How do we create local economies which are a reflection of all of our contributions for

 every stakeholder, just, self-sufficient yet fit seamlessly into the present monetary economy?

ALIGNED ORGANIZATIONS

Annie Leonard Story of Stuff 

www.storyofstuff.org

Collaborative Consumption, All About Sharing, Adam Werback, www.yerdle.com  Yerdle

 Part 1. http://storyofstuff.org/podcasts/sharing-

part-one/http://storyofstuff.org/podcasts/sharing-part-one/

DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-?

BUSINESS PLAN

INDIGENE COMMUNITY Chapter of the

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION*

* Canadian Non-Profit Corporation 1994

PROMOTERS: DOUGLAS JACK (System design), 9662 rue Jean-Milot, LaSalle, QC H8R1X9,

514-365-9594 douglasf.jack@gmail.com  & TED EWANCHYNA (software programmer)

BUILDING LIVELIHOOD

FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES

BUY & SELL THROUGH CATALOGUING YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD TALENT, GOODS & SERVICES

LES VIVRES POUR LES COMMUNAUTÉS PLUS SAINES

VENDRE & ACHETER EN CATALOGUANT LES TALENTS, BIENS & SERVICES DES BON VOISINS DE VOTRE QUARTIER

INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY ECONOMY IN CULTURES OF GIVING & RECEIVING

‘Indigene’ (Latin = ‘self-generating’) + 'Community' (L 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift or service')

'Indigène' (Latine = 'généré du soi') + 'Communauté' (L 'com' = 'ensemble' + 'munus' = 'cadeau ou service')

Indigene Community www.indigenecommunity.info   Communauté Indigène

‘Akwe:kon' Mohawk = 'All of us'

We’re all originally ‘indigenous’ (L = 'self-generating') peoples from everyplace on earth. Heritage is hundreds of thousands if not millions of years old with remarkable worldwide similarities in:

1) 3-dimensional orchard-tree polyculture food production in tropical & temperate climate zones, 2) Organisation of labour around domestic economy Multihome living in Longhouse (apartment-like) & Pueblo (townhouse-like) complexes, 3) specialized Production Society provision of goods / services, 4) Time-based accounting with the string shell, 5) progressive ownership from youth to elder, 6) Women's councils, 7) Vision-quest education, 8) Circle & council process 9) formal dialogue processes among individuals at every level of community.

2 ½ minute Indigene Community You-tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEWHESuIP_s

‘DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-?’ PROJECT SUMMARY

‘DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-?’ ‘Community’ (Latin ‘com’ = ‘together’ + ‘munus’ = ‘gift or service’) ‘Economy’ (Greek ‘oikos’ = ‘home’) draws upon ‘indigenous’ (Latin ‘self-generating’) African & worldwide heritage stories, here transmitted by Harry Belafonte in Turn the World Around,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLqb64Pb9So&feature=kp

2       MARKET STUDY

2.3      Comparative analysis of the competition/potential collaborators

Note: IC offers a full range of essential talents, goods & services. We join our resident & business talents to add-to & improve the performance of each specific business & institution.

Introduction: ‘Do-we-know’ is significantly different from:

1) Commerces, stores & restaurants which operate in the monetary & capital markets mostly selling new products from industrial production.

2) e-Marketers eBay, Kijiji, Craig’s List, Amway & other distant unknowing web-based marketers, because of the feedback cycle for product & service qualities found in our organizing of friend, family & neighbourhood networks, capacities, governance & proximity. Email communications sent to these for possible partnership development.

3) On-line Community ‘Barter’ Systems such as Local Exchange Trading System LETS (D. Jack involved with the founders of British Columbia’s Slocan Valley LETS system in the 1970s, Banc d’échange communautaire en service BECS (Montreal), Magenta (Privately organized 1980s Montreal barter system), Jack-of-all-Trading-Units, JOATU by Jamie Klinger, Skill-Share Ste-Emelie/St-Henri. Douglas Jack was brought to give a workshop on Indigenous Economy to the EF Schumacher 2004 international conference : Local Currencies in the 21st Century at Bard College near Albany, New York. All Barter systems organize credit, trades & currency with good intention but leave-out: multi-stakeholder, investment & owner-intelligence of citizens, thus failing to thrive.

