San Diego City Repair

Leucadia tree [not] saved by localpower Andrew / Jru + community

2009-02-10T10:06:00.001-08:00

http://sdtjdphevents.blogspot.com/2009/02/leucadia-tree-not-saved-by-localpower.html

Fallen Fruit at MCASD (downtown SD) Thu Feb 5 6-10pm + DIY WWOOF SD County

2009-01-30T11:37:00.001-08:00

[1] This event showed up at the sdtjdph calendar ( j9k.org/cal ) via
foodcalendar.org but I haven't seen it mentioned yet on any of the
lists. So here it is:

Links to event details:

http://tinyurl.com/bnx7n4 or:
http://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=cnUxamlkaTZndHZtb2VldjBpb2R0NXNnc28gbjIxZ283N3Jnc3JvYjJ1ZTAxdTM1czlrY2NAZw&ctz=America/Los_Angeles

The MCASD TNT info:
http://www.mcasd.org/events/lectures.asp#TNT

The following is pasted from the fallen fruit artist statement
http://www.fallenfruit.org/media/FF_statement.pdf on their downloads
page. Also check out their maps http://www.fallenfruit.org/maps.html .

The Principles of Fallen Fruit:
1. Fruit on public property belongs to all of us.
2. Mapping it is a way to share with everyone, learning neighborhoods
by foot, rather than by car.
3. Ask property owners to plant fruit trees for everyone.
4. Functional landscaping: ask cities to plant fruit trees in parks,
parking lots, and on streets.
5. Open dialogue within neighborhoods about public spaces.
6. Think about who has fruit and other resources, and who does not.

FALLENFRUIT is a collaboration of Dave Burns, Matias Viegener and
Austin Young http://www.fallenfruit.org

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Fallen Fruit is a collaborative art project which began as a whimsical
mapping of our neighborhood public fruit: all the fruit trees we could
find that grew on or over public property.
When your neighbor's fruit tree hangs into your yard, that fruit is
considered yours. But whose fruit is that on public property? We
believe that fruit planted on private property which overhangs public
space should be public property and created this project to encourage
people both to harvest and plant public fruit. The project is a
response to accelerating urbanization and the loss of people's
capacity to produce their own foods, as well as issues
around grassroots community activism, social welfare and social responsibility.

From the original printed edition, we expanded into a website which
posts local maps from the handmade to the high-tech, submitted by our
neighbors. We have pictures of fruit and
harvesting, including fruit pin-ups. Our ambition is to map the city,
the whole state, and then the world. We have also begun to propose
public fruit projects. These include further mapping, a campaign to
encourage property owners to plant fruit, petitions to the city to
plant streets and parking lots, and a proposal for a public fruit
park. We think of Fallen Fruit as much as community activism as an art
project. Our neighborhood is full of homeless people and uneaten
fruit: why can't the two be connected? We're not interested in random
theft. Our intention is to promote sharing and community-based
thinking.

We live in a world controlled by multinational corporations, in which
we don't know our neighbors, with a media that manufactures social
realities and ignores poverty and
oppression. Our food arrives processed and pre-wrapped, and few of us
know where it comes from. Our cities are full of wasted spaces and
neglected resources. Fallen Fruit proposes that we be able to make
more food with little effort and find ways to map it and networks for
sharing it. The injunction to share food is as old as the Bible, which
tells us that we should not harvest all our food for ourselves; the
fallen fruit should always be left for those who have nothing.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[2] DIY (do it yourself) WWOOF (willing workers on organic farms [and
other good places]) SD County:

While I'm emailing everyone,
I'm looking for local wwoof opportunities.
If I can camp or sleep on the floor at or near where I can work
(unpaid) ~4/hrs day, please let me know. I'm happy to do kitchen,
garden, computer and many other kinds of work.

My main goals are:
* to work with others and
* to visit and learn from different people and places in the county.

For more information, please visit:
http://fo-rest.blogspot.com/2009/01/diy-wwoof-in-sd-county-will-work-for.html

Peace & a smile,
Colin

SD Sunday Streets LinkedIn group

2008-12-17T08:05:00.001-08:00

[Car-free events] are good for surrounding shops and eateries that might otherwise be slow on Sundays. They are also a creative use of public space, helping residents and visitors to imagine uses for the streetscape beyond simply moving traffic through.

Michael Brennan sent you a message:

Please join the new LinkedIn Group called "San Diego Sunday Streets." We are trying to gather local support for this exciting movement going on in cities across the US.

Car-free events have been very successful in several cities, from Bogota's Ciclovia, to New York's Summer Streets 2008, to San Francisco's Sunday Streets. The events are good for surrounding shops and eateries that might otherwise be slow on Sundays. They are also a creative use of public space, helping residents and visitors to imagine uses for the streetscape beyond simply moving traffic through. A Sunday Streets program in San Diego would benefit the city in a variety of ways.

