Designing the New Grid: Resilience Village, El Cerrito, CA
http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1407
"Oil scarcity and the shit storm it will bring may or may not be
something you see happening. Nevertheless, being able to survive
independently of such forces is easily doable with no loss of
happiness or comfort. Dependency comes from crappy design, bad laws,
and laziness."
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"Green Symbols and Myth Making in the Sustainability Age"
GreenSource Knowledge Paper #7
Based on the Event Circle Interviews by Willi Paul
http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1406
"We have the power to change our reality if we first
have a dream, or vision or even intention."
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Hey folks,
Over on hyperlocavore.com we are starting a book club. We are considering 4 books to read, one is the Transition Handbook. Please feel free to join and participate, but if you would refrain from voting on the book we read I would appreciate that unless you are a member of hyperlocavore.com. (Don't want to tip the scales to much) That said - TH is very much in the lead at this time.
Come on by!
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“The Shaman in Our Musical Universe:” GreenSource Knowledge Paper #6.
Based on the Event Circle Interviews on PlanetShifter.com by Willi Paul
http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1405
La Forza: "In today's culture, though, we assert that everyone can be a shaman.
I agree that everyone can (and should) explore their own spirituality,
but I would consider a shaman to be a protector of a divine mystery
for the sake of a community."
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Co-Intelligence ... what is it, how do we tap this deep pool and what kind of piping is needed?
I am hearing more folks using the term co-intelligence these days but what does it mean and how do we really incorporate the processes into our lives and interactions?
Here are some introductory references for those who are exploring such concepts and processes.
Co-intelligence - the wikipedia entry
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A review of t…
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Added by Kathy Jacobson on November 19, 2009 at 8:36am —
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Process Physics
Professor Reg Cahill, Dr. Christopher Klinger, Dr Kirsty Kitto, Dr Lance McCarthy
Flinders University
School of Chemistry, Physics and Ea…
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Added by Kathy Jacobson on November 19, 2009 at 6:25am —
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The PlanetShifter.com Event Circle Interview with Eric Roston, author of The Carbon Age by Willi Paul
http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1404
Mr. Roson is a science writer in Washington, DC, and author of the critically acclaimed book THE CARBON AGE:
How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat.
ER:"I've pretty much devoted my career to finding ways to nudge "the system" toward action on climate c…
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Added by PlanetShifterMan on November 16, 2009 at 10:12pm —
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Is LinkedIn.com the Wal-Mart of the online business communities? Editorial by Willi Paul
http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1403
WP: "A growing percentage of the world’s educated and wired souls now
have profiles on LinkedIn.com. Not that this is an online community
in the sense, scale or virtue of say: Craigslist.org or greenwala.com.
Fair to say that the competition for dollars and the redundancy in posts,
discussion…
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Added by PlanetShifterMan on November 16, 2009 at 6:29pm —
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Grateful Dead: New Speedway Boogie video
Songwriters: Garcia, Jerome J; Hunter, Robert C Christie
Please don't dominate the rap Jack
if you got nothing new to say
If you please don't back up the track
This train got to run today
Spent a little time on the mountain
Spent a little time on the hill
Heard some say better run away
Others say you better stand still
Now I don't know but I been told
it's hard to run wit…
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Added by Kathy Jacobson on November 16, 2009 at 9:00am —
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TEN YEARS AFTER COLUMBINE: CANARY IN THE COAL MINE???

Sunday, April 19, 2009 marked the tenth anniversary of the school shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado.
Shortly after the shootings, I wrote an essay about the incident for a national men’s website entitled “Male Shooters come…
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Added by forrest craver on November 16, 2009 at 7:00am —
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TRANSFORMATIONAL RITUAL PROCESS FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS
Ctturdays only: November 21st, December 12th, January 9th
FroTRANSFORMATIONAL RITUAL PROCESS FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS
Sam 9:00 am to 12:00 noon For women and men,
"SOMETHING OPENS OUR WINGS. SOMETHING OR SOMEONE TAKES AWAY THE PAIN AND BOREDOM. SOMEONE FILLS UP OUR CUP. WE TASTE OUR SACREDNESS" j.rumi
CONTENT FOCUS
Session One: Creation of sacred space through Invocation, Basic rubrics and tools of ritual process
The Self as a…
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BUILDING THE TRANSITION MOVEMENT
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has time.”
Victor Hugo’s quote could be a tag line for what is rising now in transition communities across Colorado and the nation. We feel it in our bones and see it in the large gatherings…
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"Survival of the Greenest?" GreenSource Knowledge Paper Series #5
from PlanetShifter.com and Willi Paul
http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1402
"What I see in the next 2-5 years is a worldwide restructuring of
the perception of time, a major collapse of fear, and a catastrophic
period of angry and hungry people overcoming their limited personalities
to be one with their unlimited god-selves." Douglas Mackar of La Forza
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Added by PlanetShifterMan on November 14, 2009 at 5:40pm —
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THE SHADOW OF MONEY

In highly stressed economic times, the challenge of funding your local transition project out of your family budget generates more stress within the family unit. I've talked with several transiton folk who have just taken the path of least resistance and used the…
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Added by forrest craver on November 14, 2009 at 10:00am —
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With Respect To World/European Social Forum
Regarding the planned European Social Forum of 2010:
Good to see World Organizing manifesting itself in a regional context.
To whatever extent we can get people together to introduce, discuss, inculcate, and progress the ecosocialist agenda and that of world unity and cooperation, the forums will hopefully continue to serve a purpose.
One problem that I have is the "jet set" modality of the participants. I could be and hope to be and probably am v…
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Added by Mike Morin on November 13, 2009 at 11:09am —
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Rain Harvesting in the Age of Sustainability:
PlanetShifter.com Interviews Bruce Hallinan from Aussie Rain Tanks by Willi Paul
http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1401
BH: "It’s amazing that such an essential ingredient for life receives such little interest –
until the supply is decreased or threatened. Ultimately, water belongs to all creatures.
So the tough part is working out how clean water can be shared between h…
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Added by PlanetShifterMan on November 13, 2009 at 10:50am —
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THE ROAD AHEAD FOR TRANSITION COLORADO COMMUNITIES ONE VIEW
Well, Rob Hopkins would be the first to admit that the Transition Handbook needs to be taken seriously because a lot of serious thought and life experience went into his writing it.
And at the same time, he admits that it must…
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Added by forrest craver on November 12, 2009 at 9:00am —
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INVOCATION
A miracle is the wholehearted invocation
of the Divine, combined with suspension
of all disbelief
Allowing the Other World to
Shatter and reconstitute this world.
Through Invocation, the dead are raised
and the blind see again.
Invocation is how the multitudes of the hungry are fed
and all good deeds come to full fruit.
Brothers and sisters, let us not be like little children
and invoke our puny ego self
or that of our colleagues
when so much more is waiting to be called forth.
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Added by forrest craver on November 12, 2009 at 7:30am —
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ALTARS OF THE HOLY ONE
Milky breath of the buffalo
On starry plains
Fireflies dance in the night
A woman groans with birth pangs
Of transformation
Tree people crucified
Yet still they stand
Flowers sing silent hallelujahs
Kaleidoscopes of color and scent
Tall grass prairie of our mother
Whispers her lullabies
Monarch butterflies traverse continents
Going home, gathering in one tree
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BOOKS /b>
SONS OF THE WIND: Sacred Stories of the Lakota D.M. Dooling
THE POWER OF SPIRIT Harrison Owen
THE STARFISH AND THE SPIDER Brafman and Beckstrom
A CIRCLE OF MEN Bill Kauth
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