Comments on: Join the National Conversation on the Future of Our Communities

By: bharat book bureau

bharat book bureau — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:40:34 +0000

So informative and comprehensive post.

By: Jay Cwanek

Jay Cwanek — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:04:10 +0000

No one has the slightest idea what the real costs of energy to the consumer will be out beyond 15 years from now, whether we’re talking about fuel for privately owned vehicles, mass transit, community-owned vehicles, space heating, clothes-drying and cooking with natural gas or propane, OR electricity. That really limits longer-term planning, because cost to the user is not part of the plan.

Since iterative decision-making will need to recur everytime there is a spike in energy costs that seems to be long-term, perhaps we should simply focus on stockpiling sources of energy where people want to live, so we’re not in the position 25 years from now of having to tell 350 million Americans there’s no longer any way for them to get to work, unless they are healthy enough to take a bicycle the way the Chinese used to do.

By: Alvaro

Alvaro — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 05:53:38 +0000

Education should be the main concern. We need to spread the word in different languages also. I live in a community where we have immigrants from different countries and boy I can tell they need information and education specially on recycling.

By: charles

charles — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:10:56 +0000

How did you pick 15 years? that’s not very long in terms of planning. Good planning needs to look out longer than that, unless your intent is to also maintain developers’ profits due to the need to start over more or less every decade.