Matt Cropp π²π² @mattcropp@social.coop
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Loss, COVID-19, sad
My mom is abstract artist who took a 25 year hiatus to teach middle school #art. This is the first year of her retirement, and #quarantine seems productive for her. Though a little darker vibe than usual:
Streaming the Dropkick Murphy's free St. Pat's show. Need after this week...
COVID19, panic buying mitigation
Dug up some thoughts on #coop movement strategy I wrote in the aftermath of the last financial crisis.
http://cuhistory.blogspot.com/2011/11/bank-transfer-day-populism-and-strategy.html
The gist: grow in a gradualist way in good economic times, and get aggressive during downturns...
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Learned about social.coop #SCaLE18x #introductions I'm an engineer at #sweetgreen and soon to be father. I'm interesting in #gardering #homesteading #IoT #DIY and #politics
The #OakStreetCoop project just hit the $175k minimum equity raise goal required for us to purchase the building! Still a bunch of work to do, but this is a big milestone...
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Rubric for figuring out who makes what decisions
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Lettuce
The only hope we have is our
children and the seeds we give them
and the gardens we plant together.
~Richard Brautigan
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A friend of mine is in the thick of getting starts going for her garden. Made me think about Richard Brautigan and how I should really steal this idea of his. I don't think he'd mind.
"Brautigan's 'Please Plant This Book' consisted of eight poems printed on seed packets. Four of the poems were about flowers. The other four were about vegetables."
http://www.brautigan.net/plant.html#8
Brautigan was the original #SolarPunk.
Ugh, my favorite #CreditUnion in #Vermont has just proposed a bylaws amendment that would give the board the power to modify both the bylaws and the charter without ratification via member referendum. Which would remove a major #DeMutualization firewall.
Hopefully the campaign to reject the proposal can be more of a call-in than an antagonistic messy governance fight. But, regardless, I'd really rather not need to spend energy on this... π
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Our friend @yova has been working on the Solidbase project. They did an assessment of software that could be used for food coops / community supported agriculture which looked at foodsoft
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If you're in #Vermont and have a little extra dough to invest in the #Cooperative economy, check this out:
https://www.milkmoneyinvesting.com/cooperatives/oak-street-cooperative
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After many months of trying, our #bunnies are now happily cohabitating in one pen. π
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Call for Candidates: Coordination Working Group
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Joined Apr 2017
