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Community Forestry in Thailand
I chose a case study about community forestry in Thailand.
As mentioned in many other case studies all over the world forest areas decreased dramatically during the last decades. Thailand issued a total "logging ban", which slowed down deforestation, but didn't stop it entirely.
So they headed out to find new ways for conserving the forest. In another case study I also read about the concept of community forests. Normally the government has the authority over the forest and the…
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gets community
In the learning part of this weeks mission I wrote about a system that works with talent points. In Germany it's called a "Tauschring". In my research about this system I had some ideas how it could be enlarged or enhanced.
First of all the current system is active in Germany and some other countries like France, Japan, or the Netherlands. But there nothing like a global trading system. You can use the system in Germany, but you can't benefit from your usage here when you are in…
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Learn1.5 A World in Transition ~ Sharing on A Small Island
I've chosen the idea of Sharing for Food Security.
Living on a small island for the most part as I do, we already have a very tight-knit community of wonderful caring people who come together for all sorts of project or parties. A call for a meeting regarding Transition Town in our newsletter caught my eye: Quadra Island Transtion Initiative http://www.quadraisland.ca/transition/index.html
The Transition… Continue
Living on a small island for the most part as I do, we already have a very tight-knit community of wonderful caring people who come together for all sorts of project or parties. A call for a meeting regarding Transition Town in our newsletter caught my eye: Quadra Island Transtion Initiative http://www.quadraisland.ca/transition/index.html
The Transition… Continue
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LEARN2
I’ve done quite a bit of research for a couple of newsletter issues I’ve produced regarding food crisis and food security, and I have thought a lot about the
conditions in other countries and the looming shortages of the future globally.
However, living in Vancouver, a beautiful metropolitan port city, often we
forget to look at food security implementation in our own area. But it is so
necessary for the increasing numbers of homeless and…
Added by Roberta Voyer on May 17, 2010 at 5:41am — No Comments
Imagine 7, Riverside Urban Resilience in 2020
Here is my map of Riverside's Urban Resilience plan for 2020. Fortunately, there is already alot of progress towards this with Riverside's Green Action Plan. With enough partners, there will be Gratitude Gardens and Resourceful Gardens all across…
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From garden to plate
It's March 10, 2020 and I'm having a potluck dinner with neighbors at my home. Everyone is bringing a dish they made from produce they raised in our local community garden. I've made my favorite dish - roasted winter squash with a tomato-chipotle chocolate mole. Everything but the chocolate was grown right next door - or in my own garden out back. And the chocolate came from a local coop that sources it from fair trade farms in South America that provide a sustainable living wage for the… Continue
Added by Soni Pitts on May 13, 2010 at 2:24am — No Comments
Food sustainability is food security
I live in an area that has a vast disparity between the rich and the poor. It is a tourist-based area divided into a small population of wealthy part-time residents, a slightly larger population of middle-class white collar workers and a large population of low-paid service workers who are highly dependent on seasonal work and who compete in the off season for a small number of low-income jobs. This means that a lot of people can't afford to buy healthy food on a regular basis.
On the… Continue
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Added by Soni Pitts on May 13, 2010 at 2:00am — 3 Comments
Imagine 9 - On the Flu Pandemic homefront
It is a cold and wet year thus far. The doctors and clinics have been offering patients who have flu symptoms the option to be added to a data base manned by volunteers from the community who have offered to touch base with patients while they deal with and recover from the flu. The names are added to a database that keeps track of contact information per neighbourhood. Along with the Health Department's FluWatch program, volunteers take the… Continue
Added by Allison Keats on May 12, 2010 at 1:57am — No Comments
EVOKE - IMAGINE2: No really it takes like 3 months to grow a potato plant to first harvest. And they said my zombie survival kit would be useless.
"I think I hate potatoes…" I say glaring at the offensive spud. Trying to make gnocchi out of it and the handful of flour I can use for today I impatiently burned myself on the hot tot trying to crush them too soon out of the hot water.
Potato Bannok, Potato Gnocchi, Potato casserole, potato filled potato seaweed balls.
"Aren't you Irish?" My roommate asks jokingly, referring to the amount of potatoes the Irish traditionally ate.
"1/4th Scottish actually but who would… Continue
Potato Bannok, Potato Gnocchi, Potato casserole, potato filled potato seaweed balls.
"Aren't you Irish?" My roommate asks jokingly, referring to the amount of potatoes the Irish traditionally ate.
