tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-126418912011-04-21T14:46:59.442-07:00Nick van der Leekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15721372430394985329noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12641891.post-1115197063031461392005-05-04T01:50:00.000-07:002005-05-04T02:11:59.460-07:00This site is intended to be a forum to explore the implications of Life After Oil. It is intended as a place to make comments.<br />Some of the vital areas to address are these:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">What will I be doing (what work) in the next 5 or 10 years?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">What communities will exist, and how will they exist?</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />When will this happen and what can we do now?</span><br /><br />And then, our <span style="font-weight:bold;">ideas</span>.<br />Here's one. Communities seem to work most effectively based on the Rule of 150. Studies show that groups larger than this break apart and become loose and inconsistent. Gore-tex is one company that bases itself on this model. As soon as employees increase beyond 150 (the parking lots have 150 spaces), new buildings are constructed right next door. They know to start doing this when people begin to park on the grass.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">New Urbanism</span> (a compact type of development which is the antithesis of sprawl, and allows for walkability instead of wide roads for vehicular traffic) is the vehicle for some of these ideas, including the one above. New Urbanism is also one of the logical trends that will follow from an oil crisis and the decomposition of suburbia as we know it today. <br /><br />Your ideas, concerns, comments?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12641891-111519706303146139?l=afteroil.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Nick van der Leekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15721372430394985329noreply@blogger.com6