Developing Community - for Southeast Michigan members exploring Ideas for developing alternative community

Naiemah — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:23:17 -0700

This is for folks in Southeast Michigan looking to lower their footprint, lower energy consumption and work toward greater self sufficiency, eco-sustainability with others in community collaboration; intentional community. An email discussion group about community formation.
People are welcome here who are considering creating community as a solution to peak oil, lowering their carbon footprint and creating options for sustainable living in Southeast michigan. This is a place to discuss your ideas, get feedback, generate interest and learn from each other about community.
One Sample Guide for Community Building topics:
First Steps
• understanding the community
• power and inclusion
Issues, Goals and a Vision of the Future
• community research
• setting priorities
• vision of the future
Vision to Action
• creating a plan for action
• maintaining momentum
• recruiting volunteers to complete tasks
• dealing with accountability
Making the $$$ to Make Things Happen
• looking beyond money
• recognizing unusual resources
Evaluation for Survival and Success
• developing indicators for each goal
• keeping track of progress
• making progress visible to the community
Coaching Linking Knowledge to Action in the 21st Century
• coaching rather than technical assistance
• with rather than for or to the community
• building a skills bank for the next project
A resource for discussion guide:
http://www.heartlandcenter.info/fieldguide/project.htm

Sustainable Michigan - Peak Oil

Resiliency planning

Toban Black — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:08:29 -0700

Hi everyone,

I'm starting this forum thread for discussion about resiliency planning. As some of you here in London, Ontario (in Canada) will know, this Tuesday there was a meeting about the approach that Post-Carbon London will take to implementing that framework -- which we will be doing.

A few possible discussion topics that come to mind:
- How to approach this framework in London
- The types of groups and organizations we should focus on networking with
- Thoughts on how those groups and organizations should be approached about this

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In a separate post to this thread I'll try to sum up (from memory) some points that were raised at the meeting

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I have cross-posted this to the Coordinator HUB, where coordinators from other groups on Relocalize.net can respond. (This is an experiment that we haven't tried in this group.) And I have cross-posted this to a few nearby groups (which is unusual for us) -- plus the "Vancouver area" group (since someone from that group has said that they would like posts from our area).

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Developing Community - for Southeast Michigan members exploring Ideas for developing alternative community

Resiliency planning