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Shane Jolley Urban Chickens

The following is copied from the Chicken discussion in the OS group and is written by Anne Finlay-Stewart.
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Added by Shane Jolley on March 2, 2010 at 9:53am — 1 Comment

Shane Jolley Heidi's Bar - "Derivatives 101" or "Drink Now, Pay Later"

I don't know who wrote this, but it explains the credit crisis in...well....terms that even a drunk can understand.


Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her… Continue

Added by Shane Jolley on February 24, 2010 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Anne Finlay-Stewart theabundancefoundation.org

Take a peek - there's a Grey-Bruce connection to this North Carolina group - and a definite philosophical/spiritual connection to what is emerging here. Continue

Added by Anne Finlay-Stewart on February 23, 2010 at 8:18am — No Comments

Shane Jolley Community...why bother?

The Oxford dictionary defines community as, “a group of interdependents growing or living together, or occupying a specified habitat". Webster adds, “joint ownership or participation”. The idea here is not only a mutually beneficial arrangement of a group of people, but one where each contributes and no man or woman is an island.… Continue

Added by Shane Jolley on February 16, 2010 at 11:55am — 1 Comment

Gerald Poechman Distributism

Another option to the social/capitalist poles would be distributism - which is the shared ownership of all capital assets, like factories,businesses etc. The common good or 'commons' once owned water, air,sunshine.But now big companies own fresh water, energy, solar roghts, seed patents, technology patents etc. Indirectly they also own food or sustenance rights - that is, if you can't pay, you do without. An example of the kind of ideal I propose, is the Mondragon Co-op movement in Spain. The

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Added by Gerald Poechman on February 9, 2010 at 4:25pm — 2 Comments

Shane Jolley Principles of Community Based Economics

We live in an economic and political world characterized by several overarching themes. First, the need for ever-increasing and faster economic “growth”. Second, a rapidly increasing scale in terms of the size and power of business and government. Finally, the continuous concentration of wealth and power in the hands of fewer a… Continue

Added by Shane Jolley on February 9, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Ryan Wiseman Potluck after the Owen Sound Transition meeting

Now with bonus potluck...

Been slacking on adding these details.... and some of you are aware but ... anyone is welcome to join us for a potluck dinner, conversation, and perhaps a video after the Event at the bookstore winds down.… Continue

Added by Ryan Wiseman on January 29, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Ryan Wiseman TRANSITION TOWNS: An Interview with Rob Hopkins

If you have an hour and want to get more background on the Transition Town movement the following video is an interview with Rob Hopkins, founder of Transition Town Totnes "The founder of a growing movement shows us around 'Transition Town Totnes' in Devon and talks about peak oil, the origin of the Transition Towns concept and how to help your community develop an 'energy descent plan' and prepare to 'power down.' " http://www.youtube.com/w… Continue

Added by Ryan Wiseman on January 23, 2010 at 11:48am — No Comments

Ryan Wiseman A weekend of Fun.... a Transition town weekend event model...

Following transition town links around the web I came accross an outline for a Transition Weekend in Chester (UK?) You can see the post here http://transitiontowns.org/forum/topic/transition-chester-weekend-festival-january-22nd-24th But I figured it wouldn't hurt of copy and past the outline here as well in case area transition town groups want to consider a simlar effort… Continue

Added by Ryan Wiseman on January 22, 2010 at 3:52pm — 1 Comment

Shane Jolley A Great Day for the Local Food Movement.

Today is a great day for the local food movement. Durham farmer Michael Schmidt was acquitted today on all charges related to his cow-share program. Members can now legally continue to obtain and consume raw milk through cow-share programs as they are technically "owners", not purchasers, of raw milk. Th… Continue

Added by Shane Jolley on January 21, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Shane Jolley Welcome to the new LocalMotive Project website.

If there's one thing I dislike intensely, it's long hours at the desk, and if you have the web-skills that I have (pretty much zippo!) then creating a website erases days from your life. Snow shoveling never looked so appealing. But thanks to the help of Ryan (the master) Wiseman, we now have a network/workspace that I think is as good as it comes; at least in terms of what I can work with. No more weight loss ads, fake virus warnings, and incompatibilities with obsolete browsers. Just pure, sw… Continue

Added by Shane Jolley on January 20, 2010 at 9:57pm — 3 Comments

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