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New Industry Needed......
Posted by Dan O. on April 7, 2007 - 10:47pm
While scouring the internet I found the consultants report for SBP and potential areas for commercial growth. It looks like we're too specialized in too few areas.
SBDC Competitive Analysis TSBP (PDF)
On the same search I happened to come across an economic area that is just starting out to the south and we can still get into at the ground floor.....
OPG: Nuclear Waste IAS Documents, Appendices A B C (PDF)
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Our Micropolitan Future
Naturally those high-figures were doled out gleefully for those most depressing scenario future-thinks, but not a spec of official attention paid to what has already been posted here on the lowly and free-of-charge SBP:
"Nanocorps in Micropolis" from way, way back in July 2003. Do a google on 'nanocorp' and you'll likely find that I've been talking about this stuff for a long, long time. It is, in fact, a core concept of my 'Rural Teleconomics' strategy.
and then, far more recently, surfaced again on a prod from some other post, it seems as cynical as I've become about the public will to want an economy beyond the smokestacks, I'm just too tenacious to let go of it. Like a pit bull with an old bone -- "The Future of Work: Here"
thanks for the opportunity to dig those out -- its as they say, the best thing you can do with free advice is to give it away!
Its maybe unfair to say not a spec of attention has been paid to my writings on this. I was asked by AT&T to be the Ontario switch-doctor for their Telecommute America week and a Swedish technology magazine travelled all the way to the New World to interview myself and Gil Gordon about our future-work strategies, Telepresence Ontario tolerated me at the discussions even though I was just some guy, Jim and Tim-lynn, who gave me the Nanocorp terminology compressing many of my ideas into a single snappy jargon word, were impressed enough to put me on their advisory board, and former Mayor Al Givens sent me as the town rep to a province-sponsored Rural Economic Development conference where my report led to some subsequent motions to make our municipal bylaws cutting-edge forward-thinking SOHO-friendly.
And the Info-Core Gateway ...
Aye those were the days, boys. I actually felt alive back then, like there was a chance for a future where you'd actually want your own kids to live, where there was actual thought going on in policy studies, and not just status quo acid reflex. Aye, byes, thems war the days, eh? Days of inno-sense ...
Pass the glowing carrots, will ya? would yous care for another syntha-milk?
Happy to make your day
I'm glad I could help you reminisce. In many ways it sounds like what you tried to do was act as a pioneer. The same as the first settlers to this area. They found that the winters are long, the snow deep, and that not much grows on the rock that is left after you cut down the trees. Some left, but many remained. The dot com companies were the same. Some flourished but a large percentage folded. The settler’s descendants that are left in this area found how to make a living ($). In the end that has to be the outcome of any viable occupation. Especially if the occupation is to allow generations to continue to work were they grew up.
The report for the nuclear waste storage area alarms me.
http://www.quintessa.org/
The company is international and apparently respected but the report looks as if they wrote it after reading a few tourist brochures.
They even mistakenly list the Woodchuck and Groundhog as two different creatures.
WOODCHUCK (Groundhog, Marmot) Marmota monax
I know that it will be deep storage but somehow it isn't conforting picturing the materials being stored under a swamp. If you visit Quintessa's web site they even raise questions as to the reactions of the materials that are used for encasement.
This is a short term storage (up to 300 years) at best. After that all bets are off.
Dan O.
Pioneer Nanocorps
Funny you should mention the pioneering families because, for the most part, the original settlers to this area were all nanocorps, small-business revolutionaries, sustainable small is beautiful family enterprises with community values. The trouble started when the outside megacorpers smelled money to be made, first from trees ... and the rest, as they say ...
What I don't understand, though, Dan-O, is what has this got to do with dot-coms? How'd you get from here to there in such a swift single jump?
Drive the back roads
Gary; I was thinking along the lines of the exuberance that the first settlers had. They faced the elements, cleared the land and staked everything that they had on their plot of land. If you drive the back roads you'll see the remnants of those that failed. The basements that are left because the land could barely feed a family. The overgrown homesteads where reminders of their dreams still live on in the shape of lilac bushes and overgrown apple orchards. The dot-coms went through the same frenzy. Just like the settlers found, in the end only the companies that produced and made real $ survived. I tried to put a computer slant on things.
You obviously had a dream. Thankfully you've managed to have it pay the bills.
Right now I'm going through spring fever and I'm itching to get out. My spring tree order comes in a couple of weeks. I've carried out this ritual of reforesting one of those failed properties for the last 7 years. People keep trying to quantify why I do this (tax breaks, sell the trees, etc)?
No, what you do with your music, or an artist does with their brush, I enjoy doing with a shovel. Nature looks after the hard part. I just plant the seed(ling).
Dan O.
We live our dreams
Hi Dan O,
Back a few years ago, we came very close to admitting failure, but hang on to our dreams. Today, we still live our dreams. Not easy. We manage to pay our bills, yes. That's about it. No annual trip to the south, no swimming pool in the back yard etc. Not that those things have ever been important to us. Mother Nature has always have precious gifts for those who appreciate her. This spring, our family enjoyed tapping maple trees and got to taste maple syrup which came from our own yard. The boys are going to have their own gardens this year(Easter Bunny even brought them seeds to give them a head start).
Just like you said, we enjoy what we do and Nature looks after the hard part:)