In World 262, petroleum products have been banned since 1982. As a result, rope production was affected and land use planning was changed to facilitate local agriculture. On Gabriola Island, research was undertaken to optimise local products based on local materials. The scale of the island’s fibreshed was precisely mapped to establish benchmarked levels of need. Rope is now produced and maintained on demand, according to needs – agricultural, manufacturing, personal. A breeding program has also been introduced to bring back the woolly dog and expand the range of fibre used locally.
This World was contributed by Graham Bradley, Mary Sullivan Holdgrafter, Tawny Maclachlan Capon, and Lynne Quarmby (located in Gabriola Island, Canada), using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows others to share and adapt the work in any medium and for any purpose, providing that they credit the author and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.
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