Sierra Nevada Local First Retail Kit

Local First Retail Kits help you brand your business as local and independent in the Sierra Nevada. Local First is helping locally-owned independent businesses become better competitors and increase their market share so that we can strengthen our local economy from the ground up. The kit comes complete with an attractive window decal, electronic graphics files, a Top 10 reasons to support locally owned businesses poster, Talking Points and Tip Sheet, and 50 point-of-sale Thank You for Shopping Local cards. Please visit out Sierra Nevada Local First project page for preconditions on purchasing this kit.
Click here if you're interested in investing in a Local First Program Membership.
$45.00 Qty:

Stainless Steel Water Bottle

The eco-friendly, reusable, stainless steel alternative to plastic emblazoned with logos from 2008 Sierra Solutions Partners - Sierra Business Council, Mammoth Mountain, and Sierra Nevada Conservancy. Color - Cobalt Blue.
$19.95 Qty:

Grassroots Solutions for Sustaining Rural Communities: A Radio Documentary by Saving the Sierra

Producers Catherine Stifter and jessikah maria ross traveled California's Sierra Nevada mountain range to explore communities in the midst of struggle against the development pressures closing in on them. This documentary explores how three different communities are struggling to: Preserve rural culture from rapid residential growth, sustain local economies as resort developments boom, and protect clean water and open space for future generations. These stories of collaboration may be models for threatened rural places across the country. Use this CD to host a listening party or share in public meetings and events and visit the free listening guide, Sustaining Rural Places Toolkit, on SBC's website under Publications.
$10.00 Qty:

Local First Bumper Stickers

Purchase stickers and spread the word about Local First with placement on your car, bike, or water bottle.
$2.00 Qty:

Local First T-shirts

Celebrate your "Independents" and support the Sierra Nevada Local First Program. Printed on quality t-shirts, they support work that brings economic power back to its roots — local, unique, and very Sierra.
$18.00 Qty:

Publications

Building Vibrant Communities: A Commercial and Mixed Use Handbook

This handbook builds on the vision set forth in Planning for Prosperity. Building Vibrant Sierra Communities: A Commercial and Mixed Use Handbook brings together useful tools, language and code concepts that communities can use to reinforce or catalyze CMU development; innovative, real-life projects in the Sierra that can be used as models; and valuable information about traditional Sierra town patterns.
$10.00 Qty:

Investing for Prosperity

This attractive and well-researched book brings together many of the latest innovations that rural communities across North America are using to grow their economies, improve their towns, and build their "social capital."
$25.00 Qty:

Sierra Nevada Wealth Index (1996)

The document that started it all; this is the first assessment of the Sierra Nevada's economy and winner of the RENEW AMERICA National Award for Sustainability.
$10.00 Qty:

Sierra Nevada Wealth Index (1999-2000) with data spreadsheets

The Sierra Nevada Wealth Index describes the social, natural, and financial capital that are the foundation of our region's economy and, for the first time, makes it possible to gain an integrated understanding of our region's wealth.
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State of Sierra Agriculture

Maps and statistics provide an overview of agriculture and agricultural production in the Sierra Nevada, which cuts across the normal administrative boundaries and limitations, presenting new information on the region as a whole. Available online and hard copy
$15.00 Qty:

State of the Sierra 2007

The State of the Sierra represents the 2007 edition of the Sierra Business Council's indicator projects to identify trends affecting the social, natural, and financial capital of the Sierra Nevada.
$10.00 Qty:

Sediment Source Control Handbook - Print

The Sediment Source Control Handbook presents a set of principles and practices for sediment source control on disturbed sites in the West. It has been developed to help people better understand the fundamental concepts of soil protection and restoration, and also to offer specific guidance for those desiring or required to protect or rebuild disturbed soil. Ostensibly, this is a guidebook for reducing erosion on disturbed lands. It is also a methodology guidebook for planning, implementing, and assessing projects of all kinds. In essence, this Handbook is intended to guide users through a process of restoring function to the soil and the plant community that depends on that soil. If the soil and plant community are robust, healthy, and stable, erosion will ultimately be limited.
$55.00 Qty:

Sediment Source Control Handbook - CD

The Sediment Source Control Handbook presents a set of principles and practices for sediment source control on disturbed sites in the West. It has been developed to help people better understand the fundamental concepts of soil protection and restoration, and also to offer specific guidance for those desiring or required to protect or rebuild disturbed soil. Ostensibly, this is a guidebook for reducing erosion on disturbed lands. It is also a methodology guidebook for planning, implementing, and assessing projects of all kinds. In essence, this Handbook is intended to guide users through a process of restoring function to the soil and the plant community that depends on that soil. If the soil and plant community are robust, healthy, and stable, erosion will ultimately be limited.
$10.00 Qty: