Many people may not be aware that years ago in the eighties the Paul Glover - the creator of the well known complementary currency, Ithaca Hours and Ithaca Hours Online, was an activist in Los Angeles!
He was instrumental in creating "Citizen Planners of Los Angeles." It looks like he was very much ahead of his time with his vision "Los Angeles: A history of the Future"
His website states:
"Los Angeles has four awesome powers:
- There is such potent soil under the pavement that this county was the greatest garden in the United States, the top food producer of all counties, between 1910 and 1950.
- The sun shines on this place 290 days yearly. A growing season 350 days long permits continuous harvest.
- Our ten million people can work together. Skins all shades of night and smoke, of soil and wood, of fire, seashells and sand cluster and mix on the plain. We resent and love and hurt and help each other. We are magnificent.
- Water under this desert gives half the amount now used countywide. The ocean desalted is an endless supply.
How do we begin to employ these strengths to create a fruitful, self-reliant city, a sensual city worthy of excellent people and land? How do we prove the region's resources can sustain us?
The first work of citizen planners would be to redesign Los Angeles as boldly as government and industry do: to plan transformations with solar technology and orchards like commerce plans with highways and realty. We would plan broadly enough to coordinate regional use of our resources and flexibly enough to rely on initiatives by individuals and neighborhoods."
I agree!
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