We can use this LAST Blog to connect Drivers and Riders.

Drivers>> Please list your trips, as a Blog reply/comment to this entry, to Seattle, Port Townsend, P.A., etc. (dates and times) and your willingness to accept riders.

Riders>> Please list your trips upcoming out of the area and would like to carpool.

I will work on getting an Online Calender established on LAST but in the meantime, this Blog can be used for communication between Drivers and Riders.
Sid

This is where everyone can add their Town Hall questions for our Focus Areas.
NOTE: If you bring or refer to handouts, bring 9 copies to distribute to the City Council, City Manager and City Clerk.

This blog will be concerned primarily about Recycling issues. Please make blog entries under this entry to relay ideas and new things you run across. I will be assimulating this information so it becomes a resource for our community.

Please assemble your thoughts under the following guidelines:
Issues and/or Concerns.
Possible Solutions.
Benefits to the Community.

This blog will be concerned primarily about Local Food and Farmland. Please make blog entries under this entry to relay ideas and new things you run across. I will be assimulating this information so it becomes a resource for our community.

Please assemble your thoughts under the following guidelines:
Issues and/or Concerns.
Possible Solutions.
Benefits to the Community.

Rich and I are talking about our options for LAST meetings instead of our face-to-face meetings.
Using the Blog or Forum features of our website may be an option.
Please relay your thoughts and ideas.
Sid

This blog will be concerned primarily about Transportation issues in all aspects of our lives. Please make blog entries under this entry to relay ideas and new things you run across. I will be assimulating this information so it becomes a resource for our community.

Please assemble your thoughts under the following guidelines:

Issues and/or Concerns.
Possible Solutions.
Benefits to the Community.

Our current planning is focused on things we can start to do now that will effect our future sustainability. These seem to be changes that will take several months/years to get going or to implement.

Urgency continues to surface in my thought process and Rich has expressed the same concern.
If things change gradually in a predictable fashion, our planning is right on. My concern, and I think I have expressed it several times, is things might change drastically overnight or within a very short time frame. This gets back to emergency preparedness but it may last much longer than a typical emergency. I realize that this is a gloom & doom senario but I think it is something have could happen. From my perspective, I think it is almost inevitable.

Does anyone else share my concern?
Is this something LAST needs to consider and plan?

I am going to initiate a web page under People >> Emergency Preparedness that focuses on the worst case senario. I will call it Extended Crisis Planning.
This will be the area where we can consider the most extreme negative senarios just to see what solutions we can develop. It will be a good exercise that will challenge convention.

This blog will be concerned primarily about Energy; its use, ways to save energy and alternative energy sources/ideas in all aspects of our lives. Please make blog entries under this entry to relay ideas and new things you run across. I will be assimulating this information so it becomes a resource for our community.

Please assemble your thoughts under the following guidelines:
Issues and/or Concerns.
Possible Solutions.
Benefits to the Community.

If anybody wants to add anything to the site, email me the information and I will post it to the specific category or create a blog post and I will get it off the post & put it into the specific categories.

Feel free to post events and any other item you have access to as you learn of them.
Thanks
Sid

Here are some of my ideas:

Olympic Permaculture
Transition to Olympic Permaculture (TOP)

Olympic Connections
Olympic Community Connections
Olympic Community Sustainable Connections
Sustainable Connections on the Peninsula
Sustainability on the North Olympic Peninsula
Sustainable Connections-Olympic Peninsula

Your thoughts?