Community Television is pleased to announce the premiere of Sustainable Santa Cruz:  Discovering Common Ground, a television series produced in collaboration with the Community Coalition for a Sustainable Economy.

The series is intended to inform and inspire community members to get involved in taking the next steps necessary toward making our community more affordable, maintaining its diversity and increasing its environmental sustainability.

In each episode knowledgeable guests from both within and outside of our community join in small panel discussions to discuss and debate how to achieve just that. The six-part series will air on consecutive Tuesday evenings at 8:30 PM beginning on Tuesday, October 16, 2007, and replay each following Sunday at 6:30 PM, on Comcast Channel 26/Charter Channel 72.

Program topics include: an introduction to our local economy, the tourism sector, arts and the local economy, the technology sector, climate solutions and the local economy, housing affordability, and small business from the point of view of owners and workers.

The Community Coalition for a Sustainable Economy (CCSE) works with community stakeholders to advocate and mobilize support for a sustainable economy in the City of Santa Cruz. CCSE focuses on four areas of concern: Santa Cruz is becoming unaffordable for many local residents –it’s becoming less diverse economically and socially, it lacks a sufficient tax base to support local government services and infrastructure we desire and expect, it is missing opportunities for good, well compensated jobs, and positive business development is being neglected. CCSE’s goal is to address these concerns on a communitywide basis and propel public action to resolve all four issues.