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was recently put onto this website by my sister, totally awesome idea, and i want to share it around.
http://www.ripenear.me/about

That page is not about free food.
Funny that their first step to promote local small scale economics is to make a webpage, I doubt it will take off.
Meanwhile (at least in germany) in many cities there already exist working examples of local exchange systems, not just markets with local farmers but even smaller scale like stuff from private garden.
Not just limited to food but anything from piano lessons, housework, used books, clothes, selfmade stuff. Organized by the people actually living there imo that is much better way.
Apps and internet are not the solution to everything.

knorke wrote:Apps and internet are not the solution to everything.

Exactly

i agree with knorke. this smells like something like skype, opengarden or google, basically too professional/commercial and aimed at global data gathering. that is the exact opposite of what it should be, in every aspect. with this topic though, other then with skype and co., it will have a much harder stance, luckily. first goal has to be freedom of the people, not the data. many different local systems, as knorke describes, are better.
... imagine the machines take over, or aliens, and they get a full inventory of all our food...
reminds me: i suggest you all make yourselfs some aluminum foil hats (at least 4 layers!).

about not "free food":
it could be free as in speech, not as in beer, and then it would (in the theory they portray) be correct, though in reality not really, so.. i agree: no free food there!

hoijui wrote:about not "free food":
it could be free as in speech, not as in beer, and then it would (in the theory they portray) be correct, though in reality not really, so.. i agree: no free food there!

lol, well I guess thats the state of things then. They are from my home town, we're naive enough to think this is a good idea. I was planning on growing and giving excess away, but i'm afraid of the internet hate machine(not really, I still plan on doing it in the future).

knorke wrote:That page is not about free food.
Funny that their first step to promote local small scale economics is to make a webpage, I doubt it will take off.
Meanwhile (at least in germany) in many cities there already exist working examples of local exchange systems, not just markets with local farmers but even smaller scale like stuff from private garden.
Not just limited to food but anything from piano lessons, housework, used books, clothes, selfmade stuff. Organized by the people actually living there imo that is much better way.
Apps and internet are not the solution to everything.

Is money used in the local exchange or are you trading lemons for piano lessons?

Depending on city and peoplepersons it takes different forms.
For services usually no real money is used, instead they keep some list who has done how many work-hours or have some form of own "currency". It is called "Tauschring" ("exchange ring") so the idea/motto is "to exchange instead of paying" http://www.pirx.myfindex.de/images/kreislauf.gif
For products it is basically normal shops using normal money, except they only sell selfmade/donated stuff. Sometimes that is one small room that opens once a week, sometimes it is normal-looking multi-level shopping center.

This whole concept allready expired when it hit free love. Cause free love means free syphillis.

I will not eat the food that somebody else already ate.

No Humancentipedes

somthin somethin farmer's markets somthin somthin localmarketinitiativelisting.gov Don't buy fruit anywhere else.

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If we all throw our hats together, and totally not behave outside of the usual set of human behaviour patterns, we could..

and if you dont throw your hat.. we should

you better get moving citizen, throwing your head before the secret states police throws you for not throwing- they make you eat your hat till you throw up - you know - and its all for a good cause or was it a effect, i forgot, but its a really smoth hat accelerator machine we keep going - what it once was for noone dares to ask or simply desires to be knowing..

Idealism harbours the monster of judgment to those not willing to bow to its totalitarian utopia.
Why not rant over people, and then add the little sentece. "But even considering all that, you could squeeze this or that out of those deformed behaviouristics, without expecting a complete restructuring of peoples minds."

Oh, wait that option is contaminated with h³w (harbour horrible hard work). And i wanted the better off you, without me having to do.. :)

knorke wrote:Funny that their first step to promote local small scale economics is to make a webpage, I doubt it will take off.

Funny that the first step to improving communication is using the most efficient communication machine ever created?

knorke wrote:Meanwhile (at least in germany) in many cities there already exist working examples of local exchange systems, not just markets with local farmers but even smaller scale like stuff from private garden.
Not just limited to food but anything from piano lessons, housework, used books, clothes, selfmade stuff. Organized by the people actually living there imo that is much better way.

Around Cincinnati, Farmer's Markets and Flea Markets are quite prolific. But most days of the week (for the non-food items) I prefer to use craigslist.

Ok ok there are NGO sites too.