November 2010
 
Greetings all!  
 
  
Our next Meeting/Gathering.  We will meet next on November 4th, 7:00 p.m., Stockton Municipal Building.  Please join us. 

We would like to select and complete one Recycle/Reuse Project in the coming year.  Do you have ideas for consideration?  Attend our November meeting or return this e-mail with your suggestions.  If you have project ideas, other than Recycle/Reuse, you’d like Sustainable Stockton to consider, we’d like to hear from you also.

Our winter sustainable themed Lecture/Film Series will kick off on January 13th, 7:00 p.m., at the MREA.  Lowell Klessig, of New Hope, will present “Sustainability and Setting Priorities – Incompatible Approaches to Life (Eleven Necessary Conditions for Sustainability).”  Lowell describes the presentation as follows:

Sustainability is a personal philosophy, a community vision, a national political fault line and a global crucible.  While sustainable management of the planet's resources requires a holistic approach, the concept must be broken down into spheres that can be precisely described and for which behavioral change can be prescribed.
 
The theme of the presentation is that in order to be sustainable each individual, community and society must balance its attention among 11 necessary needs:
 
1.   Aesthetic Opportunity     6.  Emotional Security
2.  Collective Security            7.  Environmental Security
3.  Cultural Opportunity         8.  Individual Freedom
4.  Economic Opportunity      9.  Individual Security
5.  Educational Opportunity   10.  Recreational Opportunity
                         11. Spiritual Dimension                                                     
                                                    
 
This presentation, developed over 30 years of research and observations in more than 50 countries, has been presented to audiences throughout the US as well as in Australia, China, New Zealand and the Philippines.  International examples are used to illustrate the global applicability of the concepts.  The lecture has been presented each semester to graduating seniors in the UW-SP College of Natural Resources for more than a decade based on a vote of the previous graduates.
 

Lowell Klessig is Emeritus Professor of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Management, UW-Stevens Point.  A portion of this research was published in the Journal of Human Values.

 
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