We have high-tech but we are missing low-tech. We cannot sleep without a bed, eat without a supermarket, see without a streetlight, move without a car, or be with ourselves without distractive media. We have screwed ourselves. We have lost the original technology that created civilization: fire starting, food finding, clothes making, shaping shelter and tools out of whatever comes to hand. The loss of low-tech knowledge creates a lethal gap between us and our planet, and that gap is now filled … Read more
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POST CATASTROPHE ECOSOCIAL REGENERATION PROJECT RAMBUCHE COMMUNITY
Post Catastrophe Ecosocial Regeneration project for tropical regions with products and solutions in the four dimmensions of sustainabilty: ecological, social, economic and cultural … Read more
Holigent Transition Town Live/Work pedestrian eco-village with a variable economy
Build, test and demonstrate all-green self-organized live/work cellular pedestrian communities with hybrid economies and social contracts that will secure quality of life and true systemic sustainability for their residents. To counteract fragmented, Cartesian thinking, social philosopher Nicholas Frank has coined the term Holigent to describe the new qualities that emerge from holistic thinking (holistic-emergent). The blueprint for achieving this is featured in Frank's latest book (April … Read more
The Art of Pitching Presenting in an essential way to make people curious for more
Practice the “art of pitching” craft a short pitch and try it out. Learn through the feedback of peers or members of your audience. Film it and look at the videos together. Learn from the pitches of others, learn from online ressources. When crafting your elevator pitch, you first need to think about who is the audience you're trying to reach. Lead with the information that the recipient / the audience will care most about. It is always good to start with a “hook” a statement or … Read more
TERRITORIAL APPROACH Rooting a project to strengthen its power
The territorial approach is part of a local development strategy, usually designed by a group of stakeholders. The territorial approach is used worldwide in a diversity of situations and sectors, such as Rural development, Food security and nutrition, Climate change, etc. The main elements of the method can be useful for entrepreneurs to design meaningful activities and work in the long run: - Assess material and immaterial resources available on the territory; - Identify needs, which are … Read more
Virtuous Circles for Sustainable Consumption, Production and Lifestyles How to create environments or contexts where the easiest option is to be sustainable
We can build peer groups with shared affinities that build connections and networks to make it easier to find ways of satisfying needs like food, shelter, nursing, finances, energy, etc. there are many examples of such peer groups and they include ood cooperatives, time banks, nursing groups, energy cooperatives, etc. In these groups it’s possible not only to satisfy a specific need (i.e. food via a community supported agriculture system) but also to satisfy other needs like creativity, … Read more
Systems Leverage Points Places to Intervene in a System.
Donella Meadows proposed a list of suggestions to consider as likely areas for systems change. Her list is not, by her own admission, a definitive one and should be viewed as a guide. By considering the possible leverage points we can more easily consider carefully where we might intervene. Caution must be exercised as complex systems are often counterintuitive in their reactions. References Donella Meadows Institute, Leverage Pointsplaces to intervene in a … Read more
Political Influencing Engaging in political reality so that what we think is right and needs to be done actually happens.
To become effective we need to understand how power operates, e.g. how decisions are actually made, how to build alliances and coalitions and how to sense the right moment to act. We need to give up the wish to be popular and understood by everyone. We need to surrender our naivety and be willing to take difficult decisions. In essence, to act ‘politically’. References: ● Exercise: Political Influencing (to be linked) ● … Read more
Negotiation Skills Win Win Win for Everyone
This is a metaskill and used in nearly every human situation where people have to share resources. Some people treat human relations as a war and so negotiation is a war. For others, where ensuring the best possible outcome for everyone is at the heart of the negotiation process, a very different approach is used. You need to listen attentively to what the other person wants. In some negotiation approaches, teachers or trainers suggest you learn as much about the other person before you … Read more
GeoRelations and Design Where places, spaces and people meet
GeoRelations and Design where we explore and work with the relationships within specific places and spaces of different scales, from countries, regions and cities, to villages, buildings and rooms. There is also online space and our inner space. Together, we then prepare and design these places and spaces so that they can receive the seeds of the new/ the next that wants to be planted and emerge there. Preparing the soil is a metaphor for preparing and clear our systems to receive … Read more
