11/5/09
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7/24/09
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7/22/09
7/8/09
Integral Life
Bring awareness to perspectives: The world is a vast terrain of perspectives and potential perspectives. However, perspectives alone exist in a state of confusion, crashing into one another in cycles of mindless conflict. Awareness is the act of holding multiple perspectives in a space that nurtures their value and constrains their short-sightedness. Such a space allows depth to emerge in our understanding and actions.
http://integrallife.com/node/47214
7/5/09
6/24/09
6/16/09
David korten on our economy
Why This Crisis May Be Our Best Chance to Build a New Economy
by David Korten
Wall Street is bankrupt. Instead of trying to save it, we can build a new economy that puts money and business in the service of people and the planet—not the other way around.
Whether it was divine providence or just good luck, we should give thanks that financial collapse hit us before the worst of global warming and peak oil. As challenging as the economic meltdown may be, it buys time to build a new economy that serves life rather than money. It lays bare the fact that the existing financial system has brought our way of life and the natural systems on which we depend to the brink of collapse. This wake-up call is inspiring unprecedented numbers of people to take action to bring forth the culture and institutions of a new economy that can serve us and sustain our living planet for generations into the future.
6/15/09
Ecopsych quotes
These are some quotes collected by an ecopsychology proff. at Naropa.
The Dali Lama has said, “The long term solution to the environmental crisis must come form the positive and the confident. It will never come from the mind of anger and despair. “ Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest at one point said he gave the average activist 10 years at most, due to burn-out and being consumed by their anger and strong emotions. The Christian mystic, Thomas Merton said many years ago and still rings true for me today, “There is pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and over-work.. to allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too may demands, to commit oneself to too many people, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. " The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his (her) work for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of his own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”
The Dali Lama has said, “The long term solution to the environmental crisis must come form the positive and the confident. It will never come from the mind of anger and despair. “ Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest at one point said he gave the average activist 10 years at most, due to burn-out and being consumed by their anger and strong emotions. The Christian mystic, Thomas Merton said many years ago and still rings true for me today, “There is pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and over-work.. to allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too may demands, to commit oneself to too many people, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. " The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his (her) work for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of his own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”
6/14/09
6/11/09
6/8/09
6/6/09
6/4/09
6/3/09
6/1/09
A Time Comes...
A Time Comes - the story of the Kingsnorth Six from Greenpeace UK on Vimeo.
This caught my eye, mostly because I remember hearing about the lady who's in it. She's a kiwi and is from the city that I lived in while in New Zealand last summer. Pretty cool story of change.
5/31/09
5/28/09
Depression, yoga, food
http://depression.about.com/cs/diet/a/foodallergies.htm more on nutrients and mental health.
http://www.yogashakti.org/ma_yogashakti/article_detail.php?id=26 here's from another cultural metaphore.
http://www.yogashakti.org/ma_yogashakti/article_detail.php?id=26 here's from another cultural metaphore.
5/27/09
Neat things from Matia
I really want everyone to read this one. ~M http://www.wildethics.org/essays/waking_our_animal_senses.html If you like it, explore the site, and follow your curiosity.
And here is a lovely interview of Martin Prechtel: http://www.hiddenwine.com/indexSUN.html
Matia Jones
And here is a lovely interview of Martin Prechtel: http://www.hiddenwine.com/indexSUN.html
Matia Jones
Ducks
A True Duck Story from San Antonio , Texas
Something really cute happened in downtown San Antonio this week. Michael R. is an accounting clerk at Frost Bank and works there in a second story office. Several weeks ago, he watched a mother duck choose the concrete awning outside his window as the unlikely place to build a nest above the sidewalk. The mallard laid ten eggs in a nest in the corner of the planter that is perched over 10 feet in the air. She dutifully kept the eggs warm for weeks, and Monday afternoon all of her ten ducklings hatched.
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Michael worried all night how the momma duck was going to get those babies safely off their perch in a busy, downtown, urban environment to take to water, which typically happens in the first 48 hours of a duck hatching. Tuesday morning, Michael watched the mother duck encourage her babies to the edge of the perch with the intent to show them how to jump off. Office work came to a standstill as everyone gathered to watch.
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The mother flew down below and started quacking to her babies above. In disbelief Michael watched as the first fuzzy newborn trustingly toddled to the edge and astonishingly leapt into thin air, crashing onto the cement below. Michael couldn't stand to watch this risky effort nine more times! He dashed out of his office and ran down the stairs to the sidewalk where the first obedient duckling, near its mother, was resting in a stupor after the near-fatal fall. Michael stood out of sight under the awning-planter, ready to help.
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As the second one took the plunge, Michael jumped forward and caught it with his bare hands before it hit the concrete. Safe and sound, he set it down it by its momma and the other stunned sibling, still recovering from that painful leap. (The momma must have sensed that Michael was trying to help her babies.)
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One by one the babies continued to jump.. Each time Michael hid under the awning just to reach out in the nick of time as the duckling made its free fall. At the scene the busy downtown sidewalk traffic came to a standstill. Time after time, Michael was able to catch the remaining eight and set them by their approving mother.
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At this point Michael realized the duck family had only made part of its dangerous journey. They had two full blocks to walk across traffic, crosswalks, curbs and past pedestrians to get to the closest open water, the San Antonio River , site of the famed "River Walk." The onlooking office secretaries and several San Antonio police officers joined in. An empty copy-paper box was brought to collect the babies. They carefully corralled them, with the mother's approval, and loaded them in the container.. Michael held the box low enough for the mom to see her brood. He then slowly navigated through the downtown streets toward the San Antonio River . The mother waddled behind and kept her babies in sight, all the way.
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As they reached the river, the mother took over and passed him, jumping in the river and quacking loudly. At the water's edge, Michael tipped the box and helped shepherd the babies toward the water and to the waiting mother after their adventurous ride.
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All ten darling ducklings safely made it into the water and paddled up snugly to momma. Michael said the mom swam in circles, looking back toward the beaming bank bookkeeper, and proudly quacking.
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At last, all present and accounted for: "We're all together again. We're here! We're here!"
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And here's a family portrait before they head outward to further adventures...
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Like all of us in the big times of our life, they never could have made it alone without lots of helping hands. I think it gives the name of San Antonio 's famous "River Walk" a whole new meaning! Maybe you will want to share this story with others. Doctor York told me she had forwarded it to 20 people. It's too good to lose!
