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<br /> Strategies Goals
<br /> Resource Task rh According to our current
<br /> Problems Forces ?'. mindset,economic development
<br /> _ is usually assumed to mean the
<br /> Planning same thing as economic growth; _.-.
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<br /> the result is expanding resources.
<br /> • But is that assumption necessarily
<br /> families in the region are considered, planning
<br /> the Tannin process,conflicts between ,“t correct.
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<br /> community's overall environmental protection can be reduced,and size or number.Development,on 4 -
<br /> concerns.Barriers to development,such solutions successfully achieved that the other hand,means bringing '�
<br /> as inadequate housing and shortages of preserve the quality of life in the something to a fuller or better r;
<br /> a qualified labor force can be more community. `. state.A society can certainly grow
<br /> easily addressed within this context. i,_' without developing.Consider :'
<br /> 0 Lack of housing,for example,can be Initiative fund support economist Herman Daly's
<br /> addressed by the whole community, The Central Minnesota Initiative : example of a steady-state library.
<br /> spurring more innovative and creative Fund is a regional foundation based in The stock of books is constant but
<br /> solutions.Labor force development can Little Falls,Minnesota.Its mission is to not static.As a book wears out or
<br /> be tackled as a partnership between strengthen communities,families and ;,becomes obsolete,it's replaced by
<br /> business and education,with a focus on the labor force.Through its business a newer or better one.The
<br /> sustaining the overall community. financing programs,nonprofit grants, quantity of books does not grow, '
<br /> Second,support for children and training and special initiatives,it has and the quality of the library
<br /> families can become ariori that invested over$16 million in the 14
<br /> P tY actually improves.The library
<br /> crosses all sectors,from education, county region of Central Minnesota.
<br /> social service and religious ous ou s,to The Initiative Fund assists communities develops without growing.
<br /> P Sustainable development of
<br /> business and banking.When the with local development efforts through
<br /> g human culture means
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<br /> community focuses on its children as its Community Partnership Program.In
<br /> the leaders,business owners and labor this program,a combination of leader- the quality of human life while
<br /> force of the future,they become a ship training and grant funding is living within the carrying capacity
<br /> primary resource that must be pro- provided over a two-year period to help of supporting ecosystems.What is
<br /> tected,educated and nourished.The community leaders with visioning and sustained is not a rate of growth,
<br /> stresses facing today's families,then, planning that guide development but rather a level of physical
<br /> become a community problem of high activities.Here are some examples: resource use.What is developed is .
<br /> priority.Youth involvement in commu- • The Waverly Area Visionary Empow- the capacity to convert those
<br /> nity activities can provide a training erment(WAVE)Project is concen- physical resources into improved
<br /> ground for good citizenship and build trating on enhancing the quality of goods and services for satisfying
<br /> the ownership that will engage the next life for citizens.New community human needs,without degrading
<br /> generation in sustaining and growing signs have been erected,a local the supporting systems.l
<br /> the community. newsletter is in publication,and
<br /> Third,stewardship for the downtown improvements are under
<br /> way.Theyare now planninga Reprinted by permission from,"Changing Direction:
<br /> community's natural resources can Y Toward Sustainable Culture,"copyright January 1996
<br /> become everyone's responsibility,with a
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<br /> cross section of people developing and historical museum honoring Hubert
<br /> H.Humphrey. byu or ast Report-A Newsletter of the Northwest Area
<br /> enforcing plans and guidelines.When • The Hewitt Revitalization Group is
<br /> all viewpoints are considered early in working in five areas: supporting
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