Re: help us get the word out

A few comments on Colin's comments

yes, I agree that we need to try and reach out to as
many people and different types of people as possible
but I think that it is important not to align
ourselves with anything other than being a carfree
city. I think that that goal is big enough that it
has its work cut out for it. Yes, i would like for
everthing in the city to be ecologically designed, any
agriculture, organic, all energy, solar/ alternative
etc, etc, etc but we could easily get sidetracked in
this way in small details from reaching our larger
goal, which is formidable enough.

I think having a carfreecity in the U.S. is important
because it would be a very powerful message to send to
the country and the world. Sure, it would be much
easier to create a carfreecity in a place where there
are fewer cars (altho maybe not as in many of these
places their dream is to acquire a car and in the U.S.
many people are sick of the traffic, car expenses,
parking problems, etc. ) It would say to the world
that this country, that is so car dependent, can move
on past the private automobile. I think it would be
very powerful for people to see this and would help
many people become less car dependent.

david

--- Colin Leath <[email protected]> wrote:
> I forgot at least two groups:
> new immigrants & native american tribes.
> (many of the former, horrifically, are in the
> process of being deported)
> 
> Do you have your heart set on the US for your
> project?
> 
> any money you raise could go alot farther somewhere
> else-
> in addition, we could start somewhere where few
> people do drive cars--
> 
> I am doubtful -- but not 100% -- that the world's
> new cultural capitol (if
> there can be such a thing) -- I'm talking about the
> capitol of the
> new/old-old culture. --- will, or even can be, in
> the US.
> but maybe it has to be-- Maybe it will be nowhere
> but on the internet. But
> I don't think so. I'm looking for the new Florence,
> the new New York City,
> the new Paris, for the time that comes after this
> one.
> 
> Findhorn?
> 
> (of course a cultural capitol wasn't your goal--but
> it would help to have
> a positive selling-point)
> 
> 
> As I consider where to go next, at the top of my
> list are "poor" countries
> that at least have decent internet access.
> 
> Don't forget, most of the people in the world are
> carfree! (just not the
> ones we happen to live near) (which, of course is
> why a carfree city in
> the US would be such a huge accomplishment)
> 
> Colin
> 
> I'm partial to china & india, but maybe central &
> south america?
> then again, a small country with a small, accessible
> gov't might be
> preferable.
> 
> Puerto Alegre Brazil has been the center of some new
> stuff-
> send me other places that come to mind where people
> are thinking/ living
> in ways that focus intelligently on quality of
> experience.
> Curitiba?
> 
> Realize that we are almost totally out of the loop
> with respect to what's
> happening in Asian and other non-english-speaking
> countries.
> I wish I saw a clear way through that ignorance.
> 
> I really wonder what's happening in India, or maybe
> China-- which have
> massive mind share, and a much older culture with
> perhaps greater
> historical continuity. (I am clueless though)
> 
> 
> 
> 


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