RHIZOME COLLECTIVE
The Rhizome Collective of Austin, Texas operates a community center, a sustainability eduction grounds called the Rhizosphere, and the rehabilitation of a brownfield (retired landfill). The community center is home to a book project for the incarcerated
of Texas, the Austin Independent Media Center, a Bikes Across borders program, a puppet making workshop, A Food Not Bombs kitchen, a zine library http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifto name a few. They are also striving towards a free school. The Rhizosphere facilitates rainwater harvesting, closed loop waste processing (composting, vermi compost, constructed wetlands), urban food production, autonomous energy, bioremediation of contaminated soil, earth materials construction, and aquatic polyculture (edible water plants, algae cultures, green manure, fish, floating islands). The Rhizosphere and the brownfield are host to R.U.S.T. workshops, meaning Radical Urban Sustainability Training, throughout the year.
The Collective is a non-for-profit organization that is consensus run and strives toward cooperative social justice. The staff is well experienced and educated, check out the R.U.S.T. section on their site and scroll down to the teacher bios to learn more about them. They are publishing the R.U.S.T. Manual this summer, which also has a detailed section on their website.
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