SD/TJ D,P,H - Weekly News Contributions

The Weekly Share 2008-03-28

2008-03-27T10:24:00.000-07:00

To share things here, send an email to sdtjdph.share at blogger.com, following the format below.

(I tried to restrain myself to three items per category this time--but I fudged some, so it's odd.)

Contents

Food
Urban Design
Collaboration
Indigenization
Health

Item types

Event, News, Resource

Item categories

Food, Urban, Collaboration, Indigenization, Health

Locations

Neighborhoods

Food

Events
News

Encinitas | News | Food | There was a North County FNL Meeting (and there is another coming up)!
UK | News | Food | 'Urban farmers' on Teesside plant the seeds of a food revolution
North County | News | Food | U-T North Edition Op-Ed: Farm and city: Never the twain shall meet?

Resources

Rainbow | Resource | Food | Primitive Skills Plants Discovered (Parts 1 & 2)

Vancouver | Resource | Food | The Richmond Fruit Tree Sharing Project
Vancouver | Resource | Food | Workshop ideas from food policy newsletter

Urban Design (for a permaculture)

Events

SD | Event (not) | Urban (er. Collaboration)| U-T Interactive feature: candidates on the issues
US | Event (not) | Urban (er. Collaboration) | Barack Obama's speech on race (NYT)
Balboa Park / US | Event | Urban (er. Collaboration) | San Diego Planning for Rainbow Gathering in Wyoming June / July 2008

News

Portland | News | Urban | Help promote carfree conference with stickers, fliers, posters!
UK | News | Urban | New eco-towns to make it hard going for cars with 15mph limit
LA | News | Urban | Celebrating Bimini Place

Resources

US | Resource | Urban | Floridoogle: plant pictures & profiles & where to order
LA | Resource | Urban | CICLE: organizer of urban expeditions rides to farms and elsewhere
US | Resource | Urban | Replacing transit with toll-roads

Collaboration (Media & Politics)

Events

Global | Collaboration | Event | Earth Hour Mar 29 8-9pm
Seattle | Collaboration | Event | UnMoney Convergence: A conference on money, liberation, and systems change Apr 14-16
Berkeley | Collaboration | Event | Eight Days of Anarchy (passed) Tue Mar 18 - Tue Mar 25

News

US | Collaboration | News | Rachel's Democracy & Health News #952
Global | Collaboration | News | The politics of optimism (Worldchanging)
SD | Collaboration | News | Stop subsidizing economic doom / evaluate economic impacts of land-use decisions (Voice of San Diego Op-Ed)

Resources

Global | Resource | Collaboration | Eventbrite: useful for hosting fee-based events
Global |Resource | Collaboration | Photo & video feeds by topic: combine user submissions from multiple sources. See examples at sdtjdph, sdperm, carfreesd, and sdfnl blog s.
Global | Resource | Collaboration | Google for nonprofits

Indigenization

Events

Rancho Pensaquitos | Event | Indigenous | Flint Knapping Day Sat Apr 12 10am - 2pm $10-35
LA / Pasadena | Event | Indigenous | Sun Apr 20 (leave message for Tom Mills at 626-794-9158)
LA / Venice | Event | Indigenous | Sun Apr 27 11am-5pm (tentative)

News

LA | News | Indigenous | Foraging for lunch on the streets of LA (Weekend America)
Rainbow | News | Indigenous | There was a primitive skills gathering--anyone want to post pictures / write about the effect?

Resources

SoCal | Resources | Indigenous | SoCal Indigenous Living
Rainbow | Resource | Indigenous | Primitive Skills Plants Discovered (Parts 1 & 2)

Health

Events
News

Global | News | Health | An enduring measure of fitness: the simple push-up (NYT)
Global / SoCal | News | Health (er. Collaboration) | HopeDance 67 March / April 2008 - local progressives - birthing - Yunus - Tick - J Todd - TNH
Global | News | Health ? | Keeling on Global C02 (UT - interview)

Resources

Global | News | Health | The Garden of Eating: a produce-dominated diet & cookbook (i.e., few grains & legumes)
Global | News | Health (er. ?) | Winter Soldier
Global | News | Health ? | Keeling on global C02 (UT - story)

See my links tagged for:sdtjdph for some of what didn't make it in.
Subscribe to this newsletter by feed reader or by email. Any errors found will be corrected in the version at sdtjdph.

