Following Tony's discovery of the Sustainable Racine website, we've been exchanging emails with Aaron Hertzberg the project manager, and Bonnie Prochaska, its Executive Director.
Aaron has very kindly offered to participate in an online meeting on Monday 31st at 8.00pm our time via Microsoft Messenger. Bonnie would like to have joined us as well but she’ll be away at a conference.
If you'd like to be involved - either to ask questions or to 'watch' the discussion live - please email me by clicking here and I'll explain how you can and provide you with some details that you need. If you aren't familiar with how to use Messenger either ask a passing teenager or go to Microsoft's MSN Messenger home page, where everything is explained very clearly. Drop me a line if you have any problems. Once you’re signed up on Messenger you can experiment with it before Monday by chatting briefly with me, if you like.
If you haven't used Messenger before, it's very useful for this kind of online meeting or conference. I often use it for three way 'meetings' between colleagues in Dar es Salaam, Grenada and Newbury! It's very easy to use and set up and has lots of benefits, not least the fact that it's free.
The Racine project does seem extremely interesting. Like Thatcham Vision, it's part of a country-wide initiative: see the 'about us' page here for more details and some very interesting ideas.
