It's one thing to change how you live your life and interact with others within your home, but to act sustainably in all things you do within your neighborhood is a whole different ballgame. Laura and I have made 51 changes that invariably have an effect on how we relate to and interact with the outside world, but, ultimately, the end results are seen within the home.
Laura and I recently joined the newly-formed Powderhorn Park sustainability committee as a way to make sustainable changes that affect the entire neighborhood. We recently attended the first committee meeting where we laid out a hanful of ideas as to what we envision the community transitioning into with our help. The first meeting was spent discussing the recent Earth Day Clean-Up event that was sponsored by the group, so upcoming meetings will allow for more brain-storming related to our mission, goals and tasks.
On April 9th Laura, along with many of the committee members and other neighbors, atteneded the 6th Annual Sustainable Communities Conference. The conference touched on the work of the Transistion Towns program and what local transition groups are doing. Other topics included bike and pedestrian safety, rain gardens, how to start and grow community gardens, info on how to join local Food Resource Hubs, environmental justice, housing, water quality and a lot more. There was even a geographical breakout session to meet up with other neighbors to share ideas on how to make your community more sustainable.
Our goal is to take our views on how to minimally impact the enviroment for the worse and how to greatly impact it for the better, create and maintain safe and thriving local economies and to do so in a manner that includes everyone's participation to the entire neighborhood. We hope we can pool our thoughts and resources with those of the rest of the committee and the neighborhood to live lives that benefit ourselves, our neighbors and our Earth. Moving beyond the sheetrocked walls of our home to the greater home.
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