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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (4597)	11/11/2006 11:26:26 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 10087

See it soon There's already a sequel coming to town nea...coming from a town near me. The New Frontier by Natylie Baldwin www.dissidentvoice.org August 7, 2006 === As Gregory Greene, director of the mobilizing classic, End of Suburbia, observed, it may be too late for such “top-down remedies” to work anyhow: The U.S. dollar and economy are dependent on a reliable source of energy and there is not enough time to build nuclear power plants or implement other fuel alternatives on a large scale. Even if we could quickly build nuclear power plants, the recent heat wave and subsequent demand for electricity in France showed the ecological weaknesses of relying too much on nuclear power. So what are the alternatives? (1) Greene is currently finishing a follow-up film called Escape from Suburbia. This new film looks at communities that have taken the initiative and are “re-localizing” -- preparing for a future with little fossil fuel by scaling down and redirecting focus and resources toward local self-sufficiency. Communities from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Cuba and the Middle East appear in the film, but it is the town of Willits, California that provides the most intriguing and advanced study of the effort to re-localize and form a sustainable and vitally democratic town in the U.S. “It was evident about five or six months ago that Willits was really serious [about localizing the economy] and a lot of people look to Willits for leadership.” (2) The Willits Model Jason Bradford, an academic with a Ph.D. in botany founded the Willits Economic Localization project, otherwise known as WELL. Brian Weller, who showed up at the first screening that Bradford hosted of The End of Suburbia, eventually became an instrumental participant in WELL. In the two years since then, Bradford and Weller have learned some interesting lessons about mobilizing a community to prepare for the inevitable changes ahead. Message 22698483