Mount Blackburn (16, 390') behind Gerteeville,an unintentional community for anticommunitarians
Preparing for the interview tommorow morning and looked up Grants Pass, sustainable development, community policing and fusion centers. Ended up at this amazing site called Creating Community. It's a very long list of intentional communities in the US. I scanned through it and read the titles of them, seems to represent a variety of "values" from Christian to Green.
Creating Community has a lot of links to building alternative housing, and it's so ironic but I'm really interested in those. :) I think cob houses and Earthships are great! I love the idea of becoming self-sufficient and building our own abodes. I hate the idea of being stuck with a group of brainwashed eco fanatics who would expect me to share their Hegelian values, participate in group "spiritual" events and perform on demand. I don't know that I'd be as unhappy in a Christian Community, because I do share many of their genuine values, but after twenty years of working in public venues and living in shared housing in Seattle for five years, I'm pretty much done with the whole in your face social scene. It does appear that gertee fits in well with this whole earthfriendly scam, except my anti-philosophy doesn't. So I've decided to use my gertee book to explain my personal philosophy of life, to address the communitarian scam from a different place inside me, the place that motivated me to expose them in the first place. I think I've written enough on their specific programs, plans and laws. It sure feels like I have.
The only link I took so far was to a lesbian community in Grants Pass that led me to this:
Creating Community has a lot of links to building alternative housing, and it's so ironic but I'm really interested in those. :) I think cob houses and Earthships are great! I love the idea of becoming self-sufficient and building our own abodes. I hate the idea of being stuck with a group of brainwashed eco fanatics who would expect me to share their Hegelian values, participate in group "spiritual" events and perform on demand. I don't know that I'd be as unhappy in a Christian Community, because I do share many of their genuine values, but after twenty years of working in public venues and living in shared housing in Seattle for five years, I'm pretty much done with the whole in your face social scene. It does appear that gertee fits in well with this whole earthfriendly scam, except my anti-philosophy doesn't. So I've decided to use my gertee book to explain my personal philosophy of life, to address the communitarian scam from a different place inside me, the place that motivated me to expose them in the first place. I think I've written enough on their specific programs, plans and laws. It sure feels like I have.
The only link I took so far was to a lesbian community in Grants Pass that led me to this:
Growing Community! .... This is the theme for the 1st Annual Conference of the Cohousing Association of the United States. While we've hosted conferences in the past, we have graduated to an annual conference to accommodate the increased interest in the growing cohousing movement. This conference is THE venue for those who already live in cohousing, who are currently seeking a community, and professionals serving cohousing communities to learn new ways to "grow community." National Cohousing Conferences are also the ideal place for newcomers to learn about cohousing - whether you are exploring the idea of living in community or a public official trying to understand how to encourage community oriented development. http://www.cohousing.org/2009/overview
"Grow community?" Like HUD's Weed&Seed program, people are either bad weeds that need to be pulled and tossed, out or good seeds that need to be covered with compost. How did American "public officials" (presumably on the public payroll) gain the authority to "encourage community oriented development?" What exactly does community oriented development mean?
I'll be up all night reading through City of Grants Pass Comprehensive Community Development Plan. I'll be on Grants Pass KALO radio show this morning at 8:30 am Alaska Time: http://www.kajo.com/
I've been over Grants Pass several times but not sure if that's the city too. It was usually foggy since it was usually winter, and one time I stopped at the rest area somewhere up there in the middle of the night in a snowstorm and my dog jumped out of the car. I jumped out to chase her and locked the keys inside. I ended up using my bike lock, a rubber covered metal chain to break in the drivers window. I had a 1976 Ford Gran Torino (what a great car) and it took me hours. I remember it still as being one of those times when I wondered later why I hadn't felt any real fear or concern for my "safety" in that situation. And huh, is that the town I spent the night in the bus station waiting to cross the eastern pass over to Klammath Falls in Nov 1975? Did it used to be a logging town? I should go look at an Oregon map. I don't kn0w much about Oregon firsthand except that it was always a good place to fill up when I was heading north to Washington or Alaska or south to California, Nevada or Arizona on I-5. They had a law against pumping gas yourself. I miss the old days when gas station attendants did it all for me, and so cheerfully. Do they still have that law?
I have read quite a bit about the Portland area since it is a "model" sustainbabe city and I went through Ashland's proposed Charter revisons on the Jeff Rense show. So far Grants Pass looks like they haven't adopted many of LA21 goals, they have no identifiable connection with the international ICLEI community, but they do have community policing, a Volunteer Corps, Neighborhood Watch and a citizen's police training academy. Their website seems to be laid out well with direct access to everything they're doing. Their development codes appear, at first glance, to be more American than communitarian. Just the fact that they post their Quasi-Judicial Hearing Rules makes them a better place than Seattle, whose officials who hid everything and then refused to provide us with any documentation regarding their "quasi-judicial hearings." It's a pdf so I may not try to read it, but as far as I know it's an agency term and may be part of the Administrative Procedures Code, which is communitarian and used by every American agency.
I've been over Grants Pass several times but not sure if that's the city too. It was usually foggy since it was usually winter, and one time I stopped at the rest area somewhere up there in the middle of the night in a snowstorm and my dog jumped out of the car. I jumped out to chase her and locked the keys inside. I ended up using my bike lock, a rubber covered metal chain to break in the drivers window. I had a 1976 Ford Gran Torino (what a great car) and it took me hours. I remember it still as being one of those times when I wondered later why I hadn't felt any real fear or concern for my "safety" in that situation. And huh, is that the town I spent the night in the bus station waiting to cross the eastern pass over to Klammath Falls in Nov 1975? Did it used to be a logging town? I should go look at an Oregon map. I don't kn0w much about Oregon firsthand except that it was always a good place to fill up when I was heading north to Washington or Alaska or south to California, Nevada or Arizona on I-5. They had a law against pumping gas yourself. I miss the old days when gas station attendants did it all for me, and so cheerfully. Do they still have that law?
I have read quite a bit about the Portland area since it is a "model" sustainbabe city and I went through Ashland's proposed Charter revisons on the Jeff Rense show. So far Grants Pass looks like they haven't adopted many of LA21 goals, they have no identifiable connection with the international ICLEI community, but they do have community policing, a Volunteer Corps, Neighborhood Watch and a citizen's police training academy. Their website seems to be laid out well with direct access to everything they're doing. Their development codes appear, at first glance, to be more American than communitarian. Just the fact that they post their Quasi-Judicial Hearing Rules makes them a better place than Seattle, whose officials who hid everything and then refused to provide us with any documentation regarding their "quasi-judicial hearings." It's a pdf so I may not try to read it, but as far as I know it's an agency term and may be part of the Administrative Procedures Code, which is communitarian and used by every American agency.
