Part of my work last week was creating a project scope around the idea of moving the excellent lobbying work being done from the Wanaka Wastebusters HQ into a national conversation with interested people.
What we are looking for is a mandate to be a bigger actor in the decision making process around the creation of waste and recycling. The work that is already being done would be all that more powerful if we had a documented constituency behind us.
There are many precedents for bringing ideologically close people together through the Internet to support campaigns, the likes of Get Up Australia and more politically partisan the recent Move On campaign in the USA.
I put a lot of thought into the possible manifestations and decided that to maintain any momentum the presence has to be more a conduit than a single issue site, a rolling maul of campaigns around issues which we can offer high level research and action. It could also act as a vehicle for other activists who share our leanings and are looking to connect with a broader voice.
Of course we have to be careful (thanks Phil) of asking questions with out a context and only ones we can actually deliver results on with the right support. What is exciting about Wastebusters is we have the resources and the skills to do this, we are not starting from scratch.
Once the idea crystallized I started mapping it out in a database data structure - I find this can, strangely, be a good logical test of what is a social idea. A bit of tuning, a re-presentation, a fortuitously available CakePHP collaborator and we should be live in a couple of weeks.
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