This document outlines the structure and agenda for a workshop. It introduces the timeline that will be gone through, and encourages participants to speak up and provide input. It also briefly introduces the missions and work of several organizations involved in sustainability, community building, and technology including The Greenhorns, Nomad Labs, and Mapufacture. It closes with a quote about designers using their skills to create solutions for a better world.

1. Structure of Workshop Pass out timeline Go through timeline, I will first ask if anyone in the audience wants to speak about the site or project, if not I will say a bit, but feel free to interrupt/ add/ refute/ ask questions at any time

5. School Partnerships 1st Grade Family Retreat

7. Our mission, as a small grass-roots nonprofit based in the Hudson Valley of New York, is to support, promote and recruit young farmers in America.

8. Almost two years after its founding in a basement in Berkeley, California, The Greenhorns has matured from an idea for a recruitment film into a widespread national community. We are now happily rooted on my first commercial farm, Smithereen, on rented land in the Hudson Valley of New York. In the autumn of 2007 we officially began seeking out mentors and characters for a film, traveling the country with a confident intuitive sense of an emerging movement of young farmers and a series of borrowed cameras and generous cinematographers.

9. Posters by Green Horns Illustrator Brooke Budner

10. Nomad Labs is a collection of developers, scientists and artists, from different parts of the world, working together using the Internet as a tool for communication and collaboration. Just as our diverse backgrounds, our interests and expertise are also diverse, but we share a love of the open source community, and try to give back what we have learned from them. But most importantly we are passionate about new emerging technologies and finding ways of helping businesses use them.

11. Our mission is to innovate and build the GeoWeb through community standards, collaborative tools, and open data.

12. Greenhorns + Brooke Budner + Nomad Labs + Mapufacture

13. ”…as designers we have tools and knowledge to create functional, sustainable solutions for a better social, economic, political environment. The organizational skills that come along with being a designer in terms of planning are such a resource. It is time NOW to put them to good use and offer our skills to groups that are working HARD towards a better world."

14. $ = San Francisco Foundation, Oakland City Council and City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program + backyard gardenersand & = “Neighborhood Harvest” shown at “Food Justice Show”