Jul 252010
ALPHA testing of Permaculture BLOGs free cooperative
permaculture, permaculture.tv, transition
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Jul 192010
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from Nicholas Roberts, Permaculture.coop
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date Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:26 PM
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hi all
I have upgraded Permaculture TV and placed it within a blog hosting network http://permaculture.tv
I am trialling a new blog server, a Permaculture BLOGs free cooperative http://blogs.permaculture.coop
this forms a social network like Facebook, Ning, WiserEarth etc within the namespace permaculture.coop (our soon to be registered cooperative)
you can register and create a blog (conditional on some yet to be decided common-sense business rules i.e. nothing illegal, immoral, no massive loads)
register for an account and a blog
http://blogs.permaculture.coop/register/
if you do register and I approve the blog, you can do most of the things a WordPress site can do i.e .create/edit pages, posts, themes, social media integration (Facebook/Twitter), embed video, upload images and audio etc
nowadays Ning is charging money and WiserEarth is struggling (according to information I have from anonymous WiserEarth officials) so it makes sense to explore other arrangements and business models..
Ning and WiserEarth host many of the permaculture and transition community
for the technical, the website is running WordPress 3.0 with multisite options, with the BuddyPress social networking plugins
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be warned this is a BETA service and is provided as is, with no warranty or guarentees, its subject to changes and editing at my discretion
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am looking at also creating a Transition Cooperative server too, within the Transition.coop namespace, more on that soon
let me know what you think
cheers
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Nicholas Roberts & Kirstie Stramler
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Collapse: The Movie
culture, people, transition
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Jul 192010
Theatrical trailer for director Chris Smith’s documentary COLLAPSE. Featuring Michael Ruppert. www.CollapseMovie.com
Jul 112010
Please give yourself 6 minutes to sit back and marvel at the simplicity of the idea behind The Kindness Offensive.
Source: Positive TV
Jul 092010
WWOOF: The Movie Trailer from Ashley Terry on Vimeo.
This is the amended trailer for the up-coming documentary, “WWOOF!”, currently in post-production.
Jul 072010
Environmentalist Peter Sinclair’s new video looks at the national security implications of runaway climate change.
Jun 252010
Industrial Symbiosis Kalundborg, Denmark
Pathways to Sustainable Self-Governance: Democratic Open-Source Food and Manufacturing Networks
Short Description
Worker Cooperative Networks for Sovereignty of Food, Commerce, & Community: Panel/Breakouts/Discussion to Envision & Chart Implementation Framework of Industrial Permaculture Ecology
Full Workshop Proposal
Pathways to Sustainable Self-Governance: Democratic Open-Source Food and Manufacturing Networks
Workshop Information
Event Date: Fri, 06/25/2010 – 3:30pm – 5:30pm
Event Location: Wayne County Community College: 23A
Full Description:
This workshop outlines a vision for a democratic, worker-owned, advanced industrial ecology society. We seek pathways to provide the burgeoning food education/justice movement with the tools to become economically sustainable, and to link the emerging green industrial worker cooperatives with them into sovereign networks. Once active, such networks can become the basis for sustainable, socially just communities that revitalize locales via open source sustainable agriculture and manufacturing methods. Our panel — with academic, commercial, and school of hard knocks experience — will frame the demonstrated solutions, numerous pieces of the puzzle that we as a society need to put together.
