07.03.09
“The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
— Victor Hugo
The Voice Young Video Journalist Project received a grant from an unnamed organization in support of island youth and cooperative media. The grant will make possible the YVJ Project and will enable Vineyard students to produce vital stories for the Voice, Featherstone Center for the Arts, Island Grown, Vineyard Conservation Society and Vineyard Energy Project.
The YVJ Project is a cooperative effort, with Featherstone, The Martha's Vineyard Charter School and MVTV teaming up to help kids produce and air stories on the arts, local food, conservation and renewable energy.
With this great news, the Voice will now begin a drive to build support and donations for an ongoing after school Youth Video Journalism Project.
Informal Networks: People and Housing
Just how does change occur? Thanks to Zee Gamson and many others, here is a community-generated article on informal communities for change. The story reflects upon how people form informal networks and how "unintentional communities" have developed within and around the activities of people here — in particular, people who for decades became aware of a need and organically formed a successful affordable housing network on Martha's Vineyard.
Read the Story >
"Small Wind" Energy
Photo by Gary Harcourt of Great Rock Wind Power >
Windmills and turbines have long been a part of the Vineyard energy landscape. With a small but growing installation base of "small wind" turbines on Martha's Vineyard, wind-generated energy is drawing greater awareness.
Here are some local and national Renewable Energy Resources >
The Voice is Yours
The Voice is an online magazine that cultivates stories in partnership with individuals, organizations and businesses.
We'd love to hear from you. >
The Collected Voice
From: Life Inc. —
Money as Debt
This video examines the concept of "money as debt" and furthers ready strategies from Douglas Rushkoff's Life Inc for de-corporatizing our lives, abandoning the speculative economy, and rebuilding both commerce and community from the bottom up.
Go to the website for more information about the book:
lifeincorporated.net
John Maloney reads his poetry at Featherstone Center for the Arts in the FCA Festival of Poets. Here, he reads "Imaginary Numbers."
John Maloney's two books are Proposal (Zoland Books, Cambridge, MA) and Town of Chilmark (Indian Hill Press, West Tisbury, MA).
American Life in Poetry, on online website funded by The University of Nebraska and The Poetry Foundation published After Work in Column 184.
Zoland Poetry Annual 1 published three poems.
He has two poems in The Book of Irish American Poetry: Eighteenth Century to the Present (Notre Dame Press)
He has one poem We Came to Play, Writings on Basketball (North Atlantic Books, Berkeley CA).
This Summer Vineyard Voice will train young people to report island stories and help organizations inform and enrich our community and protect our island environment.
The Vineyard Voice, in cooperation with Featherstone Center for the Arts and The Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School has created a collaborative initiative, the Island Youth Video Journalism Project, to help local non profit organizations produce public interest video stories. The initiative will teach interns to shoot, produce and publish video stories for distribution on the Voice, the websites of the organizations, on MVTV and syndicated throughout the web.
The “collaborative media” effort will work directly with Featherstone Center for the Arts, Island Grown Initiative, Vineyard Conservation Society and Vineyard Energy Project to produce in issue-based video stories in support of local arts, environment, energy and food.
The Voice will collaborate with each organization to produce stories at no cost. Each organization will be able to focus their stories on initiatives that meet current organizational objectives and that will inform the public about issues that are central to their mission.
All classes will be held at Featherstone.
Please consider a contribution to make this Youth Journalism Project possible.
Donate Today >
Local Life and Energy Self-Reliance
The Vineyard Energy Project founder Kate Warner has been helping islanders understand the possibility of energy self-reliance for 10 years. In that time gas prices have increased $3.00 a gallon and with that increase the impact of fossil fuels on our environment is common conversation — carbon footprint calculators well known. Here Susan Wasserman talks about the solar panels she installed and the real value of solar panels for the Vineyard.
This is one of four excerpts of a video filmed and produced by Jonathan Skurnik.
Audio Voices:
Tony Nevin — Behavior, Oil and the "Inertia of Affluence"
46:09 minutes (31.69 MB)
Oil, Local Change and the "Inertia of Affluence"
Gary Harcourt — A "Small Wind" Perspective
2:10 minutes (1.99 MB)
Gary Harcourt has had a direct role in at least 5 small wind turbine installations on the island.
Michael Pollan and IGI — Local Poultry Processing
3:22 minutes (3.09 MB)
Island Grown Initiative (IGI), a not-for-profit, is helping local backyard farmers feed their families.
