What's cool in the GTIA Portfolio...
- MIMIC THIS! When you get invited to events 3000 miles away (or 20 of them just across town), use COPY & PASTE with the really interesting events to seed your own community's plans for similar events. Why start from scratch.... Beg, borrow and mimic! More....
- Welcome recently added members. Check periodically to see if friends you have invited have joined.
- Find others members in your hometown, region, state, country. (E.g., Country=Austria or City, State = Vashon, WA)
- Produce a list of members who use keywords similar to your inerests when describing theirs (E.g.,Permaculture, intentional community).
- See LATEST ACTIVITY on GTIA for results of comprehensive scans of Transition activities around the globe.
- New links to Twitter via GTIA -- Twitter via #TransitionTowns. Twitter now displayed on GTIA Latest Activity.
- Experiment by clicking on TOP NEWS vs ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO SHARE in the center column -- two types of Latest Activity.
Measurement
As Rob says in Pattern 2e -- Measurement
“If a Transition initiative cuts carbon and/or builds resilience but no-one measures it, has it made any difference?” The answer is yes, a bit, but nowhere near as much as it could do.
What Transition measures have you been using or could you use?
What tools could make that measurement easier?
At the individual level, online Pacific Gas & Electric accounts make it easy to get monthly Therm and kWh usage. And fueleconomy.gov can give you your car's mpg.
At the town level, city-data.com has information such as travel time to work.
Other Measures
The Transition Primer:
• percentage of food grown locally
• amount of local currency in circulation as a percentage of total money in circulation
• number of businesses locally owned
• average commuting distances for workers in the town
• average commuting distance for people living in the town but working outside it
• percentage of energy produced locally
• quantity of renewable building materials
• proportion of essential goods being manufactured within the community of within a given distance
• proportion of compostable "waste" that is actually composted
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Permalink Reply by Helmut Leitner on -
Just to start a discussion: pattern theory says that everything has a pro and a contra. Doing something like "Measurement" means to give this development step priority over other alternative development steps. Maybe something is more important at a certain place/situation in a certain stage of development. So we get to the quality of the situation and the question of the sequence of pattern application.
What are the contra-indications of "Measurement"?
What is the effort needed to do it?
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Much depends on the people available. There are people who hat to measure and others love it. Maybe cooperation with a university might be a way to get at it. -
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Permalink Reply by Sarai Stevens on -
How about maps as one way of communicating quantitative information. So much of Transition, especially at first, is human connections. Farms, locally owned business, manufacturing and the people who do it, those willing to barter, people/businesses committed to zero waste are all subjects that can be placed on an interactive map. This provides a fun, concrete visual for people to view Transition at work.
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Permalink Reply by Leon Breckenridge on -
Mike,
i've spent over 30 years in "mgt of waste & energy systems" in industrial process. I have the equivalent of a MS in mathamatics and this combined with physics allows me to actually do "life cycle" impacts of energy flows from actual measurements. "Pattern Theory" appears to be a modern version of what was used in aerospace to assure 99.999% reliability. The "pattern" you presented looks similar to what chemical process engineers do all the timeand I do for all my projects. If you and others would like to be briefed on effort about "measurement" during the first energy crisis I would be glad to help.
Helmut needs to remember that if you don't know where your are [measured] you never know if what you are doing will make it better or worse IN THE LONG RUN. -
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