Boxborough Local

By Kathy McMahon

If you aren’t feeling some degree of apprehension right now, you aren’t reading the news. Here are some of my thoughts for turning that emotional energy into constructive action:

1. SET A GOAL TO CUT YOUR EXPENSES by some concrete number—10%, 20%, 30%, even 50%, and set up a plan to do it. Reducing costs is the fastest way to increase your income–faster than making more money.

Welcome to the new Boxborough Local web site. We're in the midst of transitioning to a new web server technology that supports forums, blogs, and stories, with the ability for users to add comments. Some items of public interest will be cross-posted here from the original Boxborough Local Google group so they can be enjoyed by a wider audience. Those items will be marked with the date they were sent to the original mailing list. Incidentally, the Google Group remains an active private forum, and you're welcome to join.

Chris Ryan of Concord Local organized an informal discussion about how all of our Locals could work together. He is also the town planner for Ayer and we met in their huge town hall - what a room. There were about 12 of us there, including folks from Groton, Harvard, and Concord Locals as well as some folks from Ayer and of course myself from Boxborough. After a couple hours of chat we found a local bar for some refreshment and another couple hours of chat. It was fun to be in a room full of people who know the meaning of words like Relocalization, Local Food, and Peak Oil.

Boxborough Local is a community group focused on energy independence, local food, and other aspects of sustainable living. We are a grass roots organization seeking local solutions to two major challenges of our times: global climate change and the coming end of cheap fossil fuels. The organization was formed out of a concern for the potentially dramatic changes we will face, along with the belief that we must all be part of the solution. We are a non-partisan, non-profit, non-religious organization.