Actions teams reported their progress on Visions, Goals, Activities and Indicators.

1. Sustainable Atwood Atwood Big Picture 2: Sharpening Our Focus 18 March 2010

2. Sustainable Atwood Atwood Sustainable Atwood is the SASY neighborhood's plan to measure, evaluate, expand and create sustainable practices, designs and systems in our neighborhood of 6,000 residents.

3. First Visioning...

4. Big picture #1...

5. Commerce & Industry A-Team

10. Communications A-Team Vision: The SASY neighborhood is empowered to achieve sustainability through our vibrant nexus of creative, accessible and responsive communication.

17. Core Team Reasonable people doing well-intentioned things.

18. Energy A-Team

19. Energy A-Team Sustainable Atwood will maximize energy efficiency and use clean, renewable energy to create a carbon neutral neighborhood. Vision:

27. Food A-Team

28. Food A-Team Vision: We are not just looking at food in terms of production, but also education, community building, health, and nourishment. “ By 2020 the SASY Neighborhood will be producing significantly more food within the boundaries of the neighborhood (this includes gardening space, orchards, edible landscaping); the schools that educate our children will all have access to a garden space and will utilize it within their curriculum; our local businesses will have support and encouragement to source their foods locally; and all members of the community who want to garden will be able to.”

29. Food A-Team Goals: 1. Complete neighborhood survey measuring baseline indicators/assets 2. Map the SASY Neighborhood for all farmable land 3. Begin a yard sharing project 4. Create a volunteer garden corps of local residents supporting each other in out gardening projects (barn-raising concept) 5. Engage with the schools that serve our children (Lowell, O’Keeffe, East) a. School gardens/orchards b. Use gardens and growing food within their curriculum c. Actively participate in the schools current effort to overhaul their food system

30. Food A-Team Goals: 6. Partner with the Goodman Community Center to also teach/support local food efforts 7. Identify a site (or sites) to build a neighborhood “Food Hub” that could include: a. Community composting site b. Food production garden (could this food go to the schools, the community center, the pantry, be sold at a very local farmer’s market??) c. Community tool shed d. Community greenhouse e. Fruit Orchard

31. Food A-Team Indicators: #3 – Begin a yard sharing project • # of households who presently have a food garden. • #of households w/out a food garden but are interested in having one • # of households w/ space available for food gardening • #of households w/ an existing food garden and extra space available • # of households available w/ an outdoor water source • # of households requiring physical, educational and financial assistance • # of households willing to donate a portion of harvest to needy • # of households in need of food gardening space, and various assistance • # of households in need of garden food • How many people are engaged in the project? • How many yards are being shared? • How much food is being produced in the shared yards?

32. Food A-Team Indicators: #4 – Create a volunteer garden corp • # of households who presently have a food garden • #of households w/out a food garden but are interested in having one • # of households requiring physical, educational and/or financial assistance in installation • # of neighborhood residents who volunteer for the garden corp

33. Food A-Team Indicators: #5 – Engage with the schools that serve our children… • # of schools would like a food garden. • # of schools with garden space on school grounds • How much garden space do the schools have access to? • What structures exist? • How many classrooms utilize garden space? • How many classrooms incorporate growing food into their curriculum? • How much do the school gardens produce? • % of the food produced is eaten by the school kids? • #schools that have an existing garden. • # of schools that have w/ school food garden into school food programs. • #of schools w/out garden but garden adjacent-w/in walking distance • # of schools involving before school, after school or summer programming into their garden.

