[SustainableTompkins] New story on Upstate 2050

[Patricia Haines]

Tom: is this related to the relocalization movement in any way? seems to share core goal for us to prepare for a far different future by thinking ahead imaginatively
   
  Question:
  Who would I contact to get information about Ithaca's Relocalization group - ?
   
  thanks - Patricia

Thomas Shelley <tjs1 at cornell.edu> wrote:
  Dear Friends--Simon St. Lauent recently posted a story I wrote to his site 
Upstate 2050 at http://upstate2050.org/ Simon describes his site as 
follows:

"Upstate 2050 is an effort to get Upstate residents to think about what our 
future might hold. Pondering the future often leads to navel-gazing, 
committee reports, and strange boondoggles, but I hope that some fictional 
writing in a variety of different voices will help us past that.

These fragments reflect possibilities that could emerge from Upstate's past 
and present. They can't all happen - many of them simply conflict! - but 
hopefully all of them contain enough truth to provoke some hard thought."

My story is what I call "speculative fiction" and is based on current 
sustainability efforts and the speculative effects of Peak Oil and global 
warming. It is also somewhat "autobiographical".
Viewers may leave comments as the site is based on blogging software. Take 
care. Tom

Tom Shelley
118 E. Court St.
Ithaca, NY 14850
607 342-0864
tjs1 at cornell.edu
http://www.myspace.com/99319958
P I thank you for printing this e-mail only if it is necessary

"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present 
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own 
needs."

The World Commission on Environment and Development,
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987

MY NOTE: Sustainable development does not mean "sustainable growth" as 
growth per se is not sustainable. And the term "sustainable" has to mean 
"for a very long time" (A. Bartlett).

"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." Sioux proverb 
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