Dissent x Vision x First Steps > Resistance
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Rethinking Money
Notes on a workshop with the authors of “Rethinking Money”. Cool take-home: 3-D graph specifying sustainability as a function of finding the right balance between efficiency and diversity/resilience.
Saving Our Children: Connecting to Ourselves for Sustainable Well-being (video)
Video of a recent 60-minute talk with music in 9, bite-sized bits, entitled: “Saving Rumi: Connecting to Ourselves for Sustainable Well-being”. It’s a good summary of the sustainable well-being project. Through words and music, the talk discusses how our current way of life is the largest failure in human history, advocates making changes to maximize sustainable well-being, describes some psychological principles needed, and suggests solutions, ranging from a scientific and cultural project called “Open Source Life Design”, to solutions being modeled by pioneering communities throughout the world, to an incubating idea for a Community Supported Sustainable Lake House (CSSL).
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Cocaine-Firefly Principle
This Cocaine-firefly Principle is potentially very important given the need for us to maximize sustainable well-being by enjoying more and using less.
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Democracy? 25% Elect Obama (similar To Other Elections)
Democracy? 25% Elect Obama (similar To Other Elections) According to John Locke, “the government is not legitimate unless it is carried on with the consent of the governed.” What constitutes such consent? What percent of the (voting-age) governed would constitute consent of the governed? Update: Record levels of turnout of 66.5% projected for presidential election
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Enlightenment eliminates unnecessary suffering but not pain
Enlightenment is the elimination of suffering, not pain
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Alternative to Boy Scouts
Our two boys were very excited to join the Cub/Boy Scouts. Because of their excitement and our desire as parents that they learn wilderness/outdoor/resilience skills, consistent with learning to thrive on one planet (see this brief post for the big picture of One Planet Thriving) that we urbanites couldn’t teach, we checked it out by
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Interview with Robert Griffin on Hummingbird & Tamera Communities
In consulting with Mandy and Ryan from withinreachmovie.com, they suggested we contact Robert Griffin as someone who had visited Tamera, a Peace Village in Portugal that seems like a very interesting model for community living. They also recommended Robert as someone who is easy to talk to, accessible, and who has some pretty deep and
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