What is a healthy Community?

A healthy community strives to improve the well-being of people and the vitality of place.

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- Roaring Fork CDC
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 - Basalt Community Campus
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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."


-- John W. Gardner

 

 

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Regional Matters

 

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Can always be reimagined, . . ."
 

-- Seamus Heaney

 

Mountain Mayors

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An Alliance for Cooperation & Action


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R
OARING FORK
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Housing Fund


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Check out these other regional efforts:


RFTA BRT

The Future of Transit in the Roaring Fork &
Colorado River Valleys
 


The Watershed Collaborative

Water Committee Website
Watershed Plan

 

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Clean Energy Economy
for the Region


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Roaring Fork Leadership

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What we are Reading
 



localdollars
Michael Shuman

 

Locavesting

 
Locavesting
Amy Cortese


Third Sector Development

Christopher Gunn
 

 

 

Slow Money

Woody Tasch

Capitalism 3.0
A guide to reclaiming the commons
Peter Barnes

 

Recommended Reading >

 

 State of the Valley News

State of the Valley
Symposium


Proceedings online

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CustomMade Buying Local Infographic

Why Buying Local is Worth Every Cent Infographic by CustomMade

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The Economic Impact of Community

 

See the powerpoint presentation

 

See the Garfield County Community Survey Results

 


 

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Video: Andrew Romanoff -
Avoiding
a Constitutional
Train Wreck

 

"Highly complex problems can only be solved by processes that are systemic, emergent, and participatory."
 

-- Adam Kahane

 

State of the Valley Symposium

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"This is a heck of a good example of getting it [collaborative work] done right," Daniel Kemmis, SOV 2004

 


Regional Resources

Demographics

SIRFI
Supporting Immigrant and Refugee Families Community Integration Initiative

Planning Documents

Pitkin County Child Care Needs Assessment, 2006

Garfield County Socio-Economic Impact Study, 2007

AGNC Northwest Colorado Socio-Economic Analysis & Forecasts, 2008

Economics

Self Sufficiency Standard for Colorado: a Family Needs Budget (Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute, 2004)

Energy

Carbondale Energy & Climate Protection Plan, 2007

Grand Valley Citizen's Alliance
The Rifle, Silt, New Castle Community Development Plan  [Jan. 2006]

The Canary Initiative
Aspen Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory 2004

Gravel

Routt County Gravel Pit Matrix, 2003

Housing

Garfield County
Housing Assessment, 2006 (PDF)

Pitkin County Affordable Housing Regulation Support Study (2004)

Water

Roaring Fork Conservancy
Roaring Fork Stream Flow Survey Report

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EPA Smart Growth Overview of Scorecord Tools
(incl. CO Scorecard)

 



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Indicators

 

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”

 

-- Sherlock Holmes

 



Growth Projections

Garfield County
Socio-Economic
Impact Study
 

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Northwest Colorado Socio-Economic Analysis & Forecasts

 

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Growth scenarios Project


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Community Economics
Economic Profiles by

 

 

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Calculating the Costs of Growth 2002 Proceedings


 

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"Organizations often seem immovable. They are not. With the right kind of story at the right time, they are stunningly vulnerable to a new idea."
 

-- Stephen Denning

 

 

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