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Dante-Gabryell Monson

Can The Local Food Movement Scale Up? | Fast Company - 1 views

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  • Dante-Gabryell Monson on 06 Sep 11
     
    The local food movement in America is gaining steam. The question is whether can it attract sufficient capital from the private sector to build large, profitable businesses. Without that, it's just a fad. there is the inextricable link between energy and agriculture. The food industry in the U.S is one of the largest and most wasteful consumers of energy. Various studies estimate that the food industry consumes around 10% of the nation's energy with only about 20% of it used in the actual production of food. The rest goes to processing, home refrigeration and preparation, and of course, transportation. Transportation costs also are a major factor in food prices, especially for water-heavy vegetables such as romaine lettuce.For all of these reasons and others, the local food movement in America is gaining steam. 
Dazinism Dazinism

Real Time Farms - Know Where Your Food Comes From - 0 views

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shared by Dazinism Dazinism on 03 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Dazinism Dazinism on 03 Aug 11
     
    Real Time Farms helps you understand where your food comes from. You can learn about farms in your area, and see where you can get their goods at farmers markets, farm stands, and restaurants around you.
Tiberius Brastaviceanu

Gift economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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      Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 25 Apr 11
       
      Does the position on the scarcity-abundance spectrum influence the type of economy that dominates a society?  
  • Lewis Hyde locates the origin of gift economies in the sharing of food,
  • a notion
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  • of the gift as something that must "perish"
  • strictly egalitarian sharing of all food resources in each atoll.
  • reciprocal gifts of money, or remittances back to their home community.
  • the potlatch ritual, where leaders give away large amounts of goods to their followers, strengthening group relations. By sacrificing accumulated wealth, a leader gained a position of honor.
  • kórima
  • one's duty to share his wealth with anyone.
  • some Spanish villages in the 1930s,
  • a currency-less gift economy where goods and services are produced by workers and distributed in community stores where everyone
  • is essentially entitled to consume whatever they want or need as "payment" for their production of goods and services.
  • offering
  • usually food
  • the free gift of alms is a religious requirement
  • tzedakah is a religious obligation that must be performed regardless of financial standing.
  • information is a nonrival good and can be gifted at practically no cost.[
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      Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 25 Apr 11
       
      This is part of the conditions for a gift economy to emerge. 
  • Traditional scientific research can be thought of as an information gift economy.
  • reputation
  • Consumer Gift Systems
  • music downloading as a system of social solidarity based on gift transactions
  • open-source software developers have created "a 'gift culture' in which participants compete for prestige by giving time, energy, and creativity away"
  • Wikipedia
  • gifts to be a form of reciprocal altruism.
  • social status is awarded in return
  • food-sharing is a safeguard against the failure of any individual's daily foraging
  • concern for the well-being of others
  • a form of informal insurance
  • may bring with it social status or other benefits
  • a traditional gift economy is based on "the obligation to give, the obligation to accept, and the obligation to reciprocate,"
  • it is "at once economic, juridical, moral, aesthetic, religious, and mythological.
  • the gift must always move.
  • a difference between a "true" gift given out of gratitude and a "false" gift given only out of obligation
  • the "true" gift binds us in a way beyond any commodity transaction, but "we cannot really become bound to those who give us false gifts.
  • Hyde argues that when a primarily gift-based economy is turned into a commodity-based economy, "the social fabric of the group is invariably destroyed."[
  • prohibitions against turning gifts into capital
  • treating gift exchange as barter
  • treating Kula as barter is considered a disgrace.
  • commercial goods can generally become gifts, but when gifts become commodities, the gift "...either stops being a gift or else abolishes the boundary...
  • Contracts of the heart lie outside the law
  • Sociologist Marcel Mauss
  • gifts entail obligation and are never 'free'.
  • it is easy to romanticize a gift economy, humans do not always wish to be enmeshed in a web of obligation
  • person seeking independence who decides not to accept
  • There are times when we want to be aliens and strangers.
  • A gift creates a "feeling bond
  • Commodity exchange does not
  • Georges Bataille
  • to his point of view the structure of gift forms the presupposition for all possible economy
  • the receiver of the gift to confirm a subjection
  • practice that bears out different roles for the parts that undertake an action in it, installing in this act of donating the Hegelian dipole of master and slave
  • anarcho-primitivists and anarcho-communists, believe that variations on a gift economy may be the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.
  • desire to refashion all of society into a gift economy.
  • a gift economy as an ideal, with neither money, nor markets, nor central planning
  • the paradigm of "mutual aid"
  • mutual benefit is a stronger incentive than mutual strife and is eventually more effective collectively in the long run to drive individuals to produce.
  • a gift economy stresses the concept of increasing the other's abilities and means of production, which would then (theoretically) increase the ability of the community to reciprocate to the giving individual.
  • collective shunning where collective groups keep track of other individuals' productivity, rather than leaving each individual having to keep track of the rest of society by him or herself.
Dazinism Dazinism

ShareFoodForest - 0 views

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forestgarden community food sharing

shared by Dazinism Dazinism on 22 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Dazinism Dazinism on 22 Mar 12
     
    We want to be one initiative of artists, scientists and the interested parties to build a global food network and make available to specify with the goal in mind every person on this planet a chance to eat free and healthy. We are one, divided by zero.
Dante-Gabryell Monson

Brightfarms - 0 views

brightfarms.com

localfoodproject projects community food foodsovereignty movement local localproduction

shared by Dante-Gabryell Monson on 06 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Dante-Gabryell Monson on 06 Sep 11
     
    BrightFarms designs, finances, builds and operates hydroponic greenhouse farms at supermarkets, eliminating time, distance and cost from the food supply chain.
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