Hi Wes, cool book!
Well, the basic idea is to get people's thoughts on the future, not in a sort of rigid, predictive sense - but in a sense of values and perhaps specific technologies which should be part of the mix. Here's Thomas's piece on seawater into food: http://www.appropedia.org/TheFWD_submissions#Seawater_into_food that's about a specific technology, the seawater greenhouse. And it really exists but hasn't been scaled yet. Here's a values piece by Shaun Chamberlain - really excellent work http://www.appropedia.org/TheFWD_submissions#If_you_want_to_go_far.2C_go_together So that's sort of the range of what we have going on. Drop me an email off list to discuss further ;) Vinay On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:28 PM, William Ozier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Vinay: > I have recently self published a book of articles I've written called > William's Ecopedia. https://www.createspace.com/3470913 > > I would be honored to submit a piece for consideration in your book. > Could you please give me a little more guidance as to what it is > you're looking for in a submission? > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter > Project) <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hey folks, second shout for "The Future We Deserve", my book project. If > > anybody has the time to write a piece, they're 500 words, and the > deadline > > is about a month (hard deadline is 1OCT). We're also looking for the last > > five hundred bucks on the Kickstarter if anybody is feeling generous! > > > > Thank you so much, > > > > Vinay > > > > ===== > > > > Hello, everybody! This is an update for the authors and supporters of The > > Future We Deserve. > > > > The book is going very well. > > > > We’ve got 70% – $1400 – of the $2000 we need to do the book. We need to > > raise $600 in two weeks to liberate the $1400 already donated, so please > > encourage people to help us! > > We have 71 authors signed up, some doing more than one piece. We could > use a > > fair number of additional authors, but I’m sure people will keep showing > up! > > About 1/4 of the material is in, 26 pieces so far and the pieces are > > inspiring and powerful. > > > > The “first deadline” is September 15th – a month from now – and October > 1st > > is the hard deadline for the book. > > > > So please get writing, and I’ll be sending out periodic reminders. If you > > can, please get your material in early so that we can really get the > > conversations about the book going as the process unfolds. 26 pieces so > far > > is a great start, but it would be great to have half the book in place by > > the end of this month! > > > > The blogathon is going a little slowly: > > > > Vinay Gupta on Julia Macintosh’s A Future Without Childhood > > Antonio Dias on James Hester‘s Of Arms and the Man > > Cat Lupton on Antonio Dias‘ On The Future We Deserve… > > > > So if you have time time, please pick a piece from the pieces submitted > so > > far, run it on your blog, and add your thoughts on the piece. It’s a > really > > good way to showcase the book and the ideas in it. I hope you will find > the > > time! > > > > We’re well on track, well done, and thank you for all of your help! > > > > -- > > Vinay Gupta > > Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest > > > > http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering > > http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision > > > > "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an > > invincible summer" - Albert Camus > > > > Twitter/Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk/AIM: hexayurt > > UK Cell : +44 (0) 7500 895568 / USA VOIP (+1) 775-743-1851 > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "hexayurt" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<hexayurt%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<hexayurt%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. > > -- Vinay Gupta Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer" - Albert Camus Twitter/Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk/AIM: hexayurt UK Cell : +44 (0) 7500 895568 / USA VOIP (+1) 775-743-1851 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. 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