What terrific work you are doing in the field of local and sustainable travel. Can you talk about what kind of policy change you are working toward?
Also, from the sustainable business model aspect, seems like all the region's businesses profit by your work and your health is closely aligned with theirs - have you explored ways that the area businesses could work with you to help fund you collectively on an ongoing basis?
Thank you for your kind words Cynthia. We have great community leaders here in Blackstone Valley but much of what they have to focus on is internal management of their communities. Their ability to "blue sky" think is so limited due to the day-to-day pressures of their communities and a faltering economy. We are working on introducing Valley-wide and Southern New England-wide Sustainable Tourism thinking and doing; as well as Sustainable Community thinking here in the Blackstone Valley. But Sustainable Tourism will not work if the community itself is not sustainable.
We feel we have to be involved on a very local level to achieve the changes we would like to see. Being a post-industrial Valley gives us lots of work to do.
The type of changes that we are working on are:
Reduction in car traffic, increase in mass transit
Development of bicycle traffic
Preservation of the existing historic building fabric
Protection of open spaces and wetlands
Promotion of our immigrant cultures
Development of local businesses
Thoughtful land-use planning
Reduction of waste
Cleaning up riverfront brown fields
Proper planning along our riverfront
Cleaning the hemisphere's first polluted (dead) river
Water Quality improvement for drinking and for recreation
Physical and visual access to our Blackstone River
Ensuring authenticity in our stories that we tell
Ensuring authenticity in our work
Ensuring that our community centers are vital and vibrant
In regards to the sustainable business model, its a great question. We find it difficult to ask for funds from our smaller businesses. We do request funds from all of our banks and other financial institutions. We also seek funding from several state-wide foundations. Many of our businesses are so small that even a $25 donation is hard to provide. Because our development work in the community is not understood easily, it is hard for many to find the funds to support our work. Although when we have a straight-forward advertising program that is not too expensive we do see a level of increased support from smaller businesses.
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Hi Bob,
What terrific work you are doing in the field of local and sustainable travel. Can you talk about what kind of policy change you are working toward?
Also, from the sustainable business model aspect, seems like all the region's businesses profit by your work and your health is closely aligned with theirs - have you explored ways that the area businesses could work with you to help fund you collectively on an ongoing basis?
Thank you for your kind words Cynthia. We have great community leaders here in Blackstone Valley but much of what they have to focus on is internal management of their communities. Their ability to "blue sky" think is so limited due to the day-to-day pressures of their communities and a faltering economy. We are working on introducing Valley-wide and Southern New England-wide Sustainable Tourism thinking and doing; as well as Sustainable Community thinking here in the Blackstone Valley. But Sustainable Tourism will not work if the community itself is not sustainable.
We feel we have to be involved on a very local level to achieve the changes we would like to see. Being a post-industrial Valley gives us lots of work to do.
The type of changes that we are working on are:
Reduction in car traffic, increase in mass transit
Development of bicycle traffic
Preservation of the existing historic building fabric
Protection of open spaces and wetlands
Promotion of our immigrant cultures
Development of local businesses
Thoughtful land-use planning
Reduction of waste
Cleaning up riverfront brown fields
Proper planning along our riverfront
Cleaning the hemisphere's first polluted (dead) river
Water Quality improvement for drinking and for recreation
Physical and visual access to our Blackstone River
Ensuring authenticity in our stories that we tell
Ensuring authenticity in our work
Ensuring that our community centers are vital and vibrant
In regards to the sustainable business model, its a great question. We find it difficult to ask for funds from our smaller businesses. We do request funds from all of our banks and other financial institutions. We also seek funding from several state-wide foundations. Many of our businesses are so small that even a $25 donation is hard to provide. Because our development work in the community is not understood easily, it is hard for many to find the funds to support our work. Although when we have a straight-forward advertising program that is not too expensive we do see a level of increased support from smaller businesses.
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