How to Use and Support Evolution-Local
Use it to learn and shift your consciousness. Drop in from time to time and check out everything in the Toolkit, Blog, Discussion Forum and other sections. Hone your local evolutionary worldview.
Use it to share and teach. Share your ideas, concerns, and knowledge in the Forum. Contact us about adding content to the Features or Blog sections, or having you or your organization featured.
Use it to engage in real conversation. Start a thread in the discussion forum, or contribute to an existing discussion. Rather than just being an anonymous consumer of ‘news’ you can cultivate important discussions. Use the forum to discuss challenges in the backyard garden, sea level rise, important bird habitat, affordable housing, the upcoming elections, etc… Discussion furthers our collective intelligence.
Use it to create community. Both online community and real face-to-face local community. Sponsor Ev-Lo meet-ups, discussions, or teach-ins around different topics or just to be social. Meet new friends and do fun and creative things together. Sunrise ceremonies, night hikes, work parties.
Use it to activate and help others activate. Find out about people who are working for positive change in your area, and how you can get involved. Start issue campaigns, organize protests, work-trades, build bike paths, guerilla gardens, seed swaps, ballot initiatives, etc.
Use it to organize and take back democracy. Help develop and maintain the Political Tracker section of the website. Attend local meetings or hearings and add your notes to the Tracker. Help keep an eye on elected officials to promote transparency and accountability. Prepare the community for elections.
Use it to deepen your experience of your local place and the living cosmos. Get in the habit of sharing your observations in the Local Nature Almanac. You will help open others’ eyes, and they will do the same for you. Contemplate the Epic of Evolution and how it all fits together.
Use it instead of other doing things. Prioritize becoming an evolutionary being and letting go of other habits or addictive behaviors. Study and contribute to the Ev-Lo hub instead of randomly cruising the web, social media, playing another game, watching TV, etc.
How to support Evolution-Local
Become a member. This enables you to participate in the Forum and Nature Almanac, register for optional notifications, etc.
Become a paid member. A fine way to show your support and make this all happen. (coming soon)
Regularly add content to the site. Daily? Weekly? Whenever you are inspired. Don’t be shy – the planet and this place need your mojo.
Realize that the Evolution-Local network is yours. It is the commons. It’s for your kids and grandkids.
Spread the word. Share links to Ev-Lo content, and otherwise bring it to people’s attention.
Contribute artwork, photos, or other material. Credit will be given. A great way for artists and others to share their work and support local evolution.
Volunteer to coordinate different sections of the site. Become a forum administrator, or maintain the member list and communications, the directory, or calendar. Bring your “can-do” attitude and volunteer for a limited time, or on an ongoing basis. (Volunteer needs are listed in the Activate section.)
Help develop and run the site. This is an evolutionary experiment, created in real-time. If you like the Ev-Lo concept, then by all means, be one of the brains behind the operation.
Help develop the Ev-Lo network’s financial base. Support Ev-Lo by helping to create Ev-Lo products, an online store, a method for sponsored content, affiliate marketing, low-key advertising, etc. Do it as a volunteer, or help create a paid position for yourself…
Start Ev-Lo sites in other places. Like what you see? Contact us about starting a new local site and becoming part of the Ev-Lo network. Every bioregion, every town, island, river valley, peninsula, city and mountain range needs a hub for local evolutionaries. Help Evolution-Local quickly transform from a mere sparkle in the eye to an unstoppable creative force for humanity’s long overdue reinhabitation of Earth.