4) Government & Private based Social Service Institutions are organized hierarchally around client deficits (needs-based assessments) ignorant of their strengths, with clients as passive recipients of often inappropriate services because of the lack of client voice & empowerment in linear hierarchal institutions. Yet clients need to be valued & to value themselves medically, socially & economically. ‘Do-We-Know- ?’ organizes complementary ‘community’ (Latin ‘com’ = ‘together’) + ‘munus’ = ‘gift or service’) talents, goods & services, so that strengths are considered & employed in an inter-dependent & complementary way.

Selection of analysis criteria:

- Catalogue, Mapping & Accounting animation of citizen-client whole person & community talents, goods & services for giving & receiving. Whole community integrates domestic-community, commercial & industrial goods & services.

- Credits from various contributions given MEM value so that all community contributors can interact economically.

- Welcoming, Inclusive, Participatory Economy for individuals, families, multi-home, communities, business, institutions etc. as fractals of the whole.

- Quality-control for goods & services by all stakeholders empowered as recognized & voting contributors.

- Adding value to existing economies & structures, integrating all stakeholders as contributing participants through accounting recognition of key contributions.

2.4                  Target market analysis

Community Web-based Economy (software convened) animating neighbourhood complementary interactions of human resources to know about each other’s capacities, interact in proximity & meet all human needs to both give & receive talents, goods & services. Idle & waylaid human & physical resources augment present monetary capital economies.

Primary segment: Individuals & families living in multihome dwellings & neighbourhoods, get to ‘know-who-we-are’, collaborate & form companies with similar talents/sectors, are credited for transactions & services with MEM, earn, invest & spend. There is animation of ‘domestic’ (multihome infrastructure such as food-preparation, care of young, differentially-abled & elderly) & ‘community’ (L ‘com’ = ‘together’ + ‘munus’ = ‘gift or service’) ‘economy’ (Greek ‘oikos’ = ‘home’) as well as commercial & industrial activities, through cataloguing, mapping & accounting.

Percentage of first-year earnings generated by the segment = 100%

1st 6 months with 7700 Talents Catalogued online generate 1790 resident transaction worth 35,800$ resident revenues supported by 3580$ Administration Fees &

6061$ MEM investments through: transactions = 2864$ MEM + choice 3197$ MEM

2nd 6 months with 516,600 Talents Catalogued online generate124,000 investment & exchange transactions worth 2,520,000$ resident revenues supported by 252,000$ 10% Adm

Target territory: LaSalle-Gardens / Heights, LaSalle-Montreal (aka ‘The Heights’.

Interested local community activists: West-Park Village DDO, Ted Ewanchyna, Ile-des-Soeurs Verdun (Serge Bellemare), Notre-Dame-de-Grace (TransitionsNDG), St-Lazare (Dag Radicevic Dag Radicevic dagrad@sympatico.ca  514-455-6241) & Fredericton New-Brunswick

Buying behaviour:  Number of clients needed to achieve target earnings for this segment:

COMMUNITY OWNED & OPERATED: In the 1st 6 months we involve 315 investing Vendor, Worker, Consumer & Fund -members & 1790 individuals / business ownership investment & exchange transactions monthly in LaSalle-Gardens achieved through resident & business participation in improving their own livelihood/ business support networks. Residents join with similar talents to provide quality responsible intimate goods & services in closer proximity. The consumer (client) invests, receives purchase accreditation & is celebrated for their own talents, goods & services. Word-of-mouth advertizing simultaneously received from multiple neighbourhood contacts gives neighbourhood economies huge advantage. Despite all of the false advertising, no business with monetary-capital, non-profit or cooperative is achieving these cultural empowerment goals.

