RE: 3 questions on consensus/ftru/new address

H* A*

Don,

I know that you're such an old hand at community gardening that these
guidelines on starting a community garden that  linked to the ACGA website
may be old hat for you ( or maybe you even wrote them yourself!)

However, here they are:

 http://www.communitygarden.org/pubs/starting.html

The list of "Publications Free to ACGA Members" on this link is invaluable.

Non-Robert's Consensus web links: 

1) This is a good guide from "Act Up", an AIDS activist group. While this is
geared towards activists aimed at setting up protests, political actions, or
Civil Disobediance actions, this link is helpful as a guide to how consensus
is reached:

http://www.actupny.org/documents/CDdocuments/Consensus.html

2) This useful link from the Casa Gordita web site. Again, activist, but the
process laid out can be applied to almost any group action:

http://www.casagordita.com/consensus.htm

 - however useful they are. Here's a free link to the public domain version
of the rules:

http://www.constitution.org/rror/rror--00.htm

There is also a newly revised 10th edition, in case you're  interested:
http://www.robertsrules.com/

A Union website's intro to Robert's Rules:

http://afge3d.org/rulesintro.html

Best wishes,
Adam Honigman

-----Original Message-----
From: Dboek@aol.com [D*@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 8:27 PM
To: community_garden@mallorn.com
Cc: dboekelheide@yahoo.com
Subject: [cg] 3 questions on consensus/ftru/new address

Hello, CGers,

I have 3 questions for you:

Can anyone recommend a short clear explanation of consensus-based decision 
making in meetings, ideally one accessible on-line? I badly need guidelines 
that offer a practical alternative to 'Robert's Rules' in community
meetings.

I'd like to find a way to bring ACGA's FTRU program to Charlotte. Does the 
program work with programs that are starting small (in this case, a Friend's

Meeting that is interested in a community garden beside their meeting house)

- understanding that the idea will be to keep growing, so to speak? Where 
does a community start looking for grant $$$, and how much does the 
assistance/consulting of FTRU cost a community/CG group?

Last, sorry about a lame technical question that I should know, but this 
month I'm finally aleavin' AOL. How do I resubscribe to my new email
address?

My little lettuces are just poking their heads up under the remay, but no 
sign of the snowpeas yet. Ah, life in the sunny south - they will be coming 
along soon. 

btw, are CGers aware of the risks of persistent herbicides in municipal 
composts? Although hopefully this problem won't affect most minicipal 
composts, it potentially could. Problems stem from 2 herbicides from Dow 
Chemical, clopyralid (in 'Confront!') and picloram, which do not break down 
in the composting process. They also pass straight through the gut of 
animals, and can show up in horse and cow manure. They are toxic to beans, 
tomatoes and other crops at very low levels - asparagus is affected at a few

parts per _billion_. Problems have been reported in Washington State, 
Pennsylvania and New Zealand.  See <A 
HREF="www.jgpress.com/BCArticles/2001/070125.html">Biocycle article on 
herbicide in compost</A>.

Don Boekelheide
Charlotte NC

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