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Conduct a Community Inventory

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Relocalization starts with knowing your community. Where does your water come from? What is the basis of your community’s economy? What was your locality like 100 years ago? Where is your community headed in the future?
By mapping your community’s social, economic and ecological characteristics, you will have a valuable resource from which you can identify opportunities and constraints to Relocalization. Also, the very process of creating this inventory will get community members talking to one another about their shared hopes and concerns. Once completed, the information you collect can be presented to the public and to elected officials to help spur new projects and policies supporting Relocalization.

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The scripts are designed as guidelines. Just as each theatre company’s production of Hamlet is different, each group will interpret the scripts differently. Groups can interpret a project to reflect their community’s particular needs and interests. As more groups begin experimenting, we will be able to develop our pool of resources, information and research on relocalization efforts. The Relocalization Network at relocalize.net provides space for this information sharing under the resource menu item. The more groups document and add content to the website, the more useful these relocalization experiments will be.

The key to using these Action Scripts successfully is to adapt them to your group’s needs, time availability and skill level. Take on project that are attainable and measurable. And above all, choose projects that inspire and excite your group.