2.5          SWOT analysis (Strengths/weaknesses/opportunities/threats)  

PRESENT ECONOMY: 70% of neighbourhood dwellers live in apartments, townhouses & village centers immersed unaware of 1000s of specialties & interests all around. We don’t know our fellow residents & don’t interact to generate livelihood together. The Consumer domestic & community service economy is as large as the Producer industrial-commercial economy but without organization & tools for our knowledge & tools. In driving the super-highway to hierarchal work, school & play in structures, citizens become isolated & try to be generalists, with cupboards, shelves & storage rooms filled with expensive specialized tools & articles. We use these rarely, often not even yearly or even in decades. Priorities change, but cupboards remain full. Given cost-of-space, we throw more of this unused capacity into the garbage each year than we sell, recycle or reuse. eBay, Kijiji etc require expensive shipping. Massive inefficient continental (trillion $ yearly) economies waste physical & human resources destroying ecologies worldwide. Damage follows the basic hidden operating instruction of money, “Get me more of this good or service!” Detached worldwide monetary systems are unaware of impacts. Agents employed in finance & sourcing, act to transfer embedded costs to the detriment of 3rd World ‘others’, with or without awareness of 1st world consumers.

In work & business few are fulfilling their deeper dreams of collaboratively contributing meaningful talents & intelligence to make the world a better place. 40% of the Canadian Export Economy is based in raw materials & finished products for arms, munitions, security & war. USA has the same 40% war-economy level reflecting interests of primarily resource-extraction companies. Canada is #1 in both forestry & mining company activity per capita worldwide destroying land, air, water & biosphere ecologies everywhere. In protection of false ‘economy’, Canadian companies employ huge paramilitary forces & choose our role as #3 in war economy per capita worldwide. As a specialist who has worked in structural geological research with the Canadian & US Geological Surveys, Forestry, Pulp & Paper quality control as well as in organizing & employed in urban recycling system, Douglas Jack can attest that there’s 1) greater mineral-ore density sitting refined in urban garbage than in the most lucrative mountain mine, 2) more refined high quality paper & wood product in our garbage than in forest wood lots.

3       MARKETING PLAN

COMMUNICATING ‘DO-WE-KNOW-? PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS TO OUR CONSUMERS

We help neighbours & business self-promote the talents, goods & services as part of a whole. Community web-sites spotlight ‘indigenous’ multihome residents & business. Everyone knows mainstream advertisers have other masters than the communities in which they sell.

LOCATION / DISTRIBUTION NETWORK

Locating right in the midst of densely populated walkable multihome living complexes & neighbourhoods, privileges ease-of-access, interaction & proximity, where young & old, female & male, friends & family contribute to each other through cataloguing, mapping & accounting for their contributions, brings huge economies not available in the $ commerce-only economy.

PRICE SCHEDULE 

Residents & Businesses decide their own prices for talents, goods & services. Their own deep knowledge about product qualities, tailored goods & services & the market itself will reinforce appropriate pricing. We advocate market-rates, but residents & business establish their own catalogue prices. Joining similar resident & business specialties together, they form a small companies offering greater diversity of goods & services & support each other in this decision-making process. We support individuals & businesses in their desired professional talents, goods & services. We carry a wide range of 2nd Hand Goods & people centered services at better prices than 1) mainstream commerce, 2) online marketers, 3) perpetually under-capitalized ‘Barter’ systems or 4) social services can ever provide. These four are outsiders to personal resident consumer lives. Indigene Community organizes multihome residents for individual & business strengths so as to have an economic reciprocal relationship with these four, on-equal-terms. Vendor Cost / transaction = 10% of talent, goods or service sale made.

