ABSTRACT
The WCC has committed scarce volunteer energy, funds, and staff time to exploration, formulation, and implementation of a strategy for community-controlled economic development and environmental en hancement to achieve a future guided by local preferences. Rather than accepting the traditional and exploitive dichotomy between a healthy economy and a healthy environment, Whiteaker's economic development strategy is based on a long-run perspective that emphasizes environmental enhancement. The energy group studied the criteria Whiteaker has considered important in its economic development effort to determine how best to incorporate these in energy business planning. Since Whiteaker is the first Eugene neighborhood to seek decentralized community-controlled economic development, and since it has an increasingly informed program and an alert, mobilized corps of activists, the neighborhood has acquired a radical, feisty image.
