Michigan Community Resilience Hubs

Michigan is establishing an open-source network for discussions about community resilience hubs. Please subscribe to and watch this page for details. Contributions are invited on these initial topics:

• Existing Michigan Community Resilience Hubs and related projects
  • GrowBenzie incubator project
• Proposed future locations for Michigan Community Resilience Hubs:
  • Waterloo Trading Post (for Jackson and Washtenaw Counties). See waterlootradingpost@googlegroups.com.
• Products and services for Resilience Hubs
  • Emergency services.
  • Food Access.
  • Health and wellness.
  • "General Store"

What are the tasks/ topics that need to be addressed, recommended order of those topics / tasks? Can we provide a "how-to" manual? What are the most importnat categories for decisions:

Options for how to organize and operate a hub: for-profit; non-profit; community-owned and operated; municipally owned and operated; sustainable utility or sustainable energy utility model (something that is NOT a "municipal" or ""public" [government owned] utility, nor a "cooperative" [member-owned' utility company. This tool is ready to be adopted by any local units of government in Michigan. This approach is already tested and working under Michigan law. Subject to checking, it may be viable in many other jurisdictions, several of which have already formed their own legal entities for accomplishing similar goals and objectives for their communities.