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Ben started the discussion Neversink Farms: Intensive Sustainable Human-Scale Farming in the forum ECO 2 months ago
Neversink Farms: Intensive Sustainable Human-Scale Farming
@Etcetera an I were talking about the critical need for small-scale economies in food production for alt-economies — like of the solar-punk aesthetic thing. A leader in this is right in our area: Neversink Farm, developers of Neversink Tools (built in TN).
neversinkfarm.com
Organic vegetable farm in the Catskill Mountains hosting dinners, events, farm workshops. There is a fully stocked store onsite and we offer tours.
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Ben started the discussion The Barberry Project in the forum ECO 2 months ago
We’ve been thinking about alt-economies related to environmental restoration. One idea was harvesting barberry which as herbal/medicinal applications. The problem is the labor involved in harvesting the roots from the bush is very high. To that end, we’re thinking about equipment as a force multiplier. Here are some of the ideas we need to…
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Ethan replied to the discussion Envisioning Leadership Structure for Alternate Societies in the forum ECO 3 months ago
Reply to Envisioning Leadership Structure for Alternate Societies
My Notes of Holacracy:
Holacracy is a system that operates on the fundamental idea that situation reports and requests fro resources flow upwards through the chain of command and objectives flow downwards. This decentralization of command allows for each level of management to determine how to best use their resources to respond to a given…
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Ben started the discussion Envisioning Leadership Structure for Alternate Societies in the forum ECO 3 months ago
Envisioning Leadership Structure for Alternate Societies
Today as @Etcetera and I were reviewing our time with the leaders of Awakened Village in NJ and talked about action points, it came up that leadership structure is essential for the community that would drive alt society solutions (which we are pursuing as a contextualization of the Kingdom of God). At Awakened Village, we’re starting to…
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Ben posted an update in the group
ECO 3 months agoWendel Berry: Developing a Voice for Building an Alternative World
@Etcetera : I think it would be great to watch this film about thinker and writer Wendel Berry. He’s one of the best thinkers in this area.
https://twobirdsfilm.com/films/look-see-a-portrait-of-wendell-berry
Watch it and see how it impacts you. You may also want to watch this “making of” Q&A video.
Key things this MAY relate to:
- The role…
twobirdsfilm.com
Look & See - A Portrait of Wendell Berry (2017 ) — Two Birds Film
Available for Rent or Purchase. LOOK & SEE is a portrait of the world as lensed through the works of farmer, writer and activist Wendell Berry. Filmed across four seasons in and around Henry County, Kentucky.
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After watching the film and the Q&A these are my notes:
Farmers have been made debt slaves by forced industrialization.
Sustainable farming can be profitable but requires community.
The industrialization of farming has slimmed down the profit margins so far that the only way to turn a profit is to make the farm bigger.
The massive cost of…
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I was looking for links for the Berry Institute. I found two candidates: https://berrycenter.org/ (New Castle, KY) and https://www.berrycenterfarmandforest.org/ (Port Royal, KY). Wonder if there’s a story behind there being two of them with very similar mission.
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Ben started the discussion With the Economic Heart of God in the forum ECO 3 months ago
With the Economic Heart of God
@Etcetera and I were talking tonight about the importance of WITH: doing life, pushing mission, and solving big problems with God.
I shared how John 15:1-11 says the heart of life with God (abiding) is keeping Yeshua’s and the Fathers commands out of love (v. 10). This is the heart of the Gospel of the Kingdom and true faith (Mark 1:15).
So if we…
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bopbop replied to the discussion How Much Does Hemp-Crete Cost in the forum ECO 4 months ago
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This website might be useful to this discussion. https://bulkhempwarehouse.com/hempcrete-101/
bulkhempwarehouse.com
Hempcrete 101: A Powerful Guide To Sustainable Hemp Building
An ultimate guide to hempcrete. Learn what is hempcrete, how to use hempcrete, and several other wonderful resources like where to buy hempcrete and more!
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Ben started the discussion How Much Does Hemp-Crete Cost in the forum ECO 4 months ago
We’re very interested in hemp-crete as a building material and insulation, but before we add it to our model, we need to get cost numbers and compare with other materials.
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Ben started the discussion Small/Tiny Home Affordability Questions in the forum ECO 4 months ago
Small/Tiny Home Affordability Questions
@Etcetera and I and some friends are interested in exploring small/tiny homes. While we’re interested in less-toxic and sustainable construction, our main driver is affordability. A big driver for this is our own cases:
- What does it look like for a young person to live a local and rooted like without huge debt that requires consuming…
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Ben posted an update in the group
ECO 6 months ago6 months ago (edited)
The First Sustainable Generation?
I’m thinking a lot lately about the connection between aesthetic and hope: the world you visualize is the world you are building. I have to admit, I visualize a pretty dismal future and have a “salvage punk” aesthetic — as humanity creates a dystopia, I see myself in a remnant eking out an alternative from scraps and DIY skills. It’s a bit …
frankenfiction.com
Salvagepunk is an idea and framework I’ve been toying with for a couple of weeks, and which I borrow loosely from Evan Calder Williams’ Combined and Uneven Apocalypse (2011). In this bo…
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This is reminding me of this article I read a while ago, about how fiction (Star Trek in this example) has power to shape the real world as it unfurls. Lots of power in speculative fiction and the stories we tell ourselves!!!! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-books/2023/09/08/star-trek-and-3-d-printing/
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I love the line “how to repeat differently” from the Salvagepunk article!
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