Earlier this summer, the trustees of the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation awarded a $1,000 grant to journalist-tuned-local civics champion Mary Morgan for the purposes of creating a how-to kit for those interested in hosting nonpartisan pre-election potlucks. Here, with more on this specific initiative, as well as on the newly formed CivCity non-profit from which […]
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CivCity’s quest to rescue American democracy, one community at a time
Posted in A2Awesome, Ann Arbor, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged A2 Game Designers, Ann Arbor Chronicle, Ann Arbor District Library’s Summer Game, apathy, candidate forums, Candidates Gone Wild, Citizen Interaction Design, CivCity, civic engagement, civic involvement of students, civic life, civics, community potlucks, Donald Harrison, GameStart, iCivics, Johanna Epstein, League of Women Voters, local government, LocalWiki, Mary Morgan, Omari Rush, POP-X, Portland, pre-election potlucks, Sandra Day O’Connor, Sandra Gergerman, uninformed voters, Washtenaw Literacy 7 Comments
Making seed bombs with the awesome kids of Ypsi Middle School, and plotting to bring Billy Bragg to our May Day celebration
I skipped breakfast this morning and headed over with Jeff Clark to make seed bombs with 7th and 8th graders at Ypsi Middle School. It was an incredible experience. The kids were enthusiastic, inquisitive, and just all-around awesome. And, thanks to their hard work, we now have over 500 seed bombs prepared for Wednesday’s big […]
Posted in Agriculture, Education, Environment, Special Projects, Ypsilanti Also tagged Billy Bragg, buses, child labor, colony collapse, commons, David Chapman, dismantling of public education, food forests, free skool, Jeff Clark, Jesse Tack, labor history, May Day, Phil Patterson, public education, seed bombing, threats to public education, Tonia Porterfield, Water Street, West Middle School, Ypsi Middle School, Ypsilanti Free Skool, zines 11 Comments
An evening in Detroit with the Rhizome Collective’s Scott Kellogg
On Saturday, April 18, between 6:00 and 9:30 PM, there’s an event taking place at the Spirit of Hope church in Detroit that I wish I could attend. It’s a potluck/workshop run by Austin’s Scott Kellogg, an author of “Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide.” Here’s the event notice: We will start the […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Austin, bio-shelters, city chickens, creating green space, Detroit, EPA, green economy, guerilla bio-remediation, guerrilla gardening, making your own energy, micro-livestock, natural building, permaculture, radical sustainability, restoring wetlands, Rhizome Collective, RUST: Radical Urban Sustainability Training, Scott Kellogg, Spirit of Hope, Toolbox for Sustainable City Living, workshop 3 Comments