Bernie Reim and I met a second time this evening to discuss further what we'd like to do in terms of moving forward with our community resilience building effort. The focus looks like it is headed towards fostering connections between people who are already involved in projects that increase the resilience of our community or those who would like to be. In fact we decided to call it Connections.
We plan to feature a rolling brainstorming session whenever we get together that could spin out some exciting projects or help with ongoing efforts.
A project that I'd like to put out there and am starting to work on is an on-line sourcebook of ongoing efforts in different resource areas, such as food, energy, shelter, transportation, clothing, and so forth.
What do you think? Are you involved in anything that helps build a stronger more locally self reliant community in the area that fits in with what we're trying to do, or do you know somebody who is?
Looking forward to getting more connected!
Friday, October 24, 2014
Saturday, October 4, 2014
A Journey of a thousand miles...
Last evening, Bernie Reim and I took the first step towards starting the Kennebunk Area Resilience Project (a name which may change) as we met to start planning the effort.
As I may have mentioned before, the overall goal of the project is to increase the ability of our community to withstand potential threats such as weather related occurrences like Hurricane Sandy, economic difficulties such as the downturn in 2008, or other unexpected events that seem increasingly likely given the turbulent times in which we live. We aim to increase the ability of our community to withstand such things by identifying opportunities for improvement and then acting on them. This might be through through fostering stronger collaboration by community members that are already working on aligned projects (networking!), for example, or it might be by identifying a need/opportunity and helping to start a new project as another example. Ultimately, we are shooting for a stronger community and increased local self reliance.
Ultimately, we imagine a wide variety of things taking place to along the path to this goal. This article in the Portland Press Herald describes the creation of a Community Solar Farm. To me, it's not hard to imagine a project like this as being part of our overall effort.
Over the coming months we will be reaching out to people to join us as we work together to create a stronger, more resilient community.
Please come join us!
As I may have mentioned before, the overall goal of the project is to increase the ability of our community to withstand potential threats such as weather related occurrences like Hurricane Sandy, economic difficulties such as the downturn in 2008, or other unexpected events that seem increasingly likely given the turbulent times in which we live. We aim to increase the ability of our community to withstand such things by identifying opportunities for improvement and then acting on them. This might be through through fostering stronger collaboration by community members that are already working on aligned projects (networking!), for example, or it might be by identifying a need/opportunity and helping to start a new project as another example. Ultimately, we are shooting for a stronger community and increased local self reliance.
Ultimately, we imagine a wide variety of things taking place to along the path to this goal. This article in the Portland Press Herald describes the creation of a Community Solar Farm. To me, it's not hard to imagine a project like this as being part of our overall effort.
Over the coming months we will be reaching out to people to join us as we work together to create a stronger, more resilient community.
Please come join us!
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