Third SAGE Meeting

Another month has gone by and the excitment and support is still growing. So many awesome things are happening around the city in so many areas it's hard to keep track of it all! (See the calendar at right >)

It's almost time for our first core group meeting! If you are interested in contributing to the group in an organizing capacity - please join us on Feb 13 at Trimline Design Center - see full details in the calendar (at right >).

If you just want to come out and see what all the buzz is about - come to our next group meeting on Feb 28 at the Village. (Details also at right >).

We are also attempting to share some of the other cool things happening around town that you may not have heard about yet. Please check out the calendar - at right for full details.

Hot Dog, we were in the paper today! Check out the pdf version of the article in the box (at right >) to read about the group from some other people's perspective.

And if you would like to know a bit more about Tad and I, you can click on the photos of us in the box (at right).

For all of you who were at the last meeting, you may have noticed that I am still employing my repetitive marketing techinique. So where can you find most of the new information on this page? ______ ______

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Resources

At the last meeting there was a request that we share the information that has come from our discussions, so here it is.

The first meeting we broke into groups and answered the same question.

"What do we think we know about creating and living in a sustainable community?"

Since there were 8 groups we had 8 versions of the answers. I put all these answers into a spreadsheet and looked for common themes. You can see the spreadsheet here common themes.

At the second meeting we used the common themes from this question to guide our group discussions. Using the following 4 focus question below, we joined the group that we were most passionate about and shared with the others. Click on each of the topic headings below to see what we talked about.

Focus Questions
What projects can we do together that we can’t do alone?
What partners can we identify to work with?
What partners are out there we should find out about?
What ongoing projects do we know about?

Topics
1. Food and Agriculture Issues
2. Building Design
3. Alternative Forms of Energy
4. Food Security
5. Eco village
6. Education
7. Community Building
8. Media

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