Minutes March 13, 2011

Minutes to Carrboro Greenspace, Minutes March 13, 2011

Agenda Items
 * visioning
 * calaboration and/or merger of WCHA and Carrboro Greenspace
 * Community co-housing as a neighborhood hub
 * Co-housing as viable example and physical space for community projects
 * Co-housing as infrastructure for the community
 * Possible grant proposal for resourcing external support
 * importance of daily rituals, community, and family involvement
 * Co-housing as model for community engagement
 * Alternative transportation eg. peddy cabs, possible hitchhiking project signage or bulletin boards
 * "Greenspace" reiterating the importance of physical space to the vision of CG
 * Inviting more CG involvement by intentional and co-housing spaces already established in Carrboro
 * Greenspace as a means of facilitating more involvement and empowerment of poor and minority sections of the community
 * Developing a toolkit of practices or skills for increasing sustainability
 * projects
 * Town commons infrastucture for gatherings and events
 * Cooperative buying of necessities such as food
 * Andrea, Mihal, James, Lydia
 * Website content as a resource sharing skills or successful examples
 * Andrea will train those interested
 * how to PDF guides
 * Will follow successful projects and be based on notes taken
 * movie showing
 * James, Andrea, peter, Sammy, Andee
 * Manufactured landscapes, The story of stuff, Dirt
 * Project evaluation
 * Hitchhiking "Toeheel"
 * Lydia, andee (lamination of signage)
 * Urban Farm Tour
 * Sammy, Lydia, Peter, Andrea, Mihal
 * Workshop series
 * Rob, Mihal, Andrea, Andi
 * Farmer Appreciation Table
 * Tax Breaks for urban food production for property owners
 * Discussion groups to prioritize projects and evaluate their success or failure
 * Reclaimation of wilodlife habitat and extention of corridors highlight examples of guerilla gardening
 * goals
 * meetings with coops and/or dinner party to gather people and discuss projects
 * WCHA board members going to report discussions per CG callaboration