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Even though the fight against food waste started way sooner of course, our story starts with foodsharing. The idea is to save surplus food from businesses before they throw it away and to share it unconditionally with fellow humans. An online tool was developed to enable volunteers to save and share food. With the foodsharing community growing, the idea of general unconditional sharing got clearer.
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The many remaining yuniteers pursue building up a real-life network of communities and individuals interested in sharing. The yunity movement is like a tribe of people, who share a love for sustainability, trust and self-determination. Some more consequent or extreme than others, they all consume consciously and carefully and try to save resources wherever possible. Despite the diversity of people and ideas, the atmosphere in yunity is inclusive and appreciative. We have developed a culture of listening and comprehension when it comes to dialogues between opinions and when humans share physical contact, especially during lamâsch.
A group of us has been traveling from one alternative gathering to another this summer, others went to music festivals with foodsharing, but all spread the word, lived the culture and connected to a lot of people. The WuppBreak in Neuried in September, which was intended to be a little meet-up of some core contributors to celebrate the end of summer, turned out to be the most visited yunity event ever. The Berlin Hackathon attracted new developers and boosted developer motivation for both, foodsharing.de and the FSINT- foodsaving tool. Different groups with different focus areas emerge in yunity, find room for collaboration and synergize. We are far from broken or aimless, in fact, we have a lot to do:
- The FSINT and yunity tours will mobilize and connect lots of different people interested in unconditional sharing all over Europe and beyond.
- The spirit of self-organization and awesome active autonomy will be spread through real-life contact.
- The reopened work on the code of foodsharing.de and the following communication, especially via the new foodsharing devblog, will improve our contact to this community.
- A lean tool to manage store pick-ups and lots of documentation will support the emerging foodsaving communities.
- A book about group decision making and systemic consensus will inspire other communities.
- A house will be acquired found for the yunity family to move in and become a template for other places of communal living.
- Secrets and difficulties of the lamâsching culture will continue to be unveiled.
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In the future we'd like to intensify the contact to and collaboration with the existing community of foodsharing.de, as we think that we all dream the same dream and work towards the same goals. We want to strengthen the contact to active people, aim especially for a collaboration with snowflake and want to invite every foodsaver that is interested in sharing the experience in countries where foodsharing doesn't exist yet. You want to join our endeavor to bring build and support foodsharing initiatives worldwide? Join us!
What is sharecy to yunity?
Especially the two months of silence from Raphael's side between the syscon that wasn't in his favor and the /wiki/spaces/YUN/pages/50069579, left quite some people in yunity confused and brought some tension. After explaining his reasons for leaving and his future plans everybody was at ease again. The relationships in yunity are strong and the friendship to Raphael Fellmer is alive. Although yunity does not follow the approach of paying people to tell them what to do, we support the endeavor of saving food on a bigger scale and wish Raphael Fellmer and Martin Schott well in pursuing their dreams.