Event: 1-4 June Pittsburgh The Evolver Convergence

The Evolver Convergence Pittsburgh, PA: Friday, June 1 – Sunday June 3 Where others may hear alarm bells (peak oil, 2012, global warming), a rising grassroots movement is answering the call — building a new planetary culture that is sustainable, full of meaning, and truly humane. The Evolver Social Movement invites all agents of change …

Tom Atlee: Global Interdependence Movements Et Al

GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS, DECLARATIONS AND DAYS by Tom Atlee It is so good to celebrate INdependence Days in the United States and the many other countries that have successfully gained and defended their independence from colonial rule. For countries as well as individuals, independence is a dramatic move from dependence into a more self-defined, self-created …

Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Ben Brownell

  Multidisciplinary freelance design artist and moonlight cultural theoristician Rogue Valley, Jefferson State USA. Today (2011): Studying and implementing sustainably abundant economic systems and enterprise Organizing local participatory democracy and ‘Gov2.0′ awareness/action Practicing collaborative frameworks and group process facilitation Developing a curation platform for engaging eco-social ‘good news’ Improvising interactive multimedia presentations for live events …

Worth a Look: Communications, Communities, & Modalities

Seven years ago Tom Atlee, our mentor on collective intelligence and community self-organization for resilience and sustainability, began focusing on “ways of communicating.”  Responding to a recent query from us about alternatives to partisan politics or dictatorships, he offered up the below links, each of which has many other links, as food for reflection. 1. …

Review: The Amish Way–Patient Faith in a Perilous World

Donald B. Kraybill Steven M. Nolt David L. Weaver-Zercher Three World-Class Authors on Amish Create Single Distillation November 28, 2010 I bought this book because two colleagues, Howard Rheingold and Kevin Kelly, are both working on books about the Amish in relation to technology, with the key thought being that when the Amish adopt or …

Worth a Look: Open Farm Technology

Open Source Ecology Building tools for replicable, open source, post-scarcity resilient communities We are farmer scientists – working to develop a world class research center for decentralization technologies using open source permaculture and technology to work together for providing basic needs and self replicating the entire operation at the cost of scrap metal. We seek …