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Part of my vision for a locally-based global network that works to build climate change resilience is the establishment of good tools and habits that reinforce local community activities and consciousness.

If you live in a place, it behooves you to know the people there, what’s going on, how it’s supported, and how its services work. It’s healthy to understand the local politics and environment.

One service that seems to be doing a good job of developing the Web infrastructure at the local level is Outside.in. Their software pulls in and aggregates news items based on zip codes and other location data. This forms a reasonably good foundation upon which other local information and interaction can build.

There is a bias toward business-related content (Outside.in is a profit-making venture), but it’s a good example of the networked locality model I’m thinking of, so I’ll be using it more now to help me think about how more collaborative tools could work in such a structure.