Me! I want. I'm giddy with joy over my new job. Real nice people. Just today we were mounting whiteboard on a wall to make a projection screen to show stuff like you describe. I like the idea of a whiteboard screen because you can do a couple cool things. Like draw and mark up projected images. Or capture a white board on digicam and then re-project it at subsequent meetings. It will get a lot of exposure to a lot of people if you send me a copy. The big plan is to hold classes, the first on the fifteenth of March.
We're doing it gav, we're building permaculture and community and working concretely and it feels good. I'd tell ya more but its late and Lu's birthday and I still have to wrap her presents. John On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:36 PM, gav <[email protected]> wrote: > hiya, > > there is a film called la belle verte (the green beautiful) by coline > serreau that is one of my all-time faves. you can watch it in 9 episodes on > you tube, which is fortunate because it is very hard to get hold of. the > film was unofficially banned soon after release. germany is the only country > to have shown the film on tv. this is all the more surprising given that it > is a family film, rated pg. > > by the way if you would like a copy (with a pretty dvd case aswell!) i can > send you one. a friend of mine has managed to produce a subtitled pirate > version and i have been freely distributing them for a year now. > > anyway let me mention something interesting about the film...which is also > the most likely single reason the film was banned. > > okay - trying not to spoil too much here....there is a scene towards the > end where the two male 'visitors'are talking about the history of their own > planet and how it might help their friends see what changes humanity will > soon be going through (the visitors are more advanced humans than those on > earth - they have developed telepathy and interstellar travel for instance). > > as the visitors relate, the end of their planet's industrial era was > triggered by two things: > > 1. any activity that was harmful to the planet was declared illegal. > this resulted in many professionals being declared criminals and led to a > sort of civil war situation - lotsa dischord and confusion. > > 2. what finally finished things off and ushered in the new era was the > boycott. people en masse refused to purchase goods that were unnecessary, of > low quality, or entailed damage to the planet in their production. the > industrial economy effectively stopped...... > > > okay, and now to the the ethics of permaculture: > 1. care of the planet > 2. care of the people > 3. fair share > > these ethics could be used as a simple legal basis for the globalised world > we all live in. they are already, i believe, scientifically impossible to > argue against. a crime against nature is a crime against all. > > also notice the word 'care'. 'care' is intimately associated with quality, > as pirsig relates in ZAMM. it is only when we care about what we are doing > that quality results... > > the third principle is about redistribution. at the moment we have such > incredible disparity twixt rich and poor. 'obscene' doesn't quite cover it. > it is mass murder, genocide. > > there is no need, in my opinion, for a top down program of redistribution - > any top down ideological program is fraught. rather as more and more people > opt out of the current mass consumption economy, the co-operative, localised > 'fair share' economy will grow. > > at the same time, a la the green beautiful, the global corporate ecocidal > economy will diminish and stall - the growing global economic crisis can be > seen as a whole system response to these ecological exigencies, a crisis > that may well become a collapse in the next year or two. > > the financial basis of wealth nowadays is basically virtual - it is an > illusion - a conjuring trick. your wealth does not lie in what you *have* > (this could vanish in an instant); it lies what you give and share with > others. > > the greater the number of interconnections the more resilient the network; > we are moving from an atomic model of independence to an ecological model of > interdependence. > > > > > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
