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| Sustainable Community Organizations |
Alliance for Sustainable Communities - Lehigh Valley, Inc. This website reflects one of the basic purposes of the Alliance: to foster cooperation and connectivity among individuals, organizations, and businesses working either to promote sustainability or to remove barriers to sustainability. It says what's going on and who's doing what. And who needs what. www.sustainlv.org |
Association for the New Urbanism in Pennsylvania www.anupa.org |
| Coalition for Appropriate Transportation Steve Schmitt, CAT Director Lehigh Valley Bike/Ped/Transit Center 60 West Broad Street #97 Bethlehem, PA 18018 610.954.5744 fax 610.954.0142 cat@car-free.org http://www.car-free.org |
10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania United to save our Cities, Towns and Countryside We are an alliance of organizations and individuals committed to promoting land use policies and actions that will enable Pennsylvania to strengthen its diverse urban, suburban, and rural communities and reduce sprawl. 10,000 Friends seeks growth and development that will support the economic and social viability of Pennsylvania’s cities and towns, conserve fiscal resources, and protect our state’s exceptional natural landscapes, environmental quality, and heritage resources. |
Project for Public Spaces PPS has an international reputation for its work on the design and management of public spaces. A non-profit, PPS was founded in 1975 to continue the pioneering work of writer-sociologist William H. Whyte. PPS has helped over 1,500 communities in 47 states and 24 countries improve their parks, markets, streets, transit stations, libraries and countless other public spaces. |
Michigan Land Use Institute The Michigan Land Use Institute was founded in 1995 to establish an approach to economic development that strengthens communities, enhances opportunity, and protects the state's unmatched natural resources. Our mission from the beginning has been to help Michigan avoid the patterns of suburban sprawl and over-development that cause traffic congestion, pollution, loss of community, rising costs to individuals and governments, and a deteriorating quality of life. |
Resources for shop-local movements Organizations -- Sustainable Business Network, of the Greater Lehigh Valley -- Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, www.livingeconomies.org: San Francisco umbrella group for independent local business networks around the country; provides resources and information on starting shop-local campaigns. -- American Independent Business Alliance, www.amiba.net: Bozeman, Mont., consortium of local business alliances. Sponsors America Unchained, annual campaign to encourage shoppers to eschew chain stores for one day. -- Institute for Local Self-Reliance, www.ilsr.org: Promotes sustainable communities. Its retail section is at www.hometownadvantage.org. |
| Sustainable Community Articles |
| Porters' Pub By Ira Katz |
| The Easton Irregular, December/January 2006 The Quality and Character of a Sustainable Lehigh Valley By Zane Kratzer |
