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The Section's Legacy Sustainability Foundation

DateJune 30, 2011 at 06:00PM

Naphtali Knox, our Section's venerable publication's leader and editor of the Northern News, sent me a small set of what could be considered the Section's "legacy" articles on sustainability, or maybe simply some of Naphtali's sustainability reading suggestions accumulated over the years. In any case, they form an instructive foundation off of which to accelerate innovative sustainability planning in the Northern Section, and they are recommended reading!

Links and short descriptions follow:

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