Category: Ideas for sustainability
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New course in sustainable living 27 – 30 Sep.
People seek a sense of connectedness to nature. Many want to live in a way that is light on the earth and does not require huge amounts of debt and energy to function. They want to invest in a way of life that they can believe in, economically and morally. Since the 1980’s, systems ecologist…
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The secret to turning capital into something sustainable and useful
This is interesting. I started out to make capitalism my hobby and have got stuck posting about what capital is. My revelation from the last post was if you add up all the debt in the world, and then you add up all the money people possess in the world you get – zero. This is…
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Transition in Sweden supported by Environmental Minister
The spread of Transition Towns in Sweden got a big push forward recently from the Swedish Minister for the Environment, Lena Ek. Speaking at a meeting with Hela Sverige Skall Leva, the Swedish folk movement that hosts Transition in Sweden, she said: (Our translation from Swedish) “It was so great to get back to Stockholm…
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Calling the circle training
No matter if you work with neighbors, in a cooperative, in a Transition Initiative or among volunteers, good relations and social cohesion are critical not only just to success, but maintaining good feelings and energy in the community. We’ve taken the best of what is available and put together an introductory training that prepares you…
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At Last! Dirt the movie…
Anyone intereted in understanding the complexities of sustainable world food and water situation should watch this film. It carefull goes over the importance of theat which we give a negative namen to – dirt that may well be the most important piece of technology we have available to us! Follow this link here for a fuller explanation
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The answer is the circle. The question is going to get thrown at you any time soon.
In the conference room, standing barefoot in a circle, holding hands together we wait for Medicine Story to speak: “In the old ways, the tribe does everything in a circle.” “The circle is what keeps us together, and in keeping together we survive.”
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Driving transition with local businesses
This is a subject I have thought a lot about. Would it be possible to completely side-step the toxic, debt/credit-based system we are living in and just invest the money we have in local, sustainable and resilient businesses? Well, we could give it a go. It is all to do with bonds. A bond is a simple certificate that for…
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On the same page with Virgin’s co-founder Sir Richard Branson
Writing in the British newspaper, the Telegraph, today, Sir Richard Branson, co-founder of the Virgin Group, says Business as usual is wrecking our planet. Resources are being used up. Air, sea and land are heavily polluted. The poor are getting poorer. Many are dying of starvation, or because they cannot afford life-saving medicine. Nearly half…
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Looking back from 2011 to the early 1900’s. What shall we prioritise in 2012?
Maybe you aren’t thinking of 2012 yet, just trying to organize Christmas and New Year. But the end of the year is a good time to take stock. What have we learnt during 2011? What has become clearer? For many of us with a sustainability focus, the urgent need to reverse economic, energy and environmental trends is growing by…
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Sustainable, intentional communities: open world villages
The vision is simple: if everyone lived in intentional, sustainable communities – villages, city/town blocks – then the whole world would be sustainable. Supporting that vision is the Open World Villages networking site, newly launched by the Open World Foundation. Based on the powerful NING platform, the site is bringing together experts in their field…