Live honestly, Love generously, Care deeply, Speak kindly & Leave the rest to God.
Something really cute happened in downtown San Antonio this week. Michael R. is an accounting clerk at Frost Bank and works there in a second story office. Several weeks ago, he watched a mother duck choose the concrete awning outside his window as the unlikely place to build a nest above the sidewalk. The mallard laid ten eggs in a nest in the corner of the planter that is perched over 10 feet in the air. She dutifully kept the eggs warm for weeks, and Monday afternoon all of her ten ducklings hatched.
[cid:2E6D813D-0694-4B85-AD47-130897E7D20E]
Michael worried all night how the momma duck was going to get those babies safely off their perch in a busy, downtown, urban environment to take to water, which typically happens in the first 48 hours of a duck hatching. Tuesday morning, Michael watched the mother duck encourage her babies to the edge of the perch with the intent to show them how to jump off. Office work came to a standstill as everyone gathered to watch.
[cid:46128790-A2BD-415E-9E7F-D5FC0710BD76]
The mother flew down below and started quacking to her babies above. In disbelief Michael watched as the first fuzzy newborn trustingly toddled to the edge and astonishingly leapt into thin air, crashing onto the cement below. Michael couldn't stand to watch this risky effort nine more times! He dashed out of his office and ran down the stairs to the sidewalk where the first obedient duckling, near its mother, was resting in a stupor after the near-fatal fall. Michael stood out of sight under the awning-planter, ready to help.
[cid:7383BE71-F156-4768-B175-E924C93E5CAD]
As the second one took the plunge, Michael jumped forward and caught it with his bare hands before it hit the concrete. Safe and sound, he set it down it by its momma and the other stunned sibling, still recovering from that painful leap. (The momma must have sensed that Michael was trying to help her babies.)
[cid:0FDB6ED7-8E4D-45DA-BD4C-1BF118831DDB]
One by one the babies continued to jump.. Each time Michael hid under the awning just to reach out in the nick of time as the duckling made its free fall. At the scene the busy downtown sidewalk traffic came to a standstill. Time after time, Michael was able to catch the remaining eight and set them by their approving mother.
[cid:F71731B4-D2F3-4FEA-8654-3C4AAF3510DC]
At this point Michael realized the duck family had only made part of its dangerous journey. They had two full blocks to walk across traffic, crosswalks, curbs and past pedestrians to get to the closest open water, the San Antonio River , site of the famed "River Walk." The onlooking office secretaries and several San Antonio police officers joined in. An empty copy-paper box was brought to collect the babies. They carefully corralled them, with the mother's approval, and loaded them in the container.. Michael held the box low enough for the mom to see her brood. He then slowly navigated through the downtown streets toward the San Antonio River . The mother waddled behind and kept her babies in sight, all the way.
[cid:F644291C-20E8-4D5A-BF64-0B5E2FC24459]
As they reached the river, the mother took over and passed him, jumping in the river and quacking loudly. At the water's edge, Michael tipped the box and helped shepherd the babies toward the water and to the waiting mother after their adventurous ride.
[cid:A6D56348-E2AB-4A7E-B116-84CDA2CE6289]
All ten darling ducklings safely made it into the water and paddled up snugly to momma. Michael said the mom swam in circles, looking back toward the beaming bank bookkeeper, and proudly quacking.
[cid:AB75FE02-6DE3-4278-8BE7-7404B99E8491]
At last, all present and accounted for: "We're all together again. We're here! We're here!"
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And here's a family portrait before they head outward to further adventures...
[cid:3DA0C898-E210-4BE0-992A-60F4378AB504]
Like all of us in the big times of our life, they never could have made it alone without lots of helping hands. I think it gives the name of San Antonio 's famous "River Walk" a whole new meaning! Maybe you will want to share this story with others. Doctor York told me she had forwarded it to 20 people. It's too good to lose!
Live honestly, Love generously, Care deeply, Speak kindly & Leave the rest to God.
5/26/09
5/25/09
5/21/09
Ecological Intelligence
Link to Center for Ecoliteracy Publications
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Ecological Intelligence
By Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman is the author of Emotional Intelligence, Working with and Social Intelligence.
Ecologists tell us that natural systems operate on multiple scales. At the macro level there are global biogeochemical cycles, like that for the flow of carbon, where shifts in the ratios of elements can be measured not just over the years but over centuries and geologic ages. The ecosystem of a forest balances the entwined interplay of plant, animal, and insect species, down to the bacteria in soil, each finding an ecological niche to exploit, their genes evolving together. At the micro level cycles run their course on a scale of millimeters or microns, in just seconds.
How we perceive and understand all this makes the crucial difference. "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way," wrote the poet William Blake two centuries ago. "Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, so he sees."
…Ecological intelligence allows us to comprehend systems in all their complexity, as well as the interplay between the natural and man-made worlds. But that understanding demands a vast store of knowledge, one so huge that no single brain can store it all. Each one of us needs the help of others to navigate the complexities of ecological intelligence. We need to collaborate.
Psychologists conventionally view intelligence as residing within an individual. But the ecological abilities we need in order to survive today must be a collective intelligence, one that we learn and master as a species, and that resides in a distributed fashion among far-flung networks of people. The challenges we face are too varied, too subtle, and too complicated to be understood and overcome by a single person; their recognition and solution require intense efforts by a vastly diverse range of experts, businesspeople, activists — by all of us. As a group we need to learn what dangers we face, what their causes are, and how to render them harmless, on the one hand, and, on the other, to see the new opportunities these solutions offer — and we need the collective determination to do all this.
Evolutionary anthropologists recognize the cognitive abilities required for shared intelligence as a distinctly human ability, one that has been crucial to helping our species survive its earliest phases. The most recent addition to the human brain includes our circuitry for social intelligence, which allowed early humans to use complex collaboration to hunt, parent, and survive. Today we need to make the most of these same capacities for sharing cognition to survive a new set of challenges to our survival.
A collective, distributed intelligence spreads awareness, whether among friends or family, within a company, or through an entire culture. Whenever one person grasps part of this complex web of cause and effect and tells others, that insight becomes part of the group memory, to be called on as needed by any single member. Such shared intelligence grows through the contributions of individuals who advance that understanding and spread it among the rest of us. And so we need scouts, explorers who alert us to ecological truths we have either lost touch with or newly discover.
