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No longer a marginal speech,

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Climate change is finally urging 
the international community

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will be reached in the next decade
if nothing is done,

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We must change course, ourselves,
and the sooner, the better.

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insisting that the elite did nothing
to prevent the disaster.

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While the IPCC experts announce 
that the point of no return

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NASA warns us that many human civilizations 
collapsed under their own weight,

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In solidarity with rising and future generations,

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In solidarity with the people currenlty being exploited for our own comfort,

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Because the ecosystems we inhabit have limits
and of course possibilities

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Let's get organized to live better.

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and communities in general to act now.

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We choose to participate in the inevitable transition by offering a prototype

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of technical and social practices 
that are bearing resilience.

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Resilience designates the capacity 
to rebound, to adapt.

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This resilience will be supported by Le Germoir,

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which will provide infrastructure
and support for initiatives

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rooted in the renewable resources 
of the immediate area.

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Le Germoirs' startup team brings together

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a variety of complementary know-hows,

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from accounting to collective cooking, 
permaculture and more.

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But most importantly, our main strength

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is a network of enthusiastic allies, 
built throughout the years,

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sharing experiences within different collectives.

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To make real this cooperative project,

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building the floors, building the offices,

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we sent a big call-out for a great bee,

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it warmed our hearts to see that more than 150 people came to help us last summer,

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bringing their enthousiam, their curiosity, their know-hows, their experiences,

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and it was amazing!

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Most of Le Germoir’s members and their allies have met through the CESA, Centre d’écologie solidaire et appliquée.

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It includes collective decision making, task sharing,

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gardening, conflict resolution, mechanic and building skills

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CESA is active since 2007. It's a transitional space.

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In fact, Le Germoir was born because some people wanted

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to establish themselves more permanently in the region.

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The co-op is located in the Saint-Louis area in Carleton-sur-Mer, in the Chaleur Bay.

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This area has been home to many villages in the past, the are now closed or so,

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offering unused farmland as well as nearby vast forests.

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We se an inspiring potential in our locality and in many other Gaspesie communities

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who are facing similar vitality challenges.

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A majority of these localities possess structures such as barns, churches

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and factories that could be beneficial for collective usage.

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Here, it is in a barn, la Grange à Pit, that we are building a rural laboratory

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to revitalise the collectivity and to promote local resilience.

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This way, we will realize experiences that other communities can possibly replicate

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The fact that we share these infrastuctures not only allows us savings for everyone

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but it generates creativity, a creative synergy

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It's more attracting, in the sense that it's what I want to see for my kids

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The kids are more and more integrated in the coop

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and we want these values and skills to be transmited to the kids

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so we can start an other cycle

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The Gaspesie region is actually being targeted by the hydrocarbon industry

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which is basically hoping to extract oil by drilling and fracking the ground.

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Needless to say, this  would seriously compromise chances of local resilience,

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among others because of water contamination

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The technological choices of the coop are anchored in our analysis of the global context

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We want energy efficiency, we don't have lot's of money, and we live in a cold climate

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The success of the Germoir as a prototype and its ability to shine

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will contribute to feed hopes of sustainable developpement

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We will use technologies tested elsewhere.

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Our technical contribution is to adapt them to a colder climate

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In the 3D sketch shown here, we can see the different systems coming together.

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Most imposing of all is without a doubt massive use of passive solar energy

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to capture and store the sun’s raw heat.

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South oriented windows lets most of the energy needed to heat the place in

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Aquaponic bassins, in the greenhouse, act as a thermal battery that

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regulates the temperature around the clock and helps avoid overheating in the summer

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The bassins, integrated to the foundation, are the key of this innovative greenhouse

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which will extract it's heat from the soil and the sun

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to tend towards a plant growing environment, year around

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By promoting an integrated food production and short circuit distribution

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we open food production possibilities like the production of winter greens

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a great improvement in the local food supply in northern climate

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Whether it'll be aquaponics, vertical gardening, growing mushrooms or sprouts,

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different levels of innovation go hand in hand.

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We aim for efficiency, multi-purpose of the building, simple technology

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We also make durable, understandable choices that can be duplicated.

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Our project is part of a collective emancipation approach

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Transition is not a personal or individual question, we'll only make it together

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We think it's important to free the knowledge

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We build a prototype in order to share it

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We surround ourselves with allies to document our challenges,

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our successes, our experiences

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We project to eventually offer an active training and support program

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for similar emerging projects

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Far from pretending that our project is sufficient to change the course of things

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we are convinced it is part of the necessary paths to explore

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we need prototypes of collective resilience centers

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Together, let us generate new starting points to create an exceptional future

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As a first goal and cornerstone, Le Germoir wishes to build its processing kitchen

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a basic infrastructure to launch small scale economic projects.

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Gathering and growing mushrooms, harvesting and preserving wild edible plants,

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lacto fermentation production, growing sprouts and collective cooking activities

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And above all:  with this kitchen, Le Germoir will be free to move forward,

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grow and share the fruit of its labor.

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Right now, we ask you to help finance this prototype

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For each step there are inevitable costs, but also tremendous savings

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due to the voluntary work being done,

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the various skills brought by the allies from our network

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and the use of salvaged building materials

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Renovations to complete the kitchen will be done with similar savings.

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We estimate that it would normally cost 57000-60000$ for this phase of the project

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if we would give the job to a contactor

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but actual costs will still be of 30 000$.

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In this crowdfunding campaign we are hoping to gather half of the total necessary amount

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to finish the installations.

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Thanks for spreading the word