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Revision as of 17:29, 20 February 2015
Random collection of ideas/examples:
UCB report on 200 Quality of Life, aka Sit/Lie laws (vs Right to Rest) Fisher and Walter, gives good historical background too. (audio interview) (2/20/15).
homeless
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David Reed of Texas Natural Builders is in South Dakota. They are working hard on the beautiful Pine Ridge Reservation to build a home for Walter and Alison YellowHair. As the fall weather closes in they are looking for help finishing up. Do contact David if your able to help. I look forward to hearing more on how the pallet house evolves. straw insulation http://ilovecob.com/archive/texas-natural-builders-pallet-house 2011
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The Make It Right nonprofit founded by Brad Pitt is partnering with the Sioux and Assiniboine tribes of Fort Peck, Montana, to build sustainable homes, buildings and communities on their reservation. In addition to 20 LEED Platinum certified homes, the project will develop a sustainable master plan for the entire reservation, which covers thousands of acres and is home to more than 6,000 Native Americans
Read more: Brad Pitt's Make It Right to Build 20 LEED Platinum Homes for Sioux and Assiniboine Tribes in Montana | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tpAZObNZfI
6 min James boyd
flashbang, history mental illness and violence, broke officer's nose
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/24/james-boyd-killed-by-cops_n_5021117.html
Boyd was shot on Sunday, March 16. Police Chief Gorden Eden said officers approached Boyd, who was sleeping, to speak to him about illegally camping in an open space, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
According to authorities, Boyd began arguing with officers for more than three hours before the fatal shooting....Officer Sandy, who was involved in the shooting, was fired from the New Mexico State Police in 2007 over accusations of fraud. He was allegedly making money doing private security work while also on the force, KRQE reported.
When Sandy joined the APD, the department said he would be a civilian employee and wouldn't have a gun or badge. Sandy continued rising through the ranks, eventually joining the Repeat Offender Project Team.
Boyd, who police said may have been a paranoid schizophrenic, has a long criminal history. In the past, he allegedly attacked people with knives, box cutters, and his hands, and in 2010 broke a female officer's nose, according to KOAT.
justice dept investigate, but not for this: 16x NYC tho 1/6 size ==
BFI thunder vlly tilsn nick http://bfi.org/ideaindex/projects/2014/thunder-valley-regnerative-community-plan
Nick Tilsen, Project Lead, Thunder Valley Regenerative Community Plan
The Thunder Valley Regenerative Community Plan, born of a collective vision, is implementing a comprehensive strategy to build a locally owned and operated housing development in the geographic center of the Oglala Lakota Nation, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
biz incubator (toms/vegas? fla?
Thunder Valley CDC PO Box 290, Porcupine, SD 57772; www.ThunderValley.og Phone 605/455-2700
Nick Tilsen, founder and executive director of Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation and a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, has more than a decade’s experience working with nonprofit organizations and tribal nations on social mission projects. Nick was also project director for Oyate Omnicye, the HUD-funded process that created a reservation-wide sustainable development plan for the Oglala Lakota Nation. He sits on the SD Advisory Committee for the Bush Foundation.
obama
The Regenerative Community will feature affordable homes and rentals, pow wow grounds, skateboard park and ropes course, light industrial space, retail and business incubation spaces, spiritual spaces, and an aquaponics greenhouse. A key feature will be an Empowerment Center, a mixed-used building housing life-long education programs and workforce training, meeting spaces, a Cultural Arts Center, a daycare center, and fitness facilities.
Phase I of the project, which ran from 2010 to 2013, involved coordinating a planning process, purchasing 34 acres for the development, and drafting the master architectural plan and preliminary engineering report. This phase was funded largely by a $1 million grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Program, a $50,000 grant from Enterprise Community Partners and $75,000 of pass-through funds from the Minnesota Housing Partnership. The 34 acres are owned by TVCDC, a nonprofit organization, which plans to serve as general contractor and developer for the development. The next phase of the project will involve beginning construction on the first 30 homes. Infrastructure for these will cost $2.3 million. TVCDC plans to submit a $1 million grant application to USDA Rural Development for the water and sewer infrastructure portion of this. It likely will take on debt for the remainder. TVCDC recently submitted a grant for $452,000 for the grading and building of roads, and paths to the South Dakota’s Governor’s Office on Economic Development Local Infrastructure grant program and have also conditional commitments of loan funds from the South Dakota Housing Opportunity Fund and Minnesota Housing Partnership
Capital Team includes Marjorie Kelly, Democracy Collaborative; Rebecca Adamson, First Peoples
Worldwide; Blaise Emerson, Black Hills Council of Local Government; Gilda Haas, Antioch University;
Russell Kaney, Enterprise Community Partners; Jim King, Federation of Appalachian Housing
Enterprises; Lisa Richter, GPS Capital Partners.