Posting of ‘Text’ description of business, individual or Talents = FREE. One Gigabyte Vendor member space for Pictures or Video = 10$15 / year/GB. Vendors are required to invest 8% of each transaction for MEM ownership, repayable as finances permit or within the context of minimum & maximum MEM holdings are required of members. Transaction administration fees & MEM investments are reduced with higher levels of MEM ownership, hence fees are transferred over to business, companies, caucuses or Production-Society/Guilds. Consumers can lower transaction adm. Fees through certain levels of MEM ownership.

COMMERCIAL ACTIONS

Timing

Frequency

Budget

Projected Sales

3 Mar 2014

Sharing of Business Plan with Community Partners Reach out to Community Advocates Financial Planners, Software Programmers etc.

Invest/Loan time-energy-expertise by principal developers

Institutional support & funding from university & government entities

1 Apr

Launching of D-W-K-? software Beta-version on 1 Community website for LaSalle-Gardens

50$ hosting / web-site = 100$/month. Telephone + internet = 160$/month

400$ from 20 vendor transactions with 40$ 10%Adm +

12 May

2 students hired on Canada Summer Jobs

10$15 x 40 hr. /wk x 16 wk = 640 hr

Students register Vendor Talents in 2 communities

1 June

‘Do-we-know-?’ software Version 1.0

Ted & Doug invest/loan

1600$ = 800 Vendor transactions with 160$ = 10%Adm

1 Sep.

Version 1.1 2 CSJ Student contract ends. Neighbourhood workers hired personel continue managing & promoting system.

3580$ in Adm fees + 6061$ MEM (capital considered as member loan)

20000$ member sales

1 Jan. 2015

Version 1.2 4 community websites operating. Each web-version adds client functions giving incentive for participation.

32,000$ admin revenues, 51584$ MEM invested by 750 Vendors

65600 TalCat, 16000 tran, 320,000$ member sales, 7715$20 Adm Website GB revenue

4       OPERATING PLAN

4.1      Operating strategy

List your business’ principal production methods and procedures.

1) Development of NEIGHBOURHOOD WEB COMMUNITY ECONOMY SOFTWARE for Cataloguing, Mapping, Accounting for Investment & Exchanges. Continual Web-version Updates designed for diverse community characteristics.

2) Implementation of NEIGHBOURHOOD WEB-LISTING OF LOCAL TALENTS, goods & services with progressive participatory ownership involvement by all specialty individuals & businesses. Members promote ‘Do-we-know-?’ among their networks inviting friends, family, neighbours & community members to list their own talents as well as benefiting with others.

3) LOCAL STUDENTS PROMOTION ‘Do-we-know-?’ among friends, family & community individuals, businesses & organizations. Promotion among social-e-media networks & as community interest articles in newspapers, radio, TV.

4) SELF-GENERATING PROFITABILITY of system encourages multiple communities to adopt ‘Open-Source’ software.

5) MULTI-DISCIPLINARY approach to Asset-Based Community Development Economy ABCDE. We inspire by valorizing resident gifts. Over the past 20 years Doug & partner Rebecca have:

a) planted over 50 mostly food trees, fruit-bushes, perennial-herbs in a Polyculture Orchard of over 200 square metres. Many children & their parents have become involved. 2011 Doug innovated, designed & built a Cement-board Composter for food & paper cuttings which provides rodent (rat, mice, squirrel, groundhog, racoon, skunk etc) free composting in compact urban environments.

b) EXEMPLIFYING INNOVATION: 2014 Doug is building a demonstration Linear-Axis-Helical-Windmill, which captures 12 – 15 times wind concentrations (speed & density) from wind diversion on wind-shear surfaces such as windward wall building edges & roof-lines. Dag Radicevic Electrical Engineer / Physicist is providing consultation. Through showing innovation in a prominent publicspace, people loosen-up & eager to show & undertake their own projects.

c) 2014 Doug is building a prototype 36-inch wheel Ergonomic Cycle.

d) 2014 Doug is building a prototype 28 cm Stride Wheels to replace Roller-blades.

