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| Brainstorming Vermont's Energy Planning c.Steve Frey 2011 |
I missed the VT Energy Plan June 1st workshop and information gathering session held at National Life last week. So I thought I'd contribute a mind map or visual brainstorm of my recent thoughts about the planning effort and areas of focus I see as important to ensuring a sustainable and bright future for generations to come. Check out a link to Renewable Energy Vermont's recent interview on VPR for other perspectives.
So often in our overwhelming information overloaded world it's helpful to find ways to distill the issues quickly. Visual thinking offers a quick pictorial way to lay it all out there and show connections and relationships not easy to make easily in writing or speaking. Thus I offer these two brainstorming sketches which while inherently incomplete offer a "take" on the issues and opportunities before us in our great state.
We have precious natural resources here in Vermont with first and foremost the bright passionate and well educated people in Vermont. I wonder if there's a way to crowd source feedback to the public service board in parallel to helpful meetings being held across the state? By using Twitter and LinkedIn and other social media sites perhaps we can collect together perspectives and ideas not easily obtained otherwise. Last night on Twitter I started a hashtage called #vermontenergyplan to help track the conversation. I also used the hashtag #vermont as well. Put either of these tags into Twitter's search function and you will see this growing conversation!
By tackling this effort with an integrated and systematic planning, public and private partnerships and ultimately actions we take, we can build a more sustainable visionary Vermont.
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