open house
Jan 3rd, 2007
1/1/2007
Site is open.
Welcome to NNEMA.
We don't know where this is going, but here is a potential direction, and some hopes for it:
To establish a community-wide lending library. This library will include fine old books on forgotten technology, and current writings on such topics as Peak Oil, Global Warming, food technologies, solar and other subjects.
To help spread an awareness of the impending dangers of the burning up of our one-shot endowment of fossil fuels, and to promote conservation techniques in our daily lives. Additionally to put pressure on our political institutions and business to pay attention to the importance of true sustainability.
To encourage the formation of neighborhood NNEMA groups.
To catalog local resources, such as a listing of city-wide fruit trees, locally grown produce, and dairy, etc.
To initiate dialog on potential harmful effects of food additives and biohazardous genetic engineering, loss of topsoil, and dangers of factory-farmed monoculture.
To encourge local gardening, composting, and real recycling and re-use.
To promote the use of local co-ops, and boycott overpackaged and insane merchandising.
To develop (with your input) a comprehensive emergency checklist.
To help bring together people of like minds so that we can work collectively and together on our myriad projects.
To foster youth involvement in changing the future from a mythical throw-away one to one which is environmentally sane.
To explore the myriad scenarios of the unravelling of Peak Oil and the end of cheap energy, and develop means to combat this inevitable happening.
To link up with others who are interested in creating lifeboats, both inter-city and out of city.
To show that it is possible to live a fulfilled life without giving up high technology, nor lessening the quality of life by changing to a lower level of consumption.
Put on your thinking cap and get out your notepad.
The lending library data-base is being built, and the initial grouping should be put up on this site shortly. Also, we will then figure out a mechanism for getting these books out to you.
Until we de-bug and test the email system and other systems, please contact this NNEMA branch by writing to the temporary address of renofreepress@charter.net.
Thank you.
NNEMA