David Butterfield Wins Good Neighbor Award

, president of the nonprofit Trust for Sustainable Development and founder of the Villages of Loreto Bay in Baja California Sur, has been given the

Good Neighbor Award by the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, a nonprofit bilateral coalition of businesspeople working to promote trade, investment, and joint ventures on both sides of the border. The $2.2 billion, 8,000-acre (3,200 ha) Loreto Bay development is planned to be a showcase for sustainable development and has the aggressive goal of harvesting more potable water and energy than it uses. More information is online at www.loretobay.com. The Trust for Sustainable Development, which also had a hand in Arizona’s Civano development (see

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Vol. 9, No. 7), is online at www.tsd.ca. The U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce is at www.usmcoc.org.