"I love that you've brought this to attention. An extensive database of uncommon but resistant and hardy plants/foods could be developed and organized by climate. Ease of growth and processing should also be taken in to account. I will try to…"
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The community should be trusted - the lj community, that is.
I was thinking of putting this under urban resilience, which it also is, but that mission seems geared towards top-down disaster planning.
Top-down disaster planning is definitely important. But what about plain survival?
It may surprise you to know that there are a number of livejournal communities dedicated to being homeless, being poor, and dumpster diving. Basically, these communities let people who have very few resources share their knowledge. As you say: trust the community.
Check it out:
The general page
http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=homeless
Some specific examples:
http://community.livejournal.com/poor_skills/
http://community.livejournal.com/dumpsterdiving/
Those two are general, but many are local. There are specific communities dedicated to talking about how to live with little money in Chicago, NYC, and Philadelphia:
http://community.livejournal.com/chicago_cheap/
http://community.livejournal.com/nycnobody/
http://community.livejournal.com/frugal_philly/
A lot of these communities may be made possible by the internet access provided by libraries. When libraries get closed, this gets harder. Which is just by way of saying that people are building infrastructure all the time, and it's hard to know how much any government-level cost-cutting measure is going to destroy community infrastructure that is, unbeknownst to budget folks, saving money.
Top-down disaster planning is definitely important. But what about plain survival?
It may surprise you to know that there are a number of livejournal communities dedicated to being homeless, being poor, and dumpster diving. Basically, these communities let people who have very few resources share their knowledge. As you say: trust the community.
Check it out:
The general page
http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=homeless
Some specific examples:
http://community.livejournal.com/poor_skills/
http://community.livejournal.com/dumpsterdiving/
Those two are general, but many are local. There are specific communities dedicated to talking about how to live with little money in Chicago, NYC, and Philadelphia:
http://community.livejournal.com/chicago_cheap/
http://community.livejournal.com/nycnobody/
http://community.livejournal.com/frugal_philly/
A lot of these communities may be made possible by the internet access provided by libraries. When libraries get closed, this gets harder. Which is just by way of saying that people are building infrastructure all the time, and it's hard to know how much any government-level cost-cutting measure is going to destroy community infrastructure that is, unbeknownst to budget folks, saving money.
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Comment by A.V.Koshy on May 14, 2010 at 2:27am
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good post
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Comment by Evo on May 14, 2010 at 2:29am
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love this! I'm on livejournal as exoterica but rarely use it now....
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Comment by Abby Krieger on May 14, 2010 at 2:44am
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You guys are kind, since it seems I can't spell (I've tried to fix it, now). Evo - yeah, lj, those of us still on it get into maudlin little discussions about What's Going to Happen, and about how No-one's There Anymore.
The question I have is, how many people left because lj wasn't going to be their prime connection point, anyway (ie, the people who joined but discovered themselves to be more Twitter people, or Blogger people, etc.), and how many people have left because it's being run in a kind of sub-par way.
So - do you have an opinion?
Because I love it there, but there are some cool/convenient things they could be adding to the site that they're not. It can make lj kind of dowdy & unattractive.
But then the converse is, that dowdiness makes it one of the best places on the web to lock your post and spill your heart. You hardly need to lock it, because only your friends will be looking.
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Comment by Calida DeBello on May 14, 2010 at 6:44pm
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I think there's a great lesson here about urban resilience, going on right now.
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