4.2      Resources required

• INFORMATION

Indigene Community webpage https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are  ‘Do-we-know-?’ section / page has communicated the Community Economy concept among residents & activist for 6 months now. During the process of writing this business plan we’re reaching out to  interested parties, some of whom appear in this document. Rather than sending out ‘commercial’ information, we communicate with people & businesses about their talents, goods & services as well as possibilities for involvement. Indigene Community employs a tracking code on the website to permit Google Analytics to gather statistics on the number & nature of visitors in aggregated data.

As of 18 March 2014 since 3 years & 231 days from its launch on the 27 July 2010, 7621 different visitors have visited IC www.indigenecommunity.info  9776 times reading 17,200 sections (called pages) from 129 countries across every continent & ocean. Over 100 individuals have joined IC from countries worldwide through Indigene Community Facebook page having now made many 100s of dialogues & exchanges almost every day on a host of human livelihood issues from a number of centres : Quebec, USA, England, India, Australia, France, Brazil, South-Africa, Serbia etc.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/indigenecommunity/permalink/680425091999690/

• HUMAN RESOURCES

Animation of neighbourhood resident & local business talents, goods & services. Joining similar interests together into companies. Advertising talents among friends, families, organizations & businesses. MEM recognition for the contributions of Founder/Funders, Workers, Suppliers (Vendors & others) & Consumers. Caucusing of like-interests among Vendors & stakeholder Associations with specialist management of goods & service economies.

• SUPPLIERS

Individual & Business VENDORS provide talents (eg. Consulting), goods (new & 2nd Hand) & services. Suppliers also include such as INTERNET web hosting, e-accounts, BANKING (eg. Bank or Caisse Populaire) services for member credit & MEM investment accounts, OFFICE space & equipment (Eg. Apartment Complex or Condominium space) & others who are supplying talents, goods & services to ‘Do-we-know-?’ from an outside location. We prefer Suppliers who are invested into ‘Do-we-know-?’ in their neighbourhoods & provide MEM recognition for specific contributions as well as a voice within specialized Production-Society (Guilds) – companies as well as within each neighbourhood’s Supplier Association.

• MATERIAL AND FINANCIAL

Over the past year March 2013 – 14 Douglas Jack (‘Do-we-know-?’ Systems Designer & Implementer) & Ted Ewanchyna (Software designer & implementater) have been developing the ‘Do-we-know-?’ system & software.  We’are launching the system in LaSalle-Gardens. We provide systems & web expertise, office-space, web-site hosting, telephone & organization. We evaluate these contributions as loans / investments translated as MEM estimated at 60,000$ MEM. All member contributors to the projects development understand MEM as a unit of contribution/experience/expertise/decision-making-acumen or intelligence.  All are paid interest directly or compounding in MEM holdings & must have the option to be paid back when income is sufficient in addition to operations.  CLSC LaSalle, Kahnawake Economic Development Commission, Canadian Cohousing Network, Transitions NDG, McGill & Concordia Universities, Federation of Canadian Municipalities, Common-Dreams, Reader-Supported-News, Truth-out, Democracy-Now & other civic-organizations & news organizations.

 PROJECTED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

4.3      Project cost and financing

‘Do-we-know-?’ project is an ongoing essential service within communities to organize physical & human resources.  We’re creating not just an entrepreneurial (beginning) stage but ongoing economic & governance process by which stakeholders: Funders, Workers, Suppliers & Consumers, who animate & collaborate community resources are recognized for specific expertize / interest contributions & empowered in resource generation & governance process.

