Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Success Story Examples / Local Curriencies
The Politics of Money
WEB Reference, Jan. 2006 (Hazel Henderson) – Quote from The Politics of Money - My bookshelf on alternative economics, barter, credit and currency system continues to grow, and includes Ralph A. Mitchell and Neil Shafer's indispensable, eye-opening self-published "Standard Catalog of Depression Scrip of the United States in the 1930s" (Krause Publications, Iola, WI) (1984). It contains thousands of pictures of alternative scrip currencies issued in almost every US state and city and many in Canada and Mexico after the Great Crash of 1929 and the bank failures that followed. During the 1980's in all my talks across North America advocating local self-reliance and alternatives to fiat money, I carried this heavy volume along to show how local inventiveness helped overcome the failures of national banking and finance. People would raise their hands in recognition as I would show on overheads the scrip used in their state. "I remember these in my Dad's bureau!" "My Mom used that to buy our groceries!" http://www.hazelhenderson.com/editorials/politics_of_money.html.
The Politics of Money
WEB Reference, Jan. 2006 (Hazel Henderson) – Quote from The Politics of Money - My bookshelf on alternative economics, barter, credit and currency system continues to grow, and includes Ralph A. Mitchell and Neil Shafer's indispensable, eye-opening self-published "Standard Catalog of Depression Scrip of the United States in the 1930s" (Krause Publications, Iola, WI) (1984). It contains thousands of pictures of alternative scrip currencies issued in almost every US state and city and many in Canada and Mexico after the Great Crash of 1929 and the bank failures that followed. During the 1980's in all my talks across North America advocating local self-reliance and alternatives to fiat money, I carried this heavy volume along to show how local inventiveness helped overcome the failures of national banking and finance. People would raise their hands in recognition as I would show on overheads the scrip used in their state. "I remember these in my Dad's bureau!" "My Mom used that to buy our groceries!" http://www.hazelhenderson.com/editorials/politics_of_money.html.
Local Living Economies / Local Curriencies
New Frontier of Money
GREAT BARRINGTON, MA, Apr. 4, 2006 (E. F. Schumacher Society) Dear Friends, It is nearly two years since the E. F. Schumacher Society convened the conference "Local Currencies in the 21st Century." The event drew 300 participants from thirteen countries to Bard College on the Hudson River. It is widely agreed that the conference was a landmark event. Read more.
New Frontier of Money
GREAT BARRINGTON, MA, Apr. 4, 2006 (E. F. Schumacher Society) Dear Friends, It is nearly two years since the E. F. Schumacher Society convened the conference "Local Currencies in the 21st Century." The event drew 300 participants from thirteen countries to Bard College on the Hudson River. It is widely agreed that the conference was a landmark event. Read more.
Organizational Structures / Community Models
Campus Farms and Gardens: Growing a Community of Interdependence and Hope
GALT, CA, Apr. 17, 2006 (CIP, by Carol Ann Brodie) - Institutions of higher education are producing more than stellar students these days. We can count as their products broccoli, carrots, peaches and lettuce. How can this be? On campus farms and gardens! Read more.
Campus Farms and Gardens: Growing a Community of Interdependence and Hope
GALT, CA, Apr. 17, 2006 (CIP, by Carol Ann Brodie) - Institutions of higher education are producing more than stellar students these days. We can count as their products broccoli, carrots, peaches and lettuce. How can this be? On campus farms and gardens! Read more.
Monday, April 24, 2006
NGOs / NFPs / Resources
DevArt
WEB Referemce, Mar. 2006 (DevArt) - DevArt is the website for development-related art. If you need illustrations for a development-oriented publication, poster or website, but you can't draw, this site is for you. Clip art is copyright-free artwork you can use in documents, websites or extension manuals. http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Cove/1003.
DevArt
WEB Referemce, Mar. 2006 (DevArt) - DevArt is the website for development-related art. If you need illustrations for a development-oriented publication, poster or website, but you can't draw, this site is for you. Clip art is copyright-free artwork you can use in documents, websites or extension manuals. http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Cove/1003.
Youth / Leadership
Youth Philanthropists: Getting a jump start on doing good
VANCOUVER, BC, Mar. 13, 2006 (Charity Village, By Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf) - Meet the founders of some Canadian organizations that are tackling complex issues: ending child labour, feeding the homeless, caring for foster kids, bringing light to impoverished villages. Just imagine what they'll do once they finish high school! Find out more in this week's cover story at: http://www.charityvillage.com/cv/archive/acov/acov06/acov0608.html.
