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PlacerSustain Initiatives -- 2012 (Draft)
Wed, 10/19/2011 - 15:31 — Jeffrey Bordelon[This is a summary list of key PlacerSustain initiatives that are being pursued by PlacerSustain members that we anticipate in 2012. Let us know if you have other areas of interest you would like to pursue. Our "initiatives" are simply members who are working together to accomplish their mutual goals. If you want an initiative that isn't on this list, you get to create it--we have volunteers who are willing to help.
PLACESUSTAIN INITIATIVES 2011
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EVENT: Placer Local Food Alliance --Vision, Mission, Objectives and Food Coop Update
Meeting Notice
Placer Local Food Alliance
January 25, 2012
Loomis Train Depot
5755 Horseshoe Bar Road, Loomis CA 95650
6:00-8:00pm
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The Placer Local Food Alliance Is Born
On November 15, 2011 we convened a PlacerSustain monthly forum on the topic of "Local Food and Wellness." Notes on that meeting have been published on the PlacerSustain website. There was a consensus that the group needed to move forward on the start of a Mission Statement, Vision, Goals--i.e.
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Peter Block and John McKnight on Community Role in Wellness
This is an excerpt from the Abundant Community Newsletter on an upcoming free online conversation by John McKnight and Peter Block on what we can do collectively at the neighborhood and community level to support Wellness and whether the current national health care reform efforts will really make a difference.
Join in . . .
This month's free conversation with John and Peter on December 6th
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Sonoma County Webinar on Private Investor PACE programs.
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 20:01 — Jeffrey BordelonThis is an excerpt for the Sonoma County Energy Independence Program (SCEIP) Newsletter on an upcoming webinar:
PACE and the Open Market Financing Model
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Event: November 30, 2011 -- "Convergence in Diversity: How to Turn the Food Movement into a Force for Social Transformation
This is a copy of an email notice from "Rooted and Rising" about an event in Berkeley:
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A Story of Place -- Creatively Connecting with the Natural, Social, and Economic Landscape
Wed, 10/19/2011 - 19:00 — Jeffrey BordelonNo doubt there are many efforts around the globe that are working in one way or another on creating a story about their place: vision, values and principles, and so on. Here, by "Story of Place" I mean a Story that reflects a deep pattern language of community grounded in nature in a particular Place. This kind of Story of Place is created by an integration of good information on natural / social / and economic qualities of a place and creative imagination about what this information reveals about the deep patterns that are this Place. The
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Meeting Notes -- October 18, 2011 PlacerSustain Monthly Meeting
Wed, 10/19/2011 - 14:33 — Jeffrey BordelonAttendees: Kathryn MacRoberts, Suzon Lucore, Margie McCavitt, Megan Erekorian, Cindy Strickland, Gary Liss, Carol Pepper-Kittredge, Joe Looney, Ed Armstrong, Marc Fechner, Jeff Bordelon, Sue Bordelon, Bob Garrison.
Personal Sharing: About 2011 accomplishments and interest--looking forward to next year.
1. Gary Liss--(Town of Loomis Info)
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Images of a Robust Organizational Network and a Fungal Network
Mon, 10/17/2011 - 19:33 — Jeffrey BordelonThese are two network images. The first is the networking mapping of an organization that has a fully deployed communication network. The second is an image from nature, the filament network in a fungus. Both these networks are "self-organizing." This could be contrasted with the flow of information, authority and decision-making that is typical of old top down organizational models. If we mapped a robust Community Sustainability Network, the map would look something like this.
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