These are some more assorted projects. Notice that there's no particular
judgement about what's worthwhile to do here. The main thing is that you're
doing what you want to do. If its a business, an event, a humanitarian
effort, environmental activism -- all is fine if its what you're inspired
to do.
- Flemming
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From: Pat Allen <Pattois@aol.com>
The Open Studio Project is a community based art studio in Chicago where we
offer workshops using a process of art and writing for personal understanding,
community building and social change. It serves for many of us doing it as a
spiritual practice that anchors our work in the world in clarity and
coherence. We are a 501C3 non-profit, we accept donations but most of our
income comes from workshop fees and the sale of my book, Art is a Way of
Knowing (Shambhala, 1995). There are three of us who run the studio, all with
art therapy backgrounds but we have moved from a therapist-client paradigm to
a deep belief in community and mentoring so although we hold the space and
provide the process we also participate completely in the process as well
alongside our participants. We publish a quarterly newsletter which we hope to
get on-line but now is only by mail. If you have an interest, send me your
address and I'll send a sample copy. Our goal is not only to have people use
the process for self-understanding but to help them develop social
applications so that art and writing are made available in all sorts of places
in this manner which is extraordinarily freeing. We are engaged in some
research about how the process works with a psychologist, Dr. Paul Camic so
there is certainly an intellectual piece that interests us as well as the
experiential piece. I hope this isn't unclear, or too much info. Thanks for
asking,
Pat Allen
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From: "avievah bezilla" <avievah@hotmail.com>
[...] East Wind Community in Missouri, we have a web page, i don't
remember its address but could be found by search the phrase East Wind
Community. We are an egalitarian community, I know LOIS ARKIN [of L.A.
EcoVillage -F] personally and consider her a friend of mine... i hope she
remembers me as well... both our communities belong to the Fellowship of
Intentional Communities which also has a wonderful web page and is worth
looking into it... they are having a gathering on November 20-20 in
Willitts California and if someone on NCN would be there i bet it could be
a good match... - i'd
like to send you some written material as well if you are interested we
have visitor program so that if NCN people wanted to taste 100% being
in a rural community for a while - I welcome them to come to the
beautiful Ozarks - the autumm is one of the most awesome seasons to be
here... you can really experience fall...
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From: Anthony Dallmann-Jones, Ph.D. <asdjones@execpc.com>
I have been working for 5 months on a business that is part of my
commitment of combining business and concern for the planet.
Coffee is the second largest commodity on the planet next to oil. It
employs 25,000,000 people worldwide, most of those being in Third World
countries. Like any other commodity it has also made its negative mark
on the world: Clearing valuable rain forests to grow more coffee; using
harmful pesticides; unhealthy preservatives added to extend shelf life,
etc.
When we formed Sterling Moon Specialty Coffees we knew we weren't going
to stop the consumption of coffee (nor did we want to), but one of our
goals was to clearly offer both high quality coffee that was
eco-friendly AND fresh roasted at our micro-roastery only upon receipt
of orders, preserving freshness only in a natural nitrogen flushed
vacuum bag. Well, we're finally there! We are the first exclusive
Internet coffee company offering 4 certified organic coffees, and over
50 shade grown coffees (not all of our coffees are, but the ones that
are are clearly identified on our site and in our brochure) enabling
coffee lovers to have a choice that keeps robust flavor in their cup
without sacrificing their values.
We invite you to our site to see for yourself. Make a statement and
still enjoy the finest coffee in the world - fresh roasted and delivered
to your door. Coffee with a choice:
www.sterlingmoon.com
Join our mailing list by noting such to: info@sterlingmoon.com
-- Anthony S. Dallmann-Jones, Ph.D. STERLING MOON SPECIALTY COFFEES www.sterlingmoon.com "88 of the finest coffees in the world" asdjones@execpc.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
From: "JEREMY L. NORMING" <jnorming@martin.cuw.edu>
I would like to request some help from anyone who can offer it. I am a physical therapy graduate student at Concordia University of Wisconsin. Our school is participating in a research project for our first three week clinical this January. The research has to do with sending four students to work under one clinical instructor. If anyone knows of a clinical P.T. instructor who would be qualified and willing to help please contact me. Location is not an issue. International would be nice with our groups first choice being Canada. Thank you for your time. Jeremy Normington jnorming@martin.cuw.edu
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From: Dorri Jacobs <ENdespair@aol.com>
the ENDespair Project invites you to A Community Forum About Work: An Afternoon of Awareness and Action
October 25, 1998, 1-5:30 p.m.
Join with us during the 1998 Jobs For All Season to reaffirm President Franklin Delano Rooseveltâs 1944 State of the Union message and his vision of a society built on economic security, with adequate income and a useful job for everyone.
- Find useful resources - Obtain information - Discuss your views - Raise questions - Develop insights - Get a new perspective - Gain coping strategies - Share feelings
Hear from pioneering groups that give hope to working and unemployed people:
Bread and Roses Cultural Project, The Foundation for Ethics & Meaning-NY, Humanist Movement-NY, National Jobs for All Coalition (NJFAC), NJFAC Artists, The Employment Project, The ENDespair Project and Working Today.