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dome from sticks no hardware http://www.rinusroelofs.nl/structure/davinci-sticks/examples/examples.html
http://www.rinusroelofs.nl/structure/davinci-sticks/gallery/gallery-03.html 144
72 http://www.rinusroelofs.nl/structure/davinci-sticks/gallery/gallery-01.html
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Gents,
last yeat at UC Santa Cruz we offered a course on building with hybrid adobe (clay, paper, bit of concrete) which is cheap, flexible, requires minimal tools/skills, great insuator, fireproof. Then over the summer we built a hogan style building on the Navajo Res in Ariz. There we had a workshop on perma-culture eco-village in which the community designs and builds together for sustanability.
It occurred to me when the Jungle got shut down that an eco-village is the answer: waste products in a bio-digester provides cooking fuel, food and other biodegradable waste become compost/food, solar PV but also thermal for water heating. Building would be fast using shipping palettes (which are everywhere you look), and relatively easy to recycle, which would lower anxiety of landownwers/city.
An eco-village could be a tourist attraction, vs ppl in creekbeds being a source of shame (and bad PR, since we made the PBS NewsHour), so the city might be up for experiment? Licardo and at least one other cuncilman supportive of homeless?
Possible partners: city, SJSU, Habitat for H, Barry Swenson (urban garden), homeless orgs, churches?
i'd be pleased to hear your ideas,
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sandy perry, sec of housing interviwed richmond mayor mcglaughlin
http://greenshadowcabinet.us/member-profile/7547
http://www.sjsu.edu/envs/faculty/index.html
lime plaster) video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf-JXEMJqGE
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-your-own-BioChar-and-Terra-Preta/
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http://www.globalpossibilities.org/elevated-urban-hut-proposed-for-the-rooftops-of-athens/
http://www.gaia.org/mediafiles/gaia/resources/HJackson_integratedEVDesign.pdf
http://www.epa.gov/statelocalclimate/local/showcase/tompkins.html#update
ithica http://ecovillageithaca.org/learn-at-ecovillage-ithaca/media/
liz walker books EcoVillage at Ithaca: Pioneering a Sustainable Culture $17.95 - Buy Now New Society Publishers, 2005
21 years http://www.ic.org/communities-magazine-home/ Communities Magazine, Fall 2012 “Coming of Age: 21 Years of EcoVillage Planning & Living.” Co-founder Liz Walker discusses the challenges and joys of living and learning at EcoVillage at Ithaca.
http://www.dancingrabbit.org/ Missouri rural post and beam strawbale http://www.dancingrabbit.org/about-dancing-rabbit-ecovillage/eco-living/building/natural-building/
mambitat LEED wiasc https://www.scvhabitat.org/sites/default/files/files/ecovillage_complete-lr.pdf
eugene methane digester http://www.suburbanpermaculture.org/maitreya-eco-village-eugene.html
DIY methane digester http://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/home-methane-digester-zmaz75zwar.aspx#axzz3N8T5rgda
http://strausfamilycreamery.com/values-in-action/methane-digester
Author and builder Stephen Hren lives in Durham, North Carolina. His latest book is Tales from the Sustainable Underground: A Wild Journey with People Who Care More About the Planet Than the Law.
