Dear Simon and Bethany: Thanks so much for your response. I recently found out that I have been accepted into Cornell's Graduate Program in City and Regional Planning and hope to use this as a platform for researching and promoting relocalization and carbon negative energy within the Tompkins county area. I would love to share any research or ideas on the TC Local website so that any work I do doesn't merely become filed away as academic work, but promotes increasing collaborative energy to actually do something about these troubling issues.
Look forward to meeting you both. Thanks so much, Ryan D. Hottle On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Simon St.Laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ryan Hottle wrote: > > > 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 been replaced by the TCLocal website.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? > > There are a few different things going on with the TCLocal.org website. > > First, we're using it to publish articles on subjects that largely come > out of the TCRP Project Outline you mention. We decided last year that > web publishing was likely a better approach for what we're doing, and so > far we have two major articles up: one on tree crops and one on roads. > We're planning about one a month, hoping to solicit comments that will > lead to better articles. > > (TCRP became TC Local - they're the same project, same people, same > goals.) > > The other piece of the site is what we used to call the "repository", > which is collecting articles and information for later reference. We've > had some trouble sorting out how best to make that work, and may split > it off again into a completely different interface. > > > Anyhow, I wanted to know what the requirements were for listing articles > on > > the website. > > If you'd like to write main articles, let us know, and join us for a > meeting. If you'd like to contribute to the repository, the answer is > almost the same - we just have a bit of figuring out to do around how > that part of the project is implemented. > > Thanks! > > Simon St.Laurent > Chair, TC Local > _______________________________________________ > RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: > [email protected] > http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins > free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org > -- 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 _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
