Projects of the Hub community space
(projects also fiscally sponsored unless otherwise indicated)
-The Bike Church ---The Bike Church is a community bicycle shop and tool collective where people can learn to repair their bicycles with the help of knowledgeable mechanics. We offer sliding scale services and affordable used and new parts. As a collectively run organization, we are committed to honoring the contribution of individuals while recognizing the importance of collaboration.
http://bikechurch.santacruzhub.org // https://www.facebook.com/The-Bike-Church-190199353899/ // https://www.instagram.com/thebikechurch/
-Hard Core Compost --- We are a worker-owned and operated residential compost collection service that uses cargo bicycles to haul food scraps from your kitchen to local composting sites in Santa Cruz. We believe that the resilience of our communities is inseparable from the health of the land we live on. Transforming our food waste into fertile compost is one small way we can collectively nurture the land in the midst of global environmental crisis, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and sequester carbon in the soil. // Note: not fiscally sponsored by the Hub
https://www.compost.bike // https://www.instagram.com/hardcorecompost/ // www.facebook.com/compost.bike/
-The Fábrica: Community Textile Arts & Salvage Workshop --- The Fábrica is community workspace where folks can come to learn and share knowledge about textiles arts. This includes Sewing, Knitting, Quilting, Embroidery, Crochet, and Bookbinding, among other arts. The workshop is operated by volunteers and funded by donations from participants. We have sewing machines as well as generous amounts of fabric, zippers, notions, and the other tools and supplies one needs for most sewing and yarn-based-projects.
https://thefabrica.org // https://www.facebook.com/thefabrica/ // https://www.instagram.com/fabrica.textile.workshop/
-PedX Courier & Cargo --- PedX Santa Cruz is a worker-owned, worker self-managed cooperative providing prompt, expeditious, reliable and friendly delivery and messenger services to the Santa Cruz County region through the exclusive use of bicycle-based transportation methods to provide its members with a sustainable livelihood and workplace control and to serve as an ethical business model. // Note: not fiscally sponsored by the Hub
http://pedxsc.com/ // https://www.facebook.com/pedxsc/ // https://www.instagram.com/pedalersexpress/
-Sanctuary Santa Cruz ---Sanctuary/Santuario Santa Cruz - Sanctuary/Santuario Santa Cruz - Collection of
projects aimed at making Santa Cruz a welcoming place for all of its residents. Sanctuary/Santuario Santa Cruz es un conjunto de proyectos con la meta de hacer a Santa Cruz un lugar de bienvenida para todos los residentes. Hablamos español. Projects: Tenant Sanctuary - legal-aid organization by tenants for tenants (more info below). The Muslim Solidarity Group: mission is to support Muslims and non-Muslim Arabs from around the world in the struggle to be understood and honored. United We Dream: we empower immigrant youth to develop their leadership, organizing skills, and to develop our own campaigns to fight for justice and dignity for immigrants and all people. Your Allied Rapid Response
(YARR): trains responders to use non-violent direct action to protect community members against ICE or
against bullying and harassment.
https://sanctuary-sc.net // https://www.facebook.com/sanctuarysantacruz/
-SubRosa: a community space --- SubRosa is a collectively run anarchist community space, a place to meet others and challenge our assumptions and act on our passions. We strive to create a vibrant environment for events, classes, meetings, organizing, performance, art, studying and more. SubRosa also offers radical literature for sale, and houses the Anarchist Lending Library. We welcome folks to join us in fostering an environment free from coercion, sexism, queer&homophobia, racism, and other hierarchies.
http://www.subrosaproject.org/ // https://www.facebook.com/subrosaproject // https://www.instagram.com/subrosa_sc/
Tenant Sanctuary --- Tenant Sanctuary is a Santa Cruz legal-aid organization by tenants for tenants. Volunteers work with an attorney to counsel tenants. We serve all city residents, regardless of immigration status. (associated with Sanctuary Santa Cruz and based out of the SSC office at the Hub).