Large organizations embody such a distributed intelligence. In a hospital a lab technician does one set of jobs well, a surgical nurse another, and a radiologist still another; coordinating all these skills and knowledge allows patients to receive sound care. In a company the sales, marketing, finance, and strategic planning departments each represent unique expertise, the parts operating as a whole via a coordinated, shared understanding.
The shared nature of ecological intelligence makes it synergistic with social intelligence, which gives us the capacity to coordinate and harmonize our efforts. The art of working together effectively, as mastered by a star performing team, combines abilities like empathy and perspective taking, candor and cooperation, to create person-to-person links that let information gain added value as it travels. Collaboration and the exchange of information are vital to amassing the essential ecological insights and necessary database that allow us to act for the greater good.
The way insects swarm suggests another sense in which ecological intelligence can be distributed among us. In an ant colony no single ant grasps the big picture or leads the other ants (the queen just lays eggs); instead each ant follows simple rules of thumb that work together in countless ways to achieve self-organizing goals. Ants find the shortest route to a food source with simple hardwired rules such as following the strongest pheromone trail. Swarm intelligence allows a larger goal to be met by having large numbers of actors follow simple principles. None of the actors needs to direct the group's efforts to achieve the overall goal, nor is there any need for a centralized director.
When it comes to our collective ecological goals, the swarm rules might boil down to:
1. Know your impacts.
2. Favor improvements.
3. Share what you learn.
Such a swarm intelligence would result in an ongoing upgrade to our ecological intelligence through mindfulness of the true consequences of what we do and buy, the resolve to change for the better, and the spreading of what we know so others can do the same. If each of us in the human swarm follows those three simple rules, then together we might create a force that improves our human systems. No one of us needs to have a master plan or grasp all the essential knowledge. All of us will be pushing toward a continuous improvement of the human impact on nature.
Signs of the dawning of this shift in collective consciousness are amply visible globally, from executive teams working to make their companies' operations more sustainable to neighborhood activists distributing reusable cloth shopping bags to replace plastic ones — wherever people are engaged in creating a way of interacting with nature that transforms our propensities for short-term trade-offs into a long-term, saner relationship. High-profile investigations into the innumerable dangers human activity poses to our planet's ecosystems, like the growing study of global warming, are a bare beginning. Such efforts help raise our sense of urgency. But we can"t stop there. We need to gather the on-the-ground, detailed, and sophisticated data that can guide our actions. That takes a thorough and ongoing analysis, determined discipline — and the pursuit of ecological intelligence.
Copyright © 2009 by Daniel Goleman
From the book Ecological Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, published by Broadway Books, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Reprinted with permission.
Find out more about Ecological Intelligence
Daniel Goleman is the author of Emotional Intelligence, Working with Emotional Intelligence, and Social Intelligence. He was a science reporter for the New York Times, was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and received the American Psychological Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.
No part of this article may be reproduced without permission. Please contact the Center for Ecoliteracy to obtain permission. Read other essays on education for sustainability at www.ecoliteracy.org
Copyright 2009. Center for Ecoliteracy. All rights reserved.
Print this page
Ecological Intelligence
By Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman is the author of Emotional Intelligence, Working with and Social Intelligence.
Ecologists tell us that natural systems operate on multiple scales. At the macro level there are global biogeochemical cycles, like that for the flow of carbon, where shifts in the ratios of elements can be measured not just over the years but over centuries and geologic ages. The ecosystem of a forest balances the entwined interplay of plant, animal, and insect species, down to the bacteria in soil, each finding an ecological niche to exploit, their genes evolving together. At the micro level cycles run their course on a scale of millimeters or microns, in just seconds.
How we perceive and understand all this makes the crucial difference. "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way," wrote the poet William Blake two centuries ago. "Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, so he sees."
…Ecological intelligence allows us to comprehend systems in all their complexity, as well as the interplay between the natural and man-made worlds. But that understanding demands a vast store of knowledge, one so huge that no single brain can store it all. Each one of us needs the help of others to navigate the complexities of ecological intelligence. We need to collaborate.
Psychologists conventionally view intelligence as residing within an individual. But the ecological abilities we need in order to survive today must be a collective intelligence, one that we learn and master as a species, and that resides in a distributed fashion among far-flung networks of people. The challenges we face are too varied, too subtle, and too complicated to be understood and overcome by a single person; their recognition and solution require intense efforts by a vastly diverse range of experts, businesspeople, activists — by all of us. As a group we need to learn what dangers we face, what their causes are, and how to render them harmless, on the one hand, and, on the other, to see the new opportunities these solutions offer — and we need the collective determination to do all this.
Evolutionary anthropologists recognize the cognitive abilities required for shared intelligence as a distinctly human ability, one that has been crucial to helping our species survive its earliest phases. The most recent addition to the human brain includes our circuitry for social intelligence, which allowed early humans to use complex collaboration to hunt, parent, and survive. Today we need to make the most of these same capacities for sharing cognition to survive a new set of challenges to our survival.
A collective, distributed intelligence spreads awareness, whether among friends or family, within a company, or through an entire culture. Whenever one person grasps part of this complex web of cause and effect and tells others, that insight becomes part of the group memory, to be called on as needed by any single member. Such shared intelligence grows through the contributions of individuals who advance that understanding and spread it among the rest of us. And so we need scouts, explorers who alert us to ecological truths we have either lost touch with or newly discover.
Large organizations embody such a distributed intelligence. In a hospital a lab technician does one set of jobs well, a surgical nurse another, and a radiologist still another; coordinating all these skills and knowledge allows patients to receive sound care. In a company the sales, marketing, finance, and strategic planning departments each represent unique expertise, the parts operating as a whole via a coordinated, shared understanding.
The shared nature of ecological intelligence makes it synergistic with social intelligence, which gives us the capacity to coordinate and harmonize our efforts. The art of working together effectively, as mastered by a star performing team, combines abilities like empathy and perspective taking, candor and cooperation, to create person-to-person links that let information gain added value as it travels. Collaboration and the exchange of information are vital to amassing the essential ecological insights and necessary database that allow us to act for the greater good.
The way insects swarm suggests another sense in which ecological intelligence can be distributed among us. In an ant colony no single ant grasps the big picture or leads the other ants (the queen just lays eggs); instead each ant follows simple rules of thumb that work together in countless ways to achieve self-organizing goals. Ants find the shortest route to a food source with simple hardwired rules such as following the strongest pheromone trail. Swarm intelligence allows a larger goal to be met by having large numbers of actors follow simple principles. None of the actors needs to direct the group's efforts to achieve the overall goal, nor is there any need for a centralized director.
