I just want to briefly write about the teams that I'm putting together for http://www.myfoodstory.com which is the online resource that we're building for Greg...
Dear Andrius and All, Hello and thanks so much for the exciting and content-rich emails on the "My Food Story" project! I have needed to be very focused on...
Janet Feldman
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Oct 3, 2006 6:40 pm
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Dear Andrius and All, Fantastic letters, and hope it's OK if I combine a couple of them, as I don't want to "triplicate" myself, haha! Before I dive into the...
Janet Feldman
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Oct 3, 2006 11:17 pm
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Given the interests of this group, I think the Bitchun.org project is worth looking at and following - this is a true alternative currency that should be an...
Dektal Foster, thank you for your letters at our "fighting peacefully" working group led by Eluned Hurn! I invite you to introduce yourself. Did we meet in...
CC: Kevin Jones, David Boyd of http://www.xigi.net "discover the capital markets that invests in good". Hey, thank you for blogging us! And nice to see your...
Note: I share news from the Minciu Sodas laboratory with our friends at Solaroof http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solaroof/ Perhaps this is a chance to work...
Thank you to Evaldas Zidonis for this information: Finland is organizing a European Network of Living Labs and drawing up a list of invitees for a meeting on...
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Oct 10, 2006 8:17 pm
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I have now returned to the UK after a successful trip to Sri Lanka. PEACE MEDITATION The global peace meditation at the ancient city of Anuradhapura was...
Thanks Andrius It IS difficult to get a 'neutral' view of events in Sri Lanka because, as always, the first casualty of war is truth, which gets distorted and...
Andrius Surely the 'meta-story' about crops and values is not about specific crops (although I can imagine specific crops giving rise to specific metaphors eg...
On 28/09 Neil Mcevoy sent the message below. He is formulating a bid to fund a social enterprise including a community currency. He asked these questions; ... ...
I just came across a blog which summarises the work of sustainability economics expert Richard Douthwaite very neatly. It gives us the WHY of this work on...
A correspondent just alerted me to the history of communes under communism in China, in which points systems were used to reward labour on behalf of the...
Not sure if I'm talking to myself on this list these days but why break the habit of a lifetime...;-) !!! Anyhow, I was just musing on the core message of...
That is a GREAT question John. It is similar to the "problem" Singapore raised some 15 years ago (I think) when the leadership realised that the social...
Robert Mostyn
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Oct 17, 2006 12:29 am
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... As you know, it's the only way to be sure of intelligent conversation! ;-) Thanks v much for taking the time to answer my questions on community ...
John, Robert and all, I live on the front line of "social despondency", in the middle of the the ravage done by the five giants. Yesterday, there was an...
Neil McEvoy, Paul Prueitt, Thank you for engaging us at GlobalVillages and elsewhere with your bold initiatives from very different corners of the world, rural...
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Oct 17, 2006 5:16 pm
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Hi John, I, for one, am quite thankful that you are hanging in there with your continued leadership of and contribution to this group. Your postings are ...
Dear Steve, Thanks for staying with us, most appreciated! In 1992, I established an exchange system within my LETS focused on local agriculture, where I found...
Just received from the US Schumacher Society and seemed appropriate to forward in response to Steve Bosserman and Stephen de Meulenaere's thoughts on CC and...
Dear Steve Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I will indeed look in on the food story and local agriculture work and think about how CC may play a role. Hope...
Dear Friends I have been a silent participant in the group till reading with interest many of the discussions that have been going on. My silence is partly due...
Stan Thekaekara
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Oct 24, 2006 1:12 pm
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Hi everyone, Is this worth some brainstorming to decide if Minciu Sodas' various front line groups should come up with a strategy to promote the best of what...
Dear Stan Welcome to our discussions - it is good to have your contribution! When I first heard about your work and recommended it to this list last year I...
Greg Wolff of UnaMesa Association is interested that we consider business models and opportunities by which My Food Story and related projects might support...