Future Communities: Locavores & Locavortals
From Wikipedia:
A locavore is someone who eats food grown or produced locally or within a certain radius such as 50, 100, or 150 miles. The locavore movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers’ markets or even to produce their own food, with the argument that fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better. Local grown food is an environmentally friendly means of obtaining food, since supermarkets that import their food use more fossil fuels and non-renewable resources.
Jessica Prentice coined the word locavore & started the site locavores.com
In the future as community goes full cycle and concepts such as neighbourhoods come back into vouge, the Internet will play a very important role in ‘connecting the dots’. Local suburb domains will act as portals for locals and locavores alike to interact and orgainse things. We would even see specific locavore directories that would essentially be Locavortals (a term coined by me, just then).
Why know’s where we will be going with this, but one thing is for sure the Internet will make life a whole lot more interesting as it advances. Johnny be good 