When it comes to our collective ecological goals, the swarm rules might boil down to:
1. Know your impacts.
2. Favor improvements.
3. Share what you learn.
Such a swarm intelligence would result in an ongoing upgrade to our ecological intelligence through mindfulness of the true consequences of what we do and buy, the resolve to change for the better, and the spreading of what we know so others can do the same. If each of us in the human swarm follows those three simple rules, then together we might create a force that improves our human systems. No one of us needs to have a master plan or grasp all the essential knowledge. All of us will be pushing toward a continuous improvement of the human impact on nature.
Signs of the dawning of this shift in collective consciousness are amply visible globally, from executive teams working to make their companies' operations more sustainable to neighborhood activists distributing reusable cloth shopping bags to replace plastic ones — wherever people are engaged in creating a way of interacting with nature that transforms our propensities for short-term trade-offs into a long-term, saner relationship. High-profile investigations into the innumerable dangers human activity poses to our planet's ecosystems, like the growing study of global warming, are a bare beginning. Such efforts help raise our sense of urgency. But we can"t stop there. We need to gather the on-the-ground, detailed, and sophisticated data that can guide our actions. That takes a thorough and ongoing analysis, determined discipline — and the pursuit of ecological intelligence.
Copyright © 2009 by Daniel Goleman
From the book Ecological Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, published by Broadway Books, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Reprinted with permission.
Find out more about Ecological Intelligence
Daniel Goleman is the author of Emotional Intelligence, Working with Emotional Intelligence, and Social Intelligence. He was a science reporter for the New York Times, was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and received the American Psychological Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.
No part of this article may be reproduced without permission. Please contact the Center for Ecoliteracy to obtain permission. Read other essays on education for sustainability at www.ecoliteracy.org
Copyright 2009. Center for Ecoliteracy. All rights reserved.
2nd Half of Syllabus
5/14/09 Sensory meandering in the garden- what do you find? What piques your interest? If you find something you are wondering about, bring back a question for a short discussion or an answer.
Meanderings Due- share your exploration with the class.
5/21 ~ Pattern recognition exercise while weeding. Lecture on crop rotations and companion planting. Plant cover crop.
* Companion Play
Sara Rose guest speaker/teaches core strength for gardeners
5/28 Nervous system connections to natural world
* More on autonomic, sympathetic and parasympathetic responses
~ Biorhythms connected to natural surroundings focus on nutrients and talk about what veggies to grow to meet seasonal nutritional needs.
5/31 Bonus class- Guest presenter, Matt Fogarty, leads a sensory exercise without sight. The focus is on developing your root both physically and energetically. Meet in the Outback Sun. am 10:00.
6/4 Presentations- share your community involvement, your final project, your research paper, your collage, painting
Meanderings Due- share your exploration with the class.
5/21 ~ Pattern recognition exercise while weeding. Lecture on crop rotations and companion planting. Plant cover crop.
* Companion Play
Sara Rose guest speaker/teaches core strength for gardeners
5/28 Nervous system connections to natural world
* More on autonomic, sympathetic and parasympathetic responses
~ Biorhythms connected to natural surroundings focus on nutrients and talk about what veggies to grow to meet seasonal nutritional needs.
5/31 Bonus class- Guest presenter, Matt Fogarty, leads a sensory exercise without sight. The focus is on developing your root both physically and energetically. Meet in the Outback Sun. am 10:00.
6/4 Presentations- share your community involvement, your final project, your research paper, your collage, painting
5/20/09
WOW the idea index
http://challenge.bfi.org/ideaindex
Welcome to the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Idea Index, a database of entries submitted to the Buckminster Fuller Challenge - the winner of the 2009 Challenge will be announced on May 4th. To read a summary of an entry, just click on its title or featured image. We offer this Idea Index as a source of inspiration and hope, as a trimtab in itself. The goal of the Idea Index is to catalyze and facilitate the support needed to implement truly comprehensive solutions
Welcome to the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Idea Index, a database of entries submitted to the Buckminster Fuller Challenge - the winner of the 2009 Challenge will be announced on May 4th. To read a summary of an entry, just click on its title or featured image. We offer this Idea Index as a source of inspiration and hope, as a trimtab in itself. The goal of the Idea Index is to catalyze and facilitate the support needed to implement truly comprehensive solutions
New
http://1greengeneration.elementsintime.com/?p=1077 Here is a good soil amending list for anyone interested in getting more detailed info. Please keep in mind the transportation distance of some of these. We live in a rich environment full of kelp, shell, urban compost (coffee grounds, leaf litter, nettles, comfrey etc. if you make it from your local environment you are entering into a deeper relationship with the land around you.)
This one is a treasure trove of info- especially relevant to the PNW
http://www.geocities.com/nonamuss/organic_npk.html
If you're following the soil amending links check out the do-it-yourself local calcium amendment - very relevant to OB gardeners or anyone else gardening in heavy clay-rich soils. And if you don't want to take your pH too basic from the oyster shell additions, you can add coffee grounds. Check your acidity levels first.
http://site.cleanairgardening.com/info/using-oyster-shell-as-a-soil-amendment.html
This one is a treasure trove of info- especially relevant to the PNW
http://www.geocities.com/nonamuss/organic_npk.html
If you're following the soil amending links check out the do-it-yourself local calcium amendment - very relevant to OB gardeners or anyone else gardening in heavy clay-rich soils. And if you don't want to take your pH too basic from the oyster shell additions, you can add coffee grounds. Check your acidity levels first.
http://site.cleanairgardening.com/info/using-oyster-shell-as-a-soil-amendment.html
Buckminster
“Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.”
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”
“The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”
“Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.”
“You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.”
Richard Buckminster Fuller
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”
“The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”
“Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.”
“You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.”
Richard Buckminster Fuller
5/19/09
The gift economy
http://www.gift-economy.com/giftpara_eng/giftparadigm01.html
http://www.giftingit.com/
"I have hoped . . . to speak of the inner gift that we accept as the object of our labor, and the outer gift that has become a vehicle of culture. I am not concerned with gifts given in spite or fear, nor those gifts we accept out of servility or obligation; my concern is the gift we long for, the gift that, when it comes, speaks commandingly to the soul and irresistibly moves us." Lewis Hyde
“Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.”
