Ecotrust here in Portland is doing something with local farmers; effectively a kind of brokerage between restaurants that want to plan out a menu for the year ahead and farmers that want to plan out what to plant for the year ahead.
There's a demand for local food, and all involved parties have to work harder to plan around the seasonal limits this can impose... - a On Jan 8, 2008 12:10 PM, Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear geowankers, > > I'm a researcher at the University of Minnesota, and I was hoping some > of you might help point me to background material and related work for > our upcoming geographic wiki paper. We'd like to relate our results as > broadly as possible. > > 1. We are studying domains which are: > a. geographic > b. changing over time, especially when the geography itself changes > c. the domain supports real activities > d. the activities require planning > > For example, such domains might be bicycling (weather, construction, > new roads come and old ones go, navigating a bicycle requires deciding > where to go and how to get there), shopping in a mall, finding one's way > around a new city or neighborhood, or natural resource management (e.g. > monitoring routes and use patterns). > > Do you have suggestions for other domains that meet these criteria? > The more unrelated to what I've mentioned already, the better. > > 2. Any suggestions for important collaborative GIS work that we should > look at? > > Many thanks, and please let me know what questions you all have. > > Reid > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking >
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