I noted this on the site (while also wishing it success, because it's a worthy effort), but surely there must be some mention of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Wars that may well be having a far greater impact on Gen Y than any of the other generations. Regardless of how one feels about the wars themselves, a statistically significant percentage of young people are going to need help in coming to terms with their experiences overseas, and in some cases that need may be greater than those concerned with education or employment. I'm not sure how best to address that issue (I'm no psychologist), but I'm hoping it will be factored in as people make contributions to the project. RCA On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Paul B. Hartzog <[email protected]>wrote:
There are lots of activities that cannot be done alone (even with instructions). In ecologies this constitutes a minimum sustainable population threshold and is shown here:
http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=understanding-carrying-capacity
21st century DIO (do it ourselves) requires understanding of how activities will plummet to zero if they fall below sustainability thresholds
-p
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Samuel Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Neal Gorenflo <[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.shareable.net/blog/share-or-die-youth-in-recession-call-for-submi...
DIY How-to’s: If we can’t afford to buy stuff, we’re going to have to do a lot more making, repairing, and sharing. Share Or Die is supposed to be a useful guide for young people, so this section is going to be the core of the collection. These are practical tutorials, but they can be as material as building a backyard herb garden or as immaterial as starting a band. We’re concerned with the big stuff here: housing, transportation, food, relationships, non-traditional forms of work, travel, that kind of thing.
A pre-requisite for this part should be that not only are there how-to's and practical tutorials, but those tutorials and how-to's also include practical descriptions about how people will do these activities in a socially cooperative, collaborative or networked fashion.
There's actually a massive difference between growing your *own* herb garden that is for you, as compared to growing an herb garden that is part of a cooperative effort to feed yourself and others who participate in sharing with you.
Young people can definitely benefit from the proposed basic practical survival skills in the DIY How to's pitch above. Yet, I believe that *the* core crucial practical survival skill for young people will be to learn to effective cooperate, participate in sharing and pooling networks, sustain ongoing collaboration, and generally learn how to share what they build.
http://www.appropedia.org is a great existing resource for collaborating around practical survival designs (I've contributed to this project. http://cooperationcommons and http://p2pwiki.net http://meatballwiki.org http://communitywiki.org and http://collaboration.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page are probably the most valuable places for ongoing practical knowledge about how to effectively cooperate, collaborate, and share
Douglas Rushkoff is putting together a set of resources as a companion to his book Life, inc. too, that promises to be useful for young people as well
In addition to this, young people are going to be challenged with figuring out how to make whatever they do together work within the bounds of the laws of the places they live. Those laws usually favor activity arranged as for-profit business. Would young people be wasting their time trying to get involved in changing those politics in some activist way? And/or, are they better just diving in and learning how to navigate and prosper within the existing systems and bureaucracies?
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