permaculture

["John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

>>  i bet my ass...

> The staff of City Repair--the folks who do the organizing--are 6 women
> and 3 men. The founder is male, but when I've worked with them, the
> women are just as vocal and active as Mark Lakeman is, and he's
> outstanding at distributing power.

Hmmm, so who's won your ass, Georg?  ;-)

> All neighbors on the adjoining
> blocks are consulted, and there is a process for input from any
> neighbors within a certain radius.

Mark said that the primary citizen opposition (including petitions, etc.) to
their original intersection project came from some people living in a condo
development some blocks away.  Apparently they were used to speeding up and
down the residential street as their "private" shortcut to and from the
outside world.



John Schinnerer - MA, Whole Systems Design
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