Networking, at this site, refers to all the ways human interaction plays a role in food and health. Thus this subject can include such things as diverse as how we trade goods and services, how we form organizations with stated goals, legal frameworks, mindsets and biases, consensus and decision making protocols, and even the way we gather and transmit information on these issues. Much of this area, at times, can be philosophical and controversial in ways that growing food and cooking are not. These issues often lead us back to familiar, and perhaps never ending arguments that we are trying to minimize here. For instance, we try to frame most of the national or worldwide issues such as environmental degradation and large scale-economic considerations in at Larger Issues section at the site. We do suggest that these discussions have their place here, but at the same time we do not feel everyone needs to hear about economic inequality and environmental impacts necessarily at the same time as when we discuss growing beans. This strategy of focusing away from the mega issues also leads us to examine the issues of food and health more clearly in the light of local economic considerations. No doubt there is a bottom line comparison at some point of what value you can get for the sale of a locally grown food and how much it would cost you at the store, and that issue does suggest the meta level does have clear impact upon the local. How we try to occasionally compartmentalize such issues remains an essential question and one we hope to take up quite thoroughly.
Thus most of the networking issues we discuss here are in regard of how to organize activities at the local level involving food and health issues. In this way the local networking section can be seen as how we work together to create more effective food and health systems. The section is this highly nuanced and the category outlining is till developing more complicated in a lot of ways since human cooperation is a lot more complicated and nuanced than are the relatively hard sciences of growing food and coming to conclusions on health issues.
To briefly address the division of accessing information and incorporating information The need for the distinction between these two options relies on the premise that information is not always best incorporated by being simply downloaded from a source if you will The general background idea is of course is that there is a community of people, generally considered to be from a particular locality, who are interested in working with others to build be certain kinds of data bases, indexes, modes of recording and transcribing information etc. So in that sense the incoming information the individual or group is able to access is then reformulated in some manner to make it more utilizable to the group or individual
From the short introduction-
The Growing Food and Health sections present ideas that can improve our lives,. the local networking section deals more with the challenges we face interacting with one another to get there
Community that shares fosters a different spirit than one which does not
Mindsets Typically individuals are passive consumers of information
When communities organize to use information they become producers of it
Mental resourcefulness, focus, interdisciplinary themes
Indexes/Encyclopedia
Groups and organizations
Experts
Polling, Demographics
Practitioner training's /Schools
Accessing information Local education centers/media
Identifying experts by category
What determines a category?
Copyright, citation proprietary issues
Connection to the mindset section issues
Other Modalities
Outward interaction approach
Find internal human resources
Incorporating is a process or synthesis
More local control receiving information than applying for access
Difference between recording information and educational presentations
Identifying experts, and best practices
Incorporating information Discussion on how to access and organize such information. two separate functions
Considering more than one format to present information
Identifying salient points and using summaries
Summaries can move from very short to very long
Recording metrics for successful ways of utilizing information
Crediting and tracking contributors
Centralization of discussion
Hierarchical framework of discussion
Authentication
Verification of information
Access to information
Informational gathering strategies-Series of methods Internal discussion
Security of information
Copyright
Based more on current events
Media Critiques of the mainstream media
Standards for community journalists
Neighborhoods
Scaling
Scaling
Group Dynamics
Interdisciplinary
Outreach
Organizations and businesses
Money really combines two separate functions, trade and capital.
The role of economic ideology
Selecting when in where to include economic ideology and narratives into the process
The reality of price
Economic context Dissecting economic mindsets that drive personal notions of value
Positive criteria for markets
Models of markets utilizing positive practices
Environmental/Efficiency
Durability/modularity
Degree of economic self sufficiency
Definition 1-Resources for start up
Definition 2 Representation of investment wealth
Grants,
Existing institutions for capital and local food and health
8 forms of capital
Capital
Public and Alternative Banks
Creating Incentives
Volunteers, Pioneers, Demonstrators
Pledged Consumer Blocks
Slow change
Local Metrics- Measuring values of local production not measured by conventional means
Certainty of communication lines
Multiplier effect
Share/gift principles
Localism Principles
Self sufficiency/DIY
Local support systems.
