Jan Vander Tuin Explained

Jan Vander Tuin is a founder of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement.[1] [2] [3] [4] He is also a cycling activist and bicycle designer, and in 1992 started the Center for Appropriate Transport in Eugene, Oregon.[5] [6]

Vander Tuin learned about co-operative biodynamic farming in Switzerland,[7] [8] and is credited with bringing his Swiss experience to the revival of local agriculture in the US.[9] Vander Tuin settled in Eugene, Oregon in 1990. He started building workbikes under the name Human Powered Machines. Under the umbrella of the Center for Appropriate Transport, he nurtured a bicycle repair school,[10] the Network Charter School,[11] [12] and the first car-sharing co-op in the US.[13] [14] [15] [16]

References

  1. Web site: History of Community Supported Agriculture: Rodale Institute . 2011-10-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121127113607/http://newfarm.rodaleinstitute.org/features/0104/csa-history/part1.shtml . 2012-11-27 . dead .
  2. http://www.justfood.org/csa/history Just Food: The History of the CSA
  3. http://www.rainmagazine.com/archive/1992/zsa01312014 VanderTuin, Jan. (1992). "Zürich Supported Agriculture", RAIN magazine 14(2), Winter/Spring.
  4. http://www.rainmagazine.com/archive/1992/community-supported-agriculture01242014 "Community Supported Agriculture," RAIN magazine Winter/Spring 1992.
  5. http://www.rainmagazine.com/archive/1993/cat01292014 "CAT"
  6. https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/2004260239/1995-09-18/ed-1/seq-56/ "Center aims to promote bike usage"
  7. Web site: Transition Town Kinsale leads the way in community-supported projects with local farmers. Leo McMahon. The Southern Star. November 14, 2013. 19 August 2015.
  8. News: Raheli S. Millman. ENVIRONMENT; Food Shoppers? Call Them Shareholders. The practice was brought to New England in 1984 by Jan Vander Tuin, a Swiss farmer, according to several Web sites maintained by the movement.. The New York Times. August 8, 2004. August 19, 2015.
  9. Web site: Part I: Community Farms in the 21st Century: Poised for Another Wave of Growth?. Steven McFadden. The Rodale Institute. 19 August 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20121127113607/http://newfarm.rodaleinstitute.org/features/0104/csa-history/part1.shtml. 27 November 2012. dead.
  10. Web site: Eugene Bicycle Works: University of Oregon . 2016-03-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160403045023/http://blogs.uoregon.edu/rhicksg1w13/center-for-appropriate-transporteugene-bicycle-works/ . 2016-04-03 . dead .
  11. http://networkcharterschool.org/complete-NCS-charter.html Network Charter School proposal
  12. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/CHARTER+SCHOOL+FINDS+NICHE.-a0125849461 The Network Charter School: Eugene Register-Guard, 2004
  13. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/members-of-eugene-car-co-op-sharing-orange-1972-volkswagen-news-photo/50694047 Eugene Car Co-op: Getty Images
  14. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1102&context=usp_murp The CarSharer's Companion: Portland State University
  15. http://www.ollswang.com/home/eugene-car-co-op Paul Ollswang: Eugene Car Co-op
  16. https://web.archive.org/web/20160402013215/https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/11/14/79981/index.htm Hertz and Avis get a new Competitor: Fortune magazine, November 14, 1994

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