Category: Envisioning the sustainable future
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My letter to Joe Bageant
I publish below my letter to Joe Bageant. His latest book Dear Hunting with Jesus tells how the working person in USA ( 65% of the population) is kept enslaved and on the edge of bankrupcy. Even the media perpetuate the myth you gotta be poor and proud and it is your own fault! Joe!…
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The Book of the blog is close to being published!
We are pleased to announce that the book of the Imagestreams and blogs will be available soon to purchase via the website stephenhinton.avbp.net. Not only does the book explain the inventions with diagrams and links to websites for verifications, it also teaches the methods of Imagestreaming and discusses how to apply the insights to daily…
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Connecting peace and sustainable development
Sometimes I can’t get things out of my head. It may sound like a long shot, but as I stepped onto the plane to Berlin to attend a Words of Peace conference with Prem Rawat, I couldn’t help my intuition that peace and sustainable development were linked somehow and that maybe the journey and time…
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Swedish Eco-village veteran shares valuable advice for ICs
Interview with Mia Torpe Back in the 70s Mia and a few others decided to create an eco-village in a suburb of Stockholm. She still lives there, and is today environmental manger for a large housing organization. Her experience is invaluable for all would-be Intentional Community residents. Here are some highlights of the advice she…
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Article from the future: Energy Descent
Retford was slow in coming to the realization that ”business as usual” may not keep local citizens’ standard of living at an acceptable level. As they saw energy prices hike many were concerned the local economy was in danger of spiraling down out of control. Many others found it incomprehensible that energy security could be…
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Work isn’t working revisited… fresh stats
My recent post underlined my position on the state of the world: work isn’t working. Very few readers have actually challenged the statistics. Sad to say, they are getting worse by the minute. Click on the banner to go to the excellent site worldometers. They collect data from all over and publish it real time.
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Fast set up of intentional communities
AVBP accepted an assignment to invent a rapid process to set up intentional communities. Background An intentional community is a planned residential community designed to promote a much higher degree of social interaction than other communities. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political or spiritual vision. They…
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The world of work: what are the options?
In my last post I pointed out what must be obvious to many – that work is not working. Too much work is being done to create financial wealth, and too little is being done to secure a sustainable future for coming generations. If we have a world population of 6 billion, say a quarter…
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Why work isn’t working
Regular readers will remember that one of the major tenets of my book and this blog is that the sustainable city abandoned work as a way to generate a standard of living. In fact, it was one of the first of the old ideas to go. Work as we know it was replaced by the…
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Second Life; Looking for land
Looking for Land Still thinking about the IC in Second Life. It is a common thing that groups looking to set up an Intentional Community start looking for land at an early stage. I don’t know why – maybe because they want to get going quickly – or maybe because they think if they find…