You are what you grow

http://www.michaelpollan.com/article.php?id=88

Leonard Shlain

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-65173645159783472

Clear thinking on 2012

http://www.metahistory.org/ENDTIME/Countdown2012.php

future primitive site with podcasts

http://www.futureprimitive.org/index.htm

project in portland

http://www.freegeek.org/

media squat also life inc "how the world became a corporation"

http://mediasquat.net/

denmark police

Applying behavioral economics to climate change

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/24/applying-behavioral.html

Organic Ownership

The Body in Human Inquiry: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Embodiment by Vicente Berdaye

http://www.hamptonpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=1-57273-506-6&Category_Code=C

Body Practices and Human Inquiry

http://www.donhanlonjohnson.com/newsite/pages/articles_practices.html


http://www.donhanlonjohnson.com/

the unique self

http://integrallife.com/node/40914

The Garden Trailer

the organism vs. the machine

'As the machine metaphor has led us to the brink of self-destruction, the metaphor of the organism holds the key to the ecological revolution.'

‘Human economies can and should nurture cultural, social, and economic creativity and diversity and share information within and between place-based economies. These conditions are the keys to system resilience and creative transcendence.’

- David C. Korten in The Post-Corporate Economy

collective liberation

Our overall goals are collective liberation from systems of domination, violence, and oppression and the cultivation of alternative communities rooted in tenderness, compassion, love, kindness, generosity, recognition of the sacredness of all life, and awe and wonder at the grandeur of the universe.

We recognize that neither liberation nor the creation of alternative community is possible without concurrent transformation within ourselves as we allow the values of the dominant culture to be rooted out of us. In other words, we believe that liberation comes as we enter into full aliveness ourselves and align ourselves and our work in the service of life; this then catalyzes aliveness in others.

Nichola Torbett

did you know

multiverse

http://disclose.tv/viewvideo/7742/From_Universe_to_Multiverse__Are_You_Ready_/

Accelerating Change

http://accelerating.org/index.html

On Nicanor Perlas

http://www.cadi.ph/nicanor_perlas.htm



http://www.truthforce.info/

In my language

metaphormosis

Breathe

Body Cartography

http://www.bodycartography.org/

Embodied Ecology

http://www.thegreenfuse.org/harris/embodied-ecology.htm

Brain Processing

bike power business

http://wendmag.com/greenery/2009/03/pedaling-to-profit-the-upswing-of-bike-powered-business/

what I'm curious about...

economy-
- what is happening to the economy right now - reasons for recession - and what is emerging?
- 'peak oil'... how fast are we approaching it? are there trends already moving toward a post-petroleum economy, and if so, where and how?
- taking the pulse - how well is 'mainstream' America prepared for a post-petroleum future, on an emotional and social level? how do we make this transition easier on older generations and those who will be resistant to it?

science and technology-
- I've been hearing about innovative village-scale technologies in 'peripheral' areas (Africa and India in particular)... which of these kinds of democratic technologies could be usefully introduced in America? (is it even legal?) what kind of inputs do they require (are they sustainable)?
- we know that industrial civilization relates to technology in a largely destructive and self-destructive way. what are the root causes of this dysfunction, and what technologies are emerging that are promoting positive relationships within society and between society and nature? Are these technologies sustainable, or can they be made sustainable? (the Internet as the most obvious example)

industrial civilization and conscious evolution -
- What are trends in awareness, across the board? how can we track cultural consciousness and its evolution? (media, science, economics?)
- What do different groups in America think about what is happening? even the most disconnected person has heard about climate change, economic recession (collapse?), etc... are
they concerned? do they care? do they even think about it? how do we respond when they don't care?

Daniel Pinchbeck on the Age of Uncertainty

http://realitysandwich.com/age_uncertainty?page=1

Excerpt:

"I don't know whether to stockpile gold or create an intentional community. I don't know whether to stay in Manhattan or head for the hills. I don't know whether we are approaching global enlightenment or regressing into barbarism. I don't know whether biotechnology and nanotechnology will fuse to give us immortal physical bodies or if we will all croak as our mistreated planet falls apart. I don't know if anything special will happen on December 21, 2012. I don't know if I should start a riot or throw a party. I don't know whether to panic or relax."

Obama and GM

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php

Human-Earth Relations: Thomas Berry

I believe this man to be very wise and having a voice that civilized humans desperately need to hear.

Powerful TED videos To frame the Emergent Economy

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html


http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/steven_strogatz_on_sync.html

What is an Emergent Economy?

Dillon your comments on the last post bring up an excellent question, "What is an emergent economy?" As we can see that an Economy separate from the Ecology is pure insanity. The word comes from the same derivative: Home, or Dwelling, or Place. So Eco-nomy and Eco-ology are essential in our design for directing emergent economies. The two fields have been in deep opposition for some time and each camp have amassed much armor. As I track an emergent economy I (idealistically) see a merger of both. One thought is that the immense complexity of our modern era, the ecological situation, and the rapid and dynamic change is creating multiple streams of power struggle and simultaneous to that power cooperation. I am interested in the power cooperation as this is a fine evolutionary trait, found in recent research. One area that we humans shine around cooperation is our endocrine system reveals large boosts of health and well-being, thus increasing immunity when we participate in altruism and cooperation. Much like an ecosystem cooperating, thrives in abundance, companion planting, and eco diversity. Perhaps we are seeing a similar thing occurring in an emergent economy.
Thoughts?
See yall tomorrow
scot

Emergent Economy or Economies? (playlist)

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=143E59F5A37A9C84

Emergent economy

Food Inc. New movie on food production

The illusion of selfish economy

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/benkler09/benkler09_index.html

We have a lot of sophisticated analyses that try, with great precision, to predict and describe existing systems in terms of an assumption of universal rationality and a sub-assumption that what that rationality tries to do is maximize returns to the self. Yet we live in a world where that's not actually what we experience. The big question now is how we cover that distance between what we know very intuitively in our social relations, and what we can actually build with.

From
http://www.edge.org/

Good morning, world. This is your wake-up call

http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/print/61/peter-russell-wake-up-call