Discussion Forum (18)

WORKGROUP: FOOD

local food production, food security, CSA's, Permaculture, organic, & biodynamic growing, building healthy soils, food preservation & storage, farming cooperatives, community kitchens, buying in bulk, grains, working animals, aquaculture

WORKGROUP: ENERGY

local renewable energy sources, distributed/decentralized energy grid, biogas conversions, solar, wind, CHP, wood, micro-hydro, biofuels, use reduction

WORKGROUP: TRANSPORTATION

pedestrian-friendly cities, bicycles, mass transit and long distance rail, reclaiming roads for other uses, alternative fuels, biofuels, hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles.

WORKGROUP: ECONOMY

local currencies, barter, childcare cooperatives, cottage industries, jobs & right livelihood, homeworking, cottage industries, green business & local entrepreneurship, local business, meaningful work, living wage.

WORKGROUP: HOUSING

natural building, retrofitting/eco-home renovation, affordable housing, developing/sourcing local building materials, Passivhaus, ecovillages, co-housing, changing zoning laws, adding tenants, home business, child-friendly communities, neighborhood sharing, multigenerational home design (tools, machines, etc.)

WORKGROUP: WASTE

reusing and re-purposing, reducing, buying in bulk & cooperatives, saying goodbye to plastics, neighborhood sharing (tools, machines, etc.), composting, vermiculture, composting toilets

WORKGROUP: WATER

rooftop collection & storage, purification & filtration, anti-privatization, community storage & distribution, conservation, earthworks for water harvesting, swales, ponds, gray- and black-water systems

WORKGROUP: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

gathering information, monitoring, history, liaising, informing, educating, involving local government members

WORKGROUP: WELFARE, HEALTH, WELLNESS

parenting & childcare, childcare cooperatives, parenting skills, playgroups, education, child-friendly communities, midwifery; elder care, including elderly in community life, multi-generational structure, Medicinal herbs, local medicine production, prevention, nutrition & exercise, health education, support groups

WORKGROUP: YOUTH EDUCATION

ecology & stewardship, k12 farm-to-school programs, school gardens, permaculture, school gardens, health & nutrition, diversity, global history & peoples, meaningful work at all ages, accounting skills, critical thinking skills, democratic family models and parenting skills, apprenticeships, lifelong learning and life skills, exposure to occupations & working whether than in documentary film, books such as Studs Terkel's WORKING, or special presentations by specialists, teaching, self educating. Experiential, Work Study, Independent learning. Catalyzing youth organizations, empowering youth to act for change and the common good, youth teaching youth, youth presentations & events - emphasis on civic duty & democratic principles. The earlier a child finds his strengths and interests, the more well adjusted the grown adult will be generallly be. How can we advance this early awareness?

WORKGROUP: RESKILLING, MENTORING, INTERNSHIPS, VOCATIONAL TRAINING

developing local products & materials, learning from elders & history, independent living skills, reuse, repairing, repurposing, reducing, recycling, community forests, fiber and animal care, spinning and weaving, cooking with fresh produce, cheese-making, soaps, plant-based textiles, baking, carpentry, blacksmithing, animal husbandry, bike repair, electronics, engineering, building skills - and the learning of all skills that lead to self reliance and sustenance.

WORKGROUP: MIND, HEART & SOUL

psychology of change, eco-awareness, music & performing/participatory arts, cultural events, cultural diversity, entertainment in film, arts, music, dance, performance, even athletic as in ReCreation and Olympics events. Opportunities for all to participate and enjoy culture (& all arts) - celebrating diversity and history reclaiming public space, celebrations, meditation & healing, spirituality, community-building, community programs pertaining to many aspects of life, culture and the arts. Rites of passage, group process, facilitation, mediation, social justice & democracy, fairness & inclusion, sexism/racism/elitism/*ism - i.e. the reduction & elimination of narcissism, which is based in artificial entitlement, privilege and competition which leads to unbridled greed and desensitization.

WORKGROUP: OUTREACH & MEDIA

organizing & promoting events, creating our own media, nonfiction films, PR writing, presentations, maintain contacts database

WORKGROUP: SECURITY, PREPAREDNESS, & JUSTICE

citizen participation, military conversion, law enforcement, emergency training

WORKGROUP: ENVISIONING A LOCAL FUTURE

Visions of your local future

WORKGROUPS: CRITICAL OPINION & ANALYSIS

This area would be where effective and eloquent voices have a space to criticize / comment / argue / debate about the failures, successes, the errors, the misconceptions about certain aspects of the Movement... so they can be aired. For example, the top down nudging, comments about ning, comments about the presentations....

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