Below are a few links.  These are just a small portion of the huge resources available on the internet to help communities move into the future in healthy ways - socially, economically, and ecologically.  Prescott is especially fortunate to have at Prescott College, one of the leading thinkers on this problem, Terril L. Shorb, whose course website at the college is: http://www.prescott.edu/academics/adp/programs/scd/

Here are some additional links.

http://www.sustainable.org/  

http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_communities/documents/sectionhomepage/odpm_communities_page.hcsp

http://www.iscvt.org/

http://www.usmayors.org/USCM/sustainable/

http://www.global-community.org/conference/

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/sustainable/

http://www.sci.gc.ca/text/b1.html

http://www.sustainablemeasures.com/

http://www.bioneers.org/