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Self-Organization Principle

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations don't require permission from an DAO-Overlord. If you bring a RESQ online, send us your information to add to the list of RESQs. There are a few guidelines that we ask RESQers to follow. These are meant to consolidate the RESQ brand and to ensure that you and your charges receive proper care and not to pigeon-hole anyone into actions they deem unreasonable for their RESQ. We don't know your community, you do. All we did was come up with the process. You have to make it work for your areas!

RESQs

1. Redirect food waste to undernourished animals - RESQ recipes are developed with veterinary help to be balanced both in calories and nutrition, but they are also developed with proper vitamins and minerals in mind as well, please use them. RESQ recipes are made to be adjusted though, so that you can still feed animals no matter what ingredients you have available. If your regular market ingredients are different than those of the recipes please contact us and we will happily work with you to come up with recipes that are better suited for your area.

2. Create weatherproof animal shelters, bee rest stops, watering areas, etc. from recycled, upcycled, reimagined, and otherwise reused inert waste materials. Some of these plans are listed on our site (with much more to come!) for anyone to use. If you have questions about assembly just let us know. We encourage our RESQs to try new and innovative green technology. If you encounter something different, or create something yourself, send it to us in a short video or diagram! We will share it with the world.

3. Offset care expenses through upcycling from salvages, removals, and other finds. RESQ strives to leave as small a footprint as possible by reusing as much as possible. For example, when an armchair is really no longer any good for humans to sit on, there is no reason why you can't put it in one of the dog rooms. After the dogs are done playing with it (because you know they will), separate the fabric from the wood frame. The fabric pieces can then go in a mesh bag to be washed and used as stuffing for another animal bed. The wood frame, depending on its condition, can be re-purposed to use the wood in constructions, even to an extent the nails can be recovered from the old wood. Any wood that is not secure for construction purposes can be burnt for heat, with the ash from the fireplace also being re-purposed (compost, lye, odor eliminator)

4. Encourage lower expenses via self-sufficiency with diversification of technologies: biogas & compost, wind & solar, gravity & waves, water & geothermal. We encourage our RESQs to use as many of these technologies as possible, enabling the chapter to remain off-grid and self-sufficient. These technologies are ideal for pieces of land that are not connected to the city grid, or that are too far away from anything to be connected. We are working to provide plans in the Tools section for such technologies, as well as to make some of these on a small scale so that they are portable, i.e. small solar heater to bring for heat in the field during cold winter days. If you are a RESQ trying to install any of these technologies and require aid let us know and we will apply to get you what you need.

5. Encourage reinvigorating the environment through strategic planting of native species, specifically food plants and tree environments to encourage natural water and food cycles. At RESQ we don't only try to save the animals, but the earth too! This is where our food and water come from and if we want to live a healthy and toxin free lifestyle then we need to start at the bottom, with the ground and water and the plants that clean them.

6. Share RESQ methods to spread the word, save more lives, improve quality of life, reduce world waste, encourage self-sufficiency, and reinvigorate the world using natural energy sources!

RESQ Rebels work with eXtinction Rebellion (XR Principles) to make lasting, regenerative changes to repair our damaged ecosystems.