Youth Philanthropists: Getting a jump start on doing good
VANCOUVER, BC, Mar. 13, 2006 (Charity Village, By Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf) - Meet the founders of some Canadian organizations that are tackling complex issues: ending child labour, feeding the homeless, caring for foster kids, bringing light to impoverished villages. Just imagine what they'll do once they finish high school! Find out more in this week's cover story at: http://www.charityvillage.com/cv/archive/acov/acov06/acov0608.html.
Local Living Economies
Buy Local VI Market Test
NANAIMO, BC, Mar. 31, 2006 (CIP) – The Community Assets Project is on the look out for up to 20 Nanaimo offices locations, who have 6 – 10 people each, willing to help market test a new Buy Local Shopping Service business. Mock orders will be created each week to see if the local products and services in demand can be located on time and easily enough for the real thing. Once the test is working properly, the full Buy Local Program will kick into gear, giving discounts and bonus recognition all year long, to those who signed up to test the process. Marketplace orders will then start being delivered on Fridays, saving up to 200 tired workers from having to spend their beloved days off in malls and grocery line-ups. Local owners of local and eco-businesses are also asked to contact the Community Assets Project if they wish to see their companies listed in the partnering CIP Quick Check Referral Service of the new Vancouver Island Buy Local Data Base. For more information, please call Community Involvement Project at 250-753-5605 or email: Communityassets@telus.net.
Buy Local VI Market Test
NANAIMO, BC, Mar. 31, 2006 (CIP) – The Community Assets Project is on the look out for up to 20 Nanaimo offices locations, who have 6 – 10 people each, willing to help market test a new Buy Local Shopping Service business. Mock orders will be created each week to see if the local products and services in demand can be located on time and easily enough for the real thing. Once the test is working properly, the full Buy Local Program will kick into gear, giving discounts and bonus recognition all year long, to those who signed up to test the process. Marketplace orders will then start being delivered on Fridays, saving up to 200 tired workers from having to spend their beloved days off in malls and grocery line-ups. Local owners of local and eco-businesses are also asked to contact the Community Assets Project if they wish to see their companies listed in the partnering CIP Quick Check Referral Service of the new Vancouver Island Buy Local Data Base. For more information, please call Community Involvement Project at 250-753-5605 or email: Communityassets@telus.net.
Events / Sustainable Community – Denver, CO – Oct. 19 - 21
Place Matters: Creative Planning Collaborative for Sustainable Communities
DENVER, CO, Mar. 28, 2006 (Orton Family Foundation) - PLACEMATTERS is a living laboratory where a national network of practitioners come together to learn, share, inspire and seed innovation in place, collectively elevating the art and science of planning for vibrant and sustainable communities. On October 19-21, 2006, PLACEMATTERS06 will touch down in Denver, Colorado, heart of the Rocky Mountain region, bringing a variety of the best tools, processes and people to bear on some of the most critical land use challenges of our times. Click & scroll - http://www.orton.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=504&parentID=500&nodeID=1.
Place Matters: Creative Planning Collaborative for Sustainable Communities
DENVER, CO, Mar. 28, 2006 (Orton Family Foundation) - PLACEMATTERS is a living laboratory where a national network of practitioners come together to learn, share, inspire and seed innovation in place, collectively elevating the art and science of planning for vibrant and sustainable communities. On October 19-21, 2006, PLACEMATTERS06 will touch down in Denver, Colorado, heart of the Rocky Mountain region, bringing a variety of the best tools, processes and people to bear on some of the most critical land use challenges of our times. Click & scroll - http://www.orton.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=504&parentID=500&nodeID=1.
Local Living Economies / Buy Local
Local First Community Education Campaigns
WEB Reference, Mar. 30, 2006 (BALLE) - In communities across North America, BALLE networks are launching Local First Campaigns. These marketing campaigns are seen as a critical piece of a community's economic development strategy, helping to promote economic stability, job growth, and entrepreneurial vigor through nurturing and promoting a wide diversity of locally owned businesses. http://www.livingeconomies.org/localfirst.
Why Buy Local First?
http://www.livingeconomies.org/localfirst/whylocalfirst.
