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In nature, an intelligent life force exists. A fractal network, made up of billions of cells transforms the land across the globe. What if these masses of biology are modeling cooperation, liberation, and nourishment for us? What could we learn from mycelium.

At CoFED, we think everything! The MyceliYUM Meetup series is here for us to share the wealth of knowledge each of us.

Join us as we learn from and eat with Design for the Commons:

Collective Kitchen uplifts the power of joining together in both our production and consumption of food. In this event we will engage the senses to exchange experiences around communal eating. This workshop provides a greater sense of belonging through tools offered in our food sovereignty toolkit. Virtually, we will enter each other’s kitchens and honor the experiential knowledge that participants hold. Collective Kitchen will steward a conversation around a world where community with food goes beyond the dinner table.

Please come prepared with your own recipe to cook within 30 min. Everyone will share their recipe (including photo and measurements if possible) in a Google Form that will be provided during the workshop. Post-workshop, participants will receive a collective cookbook with everyone’s recipes and the release of Design for the Commons Food Sovereignty Toolkit

This event will take place on zoom. Details will be emailed to you upon registration.

Register for this event on Eventbrite

Part 1 is at this link
Part 2 addresses these topics:
- Bank Secrecy Act
- State money transmission regulations
- Securities laws
- Dodd Frank rules related to Unfair Deceptive Abusive Acts and Practices
- Regulation E – Electronic Funds Transfers
- Gramm Leach Bliley Act (information security)
- Regulation Z – Truth in Lending Act
- Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act
- Fair Credit Reporting Act
- Abandoned Property and Escheatment Laws
- Policy recommendations!

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In the 1970s and '80s, there were land struggles, assertions of indigenous rights, and attempts to figure out alternative ways of doing things. Cooperatives were one answer — business ownership, supply and demand, could be shared by forming agricultural cooperatives, electric cooperatives, retail or housing cooperatives, even credit unions.

Teresa Young started working at the Northwest Coop Development Center in Washington in 2005, then in 2016, she moved to Waimea on Hawaiʻi Island to work for The Kohala Center. Young is their rural cooperative business development specialist, offering advice and resources to cooperative business ventures.

She says there are dozens of successful and budding co-ops in Hawaiʻi — from credit unions to the highly successful "ulu farmers" cooperative on Hawaiʻi Island. Young says like all operations, they face a tough business environment, but benefit from the co-op advantage.

Listen to the interview on Hawai'i Public Radio

Late last week, Minnesota regulators made a decision that may finally allow community solar projects to move forward (for Xcel Energy customers) in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. However, the Public Utilities Commission decision also highlighted the shortcomings of the legislature’s distributed solar policy adopted in 2013.

What was missing? Minnesota’s increasingly well-known “value of solar” formula was not selected, but rather an “applicable retail rate” that’s much more similar to traditional net metering.