tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post8243603643548131165..comments2024-03-24T11:01:27.668-04:00Comments on Resource Insights: Willits meets the S-curveKurt Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330759091950742285noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-14997512908409760832007-10-22T17:01:00.000-04:002007-10-22T17:01:00.000-04:00I have been in Willits for 40 years and I find all...I have been in Willits for 40 years and I find all the publicity about our localization accomplishments curious. WELL received a 50k grant from an out of town benefactor, an offshoot of the benefactor sent someone here, and paid his salary, to help set up the CSA. Outsiders dump money to help us localize?? Now the same group is touting our accomplishments. <BR/> In your study of Willits did you not hear that about the dope economy, the one real localization accomplishment. Marijuana, according to local wisdom, accounts for at least half of the local money flow. <BR/> I was there when WELL began and advised that we stay away from the media. No one listened and now we are dealing with the one real achievement of WELL PR--- growth.<BR/>Ralph PisciottaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-76948822079204918642007-10-21T23:02:00.000-04:002007-10-21T23:02:00.000-04:00Interesting stuff. Obviously we're on the first sh...Interesting stuff. Obviously we're on the first shallow part of the S-curve of change to a lower-energy, less Earth-damaging way of life. I think that perhaps the 1970s were just the start of it, and now we're at the point where the shallow part turns sharply upwards. <BR/><BR/>It's at this key point that we start to see that quick adoption of new stuff, or else see the whole thing turn to poo. <BR/><BR/>Of course, climate change <I>also</I> has an S-curve for rate of change; the rate of change begins low, but then when a tipping point is reached it becomes very sharp and sudden.<BR/><BR/>Let's hope that our social S-curve has the turnaround before the climate S-curve does.Hanley Tuckshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13047638048463160737noreply@blogger.com