Wilhelm Reich
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.”
Wilhelm Reich
"Gifts economies, in which human beings are worth more than the market, are fundamental to most traditional and indigenous peoples. Here is a case where a just alternative already exists, and has for thousands of years.
In its purest form, the gift economy is about the collective, allocation based on need, and abundance. Behind gifting is human relationship, solidarity, generation of goodwill, and attention to the nurturance of the whole society, and not just one’s immediate self and family. Maintaining economic and social relations outside of the market keeps respect, cooperation, and ethics thriving."
http://www.giftingit.com/
"I have hoped . . . to speak of the inner gift that we accept as the object of our labor, and the outer gift that has become a vehicle of culture. I am not concerned with gifts given in spite or fear, nor those gifts we accept out of servility or obligation; my concern is the gift we long for, the gift that, when it comes, speaks commandingly to the soul and irresistibly moves us." Lewis Hyde
“Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.”
Wilhelm Reich
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.”
Wilhelm Reich
"Gifts economies, in which human beings are worth more than the market, are fundamental to most traditional and indigenous peoples. Here is a case where a just alternative already exists, and has for thousands of years.
In its purest form, the gift economy is about the collective, allocation based on need, and abundance. Behind gifting is human relationship, solidarity, generation of goodwill, and attention to the nurturance of the whole society, and not just one’s immediate self and family. Maintaining economic and social relations outside of the market keeps respect, cooperation, and ethics thriving."
5/18/09
Everything is Waiting for you
Everything is Waiting for You
Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,
even you, at times, have felt the grand array;
the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding
out your solo voice You must note
the way the soap dish enables you,
or the window latch grants you freedom.
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
The stairs are your mentor of things
to come, the doors have always been there
to frighten you and invite you,
and the tiny speaker in the phone
is your dream-ladder to divinity.
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into
the conversation. The kettle is singing
even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots
have left their arrogant aloofness and
seen the good in you at last. All the birds
and creatures of the world are unutterably
themselves. Everything is waiting for you.
-- David Whyte
from Everything is Waiting for You
©2003 Many Rivers Press
http://www.davidwhyte.com/english.html
Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,
even you, at times, have felt the grand array;
the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding
out your solo voice You must note
the way the soap dish enables you,
or the window latch grants you freedom.
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
The stairs are your mentor of things
to come, the doors have always been there
to frighten you and invite you,
and the tiny speaker in the phone
is your dream-ladder to divinity.
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into
the conversation. The kettle is singing
even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots
have left their arrogant aloofness and
seen the good in you at last. All the birds
and creatures of the world are unutterably
themselves. Everything is waiting for you.
-- David Whyte
from Everything is Waiting for You
©2003 Many Rivers Press
http://www.davidwhyte.com/english.html
5/16/09
Me and the biosphere
http://www.synergeticpress.com/index.html#me_and_the_biospheres
Anyone suffering from the Global Warming Blues will cherish this uplifting account of the most ambitious environmental experiment of our time: Biosphere 2, a miniature Earth under glass, the world’s largest laboratory for global ecology. John Allen’s memoir, Me and the Biospheres is a rich and complex narrative, filled with rollicking adventure, exceptional camaraderie and mind-bending science.
Anyone suffering from the Global Warming Blues will cherish this uplifting account of the most ambitious environmental experiment of our time: Biosphere 2, a miniature Earth under glass, the world’s largest laboratory for global ecology. John Allen’s memoir, Me and the Biospheres is a rich and complex narrative, filled with rollicking adventure, exceptional camaraderie and mind-bending science.
Interdependent realities, health, and symbiotic insainity
I saw Derrick Jensen (DJ) speak last night and I have a few thoughts.
First a quote from some reading on interdependent realities.
From Buddhism and the public sphere:
"Rather than blending and blending in with the limitless, mutual relevance of all things, attention and action rooted in blindness impose a single meaning or set of meanings on things determining what things "are" and "will be." In a world composed of things with essentially fixed natures, this might not be troubling. Determining what things really 'are' and 'are' not is to be able to act precisely and certainly in pursuing our own interests. But in a world in which all things are best seen impermanent or dynamic, in which our own interests are finally inseparable from those of others, and in which the predictable and the unprecedented are configuring our bodies, our lives, and our circumstances. Reacting or responding to challenging situations without clear understanding of their dramatic precedents and consequents the currents of meaning, outcomes, and opportunities that constitute our karma is almost invariably a guarantee of continued, if not intensified, trouble or suffering."
Hershock 2006 pg45
The Domination reality is as Totten puts it:
“The patterns of power and submission are inscribed on the bodies (or rather through the experience) of its members, through the ways we are taught to use, (experience), and treat our bodies from infancy onwards.” Totten, 2003. pg47
We are swimming in the reality that we wish to resist, we are that reality, we are the very thing we are seeking to resist. The Jail Cell, the government, our minds, our lives are in a symbiotic interdependent insanity loop that is inseparable by normal means. Any "way" that comes out of the reaction to any end of this loop is actually bound for further destruction of the biosphere. This is the difficulty of my solution, it requires a radical shift in perception that is not from the location of "doing, thinking, reacting, changing through more neocortical responses." No I am not suggesting a magical newage response, nor a passive response, nor a violent over throw. Yet anything that comes out of our imagination at this point in history will only repeat all that is historical and thus continue the symbiotic interdependent insanity loop. We are seeking to live in primitive ways, yet we are too far gone from this and any attempt to force this will result in furthering the domination of all living things. We are trapped!
Yet what we are trapped in; this box, this jail cell is completely and totally able to mutate, to reform, to fall off, to shed. But the efforts required to do this are great and the location is currently missing from our imagination as a collection of historical nervous systems strung together by family and passing on the historical trauma's of multiple generations. We are the edges of our species, no other time has a better way to deal with what is on our plate right now, so solutions must come not out of our insanity loop, but rather out of our interdependent mutual growing, maturing, creating, and reaching into the present vital moment, like nature, like play, like rage, and love that is in service to our mutual evolution and into the intelligent heart brain. No this is not some fantasy. It might seem like a fantasy especially since our species has collective amnesia to this vital organ, yet this organ like all the organs in our body have the capacity to be perceived, physically, emotionally, and somatically. This is why most responses to our global human situation will not include this organ, because it has been forgotten and to return to it will take effort. Not effort in doing or thinking, but rather in not doing, but in feeling. If we fail to feel our way through this time we will all play in some way or another into the symbiotic interdependent insanity loop and perpetuate the domination of all life.