Sherman Heights | Collaboration | Event | San Diego Indymedia Volunteers Meeting Tue Mar 18, 630pm

2008-03-16T19:42:00.001-07:00

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: San Diego Indymedia <imc-sd-announce at lists.indymedia.org>
Date: 16-mar-2008 17:32
Subject: [SD IndyMedia] San Diego Indymedia Volunteers Tue March 18, We Need Laptops, Donate to Indybay and CMI Chiapas!
To: imc-sd-announce at lists.indymedia.org

http://sandiego.indymedia.org

***San Diego Indymedia Volunteer Recruitment Presentation --- San
Diego Indymedia is looking for volunteers!

If you are interested in participating, come to Chicana Perk on
Tuesday, March 18 at 6:30pm for a presentation that will cover --
background on Indymedia and the San Diego Independent Media Center;
projects San Diego Indymedia is currently working on and future
directions; how to post articles, photos, audio and VIDEO!; how you
can plug in as a volunteer; and how you can work towards becoming a
member of the San Diego Indymedia collective.

Tuesday March 18 6:30pm
Chicana Perk 129 25th St Sherman Heights

***San Diego Indymedia is seeking donations of macintosh laptops (g4/
usb 2.0 and later) to loan to community groups to help increase
participation in media making. If you have a laptop you would like to
donate, please contact us at
imc-sd at lists.indymedia.org
or leave a message on our voice mail:
619.378.O946

***The San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center - Indybay - is
holding a fundraising drive to help pay their server costs. Indybay
has been hosting San Diego Indymedia's content since October, when
our server stopped working. If you can spare some change, please help
them out here...
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/12/15/16659041.php

***Indy Chiapas necesita tu apoyo para pagar los gastos del
servidor / Chiapas Indymedia needs your support to pay server costs
http://chiapas.indymedia.org/

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imc-sd-announce at lists.indymedia.org
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contrib

2008-03-16T19:37:00.001-07:00

NY | News | Food | City Slickers Starting Organic Farms NYT includes good resources (links), and a multimedia feature (short voice w/photo interviews)

Also, the April issue of "O" magazine has a great article on the
greening of Detroit via community gardens.

The Weekly Share 2008-03-14

2008-03-14T19:35:00.000-07:00

Our newsletter has a new name! "Weekly Wrap" -> "Weekly Share". To share things here, send an email to sdtjdph.share at blogger.com, following the formatting below.
You may subscribe to this newsletter by feed reader or by email. Any errors found will be corrected in the version at sdtjdph.

Contents

Item types

Event, News, Resource

Item categories

Food, Urban, Collaboration

Locations

Neighborhoods

Food

Events

Lemon Grove | Event | Food | Build raised beds at San Miguel Elementary, Wed Mar 19 10am-12pm
City Heights | Event | Food | Open House @ the City Heights Free Skool : Sun 3/16 11-3pm
Solana Beach | Event | Food | First North County Food Not Lawns Meeting, Thu Mar 20 6-8pm
Rainbow | Event | Food | SD County Primitive Skills Gathering (near Fallbrook), Sat Mar 22-Sun Mar 23
Normal Heights | Event | Food | SD Food Not Lawns General Meeting, Tue Mar 25 6-7:30pm (day of week & location changed)

News

Balboa Park | News | Food | There was a Fantastic Green Get-Together on Mar 8
LA / Lakewood | News | Food | Architect-activist Fritz Haeg encourages homeowners to banish grassy vanity lawns in favor of harvestable gardens (NYT Magazine; flash heavy)
Brooklyn / Midwood | News | Food | Backyards, Beware: An Orchard Wants Your Spot (NYT)
Oxford, PA | News | Food | To Feed the Birds, First Feed the Bugs (NYT)
LA | News | Food | Week 26 - Starting Tomatoes from Seed (School Garden Weekly)

Resources

LA | Resource | Food | Edible Estates
Global | Resource | Food | Avaaz Campaign for Biofuel Standards

Urban Design (for a permaculture)

Events

Uptown SD / Hillcrest | Event | Urban | Bus Riders Union Rally and Film, Thu Mar 20 630pm at the Joyce Beers Center

[It's late--I got the food section done. To get an idea of some of the rest I would add, sort through my links tagged for:sdtjdph. If I keep this up, the next newsletter should come out Wednesday or Thursday of next week.]