Hestia Home Biogas • www.hestiahomebiogas.com
Biodigesters in China • www.bit.ly/ChinaBiogas
Methane: Planning a Digester by Peter-John Meynell
pallet refugee video http://www.i-beamdesign.com/projects/refugee/refugeevideos.html 8 min
http://www.i-beamdesign.com/projects/refugee/refugee.html
ibeam video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M2j5SIPC6U
sunray vernaclar https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WhYfmqR3L2Q
reclaim pallet frigal farmer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RvFHiZa5fQ
motor oil 50% diesel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H3GyjFJ6Is
A&Cish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlnYqLhg3uQ
13 min stats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQw0D9hRSEA pine ridge; rubble trench earhtbag fdn; david w reed; 2011 http://texasnaturalbuilders.info straw, mud and plaster rolls to
david reed 2011
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Texas-Natural-Builders/163168747070870 ****
Texas Natural Builders April 24, 2014 · To the volunteers for the Paha Wakan build in South Dakota this summer, it is with our deepest regret we are going to have to postpone this year's build until next summer, after vigorously fundraising this year, we have not been successful at raising adequate funding for this project. I will be emailing the 40 volunteers personally later today. This gives us more time to raise funds and get a better handle on material acquisition and planning. Texas Natural Builders is dedicated to the Lakota Oyate and we look forward to next year!
solar water heater https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNl_1g4ESblPAc-kkhnhYmQ
timber frame w/ wedge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sTASX-panA slick mortise technique
Santa Clara County Fairgrounds Honors Don Silacci February 17, 2014
The Santa Clara County Fair has honored one of its longest serving directors. South County resident Don Silacci was presented the Western Fairs Association (WFA)
Blue Ribbon Award at the annual volunteer appreciation lunch. For Silacci the award celebrates a lifetime love affair.
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The San Jose State University Environmental Resource Center is an organization that is run by students within the Environmental Studies department. Students involved work on a variety of projects including Earth Day celebrations, promoting recycled notebooks, and creating an alternate commute program. This organization also offers a class, Environmental Studies 181, in which students work as a team on projects that seek to create a positive change on campus. The Environmental Resource Center is located on the San Jose State University campus at One Washington Square in the Washington Square Hall room 115A. I was able to identify the agency as one that provided services for students by an article in the Spartan Daily describing the different events going on during Earth Week put on by the Environmental Resource Center. I interviewed Megan Fluke who is one of the Directors for the Environmental Resource Center and is also teaching a section of the EnvS 181 class. Megan is extremely passionate about this organization and has many ideas on sustainable projects on campus.
http://www.sjsu.edu/people/michele.mccarthy/courses/HS1/s2/writ3samplepaperS10-[1].pdf
Megan Fluke Medeiros http://presenters.climaterealityproject.org/presenter/megan-fluke-medeiros_3372
Megan Fluke Medeiros is a local environmental leader who is not afraid to speak up for causes she is passionate about. She graduated with a degree in Environmental Studies from San Jose State University in 2008 and has worked for the Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter since 2009 as the Conservation and Development Manager.(new ob 10/13) In her role, she supports grassroots teams of volunteers working to make their communities more climate-friendly on the local and regional level, namely through improving land use & transportation planning, conservation of our natural places, energy efficiency, and reduced waste. In fall 2012, Megan was trained to give Al Gore's new presentation, "Climate Reality" and is giving talks to community groups all over the Silicon Valley. Her talk focuses on how climate change is happening now, our need to overcome denial, a vision for the future, and what we can do as citizens to really make an impact.
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12/15
When San Jose dismantled the "Jungle," the nation’s largest homeless encampment, many of its residents with nowhere to go scattered. They found hiding places in the scores of small, less visible encampments within the city, where more than 5,000 people sleep unsheltered on a given night.
But one group of about three dozen evictees gathered what they could salvage in backpacks and trash bags, and crossed a bridge to a spot about a mile away. They found a clean patch of grass near Coyote Creek, the same creek that the Jungle abutted. There, they pitched tents donated by some concerned citizens, assigned themselves chores and hoped for the best.
Instead, they got marching orders. After weathering the hardest rains to fall in these parts in a decade, the campers found 72-hour eviction notices on their tents. Once again, a little more than a week after their forced flight from the Jungle, they had no idea where they might live.
“This is some sort of hell,” said Raul, 57 (who didn’t want his last name used), a life-long resident of San Jose who had lived in the Jungle for nearly eight years. He had nothing left of the home he had created, just a knapsack, his chihuahua Pepe, and a new pup tent. He was so depressed, he could barely lift his head.
