Vital Villages Makkinga ( Fryslân ) 22 juni 2012

Vital VillagesMakkinga (Fryslân)

22 juni 2012

Jappie Sietsma Eric Schrauwen

your host

programm

09:30 arrival at ‘de DORPSTUINDERIJ’

10:00 presentation with coffee in community center

the village of Makkinga

10:15 Foundation Local Ideal Makkinga (SLIM)

11:00 wrap up

visit mill/ museum

small village in the Stellingwerven

characteristic

- 1.040 inhabitans

- influence 2 districts (Fryslân and Drenthe)

- various landscape

- commuters (forensen)

- lively voluntary sector

- organizing power

- volunteers culture

shared space

facilities

community center

forest and deer camp

‘’flea-market’’

M.O.P. New Year's Eve Team

museum and cornmill

bio-fermentor

1.000 households (3 times makkinga)

in short:

makkinga: fertile ground for bottom-up community

entrepreneurship

slim-overview

• Start March 2010

• Main Goal: Faciltate Transition Process towards local sustainable development

• Guidance (3 year SMOM)

• Key Objective: local production – local consumption

• Must have economical potential

• Bottum up Process

• Bundel existing knowledge and experience

• Specific projects with tangable impact:

• Village Garden

• Cranberry growth

• Solar Collectors Production

• Electrical motorcross

• Local Energy production

transition: source for local resilience

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‘’the VILLAGEGARDEN’’

march 2011

opening 18 june 2011

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cooperative cranberrycultivation

5 ha. breeding cranberry

• local products• local scale• social work• second harvest• slow-life• season experience• touristic product• interesting business case

electrical motocross

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built your own solar collector

use of biomass

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local energy cooperative

• 100% sustainable energy

• using the profit for local sustainable issues

• close local energy cycles

mid-term conclusions (1)

• results exceeding expectations

• SLIM activities aligning with current trends and devlopments

• effective: multiple pilots for target groups

• Avoid controversal pilot projects

• every village its own potential:• different conditions• different human capital• different knowledge and interests

mid-term conclusions (2)

• needs lot off human-energie

• fun is essential

• bottom-up is the basic

• others: ‘’... succes SLIM by DOING...’’

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talking is silver, DOING is gold!

Sustainable with energy and with food because we have not inherited the world from our parents, but borrowed from our children.

jappie sietsma : voorzittervacature : secretarisfolkert mulder : penningmeestermark boudewijn : algemeen lidroel van rossem : algemeen lideric schrauwen : algemeen lid/ adviseur

[email protected]

(0513) 41.24.18

questions/ discussion