Pathways to Sustainable Self-Governance: Democratic Open-Source Food and Manufacturing Networks
Short Description
Worker Cooperative Networks for Sovereignty of Food, Commerce, & Community: Panel/Breakouts/Discussion to Envision & Chart Implementation Framework of Industrial Permaculture Ecology
Full Workshop Proposal
Pathways to Sustainable Self-Governance: Democratic Open-Source Food and Manufacturing Networks
Collaborating Organizations
Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives (2543) | Mandela Marketplace (2339) | Planting Justice (1407) | Mandela Foods Cooperative (2340) | Abolish Human Rentals (1460) | Permaculture Cooperative (1720)
Photo: Oakland Sol: Oakland Sustaining Ourselves Locally who generously provided accommodation, workspace and knowledge during incubation of this workshop
Collaborating Organizations
Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives (2543)
The Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives is itself a cooperative made up of five member businesses: four cooperative bakeries and a development and support collective. Members share a common mission, share ongoing accounting, legal, educational and other support services, and support the development of new member cooperatives by the Association. http://arizmendi.coop
Mandela Marketplace (2339)
Mandela Market Place is a pioneer in development, application and assessment of community food systems. The organization evolved since 2001, first as a project of the Environmental Justice Institute – Tides Center, until incorporating in 2005 as a stand-alone 501c3 organization with a goal to strengthen community health, integrity and indentity by providing economic opportunity and empowerment for inner-city Oakland residents and businesses, and local family farms. Mandela MarketPlace works directly with community residents, local, state and federal agencies, non-profits, small business owners, and farmers to support strategies to meet food needs, expand economic opportunity and increase self-reliance of low-income and disenfranchised people. http://mandelamarketplace.org
Planting Justice (1407)
Planting Justice is a non-profit organization based in Oakland, CA dedicated to food justice, economic justice, and sustainable local food systems. We are the first organization of our kind to combine ecological training and urban food production with a grassroots door-to-door organizing model that will vastly increase our educational community outreach, help us to recruit volunteers, decentralize our fundraising sources, and provide local jobs that also train young community organizers. http://www.plantingjustice.org
Mandela Foods Cooperative (2340)
Mandela Foods Cooperative is a locally-owned and operated full-service grocery store and nutrition education center located in West Oakland, a community long underserved in grocery retail. The present undersupply of food retail in West Oakland represents an opportunity to leverage untapped local buying power into new business and employment opportunities and healthy eating options for West Oakland residents. The Cooperative will offer local goods, wholesome, fresh and affordable foods grown on family farms, nutrition education classes and a cooperative economic investment program that provides multi-level investment for community residents. http://www.mandelafoods.com
Abolish Human Rentals (1460)
Abolish Human Rentals is dedicated to bringing an old idea into the public conscience, that the standard employment relationship, a contract for the rental of people, is invalid due to the inalienable rights of humans. It is based on the already widely held principle of the non-transferability of responsibility for one’s actions. That principle, taken to its logical conclusion, means the rental of humans have no more legitimacy than their sale. http://www.abolishhumanrentals.org
Collaborating Organizations:
Arizmendi Assn. of Cooperatives (2543) — http://arizmendi.coop — and
Mandela Marketplace (2339) — http://mandelamarketplace.org — and
Planting Justice (1407) — http://www.plantingjustice.org — and
Mandela Foods Cooperative (2340) — http://www.mandelafoods.com — and
Abolish Human Rentals (1460) — http://www.abolishhumanrentals.org
Language(s): English
Tracks:
Climate Justice: sustainability, resources and land
Democracy and Governance
Important pieces that will be presented here include the successful strategies employed in the worker cooperative networks/alliances of Mondragon, Ohio, and the San Francisco Bay Area, Permaculture design strategies implemented even in harsh climate zones, Denmark’s national industrial symbiosis program, non-parasitic capitalization of non-hierarchical enterprises, and regenerative urban food justice paradigms.
Participants will self-organize into groups to construct models that put some of the pieces together. Workshop participants will then seek to bolster viability of the proposed models, emphasizing possible pilot programs in Detroit, Oakland and in Brooklyn.
Panel members include Quinton Sankofa of Mandela Marketplace and James Berk of Mandela Foods Cooperative, Mike Leung of the embryonic Worker Cooperative Credit Union, and Gavin Raiders of Planting Justice. Facilitator: Kirstie Stramler of Permaculture Cooperative.
For updates leading up to USSF 2010, see the panel and workshop group pages on http://organize.ussf2010.org and videos on http://permaculture.tv/tag/ussf2010/ .
