Cole Tucker's Page

Our community currently has a solid backing for short-to-medium term food security. We have a strong network of Community Supported Agriculture farms (CSA's) who have been working on transitioning to a completely renewable basis. This year, my partner and I have expanded our engagement from membership in our favorite CSA, Riverland Farm, to include a supporting membership in Community Involved in Sustaining… Continue

On the day Alchemy calls, I had recently arrived from a day of work at UMass, Amherst. I took time to water the seedlings we recently started for the home garden and played with the cats before connecting back to the network. Continue

Two of the suggested secrets to social innovation really called out to me, and I view them as two sides of the same die. "Provide skills, not just finished technologies" and "Share knowledge and skills to continue the innovative process" both strike to the core of the paradigm of change rising above our collective horizon. Continue

For my Evoke hero, I will be following John Robb. Mr. Robb's leading the drive in thinking about creating Resilient communities. He came to the topic through his research into Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW); by seeing how much systemic disruption a small group can create, he realized the necessity for local sustainability. Robb's blog, Global Guerrillas, engages the concepts of resiliency and sustainability with depth and… Continue