https://tenantsanctuary.org // https://www.facebook.com/tenantsanctuary/
http://bikechurch.santacruzhub.org // https://www.facebook.com/The-Bike-Church-190199353899/ // https://www.instagram.com/thebikechurch/
-Hard Core Compost --- We are a worker-owned and operated residential compost collection service that uses cargo bicycles to haul food scraps from your kitchen to local composting sites in Santa Cruz. We believe that the resilience of our communities is inseparable from the health of the land we live on. Transforming our food waste into fertile compost is one small way we can collectively nurture the land in the midst of global environmental crisis, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and sequester carbon in the soil. // Note: not fiscally sponsored by the Hub
https://www.compost.bike // https://www.instagram.com/hardcorecompost/ // www.facebook.com/compost.bike/
-The Fábrica: Community Textile Arts & Salvage Workshop --- The Fábrica is community workspace where folks can come to learn and share knowledge about textiles arts. This includes Sewing, Knitting, Quilting, Embroidery, Crochet, and Bookbinding, among other arts. The workshop is operated by volunteers and funded by donations from participants. We have sewing machines as well as generous amounts of fabric, zippers, notions, and the other tools and supplies one needs for most sewing and yarn-based-projects.
https://thefabrica.org // https://www.facebook.com/thefabrica/ // https://www.instagram.com/fabrica.textile.workshop/
-PedX Courier & Cargo --- PedX Santa Cruz is a worker-owned, worker self-managed cooperative providing prompt, expeditious, reliable and friendly delivery and messenger services to the Santa Cruz County region through the exclusive use of bicycle-based transportation methods to provide its members with a sustainable livelihood and workplace control and to serve as an ethical business model. // Note: not fiscally sponsored by the Hub
http://pedxsc.com/ // https://www.facebook.com/pedxsc/ // https://www.instagram.com/pedalersexpress/
-Sanctuary Santa Cruz ---Sanctuary/Santuario Santa Cruz - Sanctuary/Santuario Santa Cruz - Collection of
projects aimed at making Santa Cruz a welcoming place for all of its residents. Sanctuary/Santuario Santa Cruz es un conjunto de proyectos con la meta de hacer a Santa Cruz un lugar de bienvenida para todos los residentes. Hablamos español. Projects: Tenant Sanctuary - legal-aid organization by tenants for tenants (more info below). The Muslim Solidarity Group: mission is to support Muslims and non-Muslim Arabs from around the world in the struggle to be understood and honored. United We Dream: we empower immigrant youth to develop their leadership, organizing skills, and to develop our own campaigns to fight for justice and dignity for immigrants and all people. Your Allied Rapid Response
(YARR): trains responders to use non-violent direct action to protect community members against ICE or
against bullying and harassment.
https://sanctuary-sc.net // https://www.facebook.com/sanctuarysantacruz/
-SubRosa: a community space --- SubRosa is a collectively run anarchist community space, a place to meet others and challenge our assumptions and act on our passions. We strive to create a vibrant environment for events, classes, meetings, organizing, performance, art, studying and more. SubRosa also offers radical literature for sale, and houses the Anarchist Lending Library. We welcome folks to join us in fostering an environment free from coercion, sexism, queer&homophobia, racism, and other hierarchies.
http://www.subrosaproject.org/ // https://www.facebook.com/subrosaproject // https://www.instagram.com/subrosa_sc/
Tenant Sanctuary --- Tenant Sanctuary is a Santa Cruz legal-aid organization by tenants for tenants. Volunteers work with an attorney to counsel tenants. We serve all city residents, regardless of immigration status. (associated with Sanctuary Santa Cruz and based out of the SSC office at the Hub).
https://tenantsanctuary.org // https://www.facebook.com/tenantsanctuary/
The Hub's nonprofit also sponsors (not housed at community center)
-California Field School --- The California Field School takes young people on bike tours through places that have been pivotal in California history. By connecting with California’s diverse communities and landscapes, and exploring social and environmental justice issues past and present, participants will gain an unparalleled understanding of their place within the story of California - and the leadership skills and confidence to write the next chapter of that story on their own.
https://www.californiafieldschool.org
-Coastal Rail Santa Cruz --- Coastal Rail Santa Cruz advocates development of rail transit integrated with a mixed use trail along the Santa Cruz Branch Line. Providing for pedestrians, bicycles, and passenger rail, our vision is consistent with the master plan for the Monterey Bay Scenic Sanctuary Trail. Healthy communities support walking, biking, and public transit. Rail service extends the bike trip or walk, and reduces the need for cars.