This is a time for a new response, one that has never been an option and one that is difficult to see its fruit, except through how our values-intentions-actions create either virtuosity, interdependent connectivity, creative ever present awakening, and radical new ways to interact with the complexities of our reality or further to birth the domination reality that we swim in.
Simultaneously to these thoughts, I have a great understanding in my heart as to what he speaks, our human tragedy, our planet and our home. I too am terrified and feel a powerful rage at our situation. Yet I too feel called in the face of DJ's thoughts to mobilize for a radical shift in how we understand, respond, and relate to our predicament. First I must understand my place in all things, I must connect to the vital breath of life, and take ownership over making more creative interdependent beauty to relate, to return to my senses, and make actions based upon consciousness.
First a quote from some reading on interdependent realities.
From Buddhism and the public sphere:
"Rather than blending and blending in with the limitless, mutual relevance of all things, attention and action rooted in blindness impose a single meaning or set of meanings on things determining what things "are" and "will be." In a world composed of things with essentially fixed natures, this might not be troubling. Determining what things really 'are' and 'are' not is to be able to act precisely and certainly in pursuing our own interests. But in a world in which all things are best seen impermanent or dynamic, in which our own interests are finally inseparable from those of others, and in which the predictable and the unprecedented are configuring our bodies, our lives, and our circumstances. Reacting or responding to challenging situations without clear understanding of their dramatic precedents and consequents the currents of meaning, outcomes, and opportunities that constitute our karma is almost invariably a guarantee of continued, if not intensified, trouble or suffering."
Hershock 2006 pg45
The Domination reality is as Totten puts it:
“The patterns of power and submission are inscribed on the bodies (or rather through the experience) of its members, through the ways we are taught to use, (experience), and treat our bodies from infancy onwards.” Totten, 2003. pg47
We are swimming in the reality that we wish to resist, we are that reality, we are the very thing we are seeking to resist. The Jail Cell, the government, our minds, our lives are in a symbiotic interdependent insanity loop that is inseparable by normal means. Any "way" that comes out of the reaction to any end of this loop is actually bound for further destruction of the biosphere. This is the difficulty of my solution, it requires a radical shift in perception that is not from the location of "doing, thinking, reacting, changing through more neocortical responses." No I am not suggesting a magical newage response, nor a passive response, nor a violent over throw. Yet anything that comes out of our imagination at this point in history will only repeat all that is historical and thus continue the symbiotic interdependent insanity loop. We are seeking to live in primitive ways, yet we are too far gone from this and any attempt to force this will result in furthering the domination of all living things. We are trapped!
Yet what we are trapped in; this box, this jail cell is completely and totally able to mutate, to reform, to fall off, to shed. But the efforts required to do this are great and the location is currently missing from our imagination as a collection of historical nervous systems strung together by family and passing on the historical trauma's of multiple generations. We are the edges of our species, no other time has a better way to deal with what is on our plate right now, so solutions must come not out of our insanity loop, but rather out of our interdependent mutual growing, maturing, creating, and reaching into the present vital moment, like nature, like play, like rage, and love that is in service to our mutual evolution and into the intelligent heart brain. No this is not some fantasy. It might seem like a fantasy especially since our species has collective amnesia to this vital organ, yet this organ like all the organs in our body have the capacity to be perceived, physically, emotionally, and somatically. This is why most responses to our global human situation will not include this organ, because it has been forgotten and to return to it will take effort. Not effort in doing or thinking, but rather in not doing, but in feeling. If we fail to feel our way through this time we will all play in some way or another into the symbiotic interdependent insanity loop and perpetuate the domination of all life.
This is a time for a new response, one that has never been an option and one that is difficult to see its fruit, except through how our values-intentions-actions create either virtuosity, interdependent connectivity, creative ever present awakening, and radical new ways to interact with the complexities of our reality or further to birth the domination reality that we swim in.
Simultaneously to these thoughts, I have a great understanding in my heart as to what he speaks, our human tragedy, our planet and our home. I too am terrified and feel a powerful rage at our situation. Yet I too feel called in the face of DJ's thoughts to mobilize for a radical shift in how we understand, respond, and relate to our predicament. First I must understand my place in all things, I must connect to the vital breath of life, and take ownership over making more creative interdependent beauty to relate, to return to my senses, and make actions based upon consciousness.
5/13/09
bodymindy meets natural world
"The Pullitizer Prize, Harvard biologist, Edward O. Wilson, observes that "Only in the last moment of human history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world. Preliterate peoples were in intimate contact with a bewildering array of life forms." By contrast, as citizens of Western civilization we spend, according to Cohen, "an average of over 95 percent of our lives indoors, cloistered from nature. We live over 99 percent of our adult lives knowing nature through detached words, stories and pictures." This detachment of our psyche from its biological and psychological origins stressfully and hurtfully estranges us from creation, from nature's supportive, non-verbal wisdom, spirit and love within and about us." This loss creates the insatiable wants and greed that underlie our disorders. We become psychologically addicted to rewarding technologies and relationships that often have destructive side effects. The consequences of our alienation from nature manifest as the myriad of lasting personal, social and environmental problems which beset the modern world." Common Futures Magazine
Depressed? Go Play in the Dirt-
http://www.livescience.com/health/070411_happy_bacteria.html
"Sun exposure is perhaps the most important source of vitamin D because exposure to sunlight provides most humans with their vitamin D requirement. Ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun trigger vitamin D synthesis in skin. The seasons, geographic latitude, time of day, cloud cover, smog, and sunscreen affect UV ray exposure and vitamin D synthesis... Industrial pollution, which increases shade, also decreases sun exposure and may contribute to the development of rickets in children with insufficient dietary intake of vitamin D. It is important for individuals with limited sun exposure to include good sources of vitamin D in their diet."
