PlacerSustain: Voices of Placer County's Sustainability Community

This is a list of key elements of a successful community sustainability initiative from the Sustainable Communities Network.  A few core qualities that successful initiatives share in common:

• broad and diverse involvement of citizens
• the creation of a collective vision for the future
• the development of principles of sustainability
• an inventory of existing assets and resources and additional assets that would benefit the community
• clear, measurable goals
• the development of community indicators to evaluate progress
• open and transparent communication
• early, visible results
• celebration of success

This is a link to our knowledgebase article on the subject, and a related article that contains links to a number of published materials on various community organizing subjects.