Here's the URL to join:
http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/1496767

We hope that LinkedIn will provide enough contacts in the business and government communities that we can begin to connect with them, so feel free to invite others!

-Mike

Fwd: Happy Holidays from PPS!

2008-12-12T17:05:00.001-08:00

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Project for Public Spaces <info@pps.org>
Date: Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:59 PM
Subject: Happy Holidays from PPS!

Dear Placemaker,

Project for Public Spaces needs the support of everyone who cares about the future of the world's places this holiday season, both by giving us a financial contribution and by promoting Placemaking in your community and through our growing network of activists. Develop a Placemaking agenda in your own community, starting now:

Pledge a tax-deductible donation to support fund vital public space research, fund the development of an online Place Audit, and help bring PPS services and resources to communities in need. No amount is too small...or too large.
Send our newsletter to your friends or purchase a gift membership for Placemakers you know.
Support our Building Communities through Transportation Campaign, which advocates for new street and transit designs centered on serving people and communities.
Lead a Grassroots Placemaking effort in your neighborhood, and learn how local leadership can help to bring about change by developing a Placemaking for Local Leaders program in your city.
Set up a networking group on PPS's online social networking site, The Placemaking Movement, to facilitate discussion and cooperation in your own community.
Nominate your community's best and worst public spaces

Your investment in PPS is an investment in your local community and communities world-wide. In these uncertain times, it is the best investment you can make.

Fred Kent

Founder, President

Project for Public Spaces

rough SD Permaculture update

2008-10-17T13:03:00.000-07:00

Mike T. is planning to visit in December and will be presenting on permaculture to his brother's high school class. He asked if I knew of any great pc demo sites in the area. Besides the wonderful new farm at city college, I don't--but tried to answer any way. Posting from my phone. [bad links fixed with computer]

--

The only new sites I've become aware of since you left: the city college urban farm: a must-see: http://www.sdcity.edu/esc , and girosol.org [http://www.girasolbaja.org/] (? Look up giro sol. I tried contacting them, got no reply. The workshop leaders were from Portland, if it happened). Missed the permacultureconvergence.org (socal ? See links from quailsprings if that's wrong), but heard there are now efforts to organize an sd-tj permaculture gathering this year. Marcia Boruta may be more in the know. She got Brad Lancaster here. . .

Deer park monastery would be another site, progressing fast: monks were at Brad's talk--brother stream and brother vu(?) (rain).

Then there are the other pieces: edible sd mag (haven't seen it, ediblesandiego.com ), the new city heights farmers market, chollas & 54th garden (groundbreaking 10/21).

Alias b's house is in a wonderful spot, nicest I've experienced in sd in fact (camped there), and a very good example of cobbling things together and figuring out problems: grey water, chickens, compost tea bubbler, banana basin (whatever it's called). Showing a great return on 3-4 months effort (~same time as city college farm).

AB's also had to deal with social challenges of pc. . . partner not as into all the experimentation and change. . .but that may be having a happier resolution.

and the restaurant side: the linkery, the local food plate I heard one was putting together.

and you may have seen it: looks like Ellee's getting FNL in gear for another conference.

Julie O's work on the 6th and Quince garden, balboa park.

and who knows what all's been going on with "north coastal food not lawns"--check with rachel of the solana center.

and I just heard of (searching for volunteer ops on americorps.org) a socal city repair variant: aclaparks.org

it's great you'll be here to shake things up. Josh R ( quakingaspenpermaculture.blogspot.com ) is another permie who returns here in december.

may post parts of this to various of the blogs I started. . .

peace,

Colin

RE: car free day (9/22)

2008-09-24T03:18:00.000-07:00

Greg,
I'm sorry not to have been available in time--and the truth is I wasn't aware of any SD world carfree day happenings (been focused elsewhere for a while now). I've passed info on about this contact to the carfreesd list & blog--it could help motivate someone to organize something for next year.

There are every so often carfree-related events organized by different groups (critical mass, bike happenings, reclaim the streets) . . . San Diego would benefit from collaboration between these groups and others with a related interest: WalkSD, SD County Bicycle Coalition, San Diego River, MTS, SurfRiders (and many others) to do something on 9/22.
Peace,
Colin

- original message -
Subject: car free day
From: "Bledsoe, Greg (NBC Universal, KNSD)" <greg (dot) bledsoe (a@t) nbcuni.com>
Date: 09/22/2008 5:47 PM

Colin,
My name is Greg Bledsoe, I'm a reporter for NBC 7/39 here in San Diego. I'm doing a story on World Car Free Day today. Are you at all involved? Is there anything going on here locally. I know it's late notice, but would you be anywhere near downtown early this afternoon before 1:00pm or possibly earlier, and available to do a quick interview with me about car free days. My number is 619-726-6061.
Thanks,
Greg

