"Ecotopia"

Ecotopia is one of the "Nine Nations. "  It lies close along the north Pacific shore of North America.

Form Ecotopia barges can make it all the way to Idaho. 

Ecotopia runs along the west coast of North America from just north of southern California north along the coast of Oregon, Washington, and Canada well up the Alaskan coast.

There are persons in Ecotopia willing to reduce the amount if money they earn in order to improve their quality of life. They question the directions we take. Even some southern Californians may call Ecotopians weird. They  are against things like putting an atomic plant for the generation of electricity near a liquid propane plant in an earth quake fault. How weird is that?

The people of Ecotopia note that our failure to stop wealthy business owners from employing large numbers of illegal aliens by enforcing our laws, takes our employment and weakens respect for our laws.

There is a high level of education and if civic organization in Ecotopia.

"Nine Nations" Notes 2

"Foundry"

Where do redheads come from? How did so many of them get to the Chesapeake Bay area?

In the mid-1800s the Bessemer steal making process was invented. In 1864 at Wyandotte, Michigan the first commercial pour of Bessemer steel was mad in North America. From those ingots the first steel railroad track was made.

The "Foundry" is what, not very long ago, we were calling the "rust belt."

A great advantage of the area were its water ways: The Great Lakes, the Ohio River, the Erie Canal, etc. Those water ways are still the cheapest way to move heavy bulky items.

Mr Ford did a lot in the Foundry. He put a lot of men to work, including 'SWAT' teams of strike breakers.

The present 'ressesion' may be said to have some of its earlier roots in the Foundry. Great numbers of men there felt loss of identity and self-respect along with loss of their livelihoods. Now some new productivity is alive there.

I think that the Saint of our local "Mexamerica" mount San Jacinto is the St Hyacinth known to the Polish Catholic workers who once populated the Hamtramic area of Detroit.

Detroit has the largest concentrations of Arab-Americans on the continent. Who remembers Danny Thomas?

Remember the problem with the Three Mile Island reactor? Three Mile Island is in the Foundry, just outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Some of the worst chemical dumps may be in "Dixie," but Love Canal is better known thanks to Hooker Chemical. Houston Ship Chanel is bad, but it was the Cuyahoga River of the Foundry that burst into flames. Lake Erie of the Great Lakes nearly died and doesn't feel very well today.

Notes I've Taken From the Work of Joel Garreau

Of the Nine Nations of North America, "New England" might be the poorest. The fine, air-tight, cast-iron stove made by Vermont Castings may have been motivated by a cold butt.

The picturesque farms and pink Beaches of Queens County on Prince Edward Island bring a kind of richness to summer visitors.

"New England" for all its seeming lack of wealth may be leading us into this post industrial period. A significant number of New Englanders are telling us that 'recreational wilderness' may be the scarcest commodity on Earth.

Is Raytheon still working in N. E.?

Is Pawtucket, Rhode Island the first town in North America to have a factory with a polluted river next to it?

I know I am using Mr Garreau's words. I hope I am giving him proper credit.

American Indian Peoples

Please comment on one or more of the tribes listed below: 
~ Apache
~ Arapaho
~ Calusa
~ Cahuilla 
~ Cheyenne
~ Chumash
~ Guinch 'in
~ Hopi
~ Lipan
~ Neosho
~ Nootko
~ Muskogee
~ Osage
~ Pawnee
~ Sac
~ Guacara
~ Hoopa
~ Kickapoo
~ Navaho
~ Apache
~ Choctaw 
~ Ottawa
~ Zuni


(I'll enter more as time goes by.)