- MIMIC THIS! When you get invited to events 3000 miles away (or 20 of them just across town), use COPY & PASTE with the really interesting events to seed your own community's plans for similar events. Why start from scratch.... Beg, borrow and mimic! More....
- Welcome recently added members. Check periodically to see if friends you have invited have joined.
- Find others members in your hometown, region, state, country. (E.g., Country=Austria or City, State = Vashon, WA)
- Produce a list of members who use keywords similar to your inerests when describing theirs (E.g.,Permaculture, intentional community).
- See LATEST ACTIVITY on GTIA for results of comprehensive scans of Transition activities around the globe.
- New links to Twitter via GTIA -- Twitter via #TransitionTowns. Twitter now displayed on GTIA Latest Activity.
- Experiment by clicking on TOP NEWS vs ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO SHARE in the center column -- two types of Latest Activity.
Update from Cascadia Commons
Hello Cascadian Transitioners!
I have some really good news I'd like to share with all of you about Cascadia Commons. I might have mentioned this before, but we are striving to establish a Benevolent Society, which is a mutual aid organization and can offer its members bulk rates on insurance products, such as health care. We believe the Benevolent Society model is excellent for advancing the efforts of transition because of its democratically managed lodge system. Just think about all the old Grange Halls, Elks Clubs, or Masonic Temples. Cascadia Commons is building on that idea, but applying it to bioregional and transition concepts for sustainability in the Pacific Northwest.
We have now gained the attention of the American Fraternal Alliance and they are interested in providing the resources we need to launch. We don't know if that means financial resources - we'll know more after our conference call with them next Monday, April 11, but we believe this could be the start of a very exciting partnership between our two organizations. It also means that Cascadia Commons will very likely be able to do a lot more to serve the regional transition effort. I will add more details to this thread as they become available.
Sincerely,
Collin S. Ferguson
Founder | Cascadia Commons
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Permalink Reply by Collin Ferguson on -
New Update - 7/12/2011
During our conference call with the American Fraternal Alliance, Joe Annotti, President of the AFA, Chris Kopka and Paul Johnson of Thrivent Financial requested that we develop a membership plan. I'm proud to report that we are about to complete the outline for our membership plan, which includes plans for selling modular solar panels and writing a personal energy decent handbook. More info. to follow.
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Permalink Reply by Collin Ferguson on
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Another update from Cascadia Commons:
We are now rewriting our white paper, writing our bylaws (inspired by Mondragon, Royal Free Hampstead, and SEMCO), and building a new website currently with Drupal.
After completion of these projects, we will begin our fundraising campaign on a crowdsource platform, such as Kickstarter or IndieGoGo.
Please send me an email if you have any questions.
collin@cascadiacommons.org
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Permalink Reply by Collin Ferguson on
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Cascadia Commons is now a team of 11 + two advisers here in Portland, Oregon! I would like to share with all of you our new one-page summary, which includes our new vision and mission statements.
On the eve of the Harvest Moon, Sept. 11, 2011, the Co-founders of Cascadia Commons signed the bylaws. We are now preparing to launch a fundraising drive on IndieGoGo.com, an online crowdfunding website, and we are planning our launch event scheduled for November 19th, 2011! Location is TBA.
I'll keep all of you abreast of our developments over the next couple of months. Please stay tuned. You can join us on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CascadiaCommons or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/CascadiaCommons.
Kloshe nanitch,
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