Once announcement of Mayor’s ReUsing goal was announced, this is the initial mind grenade launched to enthuse the powers that be.\u00a0 These thoughts never saw the light of day until now, about a year later.\u00a0 Here:
\nThe revitalization committee of PNI was informed about the latest program from the Mayor’s office– the motherlode of many good things and this is one of them
\nwe felt the need to inform you of our reaction as a community-based organization.
\nreuse resonates with portland and PNI…here’s how:
\nwe have history of lots of use…and can learn about reuse, as we all can.
\nwe tend to share with others rather than buy new
\nwe tend to have old things that can be used for other purposes
\nwe have restore and repurposing businesses with sharable business models
\nwe are poor enuf to see the virtue of reusing rather than tossing
\nwe have more housing that needs reuse\/restoration\/revitalization than any other neighborhood
\nwe believe in recycling, but reusing is easier…and a little more challenging and complex
\nwe resonate with the cost of recycling…relative to reusing… and are willing to share this insight in a manner that raises everyone’s level of understanding and thus dialogue with neighbors, friends and family.
\nwe appreciate that reuse can have a business model but also a way of life that individuals and schools can get involved in.
\nwe see how kids and schools can build this into their programming and curriculum
\nLooking to the future, we seek partnerships
\nWe want you to know that you have a friend\/supporter.
\nPlease consider Portland to be named in any grants, federal or other, that can be gleaned and administered, as well as academic-based internships that may spin off from this initiative.
\nwe see the creativity involved in reuse which is a delight for humans in general, rather than mindlessness of just going to the store and buying something without regard to where it came from or how it was made.
\nwe promise to follow what you are doing, communicate it to PNI and the community as we have ability, and to provide leadership, ideas, and enthusiasm.
\nwe will be working with chery b h in coordinating and celebrating the unique salient features of the neighborhood…and how such can be augmented with this ReUse program.
\nconsider this as a promise of salidarity with you… and our support to the green efforts of our metro area.
\nWe will listen to your programming mechanics and lend our capacity towards embedding your thoughtful philosophies into the fabric of our neighborhood in a mutually supportive fashion.
\nWe are excited to find out ways of mutual\/commonality to foster success in our neighborhood in an ever changing environment…and for looking for ways to communicate passion, practical magic, and ubiquitous expressions of success…to the benefit of our neighborhood, our city and the attractiveness of the Ohio Valley in our region.
\nI know there will be communications with the greater metro in the future and you are free to express our solidarity with your programming initiative.
\nJust like the LVL Loop trail circles the metro, so too our relationship with things have the potential for circling into reuse, rather than a single road to conspicuous overconsumption and commensurate waste.
\nWe refuse to deny labeling refuse reusable.\u00a0 Let’s do this together!
\nPlease note we are not looking for your support; there is nothing you need to do with us or for us — we merely are demanding our right to express solidarity with you with this program that potentially has no bounds.
\nI hope you sense an openness to dialogue with us as we all look for ways to make a positive difference in the seemingly crazy, fast-paced world–in areas that we think really matter.<\/p>\n
–Thoughticus Endus–<\/p>\n
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Once announcement of Mayor’s ReUsing goal was announced, this is the initial mind grenade launched to enthuse the powers that be.\u00a0 These thoughts never saw the light of day until now, about a year later.\u00a0 Here: The revitalization committee of … Continue reading