Sustainable Development Goals Dashboard

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

• Initiators Fellowship

  As part of our 2022-2023 cohort of Initiators Fellows, Noreen Thomas is converting local food waste into fertilizer. The biodigester process, she says, will provide a community-based resource and eliminate the need to import fertilizer from miles or even continents away while also promoting clean waterways and sustainable farming practices.

• Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy

  Our planning services always focus on enhancing the triple bottom line: People, Planet, and shared Prosperity. This is also reflected in the 2022-2026 Compehensive Economic Development Strategy, specifically the strategies identified under Circular Agriculture.

• Growing Grant County

  Through a partnership between the West Central Area and Ashby School Districts, local food shelves, and very supportive agriculturally based communities, Growing Grant County will build a system of collaboration to:
  • Grow more local food.
  • Provide training to students in the art of meat butchering and processing.
  • Support Grant County food shelves by increasing donations of fresh foods.
  • Create a more sustainable and resilient food system.

  Read more about the project and the USDA NIFA grant.

• Community Funds

  We support community funds in their pursuit of their local and global goals.

• Take Action
  • Reduce, reuse, and recycle, following your local guidelines for recyclables to make sure as much mass can be reused as possible.
  • Be a thrifter. Second-hand stores often contain the items you need, and most utilize their profits for other social benefits.
  • Ask your local manufacturers what steps they’ve taken this year to reduce waste streams and return byproducts cleanly back to the environment.
  • Buy local products, especially those grown or made locally, whenever possible. Reducing the miles a product travels from creation to our homes reduces environmental impact.
  • Clean out your “cloud” data storage. While digital data seems invisible, all information is stored somewhere on a physical server and/or data storage system that uses a significant amount of energy.
  • Use your library instead of buying new. Librarians are master curators, and many of them have pulled together collections beyond books (specialty cake pans, for example).
  • Learn all about composting and how to use it properly.