Strategic planning for urban transformation:
Tryon Life Community Farm as testbed and demonstration
Join us on Thursday, July 20, 2006, from 6pm to 9pm
for our second monthly strategic planning session.
What can sustainable urban density look like in Portland?
How can we maximize the carrying capacity of dense human habitation and minimize unbalanced flows of resources, energy, and waste?
How can we efficiently overlap and beautifully intermingle residences, agriculture, native habitat, education, arts, community-building, sustainable economies, and spiritual relation with the earth?
How can we grow relations of respect, understanding, and collaboration, even across important differences of perspective and value?
At our first meeting on June 17, we envisioned dozens of exciting possible elements of a living laboratory for integrating city life into a holistic forest-like habitat. Now we need to bring those ideas into the realm of the tangible with some detailed mapping and prioritizing.
Our questions for Thursday’s planning session include:
What are quantitative program goals we can anticipate for each element?
How much space and/or time will such goals require? What other special requirements (resources, labor, specific location) can be anticipated?
How can we locate various programs and functions on the land in ways that foster multiple use of the same space, provide adequate open areas and maximize restoration of natural habitat?
How can the specifics of programs and functions be designed in ways that foster cross-program synergies?
We will use our initial responses to these questions to sketch possible layouts for the land, providing a tangible basis upon which to return to the broader questions of program goals, organizational partnerships, and participation in supporting sustainability movement in Portland.
We want you to join us with your wisdom, your experience, and most of all your passion. Our staged planning process offers a variety of forms of engagement for those with differing amounts of time available.
If not now, when? If not here, where?
If you'd like to bring food or drink, please do; we'll provide soup and salad. If you'd like to stay for a musical jam session after the meeting, bring an instrument or use one of our rhythm-makers.
(Contact Tod Sloan: sloan@lclark.edu, 503-245-2627)