Local First Community Education Campaigns
WEB Reference, Mar. 30, 2006 (BALLE) - In communities across North America, BALLE networks are launching Local First Campaigns. These marketing campaigns are seen as a critical piece of a community's economic development strategy, helping to promote economic stability, job growth, and entrepreneurial vigor through nurturing and promoting a wide diversity of locally owned businesses. http://www.livingeconomies.org/localfirst.
Why Buy Local First?
http://www.livingeconomies.org/localfirst/whylocalfirst.
Local Living Economies
Defining Community-based Economics
WEB Reference, Mar. 30, 2006 (Wikipedia) - Community-based economics or just community economics encourages local substitution and a rejection of outside energy subsidy and coercion. It is most familiar from the lifeways of those practicing voluntary simplicity, including traditional Mennonite, Amish, and modern eco-village communities. However, it is also increasingly a priority in urban economics, where moral purchasing and local purchasing are increasingly cogent concerns. Various specific programs for community economics and local currency, e.g. Ithaca Hours, are often promoted in green politics. Notably, the Ten Key Values of the Green Party include them as fundamental parts of a green program. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-based_economics.
Defining Community-based Economics
WEB Reference, Mar. 30, 2006 (Wikipedia) - Community-based economics or just community economics encourages local substitution and a rejection of outside energy subsidy and coercion. It is most familiar from the lifeways of those practicing voluntary simplicity, including traditional Mennonite, Amish, and modern eco-village communities. However, it is also increasingly a priority in urban economics, where moral purchasing and local purchasing are increasingly cogent concerns. Various specific programs for community economics and local currency, e.g. Ithaca Hours, are often promoted in green politics. Notably, the Ten Key Values of the Green Party include them as fundamental parts of a green program. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-based_economics.
Empowerment for Social Change / Women
Venezuela Leads the Way: Welfare Mothers and Grassroots Women are the Workers for Social Change
WEB Reference, Mar. 6, 2006 (Upside Down World) - There is screaming, hugging, chanting, and many shhhs; the group takes a momentary pause in their celebration to hear the news. A delegation of 70 women from all over the world, including, India, Uganda, Guyana, the UK, and the US stand together in the community of La Padera, Venezuela, awaiting the details. http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/209/1/.
Venezuela Leads the Way: Welfare Mothers and Grassroots Women are the Workers for Social Change
WEB Reference, Mar. 6, 2006 (Upside Down World) - There is screaming, hugging, chanting, and many shhhs; the group takes a momentary pause in their celebration to hear the news. A delegation of 70 women from all over the world, including, India, Uganda, Guyana, the UK, and the US stand together in the community of La Padera, Venezuela, awaiting the details. http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/209/1/.
Cool Projects / Climate Change Solutions
Taking Action on Climate Change
WEB Reference, Apr. 10, 2006 (http://www.ecoperth.on.ca/ ) - Making real headway with an issue as big as climate change is not easy. The issues are global in scale, and impacts are time-delayed and difficult to measure. Here are but three GREAT programs on a long quick-to-read list of programs from EcoPerth, involving community directly in combating our worst behaviors responsible for climate change. http://www.ecoperth.on.ca/done.html.
Local Flavour Businesses
EcoPerth has networked a group of local businesses that use and support local produce, keeping your money within the community. http://www.ecoperth.on.ca/Projects/green/current/localflav.html.
GreenLink
A project aimed at bridging the access gap to green products and services, including renewable energy to interested individuals. http://www.ecoperth.on.ca/Projects/communication/current/greenlink.html.
Neighbourhood EcoPerth
An approach that helps encourage neighbourhoods and groups to get together and run green projects through cost sharing and joint problem solving. http://www.ecoperth.on.ca/Projects/communication/current/neighbourhood.html.
Taking Action on Climate Change
WEB Reference, Apr. 10, 2006 (http://www.ecoperth.on.ca/ ) - Making real headway with an issue as big as climate change is not easy. The issues are global in scale, and impacts are time-delayed and difficult to measure. Here are but three GREAT programs on a long quick-to-read list of programs from EcoPerth, involving community directly in combating our worst behaviors responsible for climate change. http://www.ecoperth.on.ca/done.html.
Local Flavour Businesses
EcoPerth has networked a group of local businesses that use and support local produce, keeping your money within the community. http://www.ecoperth.on.ca/Projects/green/current/localflav.html.
