October 24, 2006 – Community Seminar
I’ve rearranged my week to be able to attend a seminar on sustainable community development sponsored by a local group tonight and all day tomorrow. The speaker tonight was from the Rocky Mountain Institute (environmental/business think tank published “Natural Capitalism” and “Winning the Oil Endgame” among others).
Micheal Kinsley from RMI led the discussion that basically boiled down to a advocating a new type of collaboration about community development instead of five rich white guys making decisions in a back room and to improve resource use and instructed on the virtues of self-directed, often small-scale, often local enterprises.
It’s a lot of the stuff I spend a lot of time thinking about, but hasn’t hit mainstream thinking yet. So it was good for him to present to 100 or so community leaders.