4.4      Sales and sales breakdown

Sales accrue to each Vendor, who develop MEM ownership in the system. ‘Do-we-know’ is a Catalogue, Mapping & Accounting service for communities, which generates income for operations through charging a 10% administration Transaction fee of each sale to each Vendor. Vendor, Consumer & other viewers must have certain levels of MEM invested in the system to view Vendor Map locations. Website tracking codes keep track of inquiries by Customers who must have a positive account MEM or $ balance with which to complete each purchase. Owner members promote ‘Do-we-know-?’ system for their own business benefit among their family, friends & communities, hence true popular networking with incentive for participation. Monthy sales more than double on an exponential basis from April 2014 at 400$, May 800$, Jun 1600$, Jul 4000$, Aug 9000$, Sep 20000$ totally 35800$ in the 1st 6 months & continuing to double in Oct, Nov, Dec 2014 & Jan, Feb, Mar 2015 totalling 2,520,000$ for 2nd 6 months.

4.5      Purchases and purchase breakdown

Vendors establish their own Cost of Goods Sold for all talents, goods & services Catalogued. ‘Do-we-know-?’ as an organization in each neighbourhood/community charges 10% to each Vendor sale for our catalogue, mapping & accounting with organizational & web services. Vendors are required to invest 8% of each transaction price for MEM ownership. Vendors are grouped within areas of goods & service specialty. Vendors & Consumer members are given lower % transaction fees according to certain MEM levels of ownership, hence a system trustworthiness. Consumers are encouraged through differential charges to pay ‘on-line’ through their MEM account hence a trackable transaction. Web costs beyond ‘text’ product descriptions & hence higher Gigabyte picture & video communication ‘server’ loads are charged to each Vendor as a Web Administration fee of one MEM or 10$15 per GB /year.

4.6      Cash budget

Presently Doug & Ted’s expertise & personal financial stability (ability to invest/ loan expertise, resources & time) is the foundation for the launching period until revenues adequately cover operating expenses. We estimate monthly operating expenses to cover our:

-       Computer, internet, phone, web, devoted office space & equipment in office/month at

1)    50$ hosting / website.

2)    80$ Telephone + internet.

3)    130$ / office Space

TOTAL 260$/month in office

-       By October 2014, revenue-financed Salary to cover one Neighbourhood Coordinator at 2000$ / month with insurance, employment insurance, Quebec CSST, benefits.

TOTAL 2000$/month salary both community offices.

-       Douglas & Ted are invest equivalent value start-up costs until revenues meet expenses foreseen by the 7th month of operation October 2014.

APPENDICES

APPENDIX -  Timetable of activities

APPENDIX - Dash Board –

Market Study

i. Websites consulted:

1._ www.indigenecommunity.info Worldwide Indigenous Economy tools, accounting, governance

2. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE: Douglas Associating with Jardins LaSalle neighbourhood since 1988 through family & as a Specialized Educator. Associated with partner & children with families, children & city. Living in Jardins L. neighbourhood since 2000 getting to know residents as family, friends, neighbours in associations, helping to establish Pointe-Claire, LaSalle, Montreal & Quebec’s cosmetic complex synthetic Pesticide ban 2003, Community-Health, CLSC, Table de developpement sociale, Candidate for Green Party of Canada in 2004 federal election, LaSalle-Gardens Mutual-Aid Committee, Concordia University Community Economic Development graduate program 2004-5, Relational-Economy projects, gardening, composting, invention of Cement-Board composter2011, Employee, West Island YMCA-led, Separation-at-Source-Recycling program for Beaconsfield, Pointe-Claire & Pierrefonds & mutual-aid.

3. ~ 1 million$ / building at welfare rates of ~30,000$ /year/ household. eg. LaSalle Gardens http://www.city-data.com/canada/LaSalle-City.html

http://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/hot-topics/caninequality.aspx  to up to

~ 3 – 5 million$ /building for individuals & families in higher-end condominiums 73,355$/year/household DDO average household income. Community is presently un & underserved by present commercial & industrial economies.

4.International Association for Public Participation www.iap2.org Canadian chapter founding conference in Montreal 2005. Doug was commissioned to give workshop on ‘Organizing from the Tree-Roots’.

