Selected Economic Gardening Links for Canada

1. Economic Gardening Canada

   www.economicgardening.ca/ - Cached

   What is Economic Gardening? Economic Gardening refers to community economic ...These key statistics far outpaced those of any other center in the USA, ...
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2. Economic Gardening Canada resources

   www.economicgardening.ca/resources.htm - Cached

   Private and Free for Canadian Tax Professionals. Littleton Colorado Where ...
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3. Supporting Economic Gardening through GIS - Spatial Roundtable

   www.spatialroundtable.com/post.cfm?entry...economic-gardening... - Cached

   Hopefully as more Canadian communities embrace Economic Gardening and the use of GIS, the data will improve. The usability of the US BA online application ...
4. 'Economic gardening' helps B.C. SMBs revive economy

   www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=62635 - Cached

   May 26, 2011 – IT Business.ca Mobile IT Business Canada blogs. IT Business ... is helping them by providing free market data research using mapping technology. ... Through theEconomic Gardening initiative of the government funded ...
5. Community Futures - Economic Gardening Home

   www.cfokanagan.com/page.asp?PageID=109 - Cached

   Economic Gardening Home. Community Futures wins the ESRI Canada. "Innovation in the Field of Geographic Information Systems 2011" Award ...
6. ESRI Canada - News Releases

   www.esricanada.com › Home › Company › News - Cached

   May 12, 2011 – ESRI Canada - Map your way to decisions that matter ... With their effectiveeconomic gardening system, they are helping numerous ... The solution combines GIS and extensive geodemographic data for efficient site ...
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   Economic Gardening Second Meeting of the Steering Committee To be...

   www.economicgardeningcanada.com/assets/april%2019th%20agenda.pdf

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   Apr 19, 2011 – Economic Gardening. Second Meeting of the Steering Committee ...business in Canada and the US. It included sales data, employee numbers, ...

Selected Economic Gardening Links

Just a quick scan of Economic Gardening. The city of Litteton, CO, still comes up at the top of the search.

1. Economic Gardening

   www.littletongov.org/bia/economicgardening/ - Cached

   Jun 2, 2006 – PDF file. GLYI Blueprint Program Data and Outcomes (148k) ... PDF file. Free and Low-Cost Resources for Economic Gardening (120k) ...

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2. Economic Gardening

   growinglocaleconomies.com/economic_gardening - Cached

   This ICMA report describes the key elements of an economic gardening program, provides overall implementation considerations, examines the features of ...
3. Economic Gardening - Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission...

   www.orlandoedc.com/articles/economic-gardening.shtml - Cached

   When it comes to the benefits of Economic Gardening, Florida economic development executives considered the statistics. Companies that were in the ...
4. Center for Economic Vitality: Economic Gardening in Washington state

   www.cevforbusiness.com/Economic-Gardening/FAQs/37.aspx - Cached

   FAQs about economic gardening at the Center for Economic Vitality. ... the counseling and assistance you provide with secondary market research and data. ...
5. Florida Economic Gardening Institute / GrowFL - Statistics - LinkedIn

   www.linkedin.com/company/...economic-gardening.../statistics - Cached

   View key statistics about University of Central Florida - Florida Economic Gardening Institute / GrowFL, including where University of Central Florida ...
6. Economic Gardening and Propelling a New Economic Direction for ...

   www.crainsdetroit.com/.../c?...uid...statistics... - Cached

   Mar 10, 2011 – Posts tagged as statistics. Entrepreneurship Score Card Hints at Economic Recovery ... Economic gardening and the governor's tax/budget plan ...

Heartland Papers - policy wonking on rural development

Heartland Papers

Excellent papers on rural economy development (stop chasing smokestacks) and Mexican immigration in the Midwest (3rd rail, but data are data.....)

Read at least the executive summary of "Transforming the Rural Economy in the Midwest". 

Very consistent with good practices/emerging wonking on building sustainable local economies.

The USDA has started a new series of reports on Micropolitan areas (above) link at http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/Rurality/MicropolitanAreas/ and also analysis reflecting the influence of Urban areas, notable "no town no center" for the SE corner of the bootheel, for example. Link at http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/Rurality/UrbanInf/

In-Situ Ville, 17 Years Later

Fascinated by the potential of 3D printers.

Although CrunchGear reports the demise of Desktop Factory, I met a friend of makerbot.com an open source 3D printer project at the SIUIS4 conference.

3D printers create a solid form "layer by layer" from plastic (for now.)

These flexible gizmos would appeal to the folks back in the day of Drop City and (more likely) the New Alchemy Institute for generating one-off or pre-production prototypes.

One app that appeals to me is the idea of creating the "Shopsmith TNG" for use in extreme or isolated places (like shipboard). I'm provably not an engineer, but the tech suggests rapid lost wax casting of parts, etc.

My concept of in-situ ville came from 1992 working papers and presentations on the interaction of ubiquitous networks presented in New York in 1993 called "The Information Superhighway". Essentially, the forecasting and behaviors of people using networked communications suggested strongly the ability to support smaller-scale communities and businesses. "The arrival of new corner groceries" captured that idea. Now, much more of the future can be shaped with local manufacture and mass customization, often using open source designs and materials/feedstocks coming through a closed loop consumption-distribution-production cycle.

" Metals recirculate on a sum-total-of-all-metals-average every 22 1/2 years....
I was able to arrive at that figure of a 22 1/2-year metals recirculating cycle in 1936. I was working for Phelps Dodge Co., which had asked me to give them some prognostications about the uses of copper in the future of world industry."

R. Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path

Cited by me in "Say watt again. SAY WATT AGAIN" on the subject of Green Computing

City of Littleton Annual Report

The city of Littleton Colorado has produced a visually impressive annual report found at http://www.littletongov.org/bia/docs/biacc-report-2007.pdf

Economic Garden Resources

Many many links at the Montana Associated Technology Roundtables on the newspeak of "Economic Gardens".

Just to raise myself a crop of dental floss.