Resilient Communities Legal Cafe. Direct legal advice and consultations for the sharing economy. We want to live in a society where reliable and affordable legal support is available to all those creating the transition to localized, resilient economies. The Resilient Communities Legal Cafe provides direct legal support to individuals and groups who are working to create new solutions for resilient local economies. Inaugurated in February 2013, the Legal Cafe runs weekly at different locations from East Oakland to Richmond, California.
The Resilient Communities Legal Cafe is a joint effort of SELC and the Green-Collar Communities Clinic (a project of the East Bay Community Law Center). Come, ask us your questions, and join others from your neighborhood who are taking their livelihoods, communities, and economies back! How the Legal Cafe Works The Resilient Communities Legal Cafe provides direct legal advice, workshops, teach-ins, discussions, and legal services to businesses and organizations that are trying to make their communities a better place to live and thrive. Legal Cafe Bites. Favorit Testing. How to Integrate Gift Circles into Any Community. Gift circle, photo credit: Jill Ettinger Community: the Missing Ingredient to Happiness I first learned of Gift Economy in a geodesic dome in the gorgeous middle of nowhere, Utah at a Reality Sandwich retreat in 2009. Charles Eisenstein was there speaking, and the sparkle in his eye was infectious.
I remember scribbling madly in my notebook as he sat cross-legged with his spine perfectly straight, like a modern day messiah, sharing the good news: We get to do what we love! We NEED to do what we love! Just 8 months earlier, I had been laid off from my job as a web designer for Current TV, a hip independent media startup. And one chilly day in November, myself, along with about 50 other employees, found ourselves not so gently ejected from that trajectory.
I quickly slipped into a depression. It was wonderful to access such a sense of belonging and ‘tribe’ in the workplace. What is a Gift Circle? Alpha Lo - Gift Circles at Terra's Temple in Berkeley, CA from Edible City on Vimeo. 1. 2. 3. Sharing Cities Toolkit. Shareable.