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 the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about east of the Oregon Coast.
As of the 2020 United States Census, Eu ...
.
Vander Tuin learned about co-operative
biodynamic farming in
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
, 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
Network Charter School is a public charter school in Eugene, Oregon, United States.
It is a small public charter school with between 90 and 130 students enrolled in grades 7-12. Classes are offered in a variety of locations through a network of c ...
, 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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