Getting started

We’ve now set up this blog but have yet to formally kick it off with a public announcement. That’s because we are still sorting out how to go about this with multiple authors — all under the ngoforum name. Presumably we can identify ourselves by full names or initials. Ultimately we will get beyond the technics and get into the substance — which is all about this international “Marrakech Process” which is supposed to come up with various programs and support for work going on around the world addressing production and consumption issues. As we should all know, the underlying causes of most of the problems which public interest groups deal with tend to be rooted in production/consumption patterns. Easier said than solved.

Yet thousands of groups and individuals around the world are indeed addressing those patterns with a wide range of strategies, campaigns, tools and initiatives. There is a lot to learn from each other, if we can find each other. Hopefully this blog will attract the kinds of people and groups doing this work and will share what they are doing as well as their ideas and insights into how to move from ideas to action in changing the economic logic and structures in question.

ok. That’s enough for now. At least it’s a start.

Jeffrey