Comments on: How To Live Local: Creating Your Two Mile Map http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/09/14/how-to-live-local-creating-your-two-mile-map/ Current Blog Project: Six Months With a Quaker Preacher Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:08:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: So This Is Your First Year In Seminary? Tips, Tricks and Other Advice http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/09/14/how-to-live-local-creating-your-two-mile-map/comment-page-1/#comment-47092 So This Is Your First Year In Seminary? Tips, Tricks and Other Advice Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:17:57 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/09/14/how-to-live-local-creating-your-two-mile-map/#comment-47092 [...] in your city (Here’s Pasadena’s public transit site) and walk as much as you can. Or consider getting a bike and commuting that way. These are much healthier ways to get around the town than [...] [...] in your city (Here’s Pasadena’s public transit site) and walk as much as you can. Or consider getting a bike and commuting that way. These are much healthier ways to get around the town than [...]

]]> By: Jarrod Saul McKenna http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/09/14/how-to-live-local-creating-your-two-mile-map/comment-page-1/#comment-46919 Jarrod Saul McKenna Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:42:30 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/09/14/how-to-live-local-creating-your-two-mile-map/#comment-46919 Wess you rock! You continue to impress me. Wess you rock!
You continue to impress me.

]]> By: C. Wess Daniels http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/09/14/how-to-live-local-creating-your-two-mile-map/comment-page-1/#comment-46729 C. Wess Daniels Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:36:10 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/09/14/how-to-live-local-creating-your-two-mile-map/#comment-46729 @John, glad you liked it. @Chad, yeah it seems like you guys in SF have some really great options when it comes to living more locally and getting around pretty easy. But I have to admit when I saw those hills I wondered how anybody could manage, especially on fixies. @Raye, Great quote! I completely agree with you and would love to see churches, meetings, and worship groups start to become more local as well. I think it would help in leading us to be more missional in our neighborhoods as well. I've never heard of a ruburbanite before, but I am glad you bring up the point about finding what is near you. I know we don't all live in cities like pasadena and that could mean that not everything is easily accessible within a 2 mile (or so) reach but to utilize whatever is within that area is still a great idea. @John, glad you liked it.

@Chad, yeah it seems like you guys in SF have some really great options when it comes to living more locally and getting around pretty easy. But I have to admit when I saw those hills I wondered how anybody could manage, especially on fixies.

@Raye,
Great quote! I completely agree with you and would love to see churches, meetings, and worship groups start to become more local as well. I think it would help in leading us to be more missional in our neighborhoods as well.

I’ve never heard of a ruburbanite before, but I am glad you bring up the point about finding what is near you. I know we don’t all live in cities like pasadena and that could mean that not everything is easily accessible within a 2 mile (or so) reach but to utilize whatever is within that area is still a great idea.

]]> By: Raye http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/09/14/how-to-live-local-creating-your-two-mile-map/comment-page-1/#comment-46714 Raye Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:22:28 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/09/14/how-to-live-local-creating-your-two-mile-map/#comment-46714 Wess, just this morning I sent a message to a friend that "As our economy changes speed and direction, and I pray, adjusts to the post-oil reality, having smaller worship groups within walking distance will become recognized as desirable. Perhaps that is something to work on here." As a ruburbanite, I have been looking around at what's within a two-mile circle, and find I'm pretty close to what is becoming a village center. There is a working farm within a mile, and a state forest trail system that might make for a relatively straight-line path from this neighborhood to the "village" that is developing at the edge of the next town over. Thanks for including the practical encouragement! Wess, just this morning I sent a message to a friend that

“As our economy changes speed and direction, and I pray, adjusts to the post-oil reality, having smaller worship groups within walking distance will become recognized as desirable. Perhaps that is something to work on here.”

As a ruburbanite, I have been looking around at what’s within a two-mile circle, and find I’m pretty close to what is becoming a village center. There is a working farm within a mile, and a state forest trail system that might make for a relatively straight-line path from this neighborhood to the “village” that is developing at the edge of the next town over.

Thanks for including the practical encouragement!

]]> By: Chad http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/09/14/how-to-live-local-creating-your-two-mile-map/comment-page-1/#comment-46602 Chad Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:47:41 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/09/14/how-to-live-local-creating-your-two-mile-map/#comment-46602 For those of us in SF, we're pretty lucky that we have the SF Bicycle Coalition (http://www.sfbike.org) which puts out a map of cycling routes around our hilly city. That map helps people to navigate away from the hills, avoid the challenging cut-through freeway system (see my post on the amazing cyclists I saw at http://27wishes.wordpress.com/2007/09/01/bicycling-your-way-out-of-sf/ and have safe passage on biking lanes. Of course, joining a bike coalition and being political about having your city address an overall transportation plan for the next 10 years is key. For those of us in SF, we’re pretty lucky that we have the SF Bicycle Coalition (http://www.sfbike.org) which puts out a map of cycling routes around our hilly city. That map helps people to navigate away from the hills, avoid the challenging cut-through freeway system (see my post on the amazing cyclists I saw at http://27wishes.wordpress.com/2007/09/01/bicycling-your-way-out-of-sf/ and have safe passage on biking lanes. Of course, joining a bike coalition and being political about having your city address an overall transportation plan for the next 10 years is key.

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