South Lismore Industrial Estate? SLIE!

South Lismore Industrial Estate?
How much more efficient could it be?
17-08-09.

Pawns, in chess, are efficient in defending the status quo, but they don't do much in terms of managing affairs, actions, ensuring efficiency and thus optimized performance and productivity.

As we chant “We live in a Democracy” whenever the fuhrer drives passed, we all know more powerful, high-up and vicious pieces do that planning and subverting of the other's moves.

Capitalism has been the very effective instrument for them uptops, but the price is genocide.

Knowing this, what would a battalion of Wizened Pawns do?

Short of driving 35km to Nimbin to pick-up a bit of Knowledge, Knowledge about Sustainable WORKING, the Pawns of South Lismore would survey their whole little island of industry and collectivate a design for the estate so that they can all stay in employment, if that's their choice, but rather than squatting on some developer/speculator's idea of an industrial estate, grab the pitch by the roots and put down Foundations for a sector of Lismore to become a leading Sustainable estate for the skills and talents they have in themselves, and in the Collective of them.

All they have to do is ask “What does the region need, that 500-to-1000 workers, managers, business and industry owners, could come together to construct?” Naturally, part of the answer would have to ensure they were secure in employment and income forever and ever, amen.

WoooooH!?!?!?!?

As the current farce called “NSW parliament” is teetering on implosion, and regional centres (decentralized) are being nurtured in the Rural mindset, and as the manic crap of NSW rail, road, and population policies are flying down the chute, a little camp like South Lismore IE could explode into a brilliant future by tackling the needs our future will have.

Within the 1-to-2 square kilometre estate I suspect are a disenfranchised bunch, not yet a Mob, of budding creators and artists waiting for their call. HUNDREDS of them.

The region, out to whah? Tenterfield, Glen Innis, Grafton, Coffs', Tweed, Brisbane damn it, needs not more Sydney corporate and national defense highways, but a web of “light rails”.

As the hippies have imbued Lismore with ever more reasons to be dark redneck, it's also thrown a few options off to the “Moor-of-the-Lizard”.

Sustainable transport, energy, housing and food production have been explored in the Nimbinhills Mobs, and, top the list of needs, wherever we travel, as it happens.

Lateral thinking is not unknown in the fairly “traditional” South Liz IE, but it's usually a dysfunctional response of one kind or other.

But if a plant of mature architects, steel workers, sparkies, electronicists, materials suppliers et al, from South Liz IE can actually do something toward making the world or just the region a Better place, then there can be no doubt, they could recreate the whole concept of machine assisted travel, energy-creation, house-design and tuckerboxes by joining forces and welders to design and manufacture 21st century world's best products.

Sustainable is not so far away from South Liz, but cannot evolve without heavy doses of “Lateral thinking”, so were the SLIE to expand on the ideas, create it's own marketplace, by themselves designing and putting forward such a regionwide plan, (a case of explaining the determined needs to the people and government(s)), propose and thus win the contract to build a Light Rail Network around the ecology-region of a new localized and smaller “micro-state” government County area, from, say, Tenterfield/Glen Innis to the coast, sustainable materials and products for parts (like; sleepers for the rails), are deemed as worth developing.

I doubt compressed wood would cut it, but an agri-industry of Industrial Hemp and its very tough hemp resin wood might?

Think about it Lismore?

You might be able to salve your catholic guilt for being such unconscious plunderers of the Sacred Virgin Mutha Eartha yet?

Sleep on it, dudes.......