Local, organic, rural, and/or urban, food production is a mainstay of life, and doing it well leads to wellness. From farm to kitchen, discussions relating to food--and the community arising around it--belong here.
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If you have to leave your village, how will you get where you want to go? By car? Preferably not, both for your wallet and the earth’s sake. This category is for all discussions relating to how we all get around.
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A human right? After food, most feel shelter is the most important necessity. A place of shelter is also the start of a community. This category is for all things relating to shelter, housing, affordable housing, homes, renewable heating systems, green buildings, heritage, and our built environment in general.
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Just sent this to Hannah. Good to see things percolating in your village!
Cheers,
Ross
Hey Hannah,
Good to see you've posted the asset mapping to gwn. Might I also suggest copying it and posting it as a blog, as Cylia did for Cedar Cottage? Then we can feature it -- this kind of posting can inspire others to do the same elsewhere. Also, we collected contact info from most people at the meetup, so I think I can tease out some or most of the people that participated in your village. If you remember any names, that might help as well. (It might be a few days before I can get to it.)
How to best asset map on the site? Something we need to think about more, esp as I think we're going to do a lot of it..
Oh, one other thought -- starting a "discussion" rather than just posting as a comment, sometimes reaches more village members -- discussion posts generate an email to everyone (unless they've tuurned that function off); whereas someone will only see a comment if they go to the page.
Think that's it for now.
I'll pass this along to Sid as well.
Cheers,
Ross
I was thinking about ways to help build gwn. Last night at Resliency Revolution (May`s Vancouver Permaculture Meetup put on by VPM, Evolver, and VV), I led an asset mapping exercise for different neighbourhood villages. There were 8 people in the gwn group (inc 1-2 from HS), and lots of cool ideas generated. (Hannah will post them.) I could do one for gwn, or could do a How to Create a Village in the City, or a Neighbourhood Food NetworkingéGrowing and Sharing.
The Drive to Resilience has now created a Facebook Page. It's a e-place for groups and interested individuals to promote and post their upcoming events for everyone to access. feel free to join in on the fun and networking :)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Drive-to-Resilience/105108576194767