The Case for Local Relationships

One of the inspirations for the Sustainability Challenge was a presentation that was created by Scott Linhart, who was taking a class in Cultural Geography, who remarked how he sensed that even with all of the "connection" that social networking provides, how people are still feeling a lack of significant relationships.

A presentation he made for class has more information about his perspective:



The Sustainability Challenge embraces technology, even social networking (there is a related group on Facebook, for example), but we think Scott has a point, and that it's worth thinking about limiting our use of technology. We feel that one way to make sure we're getting the best use out of the time we spend with technology (instead of being used by it?), is to ask ourselves: "How is it affecting our local, physical relationships? How is supporting our need to develop meaningful, significant relationships? How can it be put to use to strengthen our communities?"