5.Both Douglas & Ted are computer literate for decades now. Ted with his Master’s degree & Douglas hired as a researcher on diverse government (eg.CMHC), media (eg. CBC), university (McGill & Concordia) research projects involving web-research capacities.

ii. Works consulted: (title, author, year of publication)

1.Building Communities from the Inside Out, A Path Towards Finding & Mobilizing a Community’s Assets, John P. Krezmann & John L. McKnight 1993, Northwestern University, Asset-Based Community Development Institute www.abcdinstitute.org  Douglas met John McKnight at a McGill workshop in 1989.

A Guide to Mapping Local Business Assets & Mobilizing Local Business Capacities, 1996, ABCD

A Guide to Mapping Consumer Expenditure & Mobilizing Consumer Expenditure Capacities, 1996, ABCD

2. Dr. Lou Brown, University of Madison, Wisconsin, Integrated Community Living, Doug met Lou in 1989. http://mn.gov/web/prod/static/mnddc/live/parallels2/video-13-p2/louBrown.html  Excellent video!

3.Herb Lovett, Massachusetts, http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Listen-Positive-Approaches-Difficult/dp/1557661642  Doug met Herb in 1989.

4.Mutual Aid, A Factor of Evolution, Petr Kropotkin, circa 1905 Intra & interspecies collaboration.

5.The Constitution of the Five Nations, Iroquois Book of the Great Law, AC Parker, 1916

6. Stolen From Our Embrace, The Abduction of First Nation Children & the Restoration of Aboriginal Communities, Suzanne Fournier & Ernie Crey, 1997 Doug met Ernie for days in 1971 describing issues.

7. The Essential Gandhi, An Anthology, His Life Work & Ideas, Edited by Louis Fischer, 1961

8. Amer-Ind Gestural Code Based on Universal American Indian Hand Talk, Madge Skelly, 1979. Foundation for American Sign Language (Douglas is trained in ASL), gestural & sign communication with aphasia, deafness, multi-language & communication skills in general.

9. 1491, new Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mann, 2006. Our worldview is informed by colonial historical indoctrination. What we believe is possible in human relations, economy & ecology depends are informed by how we learn & what we are informed of. This is the foundation.

10. Tsi Tetsionitiotiakon 105 Mohawk & other 1st Nation placenames throughout ‘Tiohtiake’ (‘Place where the nations & their rivers, unite & divide’) Sustainability Rooted in Heritage. 2000, GIS mapping coordinated by Douglas Jack with 35 elders from Kahnawake & Kanehsatake under the direction of Melvin Tekahonwen:sere Diabo, Director of the Kahnawake Onkwawen:na Mohawk Language Center.

10. Money, Understanding & Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender, Thomas H. Greco, 2001, met in New York at EF Schumacher Society international Local Currencies in the 21st Century, 2004 conference where Doug gave a workshop on Indigenous Economy.

iii. Experts met: (name, title, organization) see also Works consulted with meetings

1.John L. McKnight 1989 at McGill University conference on Integrated Education including meeting Eldridge Cleaver Black Panther (advocate for differentially abled son).  . www.abcdinstitute.org

2.Lou Brown 1989 at Les Promotions Sociales Taylor-Thibodeau staff-conference on integrating living, http://mn.gov/web/prod/static/mnddc/live/parallels2/video-13-p2/louBrown.html

3.Herb Lovett 1989 at LPSTT staff-conference workshop, Learning to Listen, Positive Approaches and People with Difficult Behavior (1996)

4.Pete Seegar, spoke with & sang songs with for hours 2004 at Local Currencies in 21st Century conference at Bard College where Pete attended Doug’s Indigenous Economy workshop. (travel with Burl Ives 1971). Essential role of music in community  & communications based in human livelihood experiences.

