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• David Loughry 11:59 am on May 11, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

  Relationships between Variety, Sustainability and Proximities: A Case for Proximity Thinking 

  Below is how variety, sustainability and proximities are related, and why we need proximity thinking.

  1. Variety (also think diversity) goes hand-in-hand with sustainability.

  2. Sustainability is about environments and contexts, or more simply, proximities.

  3. So, for sustainable proximities, we:
  a. Need to, and get to, embrace variety.
  b. Need to, and get to, create proximities that support variety.

  4. To better think about, relate to, and create proximities, we need proximity thinking, also known as ProxThink. The ProxThink framework includes a sustainable proximities approach. By the way, variety is an integral part of proximity thinking.

  P.S. You might also check out the varietypeople.com project.
   

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• David Loughry 6:19 pm on January 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

  Tracking Where “How to Create a Sustainable Proximity” was Sent 

  Here are places I’ve sent the one paragraph announcement and press release called “How to Create a Sustainable Proximity.”

  Newspapers

  Washington Post
  Boston Herald
  Boston Globe
  Los Angeles Times
  Washington Times
  Houston Chronicle
  Dallas News
  San Francisco Chronicle
  San Francisco Examiner
  San Jose Mercury News
  Dallas Fort Worth Star Telegram
  Baltimore Sun
  Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  St. Louis Post Dispatch
  Denver Post
  Minneapolis Star Tribune
  Los Angeles Business Journal
  San Fernando Valley Business Journal
  San Diego Union Tribune
  Seattle Times
  Chicago Sun Times
  Chicago Tribune
  New Jersey Star Ledger
  Philadelphia Inquirer
  Oregonian
  Associated Press
  New York Times
  Wall St. Journal
  Los Angeles Downtown News

  Magazines

  Wired
  The New Yorker
  BusinessWeek
  Newsweek
  Time
  Fast Company
  Inc.

  Blogs

  Worldchanging
  Renewable Energy World
  Dot Earth
  Green Inc.
  ecogeek.org

  Radio

  npr – Living on Earth
  npr – All Things Considered
   

• David Loughry 4:49 pm on January 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: area, business ( 3 ), community ( 2 ), context ( 3 ), Environment ( 2 ), group, Growth ( 11 ), guide, home, how-to, neighborhood, Networks ( 10 ), organization, park, region, technology ( 3 )   

  Press Release: How to Create a Sustainable Proximity 

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

  How to Create a Sustainable Proximity
  

  A short guide called “How to Create a Sustainable Proximity” offers a new approach. People can use it for an area, home, park, neighborhood, community, region, context, environment, business, group, organization, etc. If we create many sustainable proximities, they will start to overlap. People are free to use this guide. It is based on the ProxThink sustainable proximities approach. It allows people to relate to a proximity they care about in a new and more direct way. It leverages technology and networks in a different way by applying a new growth model. “How to Create a Sustainable Proximity” is available at the following link:
  http://proxthink.com/blog/2009/12/24/how-to-create-a-sustainable-proximity/

  —— (end of release) ——————–

  NOTE: Should you have any trouble with the link above, you can also get there by going to the ProxThink.com website (http://proxthink.com). Once there, you’ll see links to “How to Create a Sustainable Proximity” in the upper right, and also in the bottom center of the page.
   

• David Loughry 12:44 am on December 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  Open Source and Sustainable Proximities 

  (r] proxthink.com

  Do you think the sustainable proximities approach outlined in How to Create a Sustainable Proximity would never work? That people can’t be trusted, or it needs an enforcement mechanism, or some other objection?

  Well, the open source software development process is an example of the sustainable proximities approach in action. They don’t call it that of course.

  The ways they track their progress are, in effect, ProxMonitors.

  Places and ways they share information are RelatePoints.

  The open source agreement itself, and their decisions to work within it, is a kind of Vadi Agreement.

  Their contributions of time, energy, expertise and code are proxri.

  In working (and playing) this way, they have created a sustainable proximity. The proximity is the ecosystem of the particular software and the people related to it.

  Do you see it?

  I’ll come up with some other examples.

  Proxri Deal: As you find our relationship rewarding, proxri with the proximity in mind.