1. What are your primary sources for news?

• Facebook (2) , yahoo , NPR radio (5), Google news, news blogs
• Reddit.com: world news, politics and environment
• Internet (6)
• KPFA
• KBOO (3) (local/Oregon), NY Times and the nation (national/int’l), email from friends and lists (specific topics of interest)
• Common Dreams and Facebook (yes…even there I get news links)
• NY Times, Economist, Mother Jones, New Mexican, and blogs
• Current TV, Free Speech TV
• Democracy Now!, SF Permaculture Guild Email list, word of mouth
• Sf Chronicle
• Email alerts and internet like AL JAZEERA – English

2. What are your primary sources for education classes?

• Free or low budget inner city workshops or the library (2)
• Universities, work, mailing lists (3)
• Workshops (2) put on around town
• Community college (3), internet, senior center
• Receive notices by email, from friends (3) or lists; fliers at Alberta coop and people’s yoga; direct communication from people i meet face to face (2)
• Which lists? EMSWCD, METRO, PFGEN, PPG
• Free Skool (free is important)
• Indy-media sites (Portland and SF Bay area)
• Reading education books i.e. – Gatto, Frier
• Have to travel to get to any
• Permaculture classes books internet OSU Extension
• RDI (2), sunrise ranch, “transformative action learning” with GAIA U, wherever I choose to learn
• Local permaculture list-serve and facebook
• I do not have the means for educational classes at this time – one of my issues with permaculture is it costs so much to attend teachings
• U of O and LCC

3. What are the primary sources for fun activities?

• Walking , hiking , biking , swimming in a city pool, sitting under the stars at night
• I make my own fun (2)
• My village mates (4) and my partner
• Community college, senior center
• Invitations from friends, or my own ideas; sometimes fliers (for dances or music)
• The great outdoors (2), my garden (2), roller skating rink
• Indy-media sites (Portland and SF Bay area)
• Teaching, playing with my son and wife, working with peers
• Riding here in Oakridge
• Music live and recorded, incl dancing (3) movies
• Everything i do. I’m in Costa Rica now!
• I really enjoy my garden, whether working in it or observing it. I love to read, too
• Radio, email
• “botany, beaches, and bottles”

4. Do you get information directly from other folks? Where? When?

• Facebook (3)
• Yes, from neighbors (5) and classmates
• Yes – face to face (3), phone and email
• Yes, through emails. Phone calls, texts
• Occupy gatherings weekly or daily sometimes (3)
• Constantly- internet, phone, direct conversation (3)
• Directly as in face to face or via media? I spend most of my time alone unless you count interacting on the internet – neighborhood association meetings or church
• On my street, at meetings

5. How much time do you spend reading blogs each day?

• Never (6), so boring
• 15 min (2), 10 min, 5 min (4), 30 min (2)
• Two minutes/week – that’s <one min/day
• 1 -2 hours/day (4)
• Occasionally a news site like Huffington
• 0 hrs – 2hrs

6. Are you someone that likes to watch videos or prefers a faster fix?

• Videos are ok (3) , I have no TV , no DVD player, no computer, sometimes i watch videos
• No – i prefer books, for both entertainment and information (2)
• If visual concept, then video is best but usually reading text
• I enjoy videos (2)
• Yes…..i absorb info. Much faster and better from videos and audio sources
• No, i like to read.
• I watch some videos for info
• Visual learner love videos
• If i have time I’ll click on one. I’ve learned a lot from Youtube videos: humane chicken slaughter and follow-up steps; beekeeping; sheet mulching; vermicomposting

7. Do you a have twitter account? How is this tool effective?

• I hate twitter it sucks , sound bites suck (2)
• Yes, but I rarely use it
• I have several accounts and barely use any of them
• No (12) – have enough communication already. Don’t like format
• No (2) – waste of time unless you are on the ground in a war zone or occasionally at demonstrations. Rare that any communication is this urgent. Useful for some businesses (e.g. food carts) as advertising
• Yes, somewhat, auto posting and integrating to other sites
• Not yet, from an older generation
• Yes. I get good information and links from twitter, and share some of my own writing

8. How would you improve the political dialogue in your city?

• Pick up a shovel with others and dig a garden , live , outside and not just sit in a chair , I am a radical garden activist
• Politics is for politicians
• There’s a great idea being floated around by the co-intelligence institute. The city would send letters out to random addresses and ask that they attend a meeting. They would be paid a minimum for their time. This would incentivize participation. If results were seen from citizen participation, monetary incentives could be replaced with feeling effective
• Smaller, district-wide meetings
• More space for/attention to voices of poor, homeless and folks of color
• Open it up to real issues
• Participating in public process and following up with officials when the process is not serving us, writing op-eds and ltes
• Not my forte’
• By allowing third party candidate equal participation
• My local council is unresponsive to community concerns. They listen but they don’t act. I would like to end representative democracy and build direct democracy locally, state and nationally
• Through Occupy
• We have a lot of “fireside chats” usually 100 to 200 folks, would like to see smaller maybe 30 person version of this
• Great question 1. Set rules all those agree upon such as no personal rudeness but able to be direct in questions.
• A few key exterminations
• Sf Bay area has too much BS. Positive campaigns with achievable goals.
• Hmmm, I tend to stay out of it, grassroots is better
• Neighborhood circles
• Neighborhood coffee shops, less time to work for basic necessities, more time for discourse
• More conversations, more listening
• Multiple parties
• God, I have no idea

9. How many apps are on your smart phone? How many do you really use each day?

• 12? I use about 4-5 of them
• 20 or so. I use 2-3 per day
• Don’t have one (14)
• I think smart phones are a huge waste of time, money and natural resources. Exception: useful for folks experiencing homelessness. As i am housed and have a home phone i would never buy one
• 8 total – 2 used daily

10. Would you able to enjoy your life without corporate news?

• Everyone would , it is all meaningless
• I enjoy my life quite fine now and have no corporate news sources
• Yes. Absolutely (8)
• Do already (6)
• Yes, as long as there is non-corporate news
• I don’t let mainstream media affect my mind to lowering my quality of life
• I grew up reading the SF Chronicle, so i think i would miss reading it. This periodical is a shell of its former self, for sure!
• I think we need to know our enemy. Corporations are the focus of centralized effort. This delivers certain pluses which can help the greater good. Corporations publish PR which glorifies their directions, whether right or wrong. The people (or diverse thought) produces creativity and is usually more honest but whose solutions needs to be analyzed and justified before they are adapted as general policies into the greater good. Both are useful and both have their own publication methods. Enjoy both, believe neither