Category: Envisioning the sustainable future
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David Wong dicovers a new "sphere" – Monkeysphere
One of the concepts to come out of the Inventing Process was the ideas of “spheres”. A way of seeing groups of systems that interfaced other systems – and to understand that it was these interfaces that should be loosely monitored. Blogger David Wong has come up with an insightful and – hilarious – angle…
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Five stresses theory revisited
Readers may recall that the sustainable society PORENA regards the management of the five stresses as a foundation of sustainable living. These factors, if applied too much or two little for too long were detrimental to the long term functioning of the human organism. Here they are again 1) Nutrition 2) Shelter 3) Mechanical 4)…
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Water Purification
Tapescript – Drinking water PREAMBLE I am in my tenth year of image streaming. In the earliest sessions I was requesting to closely study a settlement with ecological and sustainable living arrangements. I started concentrating on the social organization rather than the technological infrastructure. After having completing a few writing assignments in the…
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888 symbol of union struggle
Photo from Melbourne, Australia: food for thought as the guide said “we wish!” about this monument. It is to commemorate the union struggle for the 40 hour week. Eight hours work, eight hours leisure, eight hours sleep. In the sustainable world of PORENA, people in the go-along society probably not even need this. The other…
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Curing addiction to temporary happiness hits
Preamble: Neil Crofts (http://www.authenticbusiness.co.uk/) does not mix words. He says the modern person is working in indentured slavery and/or is addicted to temporary hits of happiness. “Happiness seems like the end of the rainbow.” …the happiness we feel is usually fleeting and attached to events or things. In this way we develop and understanding that…
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How to debrief Imagestreams
I have found debriefing to be extremely valuable. Imagestreaming produces such a rich flow of insights and ideas that things continue to fall into place sometimes years after an imagestream. These notes are my suggestions based on experience. Take what works for you and leave the rest. I encourage everyone to work out their own…
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debriefing imagestreams
I have found debriefing to be extremely valuable. And insights continue to fall into place sometimes years after an imagestream. I always like to tape the session on my digital recorder (mp3 player) and then type up the notes. I then like to clean the notes up and publish on my website. Sometimes I need…
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Our inappropriate culture
There is a whole debate about individualism. About how we give up parts of ourselves to fit in to the group. See Dave Pollards Blog This thing about adapting to the group is of course about survival – the group needs to function as a whole to survive. The best example in the mammal world…