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July/August 2008

From Jim and Charlie

This is our second newsletter in our new format - but our 75th overall. We're more than a little amazed - and proud - that we've been that prolific over the past seven years. This month we're focusing on communities and the incredible impact that energy prices are beginning to have on our lives, both personal and professional. We're convinced society has crossed a tipping point, but where we're heading is still very uncertain - and full of both opportunities and challenges. One quick reminder: this is a July/August issue; we'll be back in full voice in September.

As usual, your comments and reactions are more than welcome. And as always, please send your thoughts to us at any time.

Charlie and Jim

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Feature: Ding Dong, The Dream Is Dead

The "American dream" of quiet suburban life is dead. Energy, water, and environmental issues will rule our future economic and political landscape. Some cities will prosper, suburbs will empty out, and rural areas will become homogeneous islands separated by large open spaces. Humans are re-shaping their environment once again.

Compass: Living and Working With High-Cost Energy

Few "trends" have appeared as suddenly or become as widespread overnight as the new sensitivity to the cost of energy and its first cousin, global climate change. We've been struck not just by recent media attention to the price of gasoline but also by the truly radical ideas being actively discussed by the CEO's and other senior executives we've spoken with in just the last three weeks.

Notes From The Field: Assessing The Potential For Telework Centers...

Envisioning an opportunity for a Business Community Center^TM (BCC) calls for recognizing the human resources already in place in a community, plus the opportunity and incentives for people to be attracted to relocate to a community with a BCC.

Quick Survey: Can Your Community Handle The Truth?

Everyone wants to live in "The Community" - the best place on earth. But the truth is that not every community is healthy, happy, and growing. We offer six questions to help you figure out where your neighborhood is, or is going. If you'll actually answer those questions online we'll let you know where you stand relative to the rest of the planet.

What's Happening?

A short note about where Jim and Charlie are, and will be, holding forth in public conversations and other activities.



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