Ann's very personal, highly biased and incomplete guide to the ecovillage ... in a nutshell.
Stream Team
On Friday November 19th, two instructors Dan and Jeremy from Columbia Bible College, brought their class of Environmental Sustainability/Outdoors students to work on our Stream rehab project.
Workparty events ---from Shauna
I just wanted to update everyone on how the Work Party went with Dan and his class on Friday. We were a little worried about the sudden change in weather, but they arrived gung ho, & ready to go. So we all moseyed on over to the creek, talking about what we do here at YES the whole way. Once we got out there, Joe' took over and showed them what needed to be done, and we all went to it. And wow, they must have been really tired of sitting, because they pulled those canes faster than we could have ever anticipated. We had all the canes pulled, the willow pruned, the leaf mulch laid, and the logs moved away from the bridge, all within only 2 hours. AMAZING! We really didn't ask that much of them, but they were tackling anything we threw at them and were asking for more. lol.
After all the work was done, everybody came back and washed up for lunch in the Bunker Silo. After lunch we had a quick presentation regarding Stream Restoration, and about how the work they did helped. Many, many thanks to instructors Dan and Jeremy and their class of Quest sustainability students!
The day was a Huge Success, everyone. Thank you so much to Ann for lunch, Joe for hard work and energy, Michael for the tractor , Gerry for washing water
Editor's note: Shauna brought everyone together in a wonderful, enthusiastic way and pulled off a highly enjoyable and productive day. Thank you Shauna!
What's a CSA Box? .... Animal, Vegetable or Mineral ?
In the spring, when the first vegetables are ready for harvesting, we'll be able to buy fresh produce from our farmers on a weekly basis.
Community Shared Agriculture) (CSA) is a socio-economic model of agriculture and food distribution. A CSA consists of a community of individuals who pledge support to a farming operation where the growers and consumers share the risks and benefits of food production. CSAs usually consist of a system of weekly delivery or pick-up of vegetables and fruit, in a vegetable box scheme, and sometimes includes dairy products and meat.(Wiki)
Lucky us!
We love TED http://www.ted.com/talks
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas worth spreading -- through TED.com, our annual conferences, the annual TED Prize
and TEDx which is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis
From Michael- Brene' Brown - connection and vulnerability- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Qm9cGRub0
from Britta- Jeremy Rifkin --- Empathetic Civilization http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReQ4iuTNYtA
From Liz - John Hardy off-the-grid school in Bali http://www.ted.com/talks/john_hardy_my_green_school_dream.html
from Cher - the Story of Stuff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM
November's Groundswell Community Meeting
Many, many of us gathered - residents and new buyers ... we're out-growing our meeting spaces!
In a nutshell...
To determine our Strata fees, we're going to go with a levy system that is combination of - household, person and and assessed value. For example- Snow-clearing would be per household, water use by #persons in household, and insurance by assessed value. Our Adhoc Strata Team of Beverly, Maureen and others will take the next steps and bring back their findings and recommendations to the next meeting for consensus.
Britta and Krishna presented their initiatives for counting Work Contribution Hours. We're learning from the experience of other cohousers that yes, hours do need to be counted so that we know who's doing what, what work is needed, workers are accountable and contributions are appreciated. Folks will either undertake a set minimum number of hours per month, or pay for someone else to do it. We're going for an easy-to-manage, no-hassle system of advance post-dated cheques for a dollar value of a minimum work requirement, to be refunded if work-hours are completed. And there'll be some sensible flexibility in there, too. We're not slave-drivers ready to crack a blaming whip.
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