Valley Futures

One item explored in the Transition Handbook, and discussed at the Valley’s Transition Handbook Potluck Dinners/Reading Group, is the creation of a well defined vision of the future. The Valley has a long history of forward thinking visions, ranging from the Valley-wide Vision 20/20 project (foundation of VFN) to each of the towns’ municipal plans to the VFN Retreats vision exercise. I have always been fascinated by exciting methods that communities utilize to share their goals. Well, hats off Pennsilvania’s Kutztown Middle School students for their imagined and engineered vision of a town in year 2203. The fictional city of Vetniborg, Iceland won the Kutstown team first place in the Philadelphia Regional Future City Competion, qualifying them for next week’s national event in Washington, DC. The well thought out essay of their envisioned city, developed to revitalize Iceland’s economy on sustainable design principles following its financial collapse in 2008, is available here: http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2009/02/10/vetniborg-essay/.

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