Community Convergence for Change
The Big ONE 2008
A Grand Collaboration
A Grand Collaboration
June 21& 22, 9am-7pm, 2008
Sharon Meadow, Golden Gate Park
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The Big ONE "village of engagement" is a gathering of people from Bay Area neighborhoods, schools, coops, nonprofits, foundations, businesses, and municipal agencies. Participants will design, envision, collaborate, and dialog with new friends about the future of their neighborhoods and communities.
Prepare for the challenging times ahead; come, be heard, and engage. You can set up a table or an interactive exhibit to collaborate and share information and/or do a workshop, presentation, forum, art project, or hands-on demonstration of sustainable skills. We provide the space – a large grassy area with open-air tents, a media tent, and a stage for music encircling a larger gathering tent for food and socializing.
This is a 100% noncommercial event; nothing will be for sale. Bring picnic food and drink, plates, cups, and utensils for an enormous zero-waste potluck. We will have storytellers and games, and an eclectic mix of live music will be performed throughout each day.
The Big ONE movement represents a tectonic shift in thinking toward sustainability awareness and action, civic engagement, and localization of culture, economy, and decision-making. Based on respect for all life and the planet that sustains us, the gathering provides opportunities to build community through dialogue, committed engagement, and trust.
The Big ONE movement represents a tectonic shift in thinking toward sustainability awareness and action, civic engagement, and localization of culture, economy, and decision-making. Based on respect for all life and the planet that sustains us, the gathering provides opportunities to build community through dialogue, committed engagement, and trust.
The Coalition:
We are Bay Area residents from diverse social and ethnic backgrounds. The seeds of inspiration for this movement were planted in 2005 during the week-long celebration of World Environment Day in San Francisco, which coincided with the 60th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. A small group of people who felt the need to move beyond a celebration, continued the dialogue about how to develop awareness around sustainability issues.
In 2006 we started gathering every three weeks to discuss community and sustainability. We decided to host an annual “convergence” that would bring together people from all walks of life. In order to reach the full spectrum of the diverse community that inhabits the Bay Area, we focused our vision on the elements needed by all life. We all need clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and healthy soil to grow food. We all want inspiring education, decent housing, meaningful relationships, and a culture in which all life is respected and all voices are heard.
Over the past three years 110 people have flowed in and out of our gatherings. No one person “owns” this vision. The Big ONE is a collaborative, democratic embodiment of what we, as engaged members of our communities can create. It belongs to all of us.
Come experience and participate. "The New Me is We."
Partners include:
350.org, Ahuma Institute, Alemany Farm, Architects Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility, Arizmendi Bakery, Bay Localize, Bayview Farmers Market, Bayview/Hunters Point Foundation for Community Improvement, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Buy Local Buy Fresh, Cafe Gratitude, Center for Safe Energy, Communities of Opportunity, Community Alliance for Family Farms, Conscious Change Collective, Core Values, CUESA, Culture Change, Dig Cooperative, Earth Charter Community Alliance, East Bay Pesticide Alert, Ecology Center of San Francisco, Farm Fresh Choice, Gabriel Cousens & Tree of Life, Global Exchange, Global Oneness Project, Green Gulch Farm, Green Music Network, Greywater Guerrillas, Hillary Rubin Yoga, JK Sound, Literacy for Environmental Justice, National Holistic Institute, Network for Good, Oakland Based Urban Gardens, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Off the Mat into the World, Open World, Other Avenues Cooperative, Pacific Edge Institute, Peace Every Day, People’s Grocery, Permaculture Guild, Planet Drum, Quesada Gardens, Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, Regenerative Design Institute, Roots of Change, SF Bike Coalition, SF Dept, of Public Health, SF Dept, of the Environment, SF Food Systems, SF Green Schoolyard Alliance, SF Parks Trust, SF Peak Oil Task Force, Slow Food Nation, Sunrise Center, Sunset Green, Ultimate Prosperity, Urban Alliance for Sustainability, Veritable Vegetable, Wiser Earth, World Savvy, and more.
For more information go to: beautifulcommunities.org
We are Bay Area residents from diverse social and ethnic backgrounds. The seeds of inspiration for this movement were planted in 2005 during the week-long celebration of World Environment Day in San Francisco, which coincided with the 60th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. A small group of people who felt the need to move beyond a celebration, continued the dialogue about how to develop awareness around sustainability issues.
In 2006 we started gathering every three weeks to discuss community and sustainability. We decided to host an annual “convergence” that would bring together people from all walks of life. In order to reach the full spectrum of the diverse community that inhabits the Bay Area, we focused our vision on the elements needed by all life. We all need clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and healthy soil to grow food. We all want inspiring education, decent housing, meaningful relationships, and a culture in which all life is respected and all voices are heard.
Over the past three years 110 people have flowed in and out of our gatherings. No one person “owns” this vision. The Big ONE is a collaborative, democratic embodiment of what we, as engaged members of our communities can create. It belongs to all of us.
Come experience and participate. "The New Me is We."
Partners include:
350.org, Ahuma Institute, Alemany Farm, Architects Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility, Arizmendi Bakery, Bay Localize, Bayview Farmers Market, Bayview/Hunters Point Foundation for Community Improvement, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Buy Local Buy Fresh, Cafe Gratitude, Center for Safe Energy, Communities of Opportunity, Community Alliance for Family Farms, Conscious Change Collective, Core Values, CUESA, Culture Change, Dig Cooperative, Earth Charter Community Alliance, East Bay Pesticide Alert, Ecology Center of San Francisco, Farm Fresh Choice, Gabriel Cousens & Tree of Life, Global Exchange, Global Oneness Project, Green Gulch Farm, Green Music Network, Greywater Guerrillas, Hillary Rubin Yoga, JK Sound, Literacy for Environmental Justice, National Holistic Institute, Network for Good, Oakland Based Urban Gardens, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Off the Mat into the World, Open World, Other Avenues Cooperative, Pacific Edge Institute, Peace Every Day, People’s Grocery, Permaculture Guild, Planet Drum, Quesada Gardens, Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, Regenerative Design Institute, Roots of Change, SF Bike Coalition, SF Dept, of Public Health, SF Dept, of the Environment, SF Food Systems, SF Green Schoolyard Alliance, SF Parks Trust, SF Peak Oil Task Force, Slow Food Nation, Sunrise Center, Sunset Green, Ultimate Prosperity, Urban Alliance for Sustainability, Veritable Vegetable, Wiser Earth, World Savvy, and more.
For more information go to: beautifulcommunities.org
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1 comments:
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