Sustainable Development Tool Kit

The Sustainable Development Tool Kit is a set of collaborative processes to support vision-based planning and community development that have resulted from our work in communities. They work in conjunction with GIS and place-based planning and decision support tools to aid communities in developing and implementing consensus-driven sustainable development. The tool kit is based on the philosophy that the opportunity to get the future we want depends on understanding of whole systems, and the capacity to act on that knowledge. The tools were developed to facilitate the processes of teaching learning, taking the action, and measuring progress. It is a process of continuous improvement where each new project in a community contributes to the desired future, turns NIMBY into market and creates local economic opportunity. The toolkit is designed to help provide a means for bottom-up civic participation in the planning and development process to create a blueprint for sustainable economic development