News
Resources

Collaboration (Media & Politics)

Events
News
Resources

March 7, 2008 Weekly Share - SDTJDPH

2008-03-07T11:45:00.000-08:00

I'm testing out the idea of creating a weekly newsletter that I post to SD/TJ Design, Plant, Harvest. The newsletter will have sections that I will email out separately to several email lists. I'll need volunteers to help keep this going by contributing and also to help post if I'm not near a computer that week. I have started a separate blog to be used for contributing to the newsletter and preparing the weekly newsletter. Basically, email your contributions to sdtjdph.wrap at blogger.com, following the format I've used below. The newsletter has its own feed, and you also can subscribe to it by email. If any errors are discovered after posting, they will be corrected in the version at SDTJDPH.

Contents

Item types

Event, News, Resource

Item categories

Food, Urban, Collaboration

Locations

Neighborhoods

Food

Events

Balboa Park | Event | Food | Fantastic Green Get-Together, Sat Mar 8 12-2pm
City Heights | Event | Food | SD Food Not Lawns General Meeting, Wed Mar 12 6-7:30pm
Solana Beach | Event | Food | First North County Food Not Lawns Meeting, Thu Mar 20 6-8pm
Rainbow | Event | Food | SD County Primitive Skills Gathering (near Fallbrook), Sat Mar 22-Sun Mar 23

News

Sherman Heights | News | Food | There was a meeting about food justice and security on Mar 1
California | News | Food | CA Food & Justice Feb 08 Newsletter
Southeastern SD / Skyline | News | Food | Garden teaches students about hard work and the food that they eat
Portland | News | Food | The Bike Farmer

Resources

SoCal | Resource | Food, PC | Digital Gardener's Southern California Vegetable Planting Schedule
Global | Resource | Food, PC | Eat Bug - more than you ever wanted to know about eating bugs
US | Resource | Food | Food and Water Watch
US | Resource | Food | You Grow Girl! blog
SoCal | Resource | Food, PC | Farmer Barter Arid Food Book Recipes
SD | Resource | Food | Mariah's FNL Photos
LA | Resource | Food, PC | Taylorist (compiler of LAPG Newsletter)
LA | Resource | Food, PC | LAPG January Newsletter
Global | Resource | Food | Google Environmental Justice
US | Resource | Food | School Garden Weekly Blog
SD | Resource | Food | SDFNL-Core google group
SD | Resource | Food | SDFNL Blog

Urban Design (for a permaculture)

Events

Uptown SD / Hillcrest | Event | Urban | Bus Riders Union Rally and Film, Thu Mar 20 630pm at the Joyce Beers Center
Los Angeles | Event | Urban | Section of Wilshire Blvd Carfree for Earth Day, Tue Apr 22
SD | Event | Urban | San Diego River Days May 10-18 (link is to the page for the 2005 event)

News

LA | News | Urban | Southern California set the nation on the path to bicycling bliss, then detoured. But smogville could still become a velotopia (Sierra Club Magazine)
SD | News | Urban | 'Showers to Flowers' (greywater) Struggles for Foothold (Voice of San Diego)
SD | News | Urban | Buddhist monastery adds a solar system to harmonious ways (SDUT)
SD | News | Urban | A Brief History of Planning in San Diego (SDUT)
SD | News | Urban | San Diego IRC hiring Transportation Coordinator

Resources

LA | Resource | Urban | LA Streetsblog
SD | Resource | Urban | Wikipedia on Mike Davis
Global | Resource | Urban | Energy Justice Network
Global | Resource | Urban | Fossil Fools Day
London / Global | Resource | Urban | Plane Stupid - bringing the aviation industry back down to earth!
Global | Resource | Urban | Low Fly Zone - Pledge to be free from flying
NY/NJ/CT | Resource | Urban | Tri-State Transportation Campaign (the LA Streetsblogger worked on this)
SD | Resource | Urban | SoCal Peace: SD County (+ SoCal) Coalition for Peaceful Cities
SD | Resource | Urban | Carfree SD blog

Collaboration (Media & Politics)

