• MOTIVE SPACE: FOCUSED ON CITIZEN VOICE IN Neighborhood Development (Should be community development)
• Inventory
• Convening stakeholders/connecting developers and citizens
• Facilitating co-housing projects

 

• SANDPOINT
• Low income energy audits
• Green building tours

 

• NEIGHBORHOODS FRAYING IN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN

 

• KIDS ARE A COHESIVE FORCE
• (Help in overcoming language/culture barriers)

 

• MANY NEIGHBORHOODS TRYING TO ORGANIZE ON TOO LARGE A SCALE. Better to engage on a “block or two” base

 

• “TRANSIENCY” – How to connect short-term residents? How can they contribute if they wish?

 

• “SENSE OF PLACE” (NWEI) as nucleus of common ground, trust, knowing all of the neighbors

 

• UNCOVER NEIGHBORHOOD STORIES – Person–to-Person interaction to build knowledge/trust

 

• EXTRA BARRIERS where there are multiple cultures, multiple ages

 

• TIME-BANKING is a way to draw a community together. “Gamble your time”?

 

• COMMON GROUND IS IMPORTANT

 

• MORE EFFECTIVE TO WORK ON WHAT YOU’RE FOR THAN WHAT YOU’RE AGAINST.

 

• VALUE SYSTEM AT CORE
• Formal vs. Informal Network

 

• SUSTAINABLE FINANCE, MICRO-CREDIT, “FINANCIAL PERMACULTURE”

 

• LEAVING A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT – Bottom rung of the neighborhoods already in the long emergency.