Issue guides are designed to support deliberative conversations about tough challenges facing communities and the nation. Creating one takes about 1-2 years and requires interviews and conversations with experts and lay people, multiple tests with forums and focus groups, and careful writing to lay out the issue as impartially as possible. This one, about sustainability, grapples with the question: “How Should We Reduce Obesity in America?” (For the <a href=”http://www.kettering.org”>Kettering Foundation</a> and the <a href=”http://NIFI.or”>National Issues Forums Institute</a>.)Â ::PDF::