Sustainable Petaluma Network supports those creating a sustainable culture and economy in the Petaluma Valley area and beyond. Creating a sustainable culture and economy means harmonizing those systems with the natural systems that support us, thus achieving a healthy, fruitful, abundant stablity that will last to nurture future generations.

SPN supports and encourages the work of those growing and evolving in a harmonious, sustainable direction, for example, work concerned with community building and simple grounded living; renewable energy sources; organic gardening; ecological planning and building design; pedestrian and bike orientation; water awareness, conservation, and reuse; local economic initiatives with a bioregional perspective; resource sharing; elimination of the concept of "waste": living lightly and artfully with less "consumption"; and social and economic justice. These goals tend to reinforce each other in a holistic way.

Check out the sections of this site to see some of the inspired action so far in this new era of our collective journey. This website exists to communicate what is going on in our community so everyone can share in the collective knowledge. Some sections even have multiple projects.

There is always room to either help with an existing project or begin on another facet of the topic. Why not jump in and get involved?

SPN has no heirarchy or regular meetings—the weekly film series and the email listserves are constant threads of connection and information in this transformative time and help keep us collectively informed. Stay in touch!

Sustainable Petaluma Network is here to catalyze, instigate and support creative response to the challanges of our present historical moment- a moment filled with promise and severe crisis side by side.

Our world needs new socio-ecological values and a new ethical awareness to guide and balance it. There are possible scenarios for the human species that are truly frightening and those that are positive and uplifting. Sustainable Petaluma Network is being woven to invoke and give shape to the latter prospect.

When we hold sustainability values within our own lives, they imply an ever deepening ecological awareness—an awareness that takes whole systems into account, including all social classes and all species. Sustainablity means to live in a way that honors our Place in the San Francisco North Bay Area and our whole Planet as it is placed in the vastness of space. It is in this California place that we are playing out our soul values and acting out our collective story.

SPN website by Karen Hess of Dragonfly Graphics

Petaluma from Sonoma Mountain
Photo by Scott Hess

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