Program Highlights:
Living with Economic and Psychic Insecurity; The Up Side of Job Loss; Your Legal Rights; Working in the New Economy: Portable Benefits; Faith & Economic Justice; Making Retirement a Reality; Creating A Caring Society: A Workplace Perspective; The Illusion of Prosperity and the Reality of Full Employment; Music provided by Sharon Perez-Abreu and Ray Korona. Books, photos about work.
at TRS, 44 E. 32 St., 11th floor between Park & Madison Ave., New York City Pre-registration suggested $15 in advance, $25 at the door An additional tax-deductible contribution is sugested for those who can afford more. Some scholarships on request for those in need.
Please send your check, payable to The Institute of Noetic Sciences, c/o 784 Columbus Ave., 1C, New York, NY 10025. Scholarships on request for those in need. ENDespair is a charitable project of the Institute, which is a 501 C-3 non-profit organization. ENDespair sponsors: Lifebridge Foundation, NexusGuide, individual donors.
The ENDespair Coalition is an informal alliance of those concerned about working today who pledge to continue a dialogue. Our aim is to raise public awareness, increase social responsibility , heal despair and prepare for change.
http://endespair.com E-mail: Endespair@aol.com Dr. Dorri Jacobs, Founder and director The ENDespair Project: Hope & Healing to Transform the World of Work 212-222-4606
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From: John Vance <john_vance@sunshine.net>
> * Group/Team/Organization Name: Access Building Association > > * How many members in your team: 5 full-time, 2 part time > > * What is the purpose of the group/team: To assist community >organizations to develop buildings which meet their needs, facilitate >their learning how to take care of their buildings and in the case of >housing co-operative, how to begin growing a community. > > * What kind of group is it? Non-profit society operated as a staff >collective. > > * Does the group have a legal organization? We are incorporated in >British Columbia, Canada as a non-profit society. > > * What do you do? We go to lots of meetings! We co-ordinate, on behalf of >the groups we are contracted to assist, with Federal, Provincial & local >governments for everything from architect selection, financing, planning >and building permits, to assisting in construction decisions, like where >to best re-locate that drain that was cored through a slab band in the >wrong place! We provide advice and facilitate learning through meetings, >workshops and written materials.
We also deliver lots of highly participatory workshops to community groups. We can help people learn about all sorts of things from running meetings, taking minutes, making decisions and solving problems in groups, resolving disputes between neighbours and within communities, articulating building needs, interviewing future neighbours, planning to replace bits of ageing buildings, creating budgets, etc. > > * What is your role in the group? I am one of the project managers. I >also maintain a the raised bed (second storey) flower garden outside our >office, take photos of our work and sort of "specialize" in interpreting >architectural plans for people who have difficulty understanding how two >dimensional drawings actually reveal three dimensional spaces.
I am also more active in international connections as I spent a few years living in Korea, Philippines, Nigeria and Malaysia followed by time trying to bring "real" international issues to wider attention in my local community. By "real", I mean the widespread imposition of an economic system that I see as more destructive than helpful to our planet and the wonderous diverse cultures which people have created. I see other cultures in other spaces more as places to learn from than try to teach to! > > * Where does this group meet? We work out of a very funky office in an >industrial area of Vancouver, BC. > > * Is this a Virtual or Face-to-Face team, or Both? Both since we have a >web site, live in scattered locations at the moment and use electronic >means to communicate a lot! We like working in small communities outside >the Vancouver area and are hoping that the electronic world will assist us >to do more of that! Most of our work does however require face to face >meetings. Have flip chart- will travel! > > * Do you offer any services or assistance or products to others? Our >services and assistance are what we offer! The products of our labour, >buildings, are all owned by the groups we serve, not us. > > * What activities are you as a team available for? We are delighted to >work with existing community groups or help form such groups to pursue the >development of built structures which will be used by that group for >fulfilment of their purposes, provided of course that we are in agreement >with their purposes. People using our services do have to find a way to >pay us for this work however. (We are not eligible in Canada to be a >"charity" and raise funds via tax deductible donations. Given my >experience with bake sales, don't think I'd particularly want too either! >Think it is good that we are sort of self sufficient "floggers of skills".) > > * What are you as a team looking for? Think its safe to say that we all >only want to change the world! We try to contribute by assisting people to >take responsibility for creating sustainable communities where people live >in constructive relationships to our natural environment and each other. > > * How do you make decisions? As a group we practice consensus decision >making. While I am a bit of a proselytizer of this form, I work with and >struggle with accepting other forms used by other groups! > * How are you funded? By fees paid by the groups we work with as a necessary part of their building construction costs, just like architects or real estate agents, although our fees are considerably lower than either! > > * Is the group open to new members? Yes, in a peculiar way though! We are >a working group and share responsibility for bringing work to the >organization. Our group has been larger when we have had more work and >smaller when we haven't. At the moment we are in a marginal survival mode, >looking for new projects while finishing off some existing ones. > > * What are the criteria for team membership? We have learned through long >experience that we can work best with individuals who are highly self >motivated problem solvers, value environmental sustainability and >collective decision making, have great patience and humour, and can work >with great diversity among individuals. For us the easier part of >diversity is around things like varieties of ability, ethnicity, age, >income, etc. The harder part is the form of diversity expressed by >government bureaucrats just doin' their jobs! > > * Webpage or other contact information: www.accessbc.net Access Building Assoc. 45 E. 6th Ave. Vancouver BC, Canada, V5T 1J3 >Tel:604-875-1836, Fax:604-875-0310 (dial 1 in front for Canada country >code outside of US) e-mail: access@accessbc.net Our private work emails are leeannj@accessbc.net, johnv@accessbc.net, dougr@accessbc.net, bevm@accessbc.net My home e-mail is: la_johnson@sunshine.net
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