Events
News

SD County | Collaboration | News | "The Rise and Fall of the Copely Press" (SD Reader)

Resources

SD | Collaboration | Resource | Indybay Newswire for San Diego (feed link at bottom right)
SD | Collaboration | Resource | Indybay SD feed for Rocky Neptun
SD | Collaboration | Resource | Neptun's posts at Activist San Diego
SD | Collaboration | Resource | Floyd Morrow for Mayor
SD | Collaboration | Resource | Eric Bidwell for Mayor
SD | Collaboration | Resource | Frye Lights
SD | Collaboration | Resource | Voice of San Diego's "Five Things SD Needs" contributor series

Some Carfree/transit + politics submissions

2008-03-04T06:10:00.000-08:00

Carfree/transit

Boston | News | carfree, real estate | Car Free — And the Living is Easy
Google | News | carfree, cycling | Google Touts Transit Feature; "Bike There" Begs For More
Los Angeles | History | carfree, cycling | Southern California set the nation on the path to bicycling bliss, then detoured. But smogville could still become a velotopia.
Los Angeles | Event | carfree | Section of Wilshire Blvd Carfree for Earth Day
Los Angeles | News | carfree, media | Introducing Streetsblog Los Angeles
San Diego | Event | carfree, transit | Bus Riders Union Rally and Film, March 20th 6:30pm at the Joyce Beers Center

Politics

San Diego | News | politics | Rocky Neptun Stops Running for Mayor
San Diego | News | politics | Indybay feed for Neptun or San Diego

How to contribute to the weekly newsletter

2008-03-03T12:23:00.000-08:00

To contribute, post here by sending an email to sdtjdph.share at blogger.com. (If we get spam, this email will change.)

Your posts should be an item (or a list of items) in this form: [Location] | [Type] | [Category] | [Descriptive Title which is a link to more information].

You can also contribute by tagging a link in del.icio.us with "sdtjdphshare", using the formatting below in the description field.

Here are some examples:

Sherman Heights | Potluck & Meeting | Food Justice | Convergence with California Food and Justice Coalition Saturday, March 1st
Carlsbad | Film | Food | _The Real Dirt on Farmer John_ 645 pm Thursday 3/20
SD County | News | Media | "The Rise and Fall of the Copely Press"
Rainbow | Campout | Primitive Skills | Primitive Skills Gathering, March 22-23

For more examples:

look at posts to this blog,
see a published weekly newsletter, or
check the tag at del.icio.us.

The idea here is that if I don't get around to compiling the weekly updates for whatever reason, it will be easy for another sdtjdph contributor to take over: they just have to check both here and the del.icio.us tag for new posts, and compile them.

If you take on that role, here are guidelines for formatting the weekly newsletter post [yet to be written].

Example Weekly Newsletter

2008-03-02T13:05:00.000-08:00

Here we'll test formatting and features for the weekly newsletter.

First, note that we'll tag the post 'newsletter', so it will be easy to set up an sdtjdph newsletter feed that people can subscribe to by email or reader.

Next, at the most simple, we can just paste in the submissions:

But it is probably better to take the time to separate contributions out into North County, South County (Del Mar and south?), and Tijuana, and to have County, State, National, and Global sections, if appropriate.

And we can separate contributions by category as well--say 'food', 'transit', and 'media'. And we can fairly easily remove some of the link formatting to make it a bit more readable. So here's a different version:

North County:

Carlsbad | Film | Food | _The Real Dirt on Farmer John_ 645 pm Thursday 3/20

South County

Tijuana

County-wide

SoCal-wide

State-wide

National

Global

---

Well, that's already getting too complicated. So, let's try this:

North County:

Carlsbad | Film | Food | _The Real Dirt on Farmer John_ 645 pm Thursday 3/20

County-wide

SD County | News | Media | "The Rise and Fall of the Copely Press"
Rainbow | Campout | Primitive Skills | Primitive Skills Gathering, March 22-23
Sherman Heights | Potluck & Meeting | Food Justice | Convergence with California Food and Justice Coalition Saturday, March 1st

That seems decent, so, for now, I'll leave the format at something like that, plus add a link to subscribe to the newsletter-only feed (yet to be added). If you're taking a turn compiling it, feel free to try something different.