5.Professor Ray Tomalty PhD. Urban Planning McGill University. Doug was hired on the Canadian Mortgage & Housing Corporation   www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca , Implementing Sustainable Community Development : Charting a Federal Role for the 21st Century working with Steven Peck www.greenroofs.org  Ray follows the ‘Do-we-know-who-we-are-?’ Community Economy development with interest.

iv. QUESTIONNAIRES: (available as electronic documents linked below)

a) Title : Cohousing in the LaSalle-Gardens Community https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/4-lasalle-gardens-cohousing-mutual-aid  on line as web-page & Word attachment.

Number of respondents: 100 Questionnaire Title: Cohousing in the LaSalle-Gardens Community

Date of survey: Submitted 1st Dec. 2011 with Community University Research Exchange C.U.R.E.

Location: LaSalle Gardens Mutual Aid Committee Cohousing project with Tegan Wiebe research

Type of survey: Student Intern interviews with community residents, Summer 2011   Phone: 25 calls  Face to face: 25 meetings Internet: 25 articles research

Other details: Cohousing implies the concept of ‘Intentional-Communities’ involving diverse economic organization of livelihood economies resulting in resource management capacity for housing & property.

b) Communities Working Towards Sustainable Food Systems, Three case studies of community developments in Montreal, Quebec  https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy on-line as a web-page & Word attachment.  # of Respondents: 100 

Questionnaire Title: Tara Mather Community Food Systems 2008 TaraMatherCommFoodSystems20082008.doc 

Date of Survey : Submitted August 2008 with C.U.R.E. student (from Texas) Tara Mather research.

Location : LaSalle-Gardens Mutual Aid Committee Relational Economy Project with Tara Mather research

Type of survey : Student intern interviews with LaSalle-Gardens community residents Spring-Summer ‘08. Phone : 25 calls, Face-to-face 25 meetings, Internet : 25 articles researched. Other details : Food is the fundamental human economy in terms of being our most frequent interaction with the biosphere. Per person food expenditures run at about 3000$ per person per year supported on a thrice daily routine. Housing also runs at about 3000$ /person/year average per family & several person household. Our survey involved contacts with local food Super-markets, Restaurants & Grocery stores with inquiry about organizing community members to join, invest-in, be represented in a Consumer Association & patronize specific community food stores with their food dollars & fidelity. The LaSalle-Gardens Mutual-Aid Committee organized 100 households. We were welcomed but needed some 100 households (= 300 people = 1,000,000$ annual food purchases) per store in order to influence corporate policy. We realized during this process that; it is better to community economically organize based in resident & business individual strengths, self-concepts & capacities in order to build up to the Relational Economy level we all have. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpbmRpZ2VuZWNvbW11bml0eXxneDo3MDI2OTMyOWYwYjg4YjJh

v. Other (associations, organizations, etc.):

1.Canadian Association for Community Living, North-York, Ontario, www.cacl.ca

2. Vision Media Communications with founder Lawrence Levin. Douglas is the subject of 4 films on Polyculture Orchards called How to Grow Your Own Raw Vegan Food Garden https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/design/1-how-to-grow-your-own-raw-vegan-food-garden

3.Montreal Urban Ecology Center www.urbanecology.net  on Park Ave. Doug helped with its building as well as being engaged to hold a few workshops over the years on his role as coordinator of Eco-Montreal Tiohtiake Green Map (Canada’s 1st Green Map) project with McGill University Urban Planning students as well as Relational Economy at LaSalle.

4.Co-op La Maison Verte, www.cooplamaisonverte.com 5785 Sherbrooke St. West, ecological household products & food. Doug was part of the design phase with Jason Hughes founder two years before opening.

5. Growing from work with the LaSalle CLSC on boul. Newman in Food Security http://www.csssdll.qc.ca/votre-csss/nos-points-de-services/clsc/clsc-de-lasalle/ 

6. Table de développement sociale LaSalle. www.tdslasalle.org  Douglas has been meeting with the Table for over 10 years since its founding in LaSalle & following its work on Airlie St.

vi. Competition/Potential Collaborators: