Dear Sustainable Tompkins Listserve Members: Thank you for all of your responses regarding local groups and meeting times. I hope to meet you all come early May and to get work on these tremendously important issues. The recent volatility in the economic markets bespeaks of the incredible instability and vulnerability of consumer capitalism. Wendell Berry:
*When I hear the Stock Market has fallen I say, "Long live gravity, long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism." I think an economy should be based on thrift, on taking care of things, not on theft, usury, seduction, waste, and ruin.* I was exploring both the Sustainable Tompkins as well as the TCLocal website. I am encouraged by the level of discussion and activity going on regarding these most important issues. I did notice, however, that the TCLocal Website seems to be having difficulty connecting to links. A couple years back I was working on a thesis paper on community response to peak oil and climate change and the TCRP Project Outline was one of several community-created plans that I cited in my paper as being a forward thinking response to the multitude of challenges that we will inevitably face. I am wondering whether this project is still ongoing, dormant, or whether it has been replaced by the TCLocal website. I like the TCLocal website especially for its interactiveness. However, the blog format of listing articles by date instead of by subject presents difficulties, it seems, to categorizing and organizing thoughts. Has anyone else encountered this? Anyhow, I wanted to know what the requirements were for listing articles on the website. Thanks so much, Ryan D. Hottle -- Ryan Darrell Hottle The Renaissance Group Program Manager www.ConserveFirst.com Global Climate Solutions www.GlobalClimateSolutions.org (coming soon!) Ohio Peak Oil Action (OPOA) Co-Founder, Director www.ohiopeakoilaction.org 30 N. Rose Blvd. Akron, OH 44022 (740) 258 8450 _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