Organizer Name: Kirstie Stramler
Organizer Email: kirstie@permaculture.tv
First Sponsoring Organization Name: Permaculture Cooperative
Jun 242010
Mike Leung talks about Abolish Human Rentals and the Worker Cooperative Credit Union
Mike Leung on Abolish Human Rentals on Worker Cooperatives from Permaculture Cooperative on Vimeo.
Action
We are unfortunately in an environment where an uncompromising purist for the abolition of human rentals would be a pariah. While it is never pleasant to compromise one’s beliefs, in practice the vast majority accept some level of hypocrisy in their actions. Which compromises should be made, and at what cost, needs to be an active discussion among modern abolitionists. Those choices are a sign of a vibrant movement dealing with the realities of applying theory in practice. Theory for its own sake is pointless. It is only when theory becomes widely known and widely applicable that it can reach its full potential.
Time and resources are limited, so it is important to think strategically about the most efficient ways to have an impact. This does not mean everyone should reach the same conclusions. Circumstances differ, as do abilities, and energy. Embrace these differences as a sign of progress and diversity.
There are many steps that can be taken to abolish human rentals. By analogy one can think of appropriate actions if they were seeking to abolish slavery. I will list a few things that can be done here, some more practical, others less so:
Refuse to rent yourself – Demand a vote and demand profit appropriation. Suggest your business be converted to a worker cooperative. Or become self employed.
Boycott businesses that use rented humans – Refuse to support them through your consumption. This obviously isn’t so easy in today’s society, but shifting consumption to worker cooperatives when possible definitely helps.
Divest from business that use human rentals – Don’t finance them by investing in the stock market and don’t buy their bonds. Socially responsible alternatives do exist. For starters use credit unions instead of banks. While credit union workplaces aren’t democratically managed it is a small step in the right direction.
Support worker cooperatives – Purchase from your local worker cooperative, learn about what they are doing, how they operate, and how their members and community benefit.
Educate your friends, family, and coworkers – Spread awareness, start a discussion. Due to some heavy ideological baggage this is a difficult topic to discuss with strangers, without sounding crazy. Leverage existing relationships and connections.
Organize, protest, demonstrate – Demand the immediate and unconditional abolition of human rentals. Civil disobedience has historically been the most effective opposition to injustice. Business as usual means people’s rights can continue to be ignored.
There are impediments to taking action of any sort: personal inconvenience, cost, loss of social standing, and incarceration to name a few. To act in face these or more serious consequences requires courage and support. People typically draw the line when action might threaten their career, which they deem to have invested too much to risk. Besides, a job is rarely something people can sacrifice. That barrier is undoubtedly present here. Advocacy on this issue carries significant risk and the need for mutual support is essential. Efforts to provide support and build a viable alternative should not be neglected
Source: Abolish Human Rentals
Jun 232010
Alemany Farm is a 4 acre, fully functioning urban farm nestled between a major highway intersection, a newly gentrified neighborhood on a hill and a housing project- the perfect place to grow some food! We got a tour (and some amazing fruit) from Antonio Roman-Alcalá, Volunteer Coordinator and soon to be videoblogger/documentarian extraordinaire. The work being done at Alemany Farm proves the point that urban farming and local food production is totally possible and necessary for the health and well being of a city and its inhabitants. Local farming and gardening are great motivators for people to get acquainted, eat more healthily and become more connected with where their food comes from and what it actually is (olives grow on trees? broccoli is a flower?). If you live in the SF Bay area, you can visit or volunteer at Alemany Farm on the weekends- check out AlemanyFarm.org.
Source: RyanIsHungry
Jun 232010
Quinton Sankofa explains how Mandela Marketplace, West Oakland accepted the community call for ownership of problem and solutions
Sustainable Self-Governance – Fri 25th, 3.30-5.30 pm USSF2010 – Detroit – Wayne County Community College http://permaculture.coop/ussf2010
planting justice
mandela food, mandela marketplace
http://permaculture.coop/ussf2010
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Kirstie Stramler
Eric Toensmeier
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