakeholders
-Mobilizing and activating your community

Beyond the methods to localize our economy, Brian and Jason taught us how to communicate in a manner that can truly be a catalyst to worldwide consciousness, understanding, sustainability, and eventually peace!
--Liz Blair, attendee from Wisconsin

Workshop Location:
Literacy for Environmental Justice
800 Innes Ave, Unit 11
San Francisco, CA 94124