More on urban gardening
http://www.wiretapmag.org/rights/43579/
Go Barefoot! Barefoot parks-
http://www.terraplana.com/news/go-barefoot-trentham-gardens-and-adventure-play-barfuss-park-barefoot-walk/
Learn how to make a bee garden- help the threatened honey bee and yourself! Did you know insect pollinators are responsible for 1/3 of our food crops' success?
http://nature.berkeley.edu/urbanbeegardens/
Depressed? Go Play in the Dirt-
http://www.livescience.com/health/070411_happy_bacteria.html
"Sun exposure is perhaps the most important source of vitamin D because exposure to sunlight provides most humans with their vitamin D requirement. Ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun trigger vitamin D synthesis in skin. The seasons, geographic latitude, time of day, cloud cover, smog, and sunscreen affect UV ray exposure and vitamin D synthesis... Industrial pollution, which increases shade, also decreases sun exposure and may contribute to the development of rickets in children with insufficient dietary intake of vitamin D. It is important for individuals with limited sun exposure to include good sources of vitamin D in their diet."
More on urban gardening
http://www.wiretapmag.org/rights/43579/
Go Barefoot! Barefoot parks-
http://www.terraplana.com/news/go-barefoot-trentham-gardens-and-adventure-play-barfuss-park-barefoot-walk/
Learn how to make a bee garden- help the threatened honey bee and yourself! Did you know insect pollinators are responsible for 1/3 of our food crops' success?
http://nature.berkeley.edu/urbanbeegardens/
5/10/09
5/9/09
Example of a meandering
Hi everyone. Here is an example of one of my Meanderings: I am curious about psychological and social impacts of poor-quality food vs. high quality food. So I went info. hunting...
1) Organic Food and Health: The Evidence
https://www.positivehealth.com/article-view.php?articleid=310
2) How Nutrient Deficiencies Affect Brain Connections
http://www.encognitive.com/node/972
3) 'Malnutrition at Age 3 Years and Externalizing Behavior Problems at age 8, 11 and 17 Years.'
http://www.encognitive.com/node/972
I don't need to cite material outlining US violent crime rates. We all know they are very high. And I don't feel the need to point out how our county's international policy is very aggressive (perhaps indicative of mass externalizing behavior problems). It is pretty obvious that we need to decrease violent tendencies.
So, I found a pretty good case supporting the link between poor nutrition and mental illness/violent behavior. Then I wanted to know how we could help heal this trend.
I looked into various ways to increase nutrient content of food and make that food more accessible to a wider variety of people.
4) Bio-intensive farming-John Jeavons is brilliant. I studied bio-intensive farming in Argentina a couple of years ago at a farm/school C.I.E.S.A. And that technique is a strong influence in the Outback's Educational garden. Check it out.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/04/13/HO126062.DTL
Jeavons listed open-pollinated seeds in his criteria for healthy closed-cycle farming---what are those- how do I get some?
5) Seed Saving and Seed Savers' Resources
http://homepage.eircom.net/~merlyn/seedsaving.html#section1
6) Uprising Seeds (a Bellingham-based seed company that I buy all the Outback seeds from)
http://www.greenpeople.org/listing/Uprising_Seeds_29988.cfm
7) California Farm to School Program
http://www.farmtoschool.org/ca/programs.htm
8) Food to Bank On Project (in Bellingham!)
http://www.sconnect.org/foodfarming/Food%20To%20Bank%20On/
9) Food Stamps at Farmer's Markets
http://www.enn.com/lifestyle/article/38036
So in just a couple of hours, I found an amazing amount of resources that linked together a variety of ideas- soil fertility, nutrient density of foods grown in fertile vs. non-fertile soils, effects of nutrient deficiencies on mental health, ways people are growing more nutritious foods, ways more people can have access to these foods. That is a great Meandering.
The next step is to take the information you are gathering and becoming inspired by, and join in!! How can you be part of something beautiful that is healing something ugly?
If I were doing a final project for this class and wanted to tie it to my Meandering project it would probably include some of my current activities: I teach organic gardening at Wellspring High School and to college students and pre-schoolers in the Outback. We donate our surplus produce to the Bellingham Food Bank.
Please check out some or all of these links-you will probably find different things that are inspiring and exciting for you. And above all else- have fun- this is an invitation to explore and follow your curiosity. You will get out of it what you put in!!
1) Organic Food and Health: The Evidence
https://www.positivehealth.com/article-view.php?articleid=310
2) How Nutrient Deficiencies Affect Brain Connections
http://www.encognitive.com/node/972
3) 'Malnutrition at Age 3 Years and Externalizing Behavior Problems at age 8, 11 and 17 Years.'
http://www.encognitive.com/node/972
I don't need to cite material outlining US violent crime rates. We all know they are very high. And I don't feel the need to point out how our county's international policy is very aggressive (perhaps indicative of mass externalizing behavior problems). It is pretty obvious that we need to decrease violent tendencies.
So, I found a pretty good case supporting the link between poor nutrition and mental illness/violent behavior. Then I wanted to know how we could help heal this trend.
I looked into various ways to increase nutrient content of food and make that food more accessible to a wider variety of people.
4) Bio-intensive farming-John Jeavons is brilliant. I studied bio-intensive farming in Argentina a couple of years ago at a farm/school C.I.E.S.A. And that technique is a strong influence in the Outback's Educational garden. Check it out.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/04/13/HO126062.DTL
Jeavons listed open-pollinated seeds in his criteria for healthy closed-cycle farming---what are those- how do I get some?
5) Seed Saving and Seed Savers' Resources
http://homepage.eircom.net/~merlyn/seedsaving.html#section1
6) Uprising Seeds (a Bellingham-based seed company that I buy all the Outback seeds from)
http://www.greenpeople.org/listing/Uprising_Seeds_29988.cfm
7) California Farm to School Program
http://www.farmtoschool.org/ca/programs.htm
8) Food to Bank On Project (in Bellingham!)
http://www.sconnect.org/foodfarming/Food%20To%20Bank%20On/
9) Food Stamps at Farmer's Markets
http://www.enn.com/lifestyle/article/38036
So in just a couple of hours, I found an amazing amount of resources that linked together a variety of ideas- soil fertility, nutrient density of foods grown in fertile vs. non-fertile soils, effects of nutrient deficiencies on mental health, ways people are growing more nutritious foods, ways more people can have access to these foods. That is a great Meandering.
The next step is to take the information you are gathering and becoming inspired by, and join in!! How can you be part of something beautiful that is healing something ugly?
If I were doing a final project for this class and wanted to tie it to my Meandering project it would probably include some of my current activities: I teach organic gardening at Wellspring High School and to college students and pre-schoolers in the Outback. We donate our surplus produce to the Bellingham Food Bank.