34. Food A-Team Indicators: #6 – Partner with the Goodman Community Center • How much local (neighborhood) produce is offered at the food pantry • How much space is utilized for gardening/composting • # of existing programs that incorporate a food garden into instruction or activity • How many community volunteers help support these programs

35. Food A-Team Indicators: #7 – Create a neighborhood “food hub” --- continued... Compost: • # of households who make their own compost • #of households who currently buy compost • # of households interested in utilizing compost from a neighborhood “Hub” • # of households desiring assistance/education re: composting • # of local businesses willing to compost their food waste Food Production Garden: • # of people interested in Food Garden space at Central Hub • # of people volunteering in community food production garden • # of people interested in volunteering to provide harvest for area food banks, neighborhood schools, neighborhood community centers etc. • # of people w/ an interest in volunteering to prep and sell harvest at area farmers market Tool library: • # of neighborhood households interested in borrowing tools from a central tool library shed • # of people utilizing tool library • # of tools in library

36. Food A-Team Indicators: #7 – Create a neighborhood “food hub” --- continued... Greenhouse : • # of households int erested in growing food year round • # of people volunteering to teach others in a green house setting • # of volunteers at neighborhood green house • # of households growing seedlings and starter plants for their own gardens Orchard: • # of people interested in orchards at Central Hub • # of volunteers at neighborhood community orchard • # of people volunteering in an orchard to provide harvest for area food banks, neighborhood schools, neighborhood community centers etc. • # of people volunteering to prep and sell harvest at area farmers market • # of people possessing skills and knowledge of growing fruit and nut trees • # of fruit trees planted • Square footage for the orchard

37. Food A-Team Indicators: #8 – Have a SASY neighborhood farmer-in-residence • Does the SASY neighborhood have a farmer • # of hours worked in season

38. Infrastructure A-Team

43. Infrastructure A-Team Vision: Stormwater Reduce polluted water going into Lake Monona and Starkweather Creek

46. Infrastructure A-Team Vision: Waste/Recycling Produce less trash, recycle & compost more to get to ZERO GARBAGE.

49. Integrator Team

50. Integrator Team Draft Vision: A unified, coordinated Sustainable Atwood, empowered to achieve to achieve sustainability

61. Land Use A-Team Provide neighbors with alternatives to perfumed fabric softener sheets and charcoal lighter fluid Activity : Vision: Fresh air to breathe Less air pollution in neighborhood Indicators: Goal : Educate neighborhood on sources of air pollution that are easily controlled

62. Land Use A-Team Stop hauling mulches and fertilizers into the neighborhood and hauling organic food wastes, wood, leaves and yard waste out Goals: Vision: Zero net organic matter loss from neighborhood

64. Land Use A-Team 1. Energy and matter (including soil and nutrients)flows rates through our neighborhood are reduced. 2. Neighborhood acts as a nutreint sink instead of exporter, thorugh management of yard/garden organic materials (OM) [nutrients] in ways which regulate OM export 3. Lakeshore restoration promotes ecosystem function, intergrity, and service Goals: Vision: Land Management works towards increasing ecosystem function (i.e. energy matter degradation) ecosystem integrity, and ecosystem services (i.e. supporting, provisional, and cultural services)

65. Land Use A-Team Activities: 1 . Matter recycling (composting) is accomplished through tight cycles that do not contribute to excess nutrient loads and leakage into lakes. 2. Afforested regions are restored to open savanna systems which provide adequate ground cover to stabilize soils and nutrients 3. Excess woody material is thinned to increase light which stimulates ground cover vegetation 4. Excess woody debris is hauled off-site to reduce nutrient loads 5. Remaining and introduced plant species are native and represent a functionally diverse group with long-lived recalcitrant species are keystone species. 6. Trees and shrubs are management by pruning to mimic browsing and fire lines, which will prevent tree shrub species from prostrated growth forms which inhibit ground layer vegetation

66. Land Use A-Team Indicators: 1. Soils are stablized 2. Ground cover is > 90% 3. Nutrient inputs into the lake are reduced 4. Lake nutrient regulation mechanisms are restored

74. Social / Cultural A-Team Vision: The Atwood Neighborhood is a vibrant destination for arts and cultural events Goals: By January 2011, the Atwood Neighborhood will coordinate, promote and host a series monthly art and cultural events at multiple venues