"1/4th Scottish actually but who would… Continue
Think Collectively, Act Individually
I think the future of money lies in a change of philosophy, Think Collectively, Act Individually. Our recent problems have arisen because people have given away both their money an their power away, and its high time we take it back, and then pass it on ourselves. This means we need to think about the wh*** world, the wh*** economic system, we need to learn and think about our money, not just how it can help us individually, but how it can benefit the global community as a wh***. This may seem… Continue
Added by Katherine Morrison on May 6, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments
Operating on a climate change oriented schedule
A friend mentioned that my goal to educate with my educational web20 system should be created more quickly because of looming environmental issues. Any ideas for green organizations who may support a educational platform, which could lead to the solving of co2 issues?
Added by Gabriel Martin on May 6, 2010 at 5:30am — 1 Comment
The East-West Corner in Kissena Corridor Park Gardens
In 3010, maybe they will remember that we started a garden in the Southeast corner (bottom left in this photograph) of the Kissena Corridor Park Gardens. They will have a big celebration to mark the 100th year of gardening there.
Take a look at our videos from the first weeks of this effort:…
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Take a look at our videos from the first weeks of this effort:…
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Added by Paul Allison on May 4, 2010 at 1:30am — 1 Comment
Dark Site - The Prime Directive Mission
One thing that I've always been slightly obsessed with is the efficiency that comes from combining tasks that I want to do. Doing all my errands in one fell swoop, for example, to save me from going out more than once. Or combining my desire to have make art (play) with the need to do useful things for the world (work) by choosing a fun career (as an art- and philosophy-based teacher).
So for this most difficult mission so far in the Evoke journey, creating a fully functioning dark… Continue
So for this most difficult mission so far in the Evoke journey, creating a fully functioning dark… Continue
Added by Turil Cronburg on May 3, 2010 at 5:49pm — 3 Comments
Learn8
I have decided not to pick one of the case studies that Alchemy has given us to choose from, but to remember my own story that I heard of a similar community eco-focused success story.
While at a conference my freshman year, I heard this story.
In Thailand, I believe, there was a small fishing village. It was a very, very poor village and the worse yet: it's source of income was running out. The village relied on selling seahorses in local markets to make money, as seahorses… Continue
While at a conference my freshman year, I heard this story.
In Thailand, I believe, there was a small fishing village. It was a very, very poor village and the worse yet: it's source of income was running out. The village relied on selling seahorses in local markets to make money, as seahorses… Continue
Added by Ashley Bartlett on May 1, 2010 at 10:14pm — No Comments
In ten years
I moved to the community I live in now with the intent of putting down roots for once and becoming an active member of a community. In ten years, I hope to see that intention fulfilled. I'm not sure in what way - I tend to get bored if I stick with one thing for too long, and once I get bored I lose my motivation and interest. Like the EVOKE team, I function best when working on discrete, challenge-focused projects. My goal is to find ways to make my community a better place by
working… Continue
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Added by Soni Pitts on April 30, 2010 at 11:40pm — No Comments
Bio-cultural community protocols in Kenya, South Africa and India - Learn8 - one step further!!!!
I am really impressed by this idea of bio-cultural community protocols that is supported by Natural Justice http://www.naturaljustice.org.za/…
Added by MirkoZ on April 28, 2010 at 4:28pm — No Comments
The Harambee Spirit Community Loan
The Mazera’s Community Bank which has been operating in Kenya for the past 5 years. Today, the Bank has launched the Harambee Spirit Community Loan with the aim of encouraging communities to support their youth to implement income generating social development projects. The loan will be piloted in Mazera’s District after which the Bank is named.
With a population close to ½ a million, 70% of whom are below the age of 30 years, Mazera’s District has been looking for ways to enable… Continue
With a population close to ½ a million, 70% of whom are below the age of 30 years, Mazera’s District has been looking for ways to enable… Continue
Added by Shakwei Mbindyo on April 28, 2010 at 3:00pm — No Comments
First World World
I have seen a few facts in my days. The average "First World" citizen uses 150 gallons of water every day, while "Third World" citizens struggle to get five. All of the electricity generated over the past 110 years across the world is one only tenth of the energy the Earth receives from the Sun on a daily basis. Hard facts, that show development is important. Sure, sure, it would be nice if the community got tourism, but the real goal is to even the playing field.… Continue
Added by Conor Drums on April 26, 2010 at 2:08pm — 2 Comments
Urgent Evoke Act 5 Imagine United Texas Assistance League
Hello this is Sunny Du Pree and I come live with an amazing groundswell of activity from the local community. Here in Amarillo, things have really been difficult as many people struggle to keep their home and body together. Many go homeless and unfed. But there is a new hope surrounding these desperate people as we see by their faces. "Sir, sir, can you please tell me what is happening"? "Yes mam, said the cowboy. "Me and mine we got sick of seeing people go without so we got our churches,… Continue
Added by sunnydupree on April 25, 2010 at 11:48pm — No Comments
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