15 February 2011
Be part of a crowdsourcing effort to create an urban edible forest garden in the City of Syracuse, NY.
The Best Design, selected by a panel jury, will receive a $250 cash award and be implemented on the property of the Rahma Free Health Clinic at 3100 South Salina St in Syracuse. Submissions are due by April 1, 2011 with the Best Design and two Honorable Mentions announced at the Upstate NY
Permaculture Gathering in Rochester, NY on Saturday April 9, 2011.
Full details including the creative brief, design criteria, and submission guidelines, are available after the jump .......
Ben Ballerstein is taking to the road this summer to explore cooperative living in collective and campus houses across the USA. Starting in Syracuse, Ben will be "recording environmental practices implemented at each cooperative, interviewing residents to study how living green affects attitudes and beliefs and how government policies and community conditions help or hinder cooperatives to accomplish their goals. A short film documenting the journey will be produced and shown at the 2011 NASCO Institute. Lastly, a Sustainable Cooperative Guide will be put together based on the efforts documented during the trip". The
Learn together this spring and summer, creating synergy from thought and hands-on activities. Educating ourselves for self-sufficiency and simple living; and accelerating change for a creative culture that is less reliant on pre-packaged goods, technologies, services and thoughts. Reskill and rethink what is appropriate and what is possible. 
A full crowd was on hand for the announcement of the Community
A Seed & Some Prayers: Incorporating New Myth Making, Alchemy & the Sacred in Bill Mollison’s Gaia Manifesto by Willi Paul
The Upstate NY
