Sustainable Development Program Overview

Sustainable Development Program
Sustainable Development Overview

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When the Sustainable Development Program commenced operations in 1991, we enrolled slightly less than 30 students. During this 1999/2000 academic year, with the addition of the Introduction to Sustainable Development course in Interdisciplinary Studies this spring, a total of 97 students have taken/are taking SD (and well over 110 if the SD work/study summer internship to Honduras is counted). With the new Second Major Concentration of SD in the College of Education, there conservatively are between 140-150 currently in the program.

Under Tommy Walsh's capable leadership as the Sustainable Communities Coordinator since 1997, the outreach to rural communities in our region has grown every year. Basded in Cove Creek west of Boone, Walsh has catalyzed a movement that gives rural citizens greater voice in planning for their community's future around areas of watershed and farmland protection, sustainable enterprise, greater health and social services and preservation of rural heritage, culture and historic buildings. Achievements in Cove Creek include an active community council, their county-recognized land use plan, soaving the old WP A high school building for community services, including a health clinic and training school, the Doc and Merle Watson Folk Life Museum and a day care center. This community serves as a model for other communities; Walsh reularly has visisted Shawneehaw, Zionville, Todd and Warrensville. He and our new program manager, Brett Melchior, are working with the citizens of Shawneehaw (and with the support form Watauga County) to carry out a needs assessment and resource inventory there. All these communities have begun the process of forming a community council or have begun meeting about it.

--The President's Council on Sustainable Development

To learn more about the PCSD and the National Town Meeting, click here
WWW.SUSTAINABLEAMERICA.ORG

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		Sustainable Development Overview

SD Site In Brief Back to ASU Anthro ASU SD Programs SD Overview Undergraduate Programs Graduate Programs Outreach: Local to Global ASU Environmental Sustainability Initiatives		The Sustainable Development Program at ASU When the Sustainable Development Program commenced operations in 1991, we enrolled slightly less than 30 students. During this 1999/2000 academic year, with the addition of the Introduction to Sustainable Development course in Interdisciplinary Studies this spring, a total of 97 students have taken/are taking SD (and well over 110 if the SD work/study summer internship to Honduras is counted). With the new Second Major Concentration of SD in the College of Education, there conservatively are between 140-150 currently in the program. Under Tommy Walsh's capable leadership as the Sustainable Communities Coordinator since 1997, the outreach to rural communities in our region has grown every year. Basded in Cove Creek west of Boone, Walsh has catalyzed a movement that gives rural citizens greater voice in planning for their community's future around areas of watershed and farmland protection, sustainable enterprise, greater health and social services and preservation of rural heritage, culture and historic buildings. Achievements in Cove Creek include an active community council, their county-recognized land use plan, soaving the old WP A high school building for community services, including a health clinic and training school, the Doc and Merle Watson Folk Life Museum and a day care center. This community serves as a model for other communities; Walsh reularly has visisted Shawneehaw, Zionville, Todd and Warrensville. He and our new program manager, Brett Melchior, are working with the citizens of Shawneehaw (and with the support form Watauga County) to carry out a needs assessment and resource inventory there. All these communities have begun the process of forming a community council or have begun meeting about it. --The President's Council on Sustainable Development

		To learn more about the PCSD and the National Town Meeting, click here WWW.SUSTAINABLEAMERICA.ORG



E-MAIL Site Manager		There is no substitute for thinking different. Having trouble viewing this page with an WIntel based PC? Look into purchasing a new PowerMac G3 system from the Apple Online Store and enjoy the BEST of both worlds!
Updated May 13, 1999