http://www.coastalrail.org // https://www.facebook.com/CoastalRail/
-The Santa Cruz Climate Action Network --- We are a diverse group of local people who are highly concerned about current and future climate change. Santa Cruz Climate Action Network (SCCAN) seeks to address the current Climate Change Emergency, recognizing that failure to act quickly will have devastating effects on future generations of humans and other life forms.
https://scruzclimate.org/ // https://www.facebook.com/SantaCruzClimateActionNetwork/
-Santa Cruz Community Orchard --- This volunteer initiative develops public fruit orchards in Santa Cruz, spreading the skills of sustainable urban agriculture and land stewardship, while providing free access to ripe and nutritious produce. These highly participatory cultivated spaces invite people to reconnect to their food, nourish healthy bodies and healthy dialog, and engage in our local economy of soil, sun, surf, fog, and future-forward ideas.
http://santacruzorchard.org // https://www.facebook.com/SantaCruzFoodForest/
-The Santa Cruz Fruit Tree Project --- We organize community fruit harvests as well as processing events like pressing cider, curing olives, and making jam and wine. Our goal is to explore our community and create connections – cultivating relationships within neighborhoods as we enjoy the abundance around us and help move Santa Cruz towards a sustainable future.
https://fruitcruz.org // https://www.facebook.com/Santa-Cruz-Fruit-Tree-Project-164684610234517/
https://www.californiafieldschool.org
-Coastal Rail Santa Cruz --- Coastal Rail Santa Cruz advocates development of rail transit integrated with a mixed use trail along the Santa Cruz Branch Line. Providing for pedestrians, bicycles, and passenger rail, our vision is consistent with the master plan for the Monterey Bay Scenic Sanctuary Trail. Healthy communities support walking, biking, and public transit. Rail service extends the bike trip or walk, and reduces the need for cars.
http://www.coastalrail.org // https://www.facebook.com/CoastalRail/
-The Santa Cruz Climate Action Network --- We are a diverse group of local people who are highly concerned about current and future climate change. Santa Cruz Climate Action Network (SCCAN) seeks to address the current Climate Change Emergency, recognizing that failure to act quickly will have devastating effects on future generations of humans and other life forms.
https://scruzclimate.org/ // https://www.facebook.com/SantaCruzClimateActionNetwork/
-Santa Cruz Community Orchard --- This volunteer initiative develops public fruit orchards in Santa Cruz, spreading the skills of sustainable urban agriculture and land stewardship, while providing free access to ripe and nutritious produce. These highly participatory cultivated spaces invite people to reconnect to their food, nourish healthy bodies and healthy dialog, and engage in our local economy of soil, sun, surf, fog, and future-forward ideas.
http://santacruzorchard.org // https://www.facebook.com/SantaCruzFoodForest/
-The Santa Cruz Fruit Tree Project --- We organize community fruit harvests as well as processing events like pressing cider, curing olives, and making jam and wine. Our goal is to explore our community and create connections – cultivating relationships within neighborhoods as we enjoy the abundance around us and help move Santa Cruz towards a sustainable future.
https://fruitcruz.org // https://www.facebook.com/Santa-Cruz-Fruit-Tree-Project-164684610234517/
Hub brief history
The Hub's roots are in people working together to co-create a more livable world, and was founded in 1994 at 2048 N. Pacific by people that were passionate about human powered transportation and community collaboration (this constellation of projects included PedX, the Bike Church The Santa Cruz County Cycling Club, Bike To Work and People Power). Hub members formalized the non-profit entity in2000, based on work begun in 1996. The Santa Cruz Hub for
Sustainable Transportation changed it's name to the Hub for Sustainable living in 2017 to better reflect our evolving values and intentions. In 2006, the Hub moved to its current Pacific Avenue home from its former location on Walnut Avenue. The Hub has been building and celebrating community for nearly 25 years!
More info from 2005 from just before the Hub moved to it's current location http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/18844/index.php
Sustainable Transportation changed it's name to the Hub for Sustainable living in 2017 to better reflect our evolving values and intentions. In 2006, the Hub moved to its current Pacific Avenue home from its former location on Walnut Avenue. The Hub has been building and celebrating community for nearly 25 years!
More info from 2005 from just before the Hub moved to it's current location http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/18844/index.php
