Tools for Sustainable Communities. This CD-ROM, produced by the Alliance for Community Education, is a resource library focusing on innovative community projects around North America. The program highlights the kinds of leadership driving change, and the methods and tools being used to achieve new goals and designs. Featured stories explore ways that communities are working to become compatible with natural systems and issues of place, scale, diversity, history, leadership, education and change. It contains more than 60 minutes of video, as well as hundreds of stills and pages from books, articles, interviews and speeches.
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The Countryside Exchange in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, 1998. This report describes the process and summarizes the recommendations of the 1998 Countryside Exchange in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Exchange encourages community-based land use decisions that benefit the citizens, their economies and the natural resources of the Bay region. The report serves as a reference for participants, but also provides a way to interest other communities in pursuing the Exchange model or hosting a future exchange in their own community. This report is designed for use in urban or urbanizing watersheds.