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Social Innovation in Venice California

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Venice, California has long been a center of innovation within Los Angeles.  Its boardwalk is a spectacle of creativity and entrepreneurship in an open community setting, where the LA megalopolis meets the beach and the Pacific Ocean.  This combination attracts millions of visitors a year in a very small area.

As a result, Venice -- in addition to its opportunities, also struggles with significant and growing challenges with homelessness, drugs, and crowd control, amongst the other problems that all communities face in an economic downturn within a time of energy descent. 

The result?  Both the opportunities and the problems now require creative energy from the Venice community itself to shape what Venice wants to be in the early 21st century. 

Please place your comments on how Venice community members might think about shaping their community to enhance it during the challenging years ahead. 

 

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Brad and Stef, 

I have put up a Venice Resilience Network working group in the U.S. Resilience System and the California Resilience System.  
It will eventually be implemented as a nested subsystem of the LA Resilience System.
It came to my attention yesterday that there is a billionaire angel investor/venture capitalist that is now looking for projects that would stimulate advances in Green Economics with a focus on jobs and resilience.  I think that it would be interesting for us to seed the meme (self-replicating cultural artifact) of the Venice Resilience Network becoming the seed for the growth of an LA Resilience System.  What could Venice do, for example, in the area of urban agriculture, energy, smart grid, and no commute work environments? Could some of these innovative approaches improve the economy and living conditions in Venice, while solving some of its problems with homelessness and other issues?
Perhaps, we could talk about some of these ideas at the party on Friday, September 30. 
Mike
Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H. 
President
Global Health Initiatives, Inc.
Coordinator
U.S. Resilience System
howdy folks