by Regina Rizzi

The following five exercises are designed to help communities begin the process of creating sustainability goals. Community members need to envision and communicate what they want their community to be like in the near and distant future. Of course, creating goals for a community is a lengthy and arduous process that involves compromise and, ideally, consensus. The following exercises will help communities start the process; however, other activities will be needed to complete the task of creating sustainability goals.

The exercises to create community sustainability goals are:

1. Meeting Your Neighbors
   
   
2. Building Consensus
   
   
3. Seeing Your Community Through a Sustainability Lens
   
   
4. Envisioning a Sustainable Future
   • Environment Strips
   • Economy Strips
   • Society Strips
     
     
5. Creating Community Sustainability Goals: Deciding What Is Important
   • Sample Questionnaire
   • Sample Cover Letter

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