GreenLink
A project aimed at bridging the access gap to green products and services, including renewable energy to interested individuals. http://www.ecoperth.on.ca/Projects/communication/current/greenlink.html.
Neighbourhood EcoPerth
An approach that helps encourage neighbourhoods and groups to get together and run green projects through cost sharing and joint problem solving. http://www.ecoperth.on.ca/Projects/communication/current/neighbourhood.html.
Global Village / Water Rights
Community Priorities for Water Rights
ELIST, Apr. 10, 2006 (id21RuralNews, Number 5) - Water is becoming a scarce resource in many places. As access is threatened, communities seek to protect their rights to water. Water rights are negotiated within communities. However, they can also be negotiated between communities and others sharing water in river basins. Email request: GET http://www.id21.org/getweb/n6bb1g1.html (see end of message for full instruction on how to receive full research highlights by email) From: http://www.id21.org/nr/n6bb1g1.html.
Community Priorities for Water Rights
ELIST, Apr. 10, 2006 (id21RuralNews, Number 5) - Water is becoming a scarce resource in many places. As access is threatened, communities seek to protect their rights to water. Water rights are negotiated within communities. However, they can also be negotiated between communities and others sharing water in river basins. Email request: GET http://www.id21.org/getweb/n6bb1g1.html (see end of message for full instruction on how to receive full research highlights by email) From: http://www.id21.org/nr/n6bb1g1.html.
Conferences to Follow / Women in Sustainability – 100 Mile House, BC - Apr. 5 - 7
Women of Resource Communities Conference
ELIST, Mar. 2006, (BC Food Democracy) - Thanks to Ellie Parks, BC CED Network - The Hill's Ranch, 100 Mile House, BC. The second annual Women of Resource Communities Conference will forge a stronger link between British Columbia's tourism and industry stakeholders, organizers say, this year's conference will also focus on sustainability and the leadership role of women in resource communities. Delegates will hear from speakers including Lois McNabb, Director, Economics and Trade Branch, BC Ministry of Forests and Range; Sylvia Waterer, Co-owner of Chilcotin Holidays Guest Ranch and Vice-President of the Wilderness Tourism Association; and Teresa Ryan, representative of the Tsimshian First Nation and past-President of Oceans Industry BC. More information, including details on registration and early bird specials, can be found at the conference web site: www.womenofbcresourcecommunities.org.
Women of Resource Communities Conference
ELIST, Mar. 2006, (BC Food Democracy) - Thanks to Ellie Parks, BC CED Network - The Hill's Ranch, 100 Mile House, BC. The second annual Women of Resource Communities Conference will forge a stronger link between British Columbia's tourism and industry stakeholders, organizers say, this year's conference will also focus on sustainability and the leadership role of women in resource communities. Delegates will hear from speakers including Lois McNabb, Director, Economics and Trade Branch, BC Ministry of Forests and Range; Sylvia Waterer, Co-owner of Chilcotin Holidays Guest Ranch and Vice-President of the Wilderness Tourism Association; and Teresa Ryan, representative of the Tsimshian First Nation and past-President of Oceans Industry BC. More information, including details on registration and early bird specials, can be found at the conference web site: www.womenofbcresourcecommunities.org.
Exemplary Resources / Rural Development
Rural Communities Issues & News
ELIST, Mar. 10, 2006 (BC Food Democracy) - Hello all, some of you may not be aware of the work of id21 (http://www.id21.org/). They "communicates international development research to policymakers and practitioners worldwide on: health, education, global issues, urban development, rural development, natural resources". They send out periodic notices of recent research (subscription info is at the bottom of the email). While much of it is focused on the so-called "developing world" many of the issues also affect our (rural) communities in British Columbia. The most recent posting from id21 is below - you will notice that it focuses on women. Happy reading, Abra, BC Food Democracy.
Rural Communities Issues & News
ELIST, Mar. 10, 2006 (BC Food Democracy) - Hello all, some of you may not be aware of the work of id21 (http://www.id21.org/). They "communicates international development research to policymakers and practitioners worldwide on: health, education, global issues, urban development, rural development, natural resources". They send out periodic notices of recent research (subscription info is at the bottom of the email). While much of it is focused on the so-called "developing world" many of the issues also affect our (rural) communities in British Columbia. The most recent posting from id21 is below - you will notice that it focuses on women. Happy reading, Abra, BC Food Democracy.
