{"id":1315,"date":"2011-11-03T16:09:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T20:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/after-the-vlcia-meeting-brain-storming-sessions-dr-noll.html"},"modified":"2011-11-03T16:09:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T20:09:11","slug":"after-the-vlcia-meeting-brain-storming-sessions-dr-noll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/after-the-vlcia-meeting-brain-storming-sessions-dr-noll.html","title":{"rendered":"After the VLCIA meeting: brain storming sessions &mdash;Dr. Noll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Noll sent this postscript to<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/11\/what-can-we-do-as-a-community-to-better-cooperate-dr-noll.html\"><br \/>\nWhat can we do as a community to better cooperate?<\/a> -jsq<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI was approached after the meeting and informed that the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6310155292\/in\/set-72157627921079927\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6109\/6310155292_42ae78766f_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nIndustrial Authority intends to invite communal leaders like<br \/>\nmyself to brain storming sessions in the future, although I<br \/>\ndo not know yet the design for such a forum, nor have I<br \/>\nreceived any invitations as of today. Still, if there is one<br \/>\nthing that has again become clear in the context of the<br \/>\nconsolidation issue, our community desperately needs<br \/>\nstructures that a) allow for more transparency and b) forums<br \/>\nin which we can take advantage of the creative energy that<br \/>\nexist in our community, INSTEAD of trying to shut people<br \/>\nout, to hide information from them, or to push through<br \/>\ndivisive agendas.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is my hope that the leaders of the Industrial Authority,<br \/>\nas well as the City Council, the Lowndes County Commission,<br \/>\nand the Chamber of Commerce for that matter, understand the<br \/>\nopportunity we have: to turn a weakness (as exposed by the<br \/>\nway we handled biomass, and are currently handling the<br \/>\nconsolidation issue) into a strength &#8230; via communication<br \/>\nand cooperation &#8230; as is appropriate for a true community.<\/p>\n<p>\n-Michael.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Noll sent this postscript to What can we do as a community to better cooperate? -jsq I was approached after the meeting and informed that the Industrial Authority intends to invite communal leaders like myself to brain storming sessions in the future, although I do not know yet the design for such a forum, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,40,23,178,3296],"tags":[3502,2298,2140,8701,1814,186,548,8702,12,7,185,703,181,502,2139,182,6,180,8749],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-renewable-energy","category-vlcia","category-vlcia-18-october-2011","tag-18-october-2011","tag-allan-ricketts-project-manager","tag-andrea-schruijer-executive-director","tag-georgia","tag-j-stephen-gupton-attorney","tag-jerry-jennett","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-mary-gooding","tag-michael-noll","tag-norman-bennett","tag-regular-meeting","tag-roy-copeland-chairman","tag-tom-call","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vlcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}