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Sustainability: Think Globally, Act Locally, Shannon Axtell

Metroscape

A brief look at developing concepts of sustainability and sustainable development, both from an international as well as an Oregon perspective. Addresses the difficulties faced by cities in their efforts to formulate specific goals and policies for sustainability, and cites several Oregon projects and initiatives that have sustainability as their focus.

The Usher Plant Review And 8-Point Action Plan, Center For Economic Development

Center for Economic Development Technical Reports

The Usher Plant is located on Arch Street off of Route 2 in Erving, Massachusetts in the center village of the town. The plant is a rich part of the social, economic, and cultural identity of the town and its residents. The Erving Paper Company occupied this plant from 1964 to approximately 1990, when the company consolidated and moved its operations leaving over one-hundred workers either displaced or unemployed and the Usher Plant vacant.

The closing of the Usher Plant approximately 10 years ago has had a tremendous impact on the community residents, as well as Erving's center village merchants …