Living a Good Life with WUGO Life Community Cooperative 與無過生活社區合作社共創美好生活

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The birth of The Limited Liability Yilan County WUGO Life Community Cooperative (hereafter WUGO Life Community Cooperative or WLCC) is an action and a movement. 有限責任宜蘭縣無過生活社區合作社(以下簡稱:無過生活社區合作社或 WLCC)的是一項行動與運動。

Starting from the personal efforts of a commentator of the Taiwan Homemakers United Consumers Co-op, MS Zhou Yongli combined a group of local eco-farming producers and a group of conscious consumers in 2014.
這起源於台灣主婦聯盟消費合作社消費者周永荔女士的個人努力,她於 2014 年結合了一群在地生態農業生產者與有社會責任感的消費者。

The alliance in 2019 is then renamed as The Limited Liability Yilan County WUGO Life Community Cooperative.
該聯盟於 2019 年更名為有限責任宜蘭縣無過生活社區合作社。

The name WUGO (in Chinese meaning “No Fault” or “Life Without Faults”) comes from the fact that there is no fault for others, no fault for the environment, and no fault for the next generation.
無過這個名稱(中文意思為「無過」或「無過的生活」)的由來,是基於對他人、環境和下一代的無過負責態度。

WLCC provides daily needs of safe, natural and environmental-friendly local food, daily necessities, household necessities of which produced by ecologically sustainable farming and manufacturing methods for its members.
WLCC 為其會員提供安全、天然且環保的當地食品、日用品和家居用品,這些產品均由生態永續的農業與製造方式生產。

Our vision is to use the “Community Supportive Agriculture (CSA)” model to bring farmers and food together closer, to establish a “Local Food Partnership”, risk sharing, food harvest sharing, supporting each other, popularizing the accessibility of safe food, and demonstrating the human rights to food, also practicing a self-sufficient and circular economy on sharing community and a good society.
我們的願景是透過「社區支持農業(CSA)」模式,拉近農民與食品之間的距離,建立「地方食品夥伴關係」,風險共擔、食物豐收共享、互相支持,推廣安全食品的普及性,展現食物的人權,也在共享社區與美好社會中實踐自給自足與循環經濟。

We choose to operate as a cooperative organization although very few people in Taiwan who truly understand the value of the concept of cooperative, we still hope that through such an organization, we will not aim at making surplus but only obtain reasonable profits, the most important is to gather the common needs of the members (food, agriculture, education, job opportunities), and through the faithful buying of the members, we can improve our quality of life on environmental protection, nature, safety, green and eternal life.
我們選擇以合作社的形式經營,儘管在台灣真正理解合作社價值的人並不多,我們仍希望通過這樣的組織,不以盈利為目標,只追求合理的利益,最重要的是匯集會員的共同需求(食品、農業、教育、就業機會),並通過會員的忠實購買行為,提升環境保護、自然、安全、綠色及永續生命的生活品質。

In WLCC, every member is an investor, manager and user (consumer). Also everyone can get started a business together in a democratic spirit and work hard for the future life we ​​looking for.
在 WLCC 中,每個人都是投資者、管理者與使用者(消費者)。每個人也可以在民主精神下共同創業,為我們追求的未來生活努力。

Hence, I am not only a consumer who supports other smallholder and eco-farmers but also joined in as one of the happy producers in WLCC to share the surplus of my eco-farming products.
因此,在無過國個人不僅是支持其他小農與生態農戶的消費者,也參與其中成為 WLCC 的一位快樂生產者,分享自己生態農業產品的盈餘。

In the future, I want to continue farming after retirement and become a retiree who can grow old happily with cooperative members. Cooperation is never easy. However, changing the world is not about one person doing a lot, but about many people doing a little bit.
未來,個人希望在退休後繼續務農,成為一位能與合作社成員一起快樂老去的退休者。合作從來都不容易,然而改變世界不是一個人做很多,而是很多人做一點。

圖一、當無常變成日常。

圖二、21世紀人類面臨的是自然災害還是人為災害。

圖三、台灣老齡化社會的挑戰—無人(長照人力短缺)。

圖四、台灣老齡化社會的挑戰—無錢

圖五、台灣老齡化社會的挑戰—無能(快速失能)

圖六、他山之石-日本生活俱樂部生協的理想社區圖。

WUGO Life Community Cooperative (WLCC) attempts to combine agricultural production and food consumption in order to lessen the fate of old farmers fade away and revitalize the fate of abandoned farmland converting to eco-farming and community care. 無過生活社區合作社(WLCC)試圖結合農業生產與食品消費,以減緩老農凋零的命運,並重振廢耕地轉型為生態農業與社區照顧的命運。

As one of the advocates Jingyi Xia said: Although the WLCC faces many ups and downs, it does not lack sunshine because there is a group of fools who insist on doing the right thing.
正如倡議者之一夏靜漪所說:雖然無過生活社區合作社臨許多起伏,但並不缺乏陽光,因為有一群傻子堅持做對的事。

Whether on the right path of waste reduction, providing safe food, or environmental sustainability, every member of WLCC willing to devote their efforts.
無論是在減少浪費、提供安全食品,還是環境永續的正確道路上,每位無過生活社區合作社WLCC 的成員都願意付出努力。

Although the road is long, however, after 8 years anniversary of WLCC we are still walking steadily on the way.
儘管道路漫長,然而在無過生活社區合作社成立八週年後,我們仍穩健地在這條路上前進。

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