The Vernacular Economy: A Starting Point and a Goal
In his book Underminers, author Keith Farnish quotes Alastair McIntosh’s book Soil and Soul at length to describe the diversity of a fully-functional community economy, of which barter is just … Continue reading
07/12/13 Meeting Notes
Friday July 12 Attending: Jeremy and Ethan Task assignments are bolded Agenda Ethan gave an overview of the outreach presentation Jeremy reported on his conversation with Linda Ethan and Jeremy … Continue reading
Creating Resilient Communities with Permaculture
Background: This post is a presentation-style introduction to Resilience Action Network’s Cooperative TimeBank project. The project draws inspiration from hOurWorld’s integration of community self-help cooperatives and time banking in Portland, … Continue reading
06/14/13 Meeting Notes
Attending: Jordan, Jeremy, Ethan Task assignments are bolded Agenda Software Review Development Strategy Community spaces / Guerilla Gardening 1. Software review report: no one has heard back from anyone contacted … Continue reading
05/31/13 Meeting Notes
5/31/13 RAN Attending: Jeremy, Jordan, Ethan Here is the requested article re: RAN’s process up-to-now: https://resilienceaction.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/community-resilience-what-why-and-how/ Agenda: Software discussion Other local timebanks MPFS timebank Salem Cooperatives Regular meeting dates and … Continue reading
5/10/13 meeting notes
5/10/13 RAN notes Attending: Jordan, Jeremy, Ethan Agenda meeting dates / locations developing the founding board collaboration with Women Ending Hunger? 1. Meeting dates, times, locations Friday afternoons 2x’s a … Continue reading
Introducing the Resilience Bank
NOTE: RAN applied for the 2012 Community Resilience Challenge grant in partnership with Oregon PeaceWorks. This project gave us the opportunity and push to define a first draft of our … Continue reading
What inspires us?
Below is a list of local and non-local resources that have made a definitive contribution in the creation of the Resilience Action Network, including a few hints about where we … Continue reading
Community Resilience: What, why…and how?
Introduction Up to this point, the purpose of our discussion and outreach has been to develop the scope and focus of the Resilience Action Network (RAN) — its purpose, reason … Continue reading
Summer Potluck Notes
The notes from our July and August 2012 potlucks identifying where and how we should focus our energies. We’ve taken these notes and synthesized them with our other meetings and … Continue reading
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