Pup a sign at the entry points to your area with your relocalization / transition website on it. That way you'll know you're home, and when people pass through, they'll know you're there. Make'em happy! |
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The
area I live in is a rural area on a medium size highway sixty miles
north of Lake Ontario in Ontario, Canada. I know I'm there 'cause as I
travel down Highway 7 there's a sign erected by the Township that says
"Land O'Lakes." A picture features an image of a sunset on an island in
a lake that with its flattened circle overall shape, brown island, and
reddish sky looks remarkably like a hamburger in a bun. This hokey
designator comes just after the the Central Frontenac sign; together
they tell me I'm back home. (I find the "Land O'Lakes" signature hokey.
What I always paint right after is a sign that reads www.FrontenacResilience.org fixed to a tree. (That's the future's website for this area.) So far there's no such sign on a tree. But there's going to be because I'm going to put it there. The sign marks that there are people here who are working for a sustainable, resilient future in the face of shortages, outages, and outrages - peak oil, climate change, economic calamity. The sign says that there's relocalization in force, and that when you come home, that's part of what you're coming home to. And if you're just passing through, it can make people think, "Cool, there are some people here thinking about this." I want the sign to be visible each time you come into the area, east and west on Hwy 7 and from the south on Rd. 38. We don't have a major road from the north up here - we are the north. . And here's the exciting piece. I want to see another sign that says the website, or the name, of the new relocalization region after ours. (I wrote "bioregion," and there's an interesting conversation about what's a region and what's a bioregion and which one to count. But that's not this conversation.) Way nicer than having inukshuks on every outcropping of rock! The Put-it-on-the-map Collaborative Art Part If you send me a picture of a relocalizing / transition sign at an entrance to your area, I'll upload it here and mention it in the newsletter, making it easier for others to do the same. We'll put relocalization on the map! Simple! Brand your area and give it the stamp of the work you're doing. Let people know so that they can be part of it. Make it so that when people from wherever are passing through your neck of the woods, they know you're there. Give them some comfort that there are like-minded souls out there. There are! We're everywhere, in the midst of relocalizing the world. Putting outselves on the map. Not necessarily Rand McNally's map or whoever's doing them these days, GoogleMaps, but the internal map each of us lives in. |
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