Please check out some or all of these links-you will probably find different things that are inspiring and exciting for you. And above all else- have fun- this is an invitation to explore and follow your curiosity. You will get out of it what you put in!!
Derrick Jensen
An Evening with Acclaimed Author and Activist Derrick Jensen
Derrick Jensen is an activist, philosopher, author, and a leading voice of uncompromising dissent. He is the author of "Endgame," "A Language Older Than Words," "The Culture of Make Believe," and "What We Leave Behind."
Time
Friday, May 15
7 p.m.
Fraser Hall 4
Admission
Sliding scale: $2-10 WWU students w/ ID, $4-20 general
And then if you're interested in something a bit more radical there's -
http://squattheplanet.com/forum/where/events/6823-deep-green-resistance-05-15-bellingham-wa.html
Derrick Jensen is an activist, philosopher, author, and a leading voice of uncompromising dissent. He is the author of "Endgame," "A Language Older Than Words," "The Culture of Make Believe," and "What We Leave Behind."
Time
Friday, May 15
7 p.m.
Fraser Hall 4
Admission
Sliding scale: $2-10 WWU students w/ ID, $4-20 general
And then if you're interested in something a bit more radical there's -
http://squattheplanet.com/forum/where/events/6823-deep-green-resistance-05-15-bellingham-wa.html
5/7/09
Local Permaculture event
Christy Nieto wrote:
> > Dearest Bellingham Permies,
> >
> > This is Christy Nieto who attended the Intro to Permaculture workshop
> > with you this
> > past February. I hope you are all enjoying your spring and hope that
> > you've each planted at least two trees since we last met.
> >
> > I mentioned at the end of class that I would help organize for us to
> > all travel to the Bullock's Homestead together for a tour. There is a
> > 10 person minimum and it would be great if we visited the site as a
> > community. Although I'm not willing to rent a bus I can help
> > coordinate who has a van, who needs a ride, etc.
> >
> > Date: May 16th
> >
> > Time of Day: 8:50am ferry. We can meet at a central location, TBD.
> > Return on afternoon or evening ferry, depending on people's needs.
> >
> > Cost of Tour: $15/pp for 3 hour tour of site. Student price is $12,
> > kids under 13 are free.
> >
> > Travel Cost: Ferry travel can be expensive. According to the WA State
> > Ferry website the cost of a car + driver is $43.10, add $13.15 for
> > each additional adult, $6.55 for each senior and $10.55 for each youth
> > (roundtrip prices). See website for details:
> > http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries/fares/Default.aspx. Alternately, some
> > may decide to bike (I recall that this would not be a short trip so
> > plan for time!). Please expect to offer $ for fuel to your driver.
> >
> > For info and details of the Bullock's Homestead visit:
> > http://www.permacultureportal.com/visits_tours.html
> >
> > Note that there is an Intro to Permaculture Workshop happening at the
> > Bullock's the weekend of May 29-31st which you may prefer to attend
> > instead (!!). For details see:
> > http://www.permacultureportal.com/courses_current.html#workshop_intro
> >
> > RSVP: Please reply to this email if you would like to travel to Orcas
> > on May 16th for a tour. Include your phone number/vehicle
> > availability/travel needs and any other pertinent info.
> >
> > Thank you to Dave Boehnlein for helping me coordinate this.
> >
> > Best,
> > Christy
> > (360) 312-3928
> >
> > Dearest Bellingham Permies,
> >
> > This is Christy Nieto who attended the Intro to Permaculture workshop
> > with you this
> > past February. I hope you are all enjoying your spring and hope that
> > you've each planted at least two trees since we last met.
> >
> > I mentioned at the end of class that I would help organize for us to
> > all travel to the Bullock's Homestead together for a tour. There is a
> > 10 person minimum and it would be great if we visited the site as a
> > community. Although I'm not willing to rent a bus I can help
> > coordinate who has a van, who needs a ride, etc.
> >
> > Date: May 16th
> >
> > Time of Day: 8:50am ferry. We can meet at a central location, TBD.
> > Return on afternoon or evening ferry, depending on people's needs.
> >
> > Cost of Tour: $15/pp for 3 hour tour of site. Student price is $12,
> > kids under 13 are free.
> >
> > Travel Cost: Ferry travel can be expensive. According to the WA State
> > Ferry website the cost of a car + driver is $43.10, add $13.15 for
> > each additional adult, $6.55 for each senior and $10.55 for each youth
> > (roundtrip prices). See website for details:
> > http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries/fares/Default.aspx. Alternately, some
> > may decide to bike (I recall that this would not be a short trip so
> > plan for time!). Please expect to offer $ for fuel to your driver.
> >
> > For info and details of the Bullock's Homestead visit:
> > http://www.permacultureportal.com/visits_tours.html
> >
> > Note that there is an Intro to Permaculture Workshop happening at the
> > Bullock's the weekend of May 29-31st which you may prefer to attend
> > instead (!!). For details see:
> > http://www.permacultureportal.com/courses_current.html#workshop_intro
> >
> > RSVP: Please reply to this email if you would like to travel to Orcas
> > on May 16th for a tour. Include your phone number/vehicle
> > availability/travel needs and any other pertinent info.
> >
> > Thank you to Dave Boehnlein for helping me coordinate this.
> >
> > Best,
> > Christy
> > (360) 312-3928
> >
5/5/09
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4/15/09
Body Cartography
http://www.bodycartography.org/
The press kit really explains it well:
http://www.bodycartography.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=65
The press kit really explains it well:
http://www.bodycartography.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=65
4/14/09
Wynona Talk for our class only
Click the link to here her talk she gave this friday, thanks to Matia
https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=WnBUc0w1TlFVVGwzZUE9PQ
https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=WnBUc0w1TlFVVGwzZUE9PQ
4/9/09
4/6/09
Movie about consumption
I enjoyed this movie intro, yet I cant help but to feel that it is the same style of communication that surrounds all these facts. The communication is essentially "bad dogging" all of those "other" humans that are making this happen. I have had trouble engaging this dialog because it feels disembodied and disconnected to what is truly driving the issues that the movie addresses. What are your responses? Both Somatic and Cognitive? What are the causes of the issues addressed by this movie in your thoughts? Leave comments!
Thanks
S
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