Gregory's Server@tinker for me, when I moved there 3 years ago, it was *food* — it was the pandemic and I was just really drawn to making sure people could EAT. Food banks, community gardens, garden training, farm share, food co-ops... it took me a minute to work into it but as you say, they're all connected. My fav time of year is when I can pick up from farm share and drop half at the food bank. It's more "charity" I guess but I can afford it. And it connected me to a TON of b-corps...
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 @susankayequinn - That's amazing!!! Let me know what y'all come up with. I've got a nascent solarpunk group in my town and we work with a lot of the mutualaid groups around us. I'd like to connect with other similar groups and start networking our towns and cities. Share ideas and see what works, etc.  @tinker oh cool! You know, I feel like this is just bubbling up everywhere at once. Feels invisible but people are just like OH HECK Imma just do this. It's beautiful. I love the idea of having some higher level networking to see what works. Applications have to be super local cuz that's how that works but IDEAS should swish around so they can find where they'll work best. I'll think on this thread and touch back with you as we progress. 💚 🌱 @tinker yes 100% The solarpunk discord has some free fridges & food rescue. Grow Pittsburgh is a whole operation that trains people to do community gardens. One of the mods is building an exchange system for labor/goods in the community. Pittsburgh has like #1 abandoned lots in the country or something so Grounded does work trying to reclaim those for food/greenspace. Still very capitalistic tho. Buy Nothing has food exchanges. People just don't know this stuff EXISTS. It's very early days. @tinker so we had that solarpunk zoom yesterday (about setting up a new community discord) and I told them obliquely about your post, that there were people looking for community and how it was hard for them to find other likeminded folks. I'm still mulling your post and the difference between charity/non-profits and mutual aid... 💚 @tinker In the Discord, it's "sponsored" by a non-profit that's focused on green jobs, but it's really a subversive side project by the person running it to create a space to draw people in under the "solarpunk" umbrella... @tinker @tinker I still have some personal work to do ... @tinker Anyway, I would LOVE to hear about your nascent local solarpunk group and keep in touch so we can share ideas. @tinker  @susankayequinn @tinker I have high hopes for #Flohmarkt as a Fediverse alternative to Olio/freecycle https://wedistribute.org/2024/08/flohmarkt-federated-market/ @susankayequinn @tinker I actually listened to a really interesting podcast interview with the founder of Olio, who said that the secret secondary mission of the app wasn't just to share food and reduce waste, it was to help people connect with their neighbours so eventually the app would become redundant because people would be connecting and sharing directly which I thought was rather lovely |
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& nonprofits, one of which sponsored a solarpunk Expo & then we were getting closer. The vibes were better. But still *networking* maybe? Working toward something that connected likeminded folks for support (emotional mutual aid LOL).
I'm literally tomorrow zooming w/2 other non-profit peeps to organize our solarpunk discord: still sussing it out but it's a way to connect, give info, I'm gonna maybe teach solarpunk classes to draw people in etc
I'm gonna think about this post tho...