Tompkins County Relocalization Project

[News related to the TCRP <tcrp-news AT lists.ibiblio.org>]

Hello tcrp-news list,

The welcome message that I sent a short time ago seems to have
gotten through, so here's the news.

INITIAL PUBLICITY: LIVING IN DRYDEN

   First public exposure for the TCRP came with an article on the
   Living in Dryden site:

      http://livingindryden.org/archives/2005_10.html

   (See the entry for October 9 under the heading "Looking forward
   to the economy of the 2010s.")  Many thanks to TCRP contributor
   Simon St.Laurent for this!  For those of you not familiar with
   the Living in Dryden site, I highly recommend it; I check the
   site every day even though I live in the Town of Ithaca and
   Simon's focus is (surprise) on the Town of Dryden.  It would be
   wonderful if all the towns in Tompkins County were equally well
   served.

OTHER PUBLICITY

   Messages relating to the TCRP coming in from as far away as
   Sweden had me puzzled until one of the correspondents tipped me
   off to a listing on energybulletin.net; see

      http://energybulletin.net/9956.html

   The Swedish correspondent pointed me to his own web site on
   what he calls "ruralisation":

      http://www.holon.se/folke/

   I haven't had a chance to check this out yet, but it does look
   interesting.  The author charges for some of the content; I'm
   not sure whether to be offended by this or to admire him for
   his own version of economic sustainability.

   A couple of other correspondents pointed out that the TCRP
   may serve as a template for similar local projects, which of
   course is part of the idea.

STARTING THE PROJECT

   As I made clear in my initial call for participants, the TCRP
   is basically a research and writing project.  The people who
   have committed to helping out and the research areas they
   intend to focus on include:

      Bethany Schroeder (Health care)
      Simon St.Laurent (Transportation and emergency services)
      Judy Cone (Agriculture and local food production)
      Terry Moore (research area TBD)
      Marty Hiller (research area TBD)
      Denise Mooney (logistical assistance)
      Jon Bosak (editing and site maintenance)

   If you know someone who might be interested in participating,
   please point them to the TCRP web site.  The fact that someone
   has signed up for a particular area doesn't mean that more
   people aren't welcome to join them; if we get more than one
   person interested in a given area, we'll form a team.

   Since we are all very busy people and will have to carve out
   the time for this project in bits and pieces, I don't expect it
   to move very quickly.  An initial meeting will be held right
   after Thanksgiving in order to avoid local elections and to
   accommodate an industry conference in mid-November that a
   couple of us will be attending in Atlanta.  Stay tuned to this
   list for further details.

Jon