Facebook, Good Green Questions and the 2010 Municipal Elections
In early June 2010 a group of Sudburians created a Facebook group called: Sudbury's Municipal Elections 2010 - Good Green Questions for Candidates. The goal of this group is to ask candidates for municipal government questions about their stand on a variety of issues relating to social, economic and environmental sustainability. We do not intend to back any candidates as a result of our work. Our goal is to provide Sudburians with information before they elect their local government that will lead us for the next four years.
This summer, over 70 members in our Facebook group collaborated to create good green questions. On August 8 and August 27, 2010 members of the Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury collated the questions into 47 questions organized into five categories. On August 28, 2010 the Survey Monkey was published. The goal of the survey is to determine the most important Good Green questions Sudburians want to see answered at Town Hall meetings and in candidate’s written communication that we will post on our website and that you can post on their websites too. In the past week, 50 Sudburians have taken the survey http://www.lu-ltspp.ca/townhall/ggqg_survey.html . The deadline for taking the Survey Monkey is September 11, 2010. It is a confidential. You can take the survey anonymously.
We are still in midst of securing a venue and date for the possible Town Halls for the Councilors. Excitingly, Mayor John Rodriguez has agreed to a Town Hall Event and we have a set date and venue for the Mayor’s Town Hall: Wednesday October 6, 2010, Tom Davies Square (City Hall) Council Chambers, tentatively from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
Inspiration for what we are doing in Sudbury can be found on these two websites: Four Years Go http://www.fouryearsgo.org/ and Coalition of the Willing http://coalitionofthewilling.org.uk/
Collaboration on an astronomical scale will play a key role in navigating out of all of the crises facing humanity at this time and Sudbury is leading the way.
WEBPAGES
1) Good Green Questions Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=73&post=275&uid=100502426668787#!/group.php?gid=100502426668787
2) The Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury http://www.liveablesudbury.org/
3) The Survey Page http://www.lu-ltspp.ca/townhall/ggqg_survey.html