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Saving Local Environments with Trios of Cooperatives [Webinar]
March 18, 2022 @ 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CDT
Mar 18th | 12:00-1:00pm Eastern
Saving Local Environments with Trios of Cooperatives
Learn about how to mitigate climate change with a unique model of interaction among a trio of local cooperatives.
Join author Carol Manetta for this 60-minute webinar on a new, dynamic model for saving local communities’ environments while establishing rainwater harvesting techniques, food forestry for the commons, and clean water reservoirs for both people and local wildlife.
Trios of Cooperatives is an experimental social and environmental model is in the early stages of testing on parched land in southern Arizona, and is under the international spotlight with European presentations garnering supportive responses. This presentation will explain the work so far and the intended outcomes of the collection of evidence based practices.
During this session you will learn:
- How to mitigate food insecurity in your local community
- How to forge environmentally aware cooperatives of mixed aged groups locally
- How to have a continuous supply of fresh water through rain capture and ground or tank storage
- How to prioritize high nutrition permaculture foods for both people and local protected wildlife
- How to clean rainwater locally to prevent pollution runoff into rivers and oceans
Meet the Presenter
Carol Manetta
Carol has traveled extensively to research Virtual Reality in its early stages. This allowed her to form research protocols for other topics including worker owned cooperatives, farming organically, hydroponic food production and more. Her master’s degree in instructional design, development and testing prepared her for community work after her tenure at Ford Motor company and its subsidiary, Ford Credit, was completed. This degree and work brought her experience to other topics: airline personnel training, prisoners returning to society, hydroponics tower production, worker owned cooperatives functioning, and more.
Her current path emphasizes the capability of trios of worker owned cooperatives to restore large swaths of earth in a hurry by combining forces to capture and manage rainwater, grow permanent food sources within food forests, and clean up waters form roadside ditches, ponds and other land waters for the safety of humans and all beings into perpetuity.
Carol’s current book publications include Worker Cooperative People Skills; Worker Cooperative Technical Skills; Saving Earth: Regenerated Land, Clean Water, Food for All; and a contributing chapter in the book developed for the COP26 United Nations Climate Summit, Climate Adaptation: Accounts of Resilience, Self-Sufficiency and Systems Change. She is Executive Director of Reap Goodness.
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