We Have A Project

We have been given the green light for our Maine Island Challenge on Kickstarter

We will be madly setting up the project page on Kickstarter so look for updates on when we launch. Pretty exciting for us.

Our project: We are going to obtain an Option To Purchase an entire remote Maine Island, keep it from being developed and from becoming another McMansion for the wealthy. But as you may know, we have a twist! All individuals become a Landicity Steward, get a vote and get their own home designation - a micro-plot we call a PlaNut (~15.2 sq in.). You get to name you PlaNut, you get to own the coordinates and you get to visit for real and virtually. And, you get you individualized and official Landicity Steward Membership Deed with unique owner-stakeholder benefits. So, if you always wanted your own remote island -- now we can all pull together and save one plus "Own The Good You Do"!

Persistence -- A Maine Island

We've been very busy but forgot our blog in a while. We have been working on some technology for photos - inexpensive Sony. And Bryan converted some of the electronics to make it all work great for capturing wildlife video

We have played with all the social media sites - Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Ning, Second Life etc. And, worked our business model, costs and pricing

We stumbled on the Option for one island. We have several targeted for the Maine Island Challenge. And, we will be launching our program for all of you in a month or two. It takes a lot more money just to get an option than anticipated. Islands are rare and very expensive but we are persistent in getting one for you and all the stewards.

Good Night From Maine, USA -- Bob

So Close, So Far

We have reached the final pre-investor stage of Landicity and the Maine Island Challenge. We have a signed option agreement, we have insurance lined up and have a wonderful Maine remote island. So close. Our financing has evaporated in the last couple of month. Now we have to locate and build a relationship with additional individuals to actually implement our model and close the option. So Far!

Let's Get An Island

We have located an island off the coast of Maine that is pristine, rugged and basically unaltered.

Carey, Don and I are crafting the option to buy the island with the hope everyone will sign on to help keep the island out of development and we can all have it to share as members, an Internet community and a Maine community. Stay tuned as details develop

Goodnight from Maine, USA

It's a Maine Cold Record!

Mt. Depot, Maine up near the Big Black River has recorded a new low -- a record low. In January, it was -50 degrees below zero without any wind chill factors. That is splitting cold -- trees break in half from freezing solid.

Good Night From Maine, USA!

Moose Layoff Killing Mainers in 2008!

The Maine Moose is the Most Dangerous Animal in Maine!

Besides being well known and infamous for the tasty Maine Lobstah, Maine has two other significant and world-wide distinctions:

1. We have more then 29,000 moose in the state; more than any other lower 48 state;
2. We have one of the largest single herd migrations in the world -- well larger than the annual caribou or wilder beast migrations -- more than 7,000,000 mass migration of 'outta statahs" occur every year swelling our normal in state population from ~1,000,000 to more than 8,000,000 humans. See Maine Moose-Auto collision Map

Well, good news this year -- Maine Moose failed to fatally nail a single Maine or outta state driver in 2008. In years past, Maine Moose killed dozens of Maine drivers. 1997 was the last year we all escaped without a fatal suicide death hit. For us humans anyway! It has been an average auto-moose death by suicide with about 700 moose dying at the hands/wheel of drivers. Almost 3,000 were successfully hunted keeping our Maine Moose population at a nature-healthy level and with minimal winter starvation.

However, the Maine deer was more successful in their annual suicide season. Unfortunately, they got one of us drivers this year! But their population and the fall hunting count is severely lower due to the heavy snow last year.

While the Maine auto-deer collisions might be higher the the auto-moose numbers, the latter usually has a greater fatality rate for humans.

Please be careful around the Most Dangerous Maine Animal!

Good Night From Maine, USA!

Enough Stuff Already -- Be Happier Without It!

Stuff Enough Already!

It has been a conspiracy all along to get us to buy stuff. Marketeers and companies have been dictating style, fashion and getting you to believe you can only feel good by buying and shoppoing for more and more stuff!

An interesting quote by a Victor Lebeau ?? around 1950s

Our enormously productive economy..... demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption..... We need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate

Have they won? Are you really that uncomfortable with yourself, with nature that you need to buy and surround yourself with stuff. Are you loved more when you get stuff? Do you love them more when you give stuff? Sad if it is true.

Check out the story of Christmas and the story of stuff (a great video)

Good Nigh From Maine, USA!