Looking ahead to 2023 - Bringing together many strands of Community Motive for our Local Planet

 Greetings All –

In 2020, Sustainability: Cooperation Industry Earth 2300 – “Think local planet, act regionally,”  was published as Chapter 25 of The Elgar Companion to Geography, Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability.  The research for this led me to focus on the Technosphere as that which Humanity must manage. 





In 2011, the notion of "community motive" came to the fore and pushed my thinking. These slides summarize it. 





April 9, 2023 will be the 20th Anniversary of the Small World Geocode, original mind map shown here. 

Regional Community Development News was begun November 11, 2003 to work toward a use case for "Regional Communities of Communities" and the geocode. The e-newsletter was published through November 5, 2012, with copies maintained on this blog.

Work since then is reflected by this list of major presentation titles, dates and events since 2013. There are videos of some presentations at icRegions YouTube. 

A Solution to the OMB recognized Geographic Need: “a territorially exhaustive classification that covers all of the United States and Puerto Rico,” State Determined Sub-State Districts - Applied Geography Conference 2022 – Virtual - October 22, 2022

 “Standard Sub-State District National Dataset Design and Implementation Proposal for Area Development” - Applied Geography Conference – Virtual - October 15, 2021
 
“Unaffordable: American 1950s Cold War Population Dispersion produced U.S. Highway Urbanism; Drive until you qualify" - American Association of Geographers - Annual Meeting - Virtual - April 9, 2021

“Regional Infrastructure USA ~ The Defined Sub-State District Advantage: 1968 Virginia Area Development Act; Local & Regional Planning For Economic Development; & Northern Virginia – Only Region In Amazon’s Top 20 Cities” - Regional Studies Association, North American Conference 2019 McGill University, September 26, 2019, Montréal, Quebec, Canada 

“American City-building Interrupted: 1950s Cold War Population Dispersion begets #FearOfDensity, Suburban Sprawl and the Regionalization of Everything"  American Association of Geographers - Annual Meeting April 6, 2019, Washington, D.C. 

“Whole Earth Nations Technosphere Sustainability Challenge & Worldwide City-Regions Spiritual Community Motive Response” - Parliament of World Religions – November 4, 2018 – Toronto, Canada 

“The Whole Earth Technosphere Sustainability Challenge and Worldwide City-Regions Network Response: An Urban Planet Theory” - Regional Studies Association – June 5, 2018 – Lugano, Switzerland

“2020 Census Challenge: A Functional Sub-State District/Regional Council Dataset for Research, Policy and Programming in the U.S.” – Applied Geography Conference – November 10, 2017 

“Right to the City-Regions-Earth Everyone, Everywhere wants the Benefits of Civilization's Built-environment this is the Challenge of Regional Development” – Regional Studies Association – June 6, 2017

“Be a City, Serve a Region:  A Built-environment Scaled Network Vision for City-Region-Local Planet Earth” – Regional Studies Association – June 16, 2016

“Cooperation Industry Earth:  “Think Local Planet, Act Regionally!” Inclusive Future- oriented Meme-Paradigms to integrate Geographic Knowledge to inform Community Motive and Profit Motive in achieving Sustainability through Human Unity and Cooperation – American Association of Geographers – April 1, 2016

“The Cooperation Industry – ‘Think Local Planet, Act Regionally:’ Inclusive Future-oriented Meme-Paradigms for Integrating Community Motive and Profit Motive to Serve Greater Community Spirituality Goals of Worldwide Human Unity and Cooperation”- World Parliament of Religions – October 2015

“Cooperation Industry: A Vision and Branding for Regional Studies as the Integrative Discipline” – Regional Studies Association – May 2015

“The Region as Place: Regional Geographic Naming as a Strategy to Foster a Sense of Greater Community Identity and Enable Local Government Cooperation” – American Association of Geographers – April 2015

“The Regional Cooperation Challenge:  Codified Substate political sovereignties require enabling legislation for effective multi-jurisdictional program implementation – The Virginia Experience” – Regional Studies Association – December 2013

“Community Motive: The Untapped Identity Factor for Regional Development” – Southern Regional Science Association – April 2013

Consistent with my observation that overnight success takes at least twenty years, this is the period where there may be some progress with these ideas, as the necessities for Human civilization increase.  

