[interdoc-y2k 302] Global Collaboration to Make Neighborhoods Self-Sustainable by 2000

[Bagelhole1@aol.com]

                           PROJECT EXPLANATION


This projest has a scope so grand, that most individuals have a hard
time comprehending it. It is based around the simple, prosaic idea of
developing a list of low-tech, homemade style ideas for sustainability
(the full gamut). This ever-improving list will be posted on websites
thruout the world (http://bagelhole.hypermart.net/ ,cassandra project
,Alternative Survival Information ,Resilient Communities Project )for
starters.

It will be ordered by function, alphabetically, and by region, to make
accessibility for implementation as easy as pie. So that, individuals
and groups will actually be able to make themselves and their
neighborhoods self- sustainable by 2000. This project has no
commercial aspect, but is simply humanitarian. There is an urgency
with y2k imminent and a need for collaboration on the widest scope.

This is a call to the best among us, to the best within us to lead the
way, lay the groundwork, and savor to the fullest,global
collaboration.

Now as the self-imposed deadline approaches (Easter day) for the
launch of the project on to websites, there is a need for good ideas
to be submitted, and for people (collaborators) to help cull the many
links I have for ideas, to get the project off to a good start, by
making the list impressive.

In conjunction with this, to augment and  compliment this project is
the hope and idea to collaborate in partnership either with or
including gov't, business, and non-profits, the mass construction of
large (10,000 sq.ft) synergistic, self-sustaining, solar-passive
greenhouses in the model developed by Anna Edey and the New Alchemy
Institute of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. in the 80's. Utilizing wasted,
urban areas, possibly nat'l guard (for construction), P. Ziegler's,
cutting edge, methods of growing, called "aeroponics", vertical
gardening, with nutrient fed looped tubing.

If any see the sense in this, and wish to be amongst the "early
collaborators", e-mail me now, with how you would like to help. The
time has come to transcend the dysfunctional element that has so long
characterized the human family.

                                                   Co-reliantly,
                                                   Tom O (bagelhole1)
                                                   San Francisco
                                                   415-824-4214