Alachua County has over a decade of initiatives and programs
dedicated to creating a more sustainable community stretching from the 1999
Alachua County Sustainability Projects Ad Hoc Committee, to the most recent,
Energy Conservation Strategies Commission in 2008. In each endeavor the County,
representatives of the business community, local institutions and private
citizens have met to meet the needs of the present without compromising the
ability of our great grandchildren to have the same quality of life.
On this site you will find resources to programs dedicated to, or having an
important role in promoting sustainability within Alachua County. Every resource
on this site might not meet the three-way sustainability test of having long
term social, economic and environmental benefits. However, they are still
included for the community's consideration and discussion. It is hoped that
these ideas may be modified over time to better meet the three-way test and as
part of an Alachua County government's direction towards sustainability. We
encourage you to read Alachua County's Declaration for a resource-efficient and
resilient community. It represents a summation message of sustainability that is
being shared and discussed at an international level based on this community's
collective work.
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