The Human Project -- What Do You Think?
I came across a new venture that's starting up with grand plans, and thought I'd bring it here for your perusal and comment. First of all, let me say that I am in no way involved with the creation. It's called The Human Project and what it is, is..... well.. I'll let the 'designers' tell you about it:
We're building a free iPad app. Not just any app. An app to start an epic conversation on the future of our species. We've done three years of exhaustive research. Developed…
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Naming Our Condition So That We Can Speak to It--Together
Why is so much going wrong everywhere at once?
The answer is simple, though its implications for us are anything but.
We humans are facing what has been variously described as collapse, bottleneck overshoot, catastrophe, the long emergency, and Nature’s revenge because we are breaking Life’s paramount rule:
We are living beyond Earth’s means.
The converging economic, environmental, social and political…
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Mimic This! Project Dirt -- Annotated List of Good Stuff Transition
Hello Dirters Well, well - this must be the first Tuesday Dirt Newsletter in some time. Having been at the START@KEW festival all of yesterday, this e-mail had to wait until today rather then the usual Monday slot. It was great to see so many people at… |
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Mimic This! Steamboat Colorado -- Disposable, single-use bags
Added by Les Squires on August 30, 2011 at 1:17pm — No Comments
BEING READY FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE
Make no mistake: the need for sustainable solutions has never been greater. After seemingly endless attention, is it possible that everyone who’s going to be moved to action by arguments about recycling, pollution, water quality, deforestation, soil and fishery decline, and climate change has already activated?
If…
Added by John Adams on August 30, 2011 at 9:23am — 2 Comments
The Finding Finite Project
As I am trying to manage a great deal of informational sources and portals, I apologize for not blog posting at this site... for now you can read, comment, and subscribe by email to the blog at thefindingfiniteproject.wordpress.com
Many thanks and wishes for your successful transition,
Chris
Added by Christopher Thompson on August 30, 2011 at 9:02am — No Comments
Mimic This! BALLE -- Organize your own local investment club!
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| Organize your own local investment club! Part of BALLE's Accelerating Community Capital Series Find out what is working on the ground across North America to… |
Added by Les Squires on August 30, 2011 at 6:58am — No Comments
Community Building, Work & Creativity in the Permaculture Age. A classroom + field trip experience by Instructor Willi Paul. Sept. 20, Oct. 4, Oct. 18, Nov. 1. 6:30 – 8:00 PM
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4 Misconceptions About the Simple Life
It is important to recognize inaccurate stereotypes about the simple life because they make it seem impractical and ill suited for responding to increasingly critical breakdowns in world systems. Four misconceptions about the simple life are so common they deserve special attention. These are equating simplicity with: poverty, moving back to the land, living without beauty and economic stagnation.
Added by Duane Elgin on August 28, 2011 at 10:30am — 1 Comment
Vision Point – Permaculture Design Certification Project by Rob Joyce, Felipe Santander, Willi Paul, Summer 2011 PDC Graduates - Urban Permaculture Institute
Vision Point – Permaculture Design Certification Project by Rob Joyce, Felipe Santander,
Willi Paul, Summer 2011 PDC Graduates - Urban Permaculture Institute, SF. Video. Instructors:
David Cody & Kevin Bayuk
http://planetshifter.com/node/1929
Once known as Potrero Point, this rocky peninsula has 180 degree views of San…
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Mimic This! Rob Hopkins -- Exploring the Ingredients For Transition
Below is your invitation to “Exploring The Ingredients For Transition with Rob Hopkins.” |
Added by Les Squires on August 26, 2011 at 1:12pm — No Comments
Yield. Potential Hurdles to the Permaculture Movement by Willi Paul, PlanetShifter.com Magazine.
Added by PlanetShifterMan on August 26, 2011 at 7:24am — No Comments
If only the global predicament, the ominously looming and enlarging threat to everything that really matters was a laughing matter, that would be the best thing. If only the human family was not prim…
Added by Steven Earl Salmony on August 24, 2011 at 8:37am — 2 Comments
New Myth #12 - Owl Dance Energy and Permaculture Training Station, San Francisco - 2034. By Willi Paul. Powered by openmythsource.com
New Myth #12 - Owl Dance Energy and Permaculture Training Station, San Francisco - 2034. By Willi Paul. Powered by openmythsource.com
http://planetshifter.com/node/1927
Golden Gate Park is now one Mother Garden with windmills for ear rings and cob seats for permie butts.
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Digital stories as memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses. By Aleks Krotoski. Relay from openmythsource.com
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Transition WNC: The Time is Now! Western North Carolina
Added by Gary Stamper on August 21, 2011 at 11:35am — No Comments
Mimic This! Launching "350-Vermont" -- Connect & Brainstorm with Others
If you have a second, we want to share some exciting news.
Here’s a short version: a band of passionate Vermonters have come together to launch “350 Vermont” — one of the first statewide 350 campaigns in the nation. Our new website is 350VT.org.
So, how’d we…
Added by Les Squires on August 21, 2011 at 9:22am — No Comments
THE SECRET OF WATER AS A BASIS FOR THE NEW EARTH
http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=825&L=0
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Gaiasana elders' community in Costa Rica takes off
Gaiasana Multigenerational Sustainable Community
Although a multigenerational community benefits all ages from new born to over 100 years old, we intend it to be of special benefit to elders by making them of special benefit to their community.…
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Mimic This! Darfur Stove Project -- Invent LOCAL!
The Darfur Stoves Project seeks to protect Darfuri women by providing them with specially developed stoves which require less firewood, decreasing women’s exposure to violence while collecting firewood and their need to trade food rations for fuel.
The Darfur Stoves Project collaborates with international organizations such as Oxfam America…
Added by Les Squires on August 16, 2011 at 4:05pm — No Comments
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