---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dan - Earthworker Cooperative <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 10:21 AM Subject: 'Give Tanks' solar hot water solidarity for those who need it most Hi 'Commons Transition Coalition' Comrades, Glad to help get something coalescing with this in the new year! I also wanted to plug a holiday season solidarity economy project that the Earthworker project has launched (and which I mentioned Mindful Uprising event in Melbourne) *GIVE TANKS* The Earthworker Cooperative has launched the "Give Tanks" campaign <https://chuffed.org/project/givetanks>, *a crowdfund to get high-quality solar hot water systems into low-income housing*. The recently established Eureka’s Future Workers’ Cooperative, Australia's first worker-owned manufacturing cooperative, will manufacture the solar hot water tanks that will go into the low-income houses. Earthworker has partnered with a number of social housing organisations, including Aboriginal Housing Victoria and Common Equity Housing NSW, to install the systems into low-income households. By donating to the crowdfund *you will help support dignified, green jobs in Australian manufacturing, reduce bills for low-income earners, and be part of a collective effort to ensure a safe climate.* Help ensure that renewable energy technology is accessible to those that need it most, and build the cooperative economy in the process! *There's three ways to support this:* 1. *Visit* the crowdfund page <https://chuffed.org/project/givetanks%20>. Take two minutes to consider the campaign. 2. *Donate!* You can also donate on behalf of a loved one and give them a gift card. 3. *Promote* the campaign to your members/networks/friends/workplace etc. You can email them the link to the crowdfund page, invite people to the crowdfund page on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/events/970135159719723/> or just talk to people about it. Every bit counts. https://chuffed.org/project/givetanks https://www.facebook.com/Earthworkercoop/ https://twitter.com/Earthworkercoop ------------------------- *Any help you can provide in sharing this campaign amongst your networks would be HUGELY appreciated*. Please feel free to copy and paste the info above to distribute, share our posts on social media, or please request any info or put people in touch with me. Thanks all. Looking forward to cooperating with you in the new year! Have a great holiday season, In solidarity, Dan *Dan Musil* Secretary *Earthworker Cooperative* <http://earthworkercooperative.com.au/> Mobile: 0432 485 869 Email: [email protected] Web: earthworkercooperative.com.au Free Tel.: 1300 GO EARTH (1300 46 32784) Get in touch! <https://www.facebook.com/Earthworkercoop> <https://www.facebook.com/Earthworkercoop> <https://twitter.com/Earthworkercoop> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtl47MfY9jhtmahIRlH2Ajg> ---- On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 17:51:34 +1100 *Darren Sharp <[email protected] <[email protected]>>*wrote ---- Dear friends, Just a quick update following on​ from the great weekend with Michel Bauwens and most of you.​ Thanks again to Richard, Laurent and Daryl for all your hard work​ on the Mindful Uprising People's Summit on Sunday in Melbourne.​ ​Thanks again of course to Michel! The whole weekend was inspiring and after many conversations with Michel and everyone in the community over three days (and for those that weren't there in person ​Sunday ​afternoon (Sam and others) we announced the formation of the Commons Transition Coalition to create a vehicle for aligned leadership and action for p2p, sharing/solidarity economy and commons-based groups in Australia and NZ (possibly beyond). Jose has agreed to provide a space for us to plan at Footscray Maker Lab in the new year (probably February) but in the mean time I am keen to create a url - what do people think of commonscoalition.org? It's very early days but the idea might be for chapters in Melbourne (Jose, Darren, Kirsten & Serenity + others), Adelaide (Sharon Ede), Sydney (Declan & Bronwen), Canberra (David Pecotic), Brisbane (Michelle Maloney) and NZ through the Enspiral crew (Sam Rye) and others. I am keen to hear your thoughts and appetite for creating a charter together over the Summer. Sharon would be great if you could share your experience in developing this with ​the ​Post Growth Institute. ​It would be good to field ideas for jumping straight into some of the core strategic functions that could be created - e.g. what systems could we leverage to support the circulation of our time, skills and energies? - a social ecology of the commons / commoners to share and support each other, mapping the commons, as well as exploring and defining our purpose, governance and resource needs. ​ Please add your thoughts to this Google Doc <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VA48QO73141wD5lhsnxXWhlN7-y3snsp_pqkzqgklwQ/edit#> as a starting point and let's schedule a group Skype over the next few weeks ​(and meal together soon for those in Melbourne!) ​ I have also created a Facebook group <https://www.facebook.com/groups/1106718069348108/> which we can use for planning, updates and coordination. Down the track I'd imagine a Loomio group will also take shape. I look forward to co-creating the Coalition together with your ongoing participation and support! Regards, Darren Darren Sharp +61 419 314 655 [email protected] www.twitter.com/dasharp http://au.linkedin.com/in/dasharp/ skype: sharpdarren -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/