Charlotte Cecil

Here’s what I’m trying:

I’m slowly learning about permaculture, and I’ve bought your book and PD course. I’d love to attend the PTJ course but that’s just not possible this year. But I will promote it on our social media channels.

In your newsletter today you wrote “Bringing a big group of people together to try is what leads to change.”

I absolutely agree, and I’m trying to bring people together on a community platform I’ve built. It’s for community resilience, emergency preparedness and self-sustainability, and it has a big focus on local food production. https://thrivespring.com/community-projects

paul wheaton wrote: You can put about two hours onto a DVD, so that would be about 85 DVDs.  So we never did that.  

They are offered as "tiny download" and "HD download" so you can put them on a memory card and then watch them when the internet is down.

Ok thanks

All this content looks amazing.

Apologies if this has already been addressed, but is it possible to buy the Permaculture Design Course and Appropriate Technology Course Videos - 177 Hours of Content as a physical DVD set rather than online streaming? I’d like to be able to access it if the internet is down. Thanks

Thanks for the feedback Douglas! It’s currently possible to do a text search for specific locations, but if enough people want to be able to do a location search using a drop down menu with state/region and city then we can definitely add those filters.  

Let me know if you have any other suggestions - much appreciated!!

And if you hear of anyone in your area with an idea for a new project, please send them to the site! It’s really tricky getting people to sign up when it’s so quiet, but I definitely think that cool new projects must come first, or there’s not much reason to join for now. Which is why we’re resorting to bribery on Twitter! :)

https://twitter.com/thrivespring/status/1408477563480162310?s=21

We’ve actually just opened up Thrivespring to the US so feel free to register and post a community resilience project if you’re involved with one or even if you just have an idea for an initiative that will help to make your community more resilient.

Hi Joanna,

Your website looks really good. All the best with your business.

Charlotte

Hi there,

I first came across permies a few months ago (can’t remember how) and was very impressed with the amount of information here and the community. So I thought I would sign up to let everyone know about a community resilience platform my friend and I just launched. I posted details about  it here - https://permies.com/t/163470/Thrivespring-platform-community-resilience - but I’m wondering if I should move it to the Community forum, although as there doesn’t seem to be a general community sub forum I’m not sure which one to use - any suggestions?

Thrivespring is a platform for community resilience, self-sustainability and disaster risk reduction. More details can be found in the link above.

I would be very grateful for any suggestions on how to make the site more useful, and how to encourage people to post projects on our Community Resilience Projects noticeboard.

Thanks,

Charlotte

PS - I really hope this isn’t considered spam as the website is free!

PPS - We’re offering a $50 donation to orgs with relevant community resilience projects - more info here: https://twitter.com/thrivespring/status/1408477563480162310?s=21

Hello everyone,

I’m new here so I hope it’s ok to create this type of post.

My name is Charlotte and my friend Sophie and I have just launched a new platform (which is free of charge) for community resilience, self-sustainability and disaster risk management. It’s called Thrivespring - https://thrivespring.com/.

At the moment, it’s only available for registration in the US, Canada and the UK (to keep it manageable while we learn how to run a community platform) but it will soon be available in other countries. But you can certainly check it out now no matter where you’re located!

To start, we have launched with just two main features - a resources library, and a community resilience projects noticeboard. More features will be added down the road.

Do you have an idea for a project that will help to make your community more resilient? Please post it on Thrivespring!

The noticeboard is where project creators / leaders and community organizations can share details about their projects and request volunteers, resources, donations, fundraisers, sponsors and partners. Projects can be new, ongoing, or completed, and need to fit into one of the following categories:

- Preparedness & Mitigation (eg. flood action groups; community emergency hubs)
- Emergency Response (eg. evacuation assistance; search and rescue)
- Recovery (eg. post-disaster “shop local” campaigns; neighbourhood clean-up crews)
- Food Production and Distribution (eg. urban farming; community supported agriculture; community food gardens; surplus food rescue)
- Water Security (eg. rainwater harvesting; water recycling systems)
- Local Energy (eg. renewable energy microgrids)
- Communications (eg. wireless mesh networks; amateur radio)
- Community Assistance (eg. running errands for seniors during Covid; lost pets search groups)
- Transportation (eg. ride sharing; community transport)
- Local Exchange (eg. time-banking; LETS)
- Health Initiatives (eg. community mental health support)
- Community Funding (eg. provision of funds to local projects within any of the above categories)

In addition to helping you find volunteers, etc. your listing on Thrivespring just might inspire other communities to set up similar projects of their own. It will also help demonstrate the usefulness of this kind of platform at a time when community resilience is more important than ever.

So we really hope you join us!

Best wishes,

Charlotte

PS - a small favour to ask - if you do sign up, please be sure to share a bit of info on your profile such as your relevant interests, to encourage others to do the same! And an image would be great! Thanks :)