What we’re about
Climate-S.P.A.C.E.
Is a virtual (and local) "meeting SPACE" focused on CLIMATE action, - with a
goal of shaping the "physical SPACEs" and places that make up our cities.
The group is about:
S.M.A.R.T./Systems-Thinking
Placemaking/Planning
Art/ & Architecture
Communities/Cleantech
ECO-Districts/Entrepreneurship
Members are referred to as:
R.A.I.N.-Makers: Making it rain... to Making s**t happen
Resilience, Arts, Innovation, New-urbanism - (place) Makers
This group is about "Placemaking" solutions for climate-smart urban development & clean-tech ecopreneurship. Its mission will be advocating for a local entrepreneurial community that is focused on developing and deploying sustainable, clean-tech solutions to the climate crisis, within a "place-based" physical context.
Cities are key to addressing the Climate Crisis. With a goal of proactively supporting the deployment of holistic solutions, membership will focus on Climate - Resilience, Arts, Innovation, New-urbanism, and MAKERS .
Frameworks for discussion will be around addressing the climate crisis, digital-age economic impacts, social equity, & affordable housing, - all through a "holistic / systems-thinking" approach to locally-driven solutions.
UPDATE: After a very long covid-related hiatus, (with apologies), this group is being resurrected with a new focus: Climate-SMART Placemaking, Architecture, & Cleantech Eco-preneurs, in short- the key fundaments for addressing the climate crisis in our cities.
We anticipate hosting a meeting in the Spring of 2023. Stay tuned for updates till then.
NOTE; the Meetup group's status has been changed to "private", temporarily, while we work on clarifying our purpose, goals, and building-out content.
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Do you care about making Longmont a flourishing City, - and a great place for future generations to live?
“Placemaking is becoming increasingly relevant as our planet urbanizes. With more than half of the world’s population now living in cities, the importance of engaging and inclusive public spaces grows stronger every day.” – Project for Public Places
Change starts locally. Even global change starts with people gathering in their communities. Our capacity for addressing the global climate crisis will not come from leadership "on high", but by building local movements that find purpose in shaping a new and more sustainable future. The success of tackling the polycrises of climate, environment, social justice, and the digital revolution will come down to this : our ability to build local communities that can take effective action that, collectively, - scales to create global change.
Do you have a passion for helping the Longmont community flourish during an era of tremendous global and local disruptions? With the confluence of climate change, the rise of renewable energy, the “Digital-Information Age Economic Revolution”, un-affordable housing, environmental impacts, national political upheavals, and more, the way we work, shop, play, and live our lives is being rapidly transformed.
Free-Market, profit-driven development projects often lead to urban sprawl, increasing dependence on cars, more traffic, more environmental pollution, displaced and isolated individuals and neighborhoods.
A “Placemaking” approach to growth offers the opportunity for grassroots, community-driven, smart, and sustainable neighborhoods, transit, housing, and local economies. A city designed for people first, rather than cars; place before profit; -with a public realm where residents can interact to enjoy human relationships and the environment; where ideas and dreams - for residents of every age - come alive in a nurturing, collaborative, entrepreneurial environment, - this is a city that will thrive in the decades ahead.
“With community-based participation at its center, an effective Placemaking process capitalizes on a local community's assets, inspiration, and potential, and results in the creation of quality public spaces that contribute to people's health, happiness, and well-being”. - PPP