The 50-mile drive to work and 5-mile drive to the supermarket. a crisis in the boomtown mentality of cheap energy, unlimited water, and effortless credit.
Beleaguered communities are now left holding the bag of an economic house of cards come crashing – harbingers of the consequences of an unsustainable economic, energy and development model.
Too often efforts toward sustainability remain just as nebulous and hard to define as the very word itself. Many aspire toward “sustainability,” but most need help in achieving it, especially at municipal or regional scale.