Today's blog is based on the community-level consensus-based concept of the Iroquois Ganonsyoni, the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. The concept said that decisions affecting the confederation’s future should be deliberate and span seven generations (I think that’s 7x20, so 140 years).
Question: how many tribes, after 1720, comprised the Iroquois Nation?
So, here are my ideas/laws/regulations that would affect us for over
140 years. Does it get a “Yeah!” from
the audience? Or just a razzberry?
- Sustainable use of public lands
- Taxpayer subsidies for renewable energy
- Incentivized ways to encourage folks to dump old vehicles and junk
- Automatically ‘sun-setting’of most entitlement laws so they expire and must be renewed by future generations
- Us doing something in particular for society so a family name again means something (aka Miller, Smith)
- Razing unused buildings on condemned properties and making them into public spaces
- Re-thinking where and how we live: first build communities in main-street/British commons style; then build the businesses near them, and; make houses eco-friendly, such as rooftop gardens and workplace family care
Answer: Six tribes, spanning nearly all of upstate NY: Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Tuscarora, Oneida and Mohawk. Yeah, I knew most but then again I'm a geek who spent a few years in amazing upstate NY...
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think your own Life is oh so very tough … First World Problems (a quick meme): "I forgot I was watching a recording – I sat
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