The Alliance For Sustainable Communities

Hot Topics and Recent Updates

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Committee of 100 for a Sustainable Lehigh Valley
Organizing meeting: Wed, July 29, 7pm, at NCC Southside Bethlehem Campus.
More info to be posted shortly.
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Two Lehigh River events on July 11:

>> BHCWA’s Lehigh River Float & Paddle Adventure.
>> Wildlands Conservancy’s Paddle and Peddle the Lehigh Gap!

For more info, click here.

Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
is asking folks to
sign the Oppose HR 2749 petition
because the so-called Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009
would adversely impact small farms and food producers,
without providing significant reforms in the industrial food system.
More info.

Check the new & ongoing opportunities for Internships

and our New Local Food Section for information about producing, distributing, and getting local food. Click here to see its beginnings. Contact Steve Hoog to provide input and feedback.

Democracy is not a spectator sport

". . . given the environmental problems that the world is facing, can we make it? That is, can we avoid economic decline and the collapse of civilization? My answer is always the same: it depends on you and me, on what you and I do to reverse these trends. It means becoming politically active. Saving our civilization is not a spectator sport."
—Lester R. Brown, in "Mobilizing to Save Civilization: What You and I Can Do"

This website can help you to become more politically active

because it embodies one of the basic purposes of the Alliance: it calls attention to opportunities for individuals, communities, and organizations to do the necessary work of reversing calamitous trends (see Lester R. Brown quote above). And one of the ways the website does that is to foster cooperation and connectivity among individuals, organizations, and businesses working either to promote sustainability or to remove barriers to sustainability. To find out more about what we are, what we do, and what we're trying to accomplish, we invite you to explore this site. For example, there's info about:

And to contact us, click on: Contact the Alliance

Directions to the Alliance Office at Morning Star Center
(location for some Alliance meetings)