Is Where You Live Secure & Sustainable?

IS WHERE YOU LIVE SECURE AND SUSTAINABLE?

Checkout how safe your community is with regards to air and water quality, proximity to hazardous landfills, food security, and regional safety.

State of your AIR - When you can’t breath, nothing else matters. Breathing dirty air? You can find out with the American Lung Association State of the Air: 2003 report. To find out about YOUR air and to learn how ozone hurts your lungs, go to this web site.

Find out About the Pollution Problems in your Community - Get answers to your questions about local air quality. Putting pollution information about your neighborhood in your hands at the click of a mouse.

Surf your Watershed - Watersheds are those land areas that catch rain or snow and drain to specific marshes, streams, rivers, lakes, or to ground water. Go to this site to locate the watershed you live in and find out about the environmental conditions of this watershed.

Find any Superfund Sites in your area - Map hazardous waste sites in your community.

Is Your Food Safe - The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3), North American organization dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for all people at all times. CFSC seeks to develop self-reliance among all communities in obtaining their food and to create a system of growing, manufacturing, processing, making available, and selling food that is regionally based and grounded in the principles of justice, democracy, and sustainability.

Community Vitality and Security - Communities are changing in ways that challenge their capacity to maintain security and create a vital economic and social context. Many core cities are demonstrating a “donut” pattern as urban and suburban residents move to bedroom communities and rural residences. Communities must simultaneously manage budgets, infrastructure and land use planning, and cope with risk and change to meet citizens’ demands.

Community Security and Preparedness - The City of Tucson, AZ (USA) has composed some terror-related resources, national and local, to assist communities in preparing for an emergency.

What Is Sustainable Development?