permaculture

[John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

> -Finding successful models from:
> 1. Other permie design guilds (They're out there, right?)
> 2. Regular landscape architecture firm structure
> 3. Guild-like organizations we could translate into our context
> 4. The long history of guilds and their structure
> 5. Patterns in nature!
>
> -Forseeing any challenges and learning from other's mistakes 

Google

mondragon cooperatives

for plenty links relevant to one long-established thriving cooperative 
example to look at.

Also look into the actual nature/history of Medieval "guilds"...you will 
probably find that you do *not* want to repeat what they were about!

> (remember, people get weird over money)

...and, it's usually not about the money.  Or the toilet paper or the 
toothpaste tube... :-)

And don't be surprised if apparently progressive people doing apparently 
progressive work and with the best of intentions to do something 
different get really conservative - or "weird" as you say - when it 
comes to creating and using a group/organization structure and process 
(or even part of one) that isn't already familiar to them.

cheers,
John S.


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