[P2P-F] Shareable's call for submissions

[richard adler]

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 <paulbhartzog at gmail.com>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 <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Neal Gorenflo <neal at shareable.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> http://www.shareable.net/blog/share-or-die-youth-in-recession-call-for-submissions
> >>
> >
> >> 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > --
> > Sam Rose
> > Future Forward Institute and Forward Foundation
> > Tel:+1(517) 639-1552
> > Cel: +1-(517)-974-6451
> > skype: samuelrose
> > email: samuel.rose at gmail.com
> > http://forwardfound.org
> > http://futureforwardinstitute.org
> > http://hollymeadcapital.com
> > http://p2pfoundation.net
> > http://socialmediaclassroom.com
> >
> > "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human
> > ambition." - Carl Sagan
> >
>
>
>
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