The gods of streets renaissance blogging are a little closer to San Diego

2008-02-28T00:55:00.001-08:00

More info @ sdtjdph. But here's part of the vision:

Eventually, we can combine the efforts of WALKSD, SDCBC, and other groups such as SD Food Not Lawns which seek to transform our public spaces to be more life-enhancing, and come up with complete street redesigns and reconstructions. We can tear up the middle of vastly overpaved streets such as Streamview Dr (just one example of many), plant orchards and gardens, bike lanes, crosswalks, water-harvesting curb cuts, traffic-calming curb-extensions, and so on.

Portland: Towards Carfree Cities Conference June 16-20, 2008; Village Building Convergence May 23 - June 1, 2008

2008-02-20T06:13:00.001-08:00

More information @ sdtjdphevents.

The Depave Project of City Repair

2008-01-30T14:22:00.000-08:00

http://depave.org/

Meeting Sunday, Feb 3 10-11am @ Mystic Mocha & community bulletin board idea

2008-01-29T13:32:00.001-08:00

The meeting is, I think, to plan a city repair project adjacent to Mystic Mocha and to generally touch base since our last meeting. I added it to the sdtjdph calendar!

Community Bulletin Boards

I have some new ideas inspired by city repair's building of Kiosks. It's this: to encourage the creation of community bulletin boards at people's houses. I will set one up here. Anyone can post there--subject to the keeper of the board leaving their posting there. In addition, each board can have a blog like this. People can email to post to the blog. The keeper of the board can occasionally print a paper copy of the blog posts, and post this to the physical board by her house.

Result:

a network of boards for posting events
board keepers and community members empowered to organize events near their board.

I came up with this approach when considering organizing a film showing at the library near me, as well as other community events. I did not want to organize these until having a way to get more people in my neighborhood to show up at these events.

The board can be combined with walking the neighborhood, knocking on doors. But in addition to announcing an open house / neighborhood party at my garden and an upcoming film showing, I can be announcing the board as well, where neighbors can find out about future events and which they can use to organize their own events (as well as sell their cars, find their lost pets, and so on).

Re: [carfree_network] re-localization, re-definition of identities as local

2008-01-27T12:20:00.001-08:00

Check out this resource:

walkscore.com

It's not exactly a tool to bring neighborhoods together, but it does a
good job of focusing people on thinking about what a neighborhood is
or ought to be, using objective criteria (number and type of
destinations within walking distance).

I think it's just for US addresses, sadly. It's pretty fun to use.

Elly

On Jan 26, 2008 11:52 AM, Colin Leath wrote:
> The problem/opportunity:
>
> People consider themselves residents of a massive urban area and not
> residents of a neighborhood (the places within walking or biking distance)
> -- San Diego, for example, is 372.1 sq.mi (963.6 sq.km).
>
> and they either:
>
> consider it reasonable to regularly travel throughout the region for events
> a using car + highway system,
>
> or: are unaware of and unable to find out about the many events occurring
> local to them, and do not feel empowered to organize anything in their
> neighborhood.

[stuff cut]

Re: San Diego City Repair web site / announcement email list

2008-01-26T12:41:00.001-08:00

So I hear the next meeting is on Sunday, February 3 at Mystic Mocha - was it at 10 a.m.?. I may not be able to make that. Could someone add it to a calendar somewhere?
Peace,
Colin

re-localization, re-definition of identities as local

2008-01-26T11:52:00.001-08:00

The problem/opportunity:

People consider themselves residents of a massive urban area and not residents of a neighborhood (the places within walking or biking distance) -- San Diego, for example, is 372.1 sq.mi (963.6 sq.km).

and they either:

consider it reasonable to regularly travel throughout the region for events a using car + highway system,

or: are unaware of and unable to find out about the many events occurring local to them, and do not feel empowered to organize anything in their neighborhood.

Such regions:

have one regional paper rather than neighborhood papers.

and their residents rarely know their neighbors but form social networks with people throughout the region, requiring further travel, and causing further trip generation.

This is as true for residents of a New York City apartment complex as it is for residents of a bedroom suburb of Los Angeles.

-----------------------

Solutions may include city-repair (cityrepair.org)-like projects as well as yelp.com-like geocoding of events.

If you have other ideas please let me know.

The following post is not well organized, but address some attempts to get at this problem for the San Diego region:
http://sdtjdphevents.blogspot.com/2008/01/re-start-to-wiki-collaborative.html

peace,
Colin

--
Contribute to the SD/TJ Design, Plant, Harvest blog, calendar, & maps! -- http://sdtjdph.blogspot.com/