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Hi Kevin, Hi Marcin ( cc: p2pfoundation , Michel, Sam, ... bcc: Ze) </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "><br></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; ">
I found the following initiative of great interest.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "><br></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; ">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><font><a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/sailing-the-farm/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://www.couchsurfing.org/people</a><a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/sailing-the-farm/" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">/<span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">sailing</span>-</font></a><a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/sailing-the-farm/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">the-farm/</a> ; </font></div>
<div>post: <a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=1173&post=8266944#gpid8266944" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=1173&post=8266944#gpid8266944</a></div>
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<b><u>They are building a boat, on a farm in Norway.</u></b></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "><b><u><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b>There is interest in sailing between ecovillages and transition town movements.</b></span></u></b></div>
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It seems to be a culturally diverse (self organized ?) group of people living together and building together.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; ">
The contact for the project seems to be "Ze".</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; ">I have been exchanging a few emails with her, and wish to share some excerpts below.</div>
<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">It </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">resonates</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> with some of my own childhood dreams.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">I personally project parallels with the Hansa ( but with a <a href="http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/conviviality">convivial</a> resilient communities <a href="http://bit.ly/gU50GS">(1</a> ; <a href="http://bit.ly/eBWFjy">2 )</a> non/post capitalist framework ? )</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League</a> </span></font></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">or a league of neo-nomadic <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/phyles-the-new-neonomadic-p2p-business-structure-for-the-network-age/2010/09/21">neo-venetian phyles</a> ?</span></div>
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</span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Dante :</span></span></div>
<div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br>
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Thanks for your reply Ze.<div>
<br></div><div>you say :</div><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><div><b>"we are more in search of ecovillages/transition tows,</b></div></div><div><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><b>to be the glue and means of <u>contact and transport between them</u> in future"</b><br>
<div><br></div></div><div>Are your boats also going upstream or on canals ?</div><div><br></div></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "><br>
</span></div><b>Ze :</b></span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "><br>
</span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; ">hi dante.<br>
yes, boat can go upstream and into canal. (maste height is around 14meter).</span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "><br>
</span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">what i am in search of is contact info for such stransition towns and ecovillages.<br>
wwoof could also be of interest but i think most of wwoof places is family run<br>farm which is something very different.<br>we are building up a transport network between communities not between family<br>run places. (we want to help communities survive in the long run)</span><br>
<br>thanks for tips. already know about findhorn (which is a little questionable<br>since its a bit more or less a business place these days) and also know about<br>gendatabase and <a href="http://ic.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">ic.org</a><br>
<br><br></span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "><b>Dante :</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "><br></span></div>
<div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">it somehow reminds me of the historic hanseatic league ... except for the capitalist component :)<div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://jspivey.wikispaces.com/file/view/hanseatic_league.jpg/71484255/hanseatic_league.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">https://jspivey.wikispaces.com/file/view/hanseatic_league.jpg/71484255/hanseatic_league.jpg</a></div>
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; ">note : </span></div>
<div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; "><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League#Expansion">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League#Expansion</a></span></div>
<i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; ">the League never became a closely-managed formal organisation. Assemblies of the Hanseatic towns met irregularly in Lübeck for a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "> </span></font><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">Hansetag</span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; font-size: small; "> (‘Hanseatic Diet’), from 1356 onwards, but many towns chose not to send representatives and decisions were not binding on individual cities.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Over time, the network of alliances grew to include a flexible roster of 70 to 170 cities.</span></font></i>