Imagine with a Vision
Imagining a Mindful New West
By Greg Lemon, 10-27-07
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| Attendants of NewWest.Net’s second annual Real Estate and Development in the Rockies conference listen to the final panel on Friday afternoon in Missoula. NewWest.Net’s Jonathan Weber (far left) joined panelists Jonathan Schechter, Gary Ferguson, Peter Stark and Steve Loken (left to right) to discuss visions for the future of the West. Photo by Anne Medley. | |
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Imagine asking local businesses to give one percent of their profits to help their community.
Imagine working for nearly 90 years to help reconnect urban youth with the natural world by convincing cities to set aside urban nature preserves.
Imagine turning to the overcrowded forest behind your home for the wood to make the flooring in your wife’s dance studio and discovering a niche market for a once-worthless timber product.
Imagine using local taxes to put local youths to work on community restoration projects.
These ideas and more—some already happening, some still faint—were all laid out in the final panel discussion at NewWest.Net’s second annual Real Estate and Development in the Northern Rockies conference Friday evening.
The panel was called “Imagining the New West: What’s Next” and was focused on thinking about the future for the region.
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