HOME – About SOLV
SOLV MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of SOLV is to foster the creation of a sustainable, local economy based on principles of sufficiency, equity and responsibility to our community and future generations.
SOLV Book Club, has started! First meeting was November 16th, 2009. For more info, CLICK HERE
SOLV is sponsoring RE-SKILLING CLASSES this fall, offered by and for local community members on topics of greater self-sufficiency and enjoyment of sustainable lifestyle activities. For more info and to offer or sign up for classes, CLICK HERE
For the latest info on SOLV’s Food & Garden Group Community Garden effort in McCall, CLICK HERE.
PLEASE VISIT the new Food & Gardening Networking function on this website. CLICK HERE.
Rapt participants at Dawn's Composting Workshop 4/25, photo by Mary Hart
WEBSITE/BLOG PURPOSE
This website/blog strives to be one of several not-for-profit forums for community networking, discussion, and building of a public knowledge base. The objective of this site is to gather and discuss factual unbiased information, ideas and strategies that support the SOLV mission statement above. (See the GUIDELINES page for further details about website/blog use and content.)
We encourage broad participation in the POSTS AND DISCUSSIONS pages and in SOLV meetings and events.
(NOTE: Please allow a little time for your reply/comment(s) to become visible on this blog as all are moderated prior to posting)
SOLV BROCHURE
For a brochure describing SOLV’s background and a longer explanation of our purpose please click HERE, or to download a printable PDF version, click here: SOLV-brochure
MEETINGS & EVENTS
The Steering Committee of SOLV usually meets on the first Monday evening of each month (with exceptions for holidays), McCall-Donnelly High School portable classroom, 7pm. EVERYONE interested is very welcome to attend and participate in discussions and planning. To receive email notices of future meetings, please send your request with name and email address to: sustainable.outlook@gmail.com
More SOLV event info and details are posted on the EVENTS page. We encourage event participation and ideas.
Thank you, in advance, for your interest and support of the SOLV mission!
February 8, 2009 at 7:38 am
Conservation, recycling, standards of living, etc. are often discussed by groups such as this one, and even in our national media. But it is striking how seldom there is mention of one of the primary root causes of most of the ecological/environmental problems we face–overpopulation. The individual consumption by one person added to the population of the U.S. wipes out many times more resources than any one of us can save through a lifetime of conservation, recycling, living a low-impact lifestyle, etc. We need to work toward making society aware of this. It needs to be a central part of public discourse.
Too often the public reaction to the mention of population issues is fear that draconian, mandatory regulation of child numbers (China) are what is being advocated. But there are many alternatives to such drastic steps. The first thing that absolutely must be accomplished is to make population a standard part of the sustainability discussion. Awareness is the first, and most vital, part of the solution.
February 14, 2009 at 10:56 am
I want to congratulate SOLV for finally beginning the footwork necessary to begin to understand and formulate the means to be prepared for the future. And the future is NOW. Patsy and I have been working at our own sustainability for 18 years now. We are at the point of wanting to expand to provide as much as we can to our fellow Long Valley residents. Needless to say, growing in this climate is beyond challenging. Attaining true sustainability may be difficult on a community scale. What it will take is the community adopting and embracing a new way of life. As a society, we have become individuals, community has disapeared. We do not depend on, or hardly know our neighbors. Most of us have taken our lifestyle for granted, with little thought of how fragile our systems have become.
I’m looking forward to becoming involved with SOLV. By being part of the solution, we begin a new work, and build the future we want.
See you at the dinner. I look forward to meeting everyone.
Dan Wilson
High Country Gardens.
June 9, 2009 at 8:01 am
great website.