Jan Vander Tuin is a founder of the
Community Supported Agriculture
Community-supported agriculture (CSA model) or cropsharing is a system that connects producers and consumers within the food system closer by allowing the consumer to subscribe to the harvest of a certain farm or group of farms. It is an alterna ...
(CSA) movement. He is also a cycling activist and bicycle designer, and in 1992 started the
Center for Appropriate Transport in
Eugene, Oregon
Eugene ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie River (Oregon), McKenzie and Willamette River, Willamette rivers, ...
.
Vander Tuin learned about co-operative
biodynamic farming
Biodynamic agriculture is a form of alternative agriculture based on pseudoscience, pseudoscientific and esoteric concepts initially developed in 1924 by Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925). It was the first of the organic farming movements. It treats so ...
in
Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...
, and is credited with bringing his Swiss experience to the revival of local agriculture in the US.
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, the
Network Charter School, and the first
car-sharing
Carsharing or car sharing (AU, NZ, CA, TH, & US) or car clubs (UK) is a model of car rental where people rent cars for short periods of time, often by the hour. It differs from traditional car rental in that the owners of the cars are often pri ...
co-op in the US.
Hertz and Avis get a new Competitor: ''Fortune'' magazine, November 14, 1994
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References
People from Eugene, Oregon
Cycle designers
Living people
Farmers from Oregon
Year of birth missing (living people)
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