Dear Ali Dwyer,

I am very interested in contributing toward the emergence of a self-conscious “Great Lakes Culture,” from Toronto the Deluth.

I am doing me best to have on-line conversations and brainstorms with internet empowered Great Lakes activists and culture workers in the “movements” for sustainable development, historic preservation, and reconciliation.

The Wisconsin Bike Federation would fit under “sustainable development,” at this point in history.
Healthy recreation is a category I should probably add to the list.

I am writing in hopes of learning about any connections you might have with bike federations in Toronto, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, and any smaller cities from Toronto to Deluth.

Are there any Great Lakes events or projects or information exchange groups? Are their yahoo groups or wiki web sites?

Would you be up for organizing or participating in a Great Lakes Bike Federation and some Great Lakes Cycling events? There is a special neighborhood in Milwaukee, called Riverwest, which is a “new working class” integrating community alongside the Milwaukee River, which would be my pick for one of the early Great Lakes Bike Events.

http://www.riverwestcurrents.org/2005/April/002393.html#002393

Bill Sell, myself, Tegan Dowling, James Carlson and others have been exploring the value of “wiki web software” as a means of creating on-line forums, photo essays, documents, and more, for non-profits and small businesses.

http://milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/HomePage

http://milwaukeerenaissance.com/GrowingPower/HomePage

http://milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/EconomicProjects

http://milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/PhotoEssaysOfGreatLakesCitiesInclusiveStPatricksCelebrations

We have also experienced the power of a yahoo group for movement organizing, most notably Bay_View_Matters, a 500 member group Bill Sell started about 2 l/2 years ago and continues to moderate brilliantly.

Please let me know if any of this interests you. Or, if you think of people in the emerging “Great Lakes Culture” who might be up for exploring some of these concepts, please forward this to them.

Wind at our backs in 2006,

James J. Godsil
http://milwaukeerenaissance.com/Godsil/JamesGodsil

I am very interested in contributing toward the emergence of a self-conscious “Great Lakes Culture,” from Toronto the Deluth.

I am doing me best to have on-line conversations and brainstorms with internet empowered Great Lakes activists and culture workers in the “movements” for sustainable development, historic preservation, and reconciliation.

I am writing in hopes of learning about any connections you might have with groups similar to yours in Toronto, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, and any smaller cities from Toronto to Deluth.

Are there any Great Lakes events or projects or information exchange groups? Are their yahoo groups or wiki web sites?

Bill Sell, myself, Tegan Dowling, James Carlson and others have been exploring the value of “wiki web software” as a means of creating on-line forums, photo essays, documents, and more, for non-profits and small businesses.

http://milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/HomePage

http://milwaukeerenaissance.com/GrowingPower/HomePage

http://milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/EconomicProjects

http://milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/PhotoEssaysOfGreatLakesCitiesInclusiveStPatricksCelebrations

We have also experienced the power of a yahoo group for movement organizing, most notably Bay_View_Matters, a 500 member group Bill Sell started about 2 l/2 years ago and continues to moderate brilliantly.

Please let me know if any of this interests you. Or, if you think of people in the emerging “Great Lakes Culture” who might be up for exploring some of these concepts, please forward this to them.

Wind at our backs in 2006,

James J. Godsil
http://milwaukeerenaissance.com/Godsil/JamesGodsil

Good deal! I am so pleased that you find merit in the concept of some effort to spark the development of a self-aware, increasingly mutually supportive Great Lakes Culture!

Neither North nor South, not East or West, not left or right.
The Middle Way.
An Emerging Culture aiming to
Walk lightly on Mother Earth.
To heal ourselves and our planet.
To live more thoughtfully.
To give voice to adaptations in
Sustainable development,
Historic preservation,
Reconciliation among groups.

Here is a place to explore the sparking of a self-conscious, self-organizing Great Lakes Culture.

http://milwaukeerenaissance.com/TowardAGreatLakesCulture/HomePage

For starters…

Chicago Bicycle Federation
www.bikewinter.org website—it covers
Chciago, Milwaukee, Madison, and Ann Arbor.

I would very much like to print and perhaps broadcast your favorable view of this concept. I also dream of “wiki empowering” 10,000 activists and culture workers of the movements for sustainable development, preservation, and reconcilation.

Clear sailing,

Olde Godsil