Ability to effect change at the local level
Local Capacities Producers, practitioners, hubs, libraries, spaces
Effect on attitudes and behaviors
Some people feel tech, and particularly high tech is antithetical to local food
A reason for concern is centralized and non-local control of tech sources
Technology
Technology offers an option to communicate without the environmental cost
Current cultural conditions virtually necessitate use of electronic media
Identifying low tech
Thus most of the networking issues we discuss here are in regard of how to organize activities at the local level involving food and health issues. In this way the local networking section can be seen as how we work together to create more effective food and health systems. The section is this highly nuanced and the category outlining is till developing more complicated in a lot of ways since human cooperation is a lot more complicated and nuanced than are the relatively hard sciences of growing food and coming to conclusions on health issues.
To briefly address the division of accessing information and incorporating information The need for the distinction between these two options relies on the premise that information is not always best incorporated by being simply downloaded from a source if you will The general background idea is of course is that there is a community of people, generally considered to be from a particular locality, who are interested in working with others to build be certain kinds of data bases, indexes, modes of recording and transcribing information etc. So in that sense the incoming information the individual or group is able to access is then reformulated in some manner to make it more utilizable to the group or individual
From the short introduction-
The Growing Food and Health sections present ideas that can improve our lives,. the local networking section deals more with the challenges we face interacting with one another to get there
Community that shares fosters a different spirit than one which does not
Mindsets Typically individuals are passive consumers of information
When communities organize to use information they become producers of it
Mental resourcefulness, focus, interdisciplinary themes
Indexes/Encyclopedia
Groups and organizations
Experts
Polling, Demographics
Practitioner training's /Schools
Accessing information Local education centers/media
Identifying experts by category
What determines a category?
Copyright, citation proprietary issues
Connection to the mindset section issues
Other Modalities
Outward interaction approach
Find internal human resources
Incorporating is a process or synthesis
More local control receiving information than applying for access
Difference between recording information and educational presentations
Identifying experts, and best practices
Incorporating information Discussion on how to access and organize such information. two separate functions
Considering more than one format to present information
Identifying salient points and using summaries
Summaries can move from very short to very long
Recording metrics for successful ways of utilizing information
Crediting and tracking contributors
Centralization of discussion
Hierarchical framework of discussion
Authentication
Verification of information
Access to information
Informational gathering strategies-Series of methods Internal discussion
Security of information
Copyright
Based more on current events
Media Critiques of the mainstream media
Standards for community journalists
Neighborhoods
Scaling
Scaling
Group Dynamics
Interdisciplinary
Outreach
Organizations and businesses
Money really combines two separate functions, trade and capital.
The role of economic ideology
Selecting when in where to include economic ideology and narratives into the process
The reality of price
Economic context Dissecting economic mindsets that drive personal notions of value
Positive criteria for markets
Models of markets utilizing positive practices
Environmental/Efficiency
Durability/modularity
Degree of economic self sufficiency
Definition 1-Resources for start up
Definition 2 Representation of investment wealth
Grants,
Existing institutions for capital and local food and health
8 forms of capital
Capital
Public and Alternative Banks
Creating Incentives
Volunteers, Pioneers, Demonstrators
Pledged Consumer Blocks
Slow change
Local Metrics- Measuring values of local production not measured by conventional means
Certainty of communication lines
Multiplier effect
Share/gift principles
Localism Principles
Self sufficiency/DIY
Local support systems.
Ability to effect change at the local level
Local Capacities Producers, practitioners, hubs, libraries, spaces
Effect on attitudes and behaviors
Some people feel tech, and particularly high tech is antithetical to local food
A reason for concern is centralized and non-local control of tech sources
Technology
Technology offers an option to communicate without the environmental cost
Current cultural conditions virtually necessitate use of electronic media
Identifying low tech