Corporate Social Responsibility Event
8.16.2008 - 8.16.2008
Urban Homesteading: Community Economy in the City
FREE WORKSHOP
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Presenters: Daniel Staub and Kristin Brennan
Presenters Daniel Staub and Kristin Brennan will be describing their
vision of building small-scale community economies and the steps they are
taking to orient their own daily lives toward that goal. Kristen is a 2008
Local Hero Award recipient for her efforts in helping sustain local
agriculture.
Living in the Mason Square area of Springfield, Daniel and Kristin raise a
substantial portion of their own food in their backyard, including fruits
and vegetables, eggs and honey, and buy or trade for the rest with local
farms, small businesses and neighborhood gardeners. They heat their house
with wood from trees cut down in their neighborhood, cut to length with
handsaws and chopped with an axe. They transport themselves and their two
young children without a car, by riding bicycles, walking and taking
public transportation. Overall, they attempt to minimize their resource
needs, and meet their necessities through their own labor, the offerings
of the natural environment around them and the skills of their
neighbors.
They will be describing both the joys and the challenges of living such a
life and will hope for participants to share their own insights into
building a more self-sufficient community.
Event Location
250 Albany St (rear) Springfield, MA 01105
Sponsoring Company/Organization
Web Site
www.restoreonline.org
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