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Event:

Community Economy in the City

Date:

August 16th, 2008.

Time:

11:00 AM

Location:

The ReStore 250 Albany St. Springfield, MA. 01105

Contact:

Dani (413) 788-6900 danim@cetonline.org

Presenters Daniel Staub and Kristin Brennan will be describing their vision of building small-scale community economies and the steps they are taking to orient their own daily lives toward that goal. Kristen is a 2008 Local Hero Award recipient for her efforts in helping sustain local agriculture.

Living in the Mason Square area of Springfield, Daniel and Kristin raise a substantial portion of their own food in their backyard, including fruits and vegetables, eggs and honey, and buy or trade for the rest with local farms, small businesses and neighborhood gardeners. They heat their house with wood from trees cut down in their neighborhood, cut to length with handsaws and chopped with an axe. They transport themselves and their two young children without a car, by riding bicycles, walking and taking public transportation. Overall, they attempt to minimize their resource needs, and meet their necessities through their own labor, the offerings of the natural environment around them and the skills of their neighbors.

They will be describing both the joys and the challenges of living such a life and will hope for participants to share their own insights into building a more self-sufficient community.

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