To an outside observer, the eviction was predictable. The state’s threat to sue Santa Clara County over the pollution in Coyote Creek caused by camping spurred the closing of the Jungle, a winding, 68-acre shantytown under an overpass with upwards of 300 people. With the state’s environmental agencies—and the public—watching, San Jose could not allow another Jungle to spring up.
But the city could offer no viable alternative to the people it was expelling for the second time in a week. San Jose, the self-described capital of Silicon Valley, the largest wealth generator in the United States, lacked the resources.
The Jungle had become a symbol of the growing divide between the nation’s rich and poor. But its December 4 dismantling—a spectacle of crying residents struggling with shopping carts, Hazmat-suited cleanup crews tossing furniture into dump trucks and hordes of police and reporters standing watch—only underscored the problem, since so many Jungle residents were literally left out in the cold.
Residents of the neighborhood in Central San Jose that abutted the Jungle were glad to see the encampment go. But dismantling the Jungle is already creating new problems. Just days after the Jungle was torn apart, San Jose police and other city departments began fielding calls from people in different neighborhoods complaining of former Jungle residents setting up camps near them. Some ended up in a Walmart parking lot before being booted. Others were congregating near the airport, also under threat of eviction. At least one hospital reported an upsurge of emergency room visits from former residents of the Jungle, sick from weathering the elements, having misplaced medications in the eviction.
“What the city is saying is that it refuses to provide affordable housing, but it does not tolerate people living outside,” said Sandy Perry, an organizer at the Affordable Housing Network of Santa Clara County, who has worked with San Jose’s homeless population since 1991. “This is a willful, wholesale violation of human rights.”
San Jose, by all accounts, is experiencing a crisis in homelessness. Even with dedicated non-profits working to stem the tide, the city’s homeless problem, like that of other booming cities—New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, to name a few—has grown markedly worse in recent years. San Jose is the nation’s 10th largest city (with one million residents) but the San Jose/Santa Clara County area, home to 34 billionaires, has the nation’s fifth largest homeless population, after New York, Los Angeles, Seattle and San Diego.
San Jose/Santa Clara County also has the nation’s highest percentage of homeless people living on the streets. More than 75 percent, upwards of 7,600, are unsheltered, according to the 2014 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, compared to five percent of the homeless people in New York City.
Ray Bramson, San Jose’s homeless response team manager, said the city did all it could for the Jungle. It earmarked $4 million and spent 18 months, with contracted non-profit organizations, to find housing for 144 Jungle residents, using housing vouchers that expire in two years. But another 60 residents, vouchers in hand, could not find apartments, even with social workers working on their behalf. By the end, just weeks before the dismantling, the population of the Jungle was still between 200 and 300 people, according to housing advocates and volunteers who worked with jungle residents. That’s because every time a resident of the Jungle moved out, another person, or more, took their place.
Critics of the way the city dismantled the Jungle, both professional advocates for the homeless and citizens registering their opinions on social media, have decried the city for creating a two-year voucher program that inadequately served the population.
“When a city decides to built a park, it doesn’t build until it has the funding to finish it,” said Anthony King, a volunteer outreach worker who was homeless for more than 10 years. “So why did the city decide to undergo a program that addressed the needs of only some of the people in the Jungle?”
The city said it was forced to close the camp for its environmental risks and hazardous conditions. But Bramson himself has said that there are many other homeless camps along the waterways. In fact, the Jungle was part of a string of 247 tent cities along Santa Clara County’s waterways that contain 1,230 people, according to a recent county census.
Chris Herring, a Ph.D candidate in sociology at the University of California at Berkeley who has extensively researched homeless encampments on the west coast, said the eviction “will not mitigate the ongoing environmental damage to Coyote Creek by homeless habitation”—only move it around.”
In an essay in Beyond Chron.org, Herring also said the eviction “will exacerbate rather than improve unsanitary conditions faced by the evicted, pushing them further from clean water, recycling centers and toilets.”
