The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
“God is What Happens When Humanity is Connected”
Jim Gilliam: Why the Internet is my religion.
Yes! 19 July 2011
Video as presented at Personal Democracy Forum.
Phi Beta Iota: Anyone educated in the 1960's and 1970's will remember Pervcival and Paul Goodman's Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life. The strategy devised by the Earth Intelligence Network celebrates this concept.
Reslient, local production can reach amazing levels of capacity and efficiency by obsessively closing loops. How do you close loops? Simply:
For example. Let's say you want to produce vegitables and fish. If you did it in a disconnected way, you would be hit with expenses (both monetary and time) at each step in the process. You would need to fertilize the plants. Feed the fish. Clean the water. It gets expensive early.
If you connected the production systems together, by closing the loops, you would have an aquaponics system. In an aquaponics system, the fish waste feeds bacteria which in turn produces fertilizer for the plants and fresh water for the fish. The food the plants produce generate excess that feeds the fish. With a tiny bit of automation and design, the entire thing operates seemlessly. Loop closed! The biggest chore is collecting the bounty.
Closing loops can turn problems into opportunties. Waste into bounty.
Just from the topics, it seems like a more coherent version of this stuff I wrote in 2004: Achieving the Star Trek Society.
“This essay shows how a total of $14000 billion up front and at least another $2085 billion per year can be made available for creative investment in the USA by adopting a post-scarcity worldview. This money can help further fund a virtuous cycle of more creative and more cost saving efforts, as well as better education. It calls for the non-profit sector to help shape a new mythology of wealth and to take the lead in getting the average person as well as decision makers to make the shift in worldview to their own long term benefit. … Let us consider ways to free up money for the non-profit sector (or
reducing working hours) by cutting wasteful government and consumer
spending in these areas with (annual estimate of easy savings):
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SeizeDC.org —Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG) calls for protest – SEIZE DC! SEIZE DC will begin on September 10, 2011, at noon, until finished. Why SEIZE DC? Endless, illegal, murderous and bankrupting war abroad; endless, brutal and bankrupting attacks on the vast majority at home–this is what we protest. How to SEIZE DC? We protest “peacefully,” although not passively. We do not accept marching orders. This is how we protest. [See Seize DC Endorsements.]
This post is a contribution i made to Shareable magazine’s new ebook – Share or Die. hope you enjoy my story.
It’s October 2010, and I’m reclined in an all expenses paid seat in business class on a flight to Berlin. I’m going there for two weeks to collaborate on a video project with a couple of artists I met online, then flying to Amsterdam to present the video to a room full of bankers at the largest financial services conference on the planet. I’m not a media producer, nor do I work in the financial industry. All I can think to myself is “How the hell did I get here?”
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Now I see this life as an Epic Adventure, with each of us in control of being the hero of our own personal mission. Here are three big insights I’ve had these past few years that make me confident in this belief:
Your community already exists, and is waiting for you.
Your vision already exists – it is a shared one.
The tools of empowerment already exist, and are ready to be wielded.
The pieces you need really are there, they’re just often hard to recognize. I went through a long phase of utter despair and hopelessness, and had no idea how to move forward. Only after putting myself out there with authenticity and a beginner’s mind did I see I was surrounded by a community of change agents with the heart, the vision, and the capacity to act.
As we all move forward in building the kind of society we want to see and the lives we want to lead, we realize more and more that everything is interconnected and we can go further by connecting, collaborating, and amplifying each other’s efforts than by stubbornly trying to reinvent the wheel.
We’re all in this together. Find your tribe and go change the world.
Two public voting options have emerged. Their results will be ignored, but it is a start.
FEDERAL BUDGET
PREFERENCE POLL
Let your voice be heard
in the federal budget debate!
And here the same idea but different network….
Let your voice be heard in the federal budget debate!Three very different federal budget choices are being proposed for fiscal year 2012:
Dear friends,
I don't usually present another organization's fundraiser in the middle of our Co-Intelligence Institute fundraiser, but this is an exception I feel strongly about.
Generating real wisdom together – not just knowledge and resources (as valuable as these are) – requires talking together. Furthermore, vast domains of our humanity flourish and deepen through conversation. And in both cases, the QUALITY of conversation makes all the difference in the world.
Collectively humanity now knows a lot about how to make powerful, enjoyable, meaningful conversations. A large and rapidly growing field of study and practice stewards these deeply human technologies and explores how to develop them further and use them better for broader benefit. These people bring to life a fundamental co-intelligence precept – accessing the wisdom of the whole on behalf of the whole.
Some of the most dedicated and creative people among those professionals are members of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation. It is a home base, a learning community, an unparalleled resource – and it could be more. In my opinion, tNCDD nurtures one of the most important networks for the future of the planet. I consider its thrival essential. Furthermore, I have the highest respect for its co-founder and director, Sandy Heierbacher, a grounded, heartful, effective change agent. Her contribution to us all awes me.
NCDD's resource center alone is a priceless gift to each and every one of us. See, in particular, their Beginner's Guide and their “Best of the Best” page .
It goes without saying that I value any support you can give the Co-Intelligence Institute, But I want to urge you here to lend your support to NCDD, whether or not you donate to CII. As I tighten my own belt, I have given NCDD $100. Please read the note below that Sandy sent to me and other NCDD members and consider what you can do.
Thank you for taking a moment to consider this.
Coheartedly,
Tom
Below the Line: Message from NCDD Board
Continue reading “Tom Atlee: National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation”