Feedback and questions welcome.  More integration of this thinking will be provided in the months and years ahead. A Sub-Stack may be in the offing.

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Decadal Report - Mapping the Trajectory of Thought; #BuiltEnvironmentTechnosphere; #NuclearGeography; Looking to 2030


Greetings All –
Thought has continued to evolve and it is time to begin reporting about the Built Environment/Technosphere and Cold War Nuclear Geography, topics I’ve posted to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn but not put that here on the Blog.

2020 – the New Decade will be a greater challenge. Let us prepare.

Your thoughts are welcome as always.

Bests. 

Tom (Thomas J.) Christoffel, AICP, FeRSA
Cooperation Industry Earth 2300 - News & Thought
Recognizing the Community and Profit Motives of Industrious Humanity
Regional Intelligence - Regional Communities, LLC
Box 1444 * Front Royal, Virginia, USA (VA 22630)


“Community Motive” Driven “Cooperation Industry Earth 2300” – The Evolution of Thought Continues – Annual Report 2016

“Community Motive” Driven “Cooperation Industry Earth 2300” – The Evolution of Thought Continues – Annual Report 2016

Regional Community News began as an online newsletter November 11, 2003. The tag line was: "Community precedes cooperation. Regional community makes regions work."

The observation “community precedes cooperation” came from my experience as a planner promoting regional cooperation and would become a thesis, as well as lead to more insight. I used the term as early as March 20, 2000 in my journal.

Much evolution has taken place in my thinking over the years and as of the November 11, 2016 anniversary, the effort becomes:  Cooperation Industry Earth 2300 - News & Thought

What is “community motive” and how does it relate to cooperation industry earth 2300? Since 2008 it was clear that the profit motive had failed and was regularly failing to live up to the notion that it was what solved all problem.

The people who I worked with and saw doing the work of community, important work, were not paid. There must be something like a “community motive”. Searching the internet early in 2011 I found only one citation that used it in the way I’d thought of it: “Acts of conservation without the requisite desire and skills are futile. To create these desires and skills, and the community motive, is the task of education.” — Aldo Leopold "Conservation: In Whole or in Part?” (1944); RMG 319

I concluded that community motive had not been adequately recognized, even though it was recorded over 60 years ago and began to promote the term and fit it into my community theses.

The "profit motive" that works in the civil markets made possible by self-governed communities, has been made to appear as the first cause of wealth. Yet, in one's life, the most important things one does are not for profit, but for family and community, to ensure their perpetuation. Both work together now, though in the beginning, there was only community motive, since survival and perpetuation depended upon the community.

History confirms industrious human communities have survived and advanced through out time, leading to the present world which has enormous challenges, environmental, social and economic. They require more and more, all talents and abilities of humanity to achieve balance and eliminate the waste of war. 

Cooperation Industry Earth is inclusive of all humans and their activity, therefore it has no classification code. As a singularity, it works worldwide, still recognizing the importance of boundaries for community self-management and the organization of regional/greater communities. Those who cooperate only for the domination of others, using war and conquest, are catalysts for greater peace. To see this requires a Greater Community Spirituality, without domination of any single religious or non-religious group.

Seven generations of increasing cooperation can occur and return the built-environment and natural-environment to a sustainable balance. My timeline vision from May 24, 2016 follows: 



This then is a paradigm offered to Humanity as a result of years of work, practice, study and inspiration: "Cooperation Industry Earth 2300: Acknowledge boundaries. Work across them. Think local planet, act regionally."

Cooperation Industry Earth 2300 - News & Thought
Recognizing the Community and Profit Motives
of Industrious Humanity
The news stream can be found in these places and joined in various ways.



Sincerely



Tom (Thomas J.) Christoffel, AICP, FeRSA, Editor
Cooperation Industry Earth 2300 - News & Thought
Recognizing the Community and Profit Motives of Industrious Humanity
Regional Intelligence - Regional Communities, LLC
Box 1444 * Front Royal, Virginia, USA (VA 22630)