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Wrote a little song this morning  "Rainforest" 

I am a troubadour and I sing and write from the heart. I discovered that several songs have elements of nature, earth, forest..

People say my songs and performances gives energy and inspiration. 

Songs can do more than 1000 words sometimes.

So I decided to use my gift for The Open World ... I hope that my energy will flow to you…

What’s Missing?

We are in the middle of a paradigm shift, a collapse of the old and emergence of something new; a more social and humane business is replacing business as usual, environmental awareness about our planets’ finite resources is replacing the rampant consumerism of post WW2, and modern technology brings the plight of the hungry and poor to our living rooms and now, to our IPhones. We have the knowledge, the information, even the technology to right the many wrongs;…

What we call technology is actually a narrow practice of including mechanics, electronics and computer science. This confusion is hampering human development, especially when the expectation is on not developing financial and social technology but demanding mechanical solutions when simple agreements could suffice. Modern technology is failing, we are not addressing the challenges in front of us. For some reason, our very use of language is holding us back and preventing us from thinking…

Technology is a collection of inventions and capabilities to solve a problem or need.

Work is the application…

Open World Café in Danderyd (Stockholm) is expanding the cafe and conference with an eco-country store and catering business.…

Raw food desserts are a whole new way of enjoying sweets. In the raw food dessert kitchen, every ingredient is vegan and raw; nothing is heated over 104 F (38 °C) as a way to preserve the nutrients. You don't need eggs, refined sugar, wheat, baking soda, yeast, milk or cream. Perfect for those who are allergic.

Raw desserts are made using nuts and seeds, dried fruit, fresh fruit, berries, virgin coconut oil, cacao butter etc. The most common used tools are a food…

Chão Sobral, "Ground of the cork trees", has been, for more than 500 years, a small village nestled between 600 and 700 meters altitude in the Açor Mountains, "Goshawk Mountains", which overlooks the "Estrela Mountains" and "Caramulo Mountains". http://chaosobral.org/index_pt.htm

We are located 16 km from the historic village of "Piódão", a jewel of xist dry stone construction,…

There is a fine line between naming someone as your 'hero' and seeming to wish to appropriate that person's qualities to oneself.  I hope I don't cross that by nominating Vaclav Havel on this, the day of his funeral in Prague, the reports of which are coming in every half hour on the World Service.

Extraordinarily, Christer referred to him only recently, and now he is gone, after much suffering, I fear.  The groping (if I may call it that) for a something that can unite belief and…

It’s been an eventful year!

Here on the Open World Café Community we reached 500+ members; five hundred enlightened beings joining in a dialogue on sustainability, resilience and leadership!

This is ultimately what it is all about; joining together in communities around the world, a world which is increasingly becoming more Open!

For me the year has been filled with many wonderful meetings; an intense road-trip in Brazil and Argentina in the spring, many visits to Spain…

Today's achievement of passing 500 members is indeed something to be celebrated.  I, too, am a great admirer of Vaclav Havel both as a playright and essayist. The lines you quote come from a speech made in 1994, and the conclusion of his speech is the following declaration: Transcendence [is] the only real alternative to extinction.  It's not a faith-based conclusion (certainly not in Abrahamic sense). He does not, nota bene, say Salvation is the only alternative to…

Many have wondered how a movment like OWS and others can unseat dictators around the world. I saw the movie "I AM" (can be rented from iTunes movie-store) and was especially moved by a section of the movie looking into large leader-less gatherings in other parts of nature like how does  thousands of deer decide to go to one of several choices of waterholes ? ... so it turns out to operate on concensus signal picked up and transmitted within the heard and when around 50+% senses that it is…

It’s been a while since we last spoke . . .

We have all been very busy! I have been greatly inspired by the many activities, events, and contacts happening here on the Open World Café network. You have been very busy! The community has grown, all of you responding to the challenge of leading a more sustainable, resilient and regenerative lifestyle.

It was 5 years ago that a good friend and I were sitting in a pousada (bed & breakfast) in the hill country of Brazil bemoaning…

We have created an excessively complex society; only by slowing down, even stopping completely, reflecting, listening, observing can we find our way back to a sustainable existence on the planet. The present state of collapse of our planetary systems; financial, social and environmental, is natures' and our own spiritual selves way to adapt to the change that is necessary. It's here and now, so what choices do we make, while we still have choices?

The vision is simple: if everyone lived in intentional, sustainable communities – villages, city/town blocks – then the whole world would be sustainable. Supporting that vision is the Open World Villages networking site, newly launched by the Open World Foundation.

Based on the powerful NING platform, the site is bringing together experts in their field (called Academy fellows) with existing villages and…

Please consider to visit my home town in Portugal.

Already meet us in the internet

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• Rising prices or supply shortfalls of fossil fuels in their supply chains
• Increasing pressure to eliminate greenhouse gasses from their supply chains
• Lack of…

A while back I uses imagestreaming to come up with a way to fast start an eco-unit and intentional community. The work took me about 6 months and there are a lot of details that I will not share at this time.



However, I put it all into a "newsletter from the future". Please take a look and comment on how you think it could work in…