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It began that snowy day during
the winter of 2003 at the Schuylkill Center when Marv Weisbord and
Sandra Janoff in collaboration with Future Search Network Member Ralph
Copleman and a group of people interested in sustainability conducted a
future search conference on sustainability in the Delaware Valley. An
entirely new initiative, born on the final day of the conference and
now called the Life Quality Project for the Delaware Valley, is
underway with more participants than were marshalled for the
future search conference itself. The aim of the project is nothing less
than the conversion of the entire region to a sustainable lifestyle.
We'll do this by: a) creating a set of measurable indicators of
sustainability across a range of areas such as health, education,
economics, housing, energy, etc., and b) promoting them strongly so
that people turn to them as a measure of quality in their own lives. In
an ideal world, people will use the sustainable life indicators in lieu
of things like the Dow Jones average and the TV weather reports as the
ways to know how things in their world are going. This, we believe, is
an important step in that direction. We expect to
have identified specific indicators in about a dozen categories by the
end of this summer. Then we kick in the media campaigns. That's the
plan anyway. --Submission from Ralph Coppleman
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