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A healthy economy doesn't break if one big conglomerate goes down, for whatever reason.

Our economy is not healthy, but it could be. Local and Regional producers are the key to a sustainable future, not relying on exploitative food and goods shipped halfway around the world.

The caveat is that sweatshop conditions cannot be tolerated. It only works with living wages and reasonable incomes.

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-06-23/commoning-diversity-and-small-scale-manufacturing/

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Commoning, diversity and small-scale manufacturing By Zoe Gilbertson, originally published by Liflad Thoughts June 23, 2025 A healthy ecosystem is diverse and small-scale manufacturing systems have the potential to contain much more diversity than industrial levels of production. I use bread and linen - basic daily items of food and textiles to illustrate this position. Teaser image credit: Bread and linen: Monika Grabkowska via Unsplash. "Diversity in production will not ‘make us money’..." [A decent living for everyone involved is the goal, not any small group getting rich.]

Does anyone know any good books on "Mutual Aid Project Management" or "Mutual Aid Group Dynamics" or "Anarchic Group Dynamics" etc?

My feet are dipped in the water and I'm starting to swim around without touching the bottom of the pool and I'd like to learn more and skill up now that I have familiarity with the subject.

Those self-hosting Mattermost for open source community: how is that working out—especially cost-wise?

Paying Mattermost directly seems to be cost-prohibitive for a large open source community ($10/user/seat??), but it’s not clear to me what the actual infra costs of self-hosting could be. But free solutions like Slack and Discord are no-goes due to certain policies and a lack of safety protections we need.

Boosts welcome for exposure! 🙏

Anybody out there in GIS or urbanism or sustainability or transportation planning or any related field interested in taking over this server? I hate to have move again...but the owner is leaving mastodon.

@sam@urbanists.social Hi folks, probably should’ve posted this on here earlier. I am no longer active on here and am no longer actively moderating this server. Registration requests and reports are ignored. So long as there is money in the HCB account, the server pays for itself. I only pay $12 a year for the domain name. If anyone is interested in taking over the server, please let me know. Please reach out to me on Bluesky as I no longer monitor this account. My account on Bluesky is @samw.dev. Thanks!

Before I log off here for a few hours, I want to share this story. It's about the that I'm involved with & been posting about recently.

Learn more about our sharing & local efforts around areas on 👩‍🌾👨‍🌾

"Public can soon check out free seeds at downtown Victoria library.
LifeCycles revamps its seed library now, just in time for planting 2026.

The executive director for the Victoria LifeCycles Project is spearheading a refresh on its seed library with a goal to create open access where people can pick up all the resources they need from the library – including seeds.

Saving, sharing and sowing seeds has been a LifeCycles goal since the 1990s with a variety of projects.:

https://www.saanichnews.com/local-news/public-can-soon-check-out-free-seeds-at-downtown-victoria-library-8049608

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Clean Up the Beach in with Nation

June 8 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Join RAVEN and for a World Oceans Day beach cleanup, where we’ll be fundraising for Heiltsuk Nation’s legal challenge that aims to protect from coast to coast to coast.

This year, we’re choosing to engage in reciprocity not just for our own local , but as an act of solidarity with Heiltsuk Nation, whose own beach cleanup — following the Nathan E. Stewart spill — is so much more complex.

So, come out to in Victoria on Sunday, June 8, 2025 from 11am-1pm for a community-powered beach cleanup. Together we are aiming to fundraise $2,000 for Heiltsuk’s legal challenge on .

https://raventrust.com/event/clean-up-the-beach-in-solidarity-with-heiltsuk-nation/

Talking with someone today I started to say that given, you know, everything I've really been leaning into the self sustainable life. More making my own clothes, learning to grow some veggies, etc.

Except I don't want to be SELF sustaining... I want to learn into community. I want to know someone who can repair my shoes, I wanna be known as the lady who can teach you to bake, etc.

Gonna start saying I'm reaching for communal sustainability.

In the U.S., there's a "secret" form of media: radio reading services, where volunteers read aloud the text of newspapers, books and magazines. These used to be broadcast on "sidebands" — little hidden side pockets of public radio or TV stations' airwaves — for which folks needed a special radio, but nowadays you can access them online. There are 79 radio reading services across the United States (the first debuted in 1969) and their audiences are mainly blind or visually impaired, and over the age of 65. The impacts of the services can be profound. “A lot of people with visual impairments can become shut-in, and we found that people who listen to their local publications tend to get out and do more. They’re more engaged in their neighborhood," says Michael Benzin, executive director of the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading service in Buffalo, New York. "They vote, which obviously is …