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August 2011 Blog Posts (49)

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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Added by Judith Newton on August 31, 2011 at 8:53pm — 2 Comments

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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Added by Ellen LaConte on August 31, 2011 at 11:30am — 12 Comments

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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Added by Les Squires on August 30, 2011 at 1:31pm — No Comments

Mimic This! Steamboat Colorado -- Disposable, single-use bags



Bag Green Fee Proposal to City Council Tonight

- Attendance and Signatures needed!…


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Added by Les Squires on August 30, 2011 at 1:17pm — No Comments

BEING READY FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE

 Have the arguments for sustainability gotten stale – or omitted the most important points?

 

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…

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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…
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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

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



http://planetshifter.com/node/1930



Simplified Course Syllabus (tentative):



Session 1 - Community Organizations & Permaculture

Session 2 – Design with Nature

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Added by PlanetShifterMan on August 28, 2011 at 4:51pm — No Comments

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.

 

  1. Simplicity Means Poverty Although some spiritual…
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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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Added by PlanetShifterMan on August 28, 2011 at 10:02am — No Comments

Mimic This! Rob Hopkins -- Exploring the Ingredients For Transition

Below is your invitation to “Exploring The Ingredients For Transition with Rob Hopkins.”



Please go to our website, www.transitionus.org and register today and be sure to forward this e-mail along to others!



We hope that you will be…

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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.

Yield. Potential Hurdles to the Permaculture Movement by Willi Paul, PlanetShifter.com Magazine.



http://planetshifter.com/node/1928



Some of the Questions:



* What is permaculture drawing from Hopi or other Native American lore?

* Lack of political strategy to play the government game and change it at all levels?

* Teachers and students. Are a few schools and PC stars representing… Continue

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…

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 primary inducers and drivers of this colossal predicament, and therefore principally responsible for it; if only the many too many leaders who understand precisely what it is that we are discussing now here did not willfully deny science and consciously choose silence over speech. That too, would be the… Continue

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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Added by PlanetShifterMan on August 22, 2011 at 11:58am — No Comments

Digital stories as memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses. By Aleks Krotoski. Relay from openmythsource.com

Digital stories as memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses. By Aleks Krotoski. Relay from openmythsource.com



http://planetshifter.com/node/1926



When a storyteller has held an audience captive around a campfire, a

cinema screen or on the page of a bestseller, they've reinforced local

and universal norms about where we've been and where we're… Continue

Added by PlanetShifterMan on August 22, 2011 at 9:19am — No Comments

Transition WNC: The Time is Now! Western North Carolina

Dear Ones,



You're reading this because you have eyes to see, ears to hear, and the heart to hold the knowledge that life as we know it is rapidly changing, and that we are in the midst of social, political, economic, spiritual, and physical   transformations that  may be the largest shift that we…
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Added by Gary Stamper on August 21, 2011 at 11:35am — No Comments

Mimic This! Launching "350-Vermont" -- Connect & Brainstorm with Others

Launching "350-Vermont"

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…

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Added by Les Squires on August 21, 2011 at 9:22am — No Comments

THE SECRET OF WATER AS A BASIS FOR THE NEW EARTH

THE SECRET OF WATER AS A BASIS FOR THE NEW EARTH

Study Text by Bernd Mueller, Free Download in five languages (PDF)

http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=825&L=0

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Added by Peter Koll Tamera on August 18, 2011 at 7:47am — No Comments

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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Added by Roy Lent on August 16, 2011 at 10:47pm — No Comments

Mimic This! Darfur Stove Project -- Invent LOCAL!

Meet the Berkeley-Darfur Stove

 

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…

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Added by Les Squires on August 16, 2011 at 4:05pm — No Comments

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