Networks
Open Source Ecology (OSE) is a network of farmers, engineers and supporters, whose main goal is the eventual manufacturing of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). As described by Open Source Ecology "the GVCS is an open technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts." Groups in Oberlin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and California are developing blueprints, and building prototypes in order to pass them on to Missouri. The devices themselves are built and tested on the Factor e Farm in rural Missouri.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_ecology
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_ecology
A shiny new and rapidly growing interactive database that’s showcasing the exciting, solutions-based work being implemented by permaculture projects and practitioners worldwide. If you’re getting depressed watching current events, this is the site to reinvigorate the mind with real, lasting, holistic solutions for all the problems humanity currently faces.
- Text and Image from: http://permacultureglobal.com/
- Text and Image from: http://permacultureglobal.com/
"The Rules is a global movement to bring power back to people, and change the rules that create inequality and poverty around the world." "…For the first time, ordinary citizens… have the power and ability to change the rules that are creating... injustices. Technology and the shift of global power mean that we can now demand our say in decisions that have traditionally been made by elites behind closed doors. But the truth is, these things will only change if we demand it." The Rules operates "as a decentralised network with several campaign hubs around the world, including in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Mumbai, New York, Toronto, and Rio. The focus of these hubs is to identify issues, opportunities, technologies and regional strategies for each campaign." "The ‘engine room’ for... campaigns is (the) Working Group, which is made up of more than 70 people from around the world. Members come as individual volunteers, not as representatives of their respective organisations. They come from a broad range of organisations – from civil society, to grassroots advocacy groups, to policy think tanks, to technology providers. The sole objective of the Working Group is to help create campaigns for viable, alternative rules that serve the interests of the world’s majority, with disproportionate benefit to the poor, vulnerable and marginalised among us."
- Text and Image from: https://www.therules.org/en/actions/movement--2
- Text and Image from: https://www.therules.org/en/actions/movement--2
Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF), or Willing Workers on Organic Farms, is a loose network of national organisations that facilitate placement of volunteers on organic farms. While there are WWOOF hosts in 99 countries around the world, no central list or organisation encompasses all WWOOF hosts. As there is no single international WWOOF membership, all recognised WWOOF country organisations strive to maintain similar standards, and work together to promote the aims of WWOOF. WWOOFing aims to provide volunteers with first-hand experience in organic and ecologically sound growing methods, to help the organic movement, and to let volunteers experience life in a rural setting or a different country. WWOOF volunteers ('WWOOFers') generally do not receive financial payment. The host provides food, accommodation, and opportunities to learn, in exchange for assistance with farming or gardening activities. The duration of the visit can range from a few days to years. Workdays average five to six hours, and participants interact with WWOOFers from other countries. WWOOF farms include private gardens through smallholdings, allotments, andcommercial farms. Farms become WWOOF hosts by enlisting with their national organisation. In countries with no WWOOF organisation, farms enlist with WWOOF Independents.
- Text froom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWOOF- Image from: http://wwoof.ie/faq/6
- Text froom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWOOF- Image from: http://wwoof.ie/faq/6
Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), a combination of a large network of environmental movements and organizations of indigenous people in the United States, as well as an annual conference that brings together members of the IEN. The IEN have 6 main goals:
- Text from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Environmental_Network
- Image from: http://www.whatiscop15.net/2009/12/the-indigenous-environmental-network-on-redd/
- Official Site: http://www.ienearth.org
- Educate and empower indigenous grassroots people to address and develop strategies for the protection of our environment;
- Reaffirm our traditional and natural laws as Indigenous peoples;
- Recognize, support, promote, environmentally sound lifestyles and economic livelihoods;
- Commit to influence all politics that affect our people on a local, regional, national and international level;
- Include youth and elders in all levels of activities;
- Protect our rights to practice our spiritual beliefs.
- Text from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Environmental_Network
- Image from: http://www.whatiscop15.net/2009/12/the-indigenous-environmental-network-on-redd/
- Official Site: http://www.ienearth.org