Residents of the Jungle, well aware of the growing trash and sanitary problems caused by so many incoming residents, had appealed to the city for help. In November, they waged a protest for better sanitary services. The city had provided three port-a-potties, eight hours a day, for the Jungle’s 300 residents, and handed out portable sanitary bags for them to use the rest of the time—bags of human waste that competed with all the other trash in the Jungle for a spot in the few trash bins on site.
In the few days that former residents of the Jungle spent in their second location before receiving eviction notices, they began organizing.
“We’re creating a community,” one woman said. People were assigned to clean up trash, run errands and the like. The group wanted to stay together, monitor activities so the site could stay clean and not generate complaints.
“I just know that if we keep a place clean, have the bags for the trash, and stay away from the public, they won’t bother us,” said Raul, the former Jungle resident. Living in the Jungle was a hard life, he said, but it was stable. He had his shack, he knew everyone, had friends and support. Like most homeless people, Raul said he preferred to be with other people he knew, rather than fend for himself.
His sister, who had a housing voucher but couldn’t find an apartment, was staying with her three dogs in a tent next to Raul's. Almost everyone at the encampment had at least one small dog, often several.
The city came at the crack of dawn the day the new camp was evicted. Workers began taking their possessions before residents had even woken up, according to a report by ABC7 news. It quoted Bramson, who did not return requests for an interview for this story, saying, “There are services available. There is support available."
But the only support was a limited number of shelter beds the residents could try to get into—if they gave up their dogs.
A day after their expulsion, most of the group had moved en masse to a new location, far from the public eye. But it was still near Coyote Creek. It wouldn’t take long, they said, for the city to find them again.
Evelyn Nieves is a senior contributing writer and editor at AlterNet, living in San Francisco. She has been a reporter for both the New York Times and the Washington Post.
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DEBUG
https://www.facebook.com/sanjoserad
http://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/about/
United States Congressmember Michael Honda United States Congressmember Anna Eshoo California State Assemblymember Paul Fong California State Assemblymember Luis Alejo United States Congressmember Zoe Lofgren California State Assemblymember Robert Wieckowski
http://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/articles/2014/12/17/exodus-jungle-story-morning
slideshow http://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/articles/2014/12/04/exodus-jungle
priced out of the vlly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACMAhA872dw&list=UUFy_6HCfjfklIyoU8mZ4YZA
video http://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/articles/2013/03/07/inside-san-joses-tent-city
same https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUszlvdsHRQ&list=UUFy_6HCfjfklIyoU8mZ4YZA#t=402
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christoph.herring (at) berkeley (dot) edu.
ACORN NOrleans
http://sociology.berkeley.edu/graduate-student/chris-herring
The management of homelessness, particularly how policy ensembles of social, medical, and criminal justice treatments affect the production and regulation of homelessness across the US and particularly in California. My dissertation examines the restructuring of homeless regulation in San Francisco from 1987 to the present through ethnographic and archival methods. Current and past research includes a comparative analysis of large homeless encampments in the Western US, an ethnographic study of Fresno’s “tent--city district,” and a photo-ethnography of homeless sex offenders on parole in California with photographer Ian Martin.
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(Policy Report) 2010. “Tent Cities in America: A Pacific Coast Report.” National Coalition for the Homeless. Washington DC.
Publications (Article) Forthcoming. “The New Logics of Homeless Seclusion: A Comparative Study of Homeless Encampments in the Western United States.” City and Community. (Article) with Emily Rosenman. Forthcoming. “Engels in the Crescent City: Revisiting the Housing Question in Post-Katrina New Orleans.” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. In special issue Revisiting Engels’ Housing Question (eds. T. Slater, H. Larsen, A. Hansen, and G. Macleod). (Book Chapter) 2013. “The Housing Question of Disaster Reconstruction: Rebuilding New Orleans on the Tenants of an Ownership Society.” In E. Murphy and N. Hourani (eds.), The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City. Ashgate Press. (Book Chapter) with Zoltan Gluck. 2012. “The Homeless Question of Occupy.” In Occupy!: Scenes from Occupy America. New York: Verso Press. (Book Review) 2013. California Historical Society Magazine. Mark Wyman, Hoboes: Bindlestiffs, fruit tramps, and the harvesting of the west. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2010), 336 pp. & Art Hazelwood,
