[SustainableTompkins] maintaining list integrity

[Margaret McCasland]

I feel right in the middle on this one.  I greatly appreciated Tony's 
post on the whales: there was a particularly urgent timeliness to 
this situation, and whales do feel like a local issue to me. But then 
my grandmother grew up on the bay of Fundy, I was born on Cape Cod, 
and many relatives lived on the Atlantic coast in between.

I do assume most people do care about their continued existence in 
our nearest ocean. I also assume that global-warming induced climate 
change is the reason the Right whales are staying in the Bay of Fundy 
beyond their usual return to the open ocean (although the Defenders 
site didn't say so).  For me, this is another example (like polar 
bears drowning and/or dying of starvation because they need ice to 
hunt) of how what we do locally affects ecosystems all around the 
globe. Another reason why THIS list-serve is important.

Bottom line: I appreciate this list-serve for all the support it 
gives for our making changes in our own lives.  I think a VERY 
occasional broader post could be acceptable. We certainly are 
exchanging posts on global efforts to address global warming.  Why 
not an occasional inspiration for why it matters?  Perhaps we should 
just include the connection to provide context.

Re: the roommate wanted post: this seems more appropriate for say, 
the Permaculture list-serve, which has more of a Permaculture 
lifestyle flavor to it.

With all these overlapping list-serves, perhaps we could coordinate 
which ones will have which emphases or "flavors?"  I'm on 3 different 
list-serves that talked about the white pines in FL National Forest, 
and I'm glad that issue got wide coverage.

Margaret