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Don't waste your life

How can life be wasted? What does it even mean: wasted life? A friend told me today about her father informing her, that she wasted her life, and it stuck with me, because I could not see how she could do such a thing. I could not see how life could be wasted.

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Added by Pausha Foley on March 3, 2010 at 1:24am — 2 Comments

Tibet Leadership Journey

You, member of Open World Community, may be interested in our next Inner Leadership Journey to Tibet, June 28-July 10. This is the third such trip we are making, traversing an awesome landscape and culture, learning from an ancient wisdom tradition and from our fellow travelers – sharing an outer and an inner journey.
The themes correspond to the Open World Café theme of Sustainability and Leadership. We will encounter and dialogue with local leaders in social and environmental action, w

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Added by Sander Tideman on February 13, 2010 at 4:54pm — No Comments

Great talk at LSE by Jonathon Porritt, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future

This is a talk by Jonathon Porritt I went to the other day. He talks of climate change within the economic framework...

http://richmedia.lse.ac.uk/publicLecturesAndEvents/20100204_1830_climateCrunchMakingTheEconomicsFit.mp3

The lecture was part of a series of talks on sustainability that LSE is running through at the moment.
All I can say is that I feel… Continue

Added by Christiana Söderberg on February 7, 2010 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Everything - Not A Thing

I have not written in almost two months. I have been thinking. And I have been reading. I have been thinking about trees, and people, and our environment. I am now reading: “Collapse – How Societies Choose To Fail Or Survive”, by Jared Diamond. In his book the author provides a number of examples of present and past civilizations, some successful, others which have disappeared. Easter Island in the Pacific is one; long considered a mystery but now with clear signs of how this civilization faile… Continue

Added by Christer Soderberg on February 1, 2010 at 9:30am — 11 Comments

An opportunity of being an idiot

My husband sucks, I have decided last night. We walked the dogs, he said something that made me really upset. I wasn't sure why I was upset exactly, but I knew I was, and I knew it was because of what he said, or the way he said it. He wouldn't listen to me telling him how wrong he was. When I tried to point out how he was making up stories, putting words in my mouth, he would tell me that I was getting aggressive - a smoke screen, I was sure, to not have to admit his own faults. I stomped off… Continue

Added by Pausha Foley on January 26, 2010 at 9:22pm — 1 Comment

Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment

The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues. The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature. Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment. Subject : In a fast society slow emotions… Continue

Added by sushil yadav on January 7, 2010 at 3:35pm — 3 Comments

This is just how it is

"New world is here. Life opportunities are only how uniqueness opens a space for invitations for us to graduate from being good. Beyond uniqueness is the opportunity called originality in relationship, which redesigns what can be". Said Brooks. Funny he should say that, I thought just now as I read it. I thought about this just last night. I stood in the kitchen last night, cooking. I thought about many things. I just finished going through lines and lines of code, adjusting and tweaking web pa… Continue

Added by Pausha Foley on January 6, 2010 at 10:26pm — 3 Comments

How Does Change Happen? ... a poem by Jennifer Corriero

How does change happen? This is perhaps one of those eternal questions that carries both simplicity and depths of complexity juxtaposed in a tension so bright and dark that emotions explode and identities blur. Is your belief defined by your role or is your role defined by your belief? How does change happen? POLICY says the policy maker MARKETS says the business manager MASS MOBILIZATION says the organizer DIALOGUE says the convenor SYSTEMS CHANGE says the academic IMAGINATION says the arti… Continue

Added by Jacob Rønnow Jensen on January 6, 2010 at 10:18pm — 1 Comment

Geoff Lawton on Permaculture and Time

This is a transcript of a video of Geoff Lawton talking about Permaculture and Time. I notice an increasing amount of people sharing this frustration which Geoff Lawton describes, and hope it can inspire others as it did me. (I'm fascinated by the idea of time being something relative, something we can expand.) See the original video on YouTube (I found the video distracting, therefore the transcript): "It’s a rather unusu… Continue

Added by Alexandra Söderberg on January 2, 2010 at 12:00am — No Comments

How about we start selling heaven... rather than hell?

When it comes to how we talk about climate change and a sustainable future...this has been one of the most insightful lessons of this year. It's been a crazy fall for me, especially professionally seen as I have spent the past 4 months with Futerra Sustainability Communications (www.futerra.co.uk). Call it luck, personally I'd like to blame it on synchronicity - I temporarily worked as Co-Founder Solitaire Townsend's Executive Assistant -… Continue

Added by Christiana Söderberg on December 28, 2009 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

Having just read Pasha's post, I can say I share her sentiment exactly.............Yesterday I saw A…

Having just read Pasha's post, I can say I share her sentiment exactly.............Yesterday I saw Avatar -- in 3D, no less -- and was utterly blown away by the beauty and concept of this planet and people.........how they and their enviroment are one -- but that they must consciously connect to it too..............that we are just borrowing energy, and when we die, we return the energy to its source...................I think James Cameron was making his point by this film for the times we face… Continue

Added by Adriana Natureza on December 21, 2009 at 1:09pm — No Comments

Paradise on Earth

I thought about "Avatar" last night as I walked my dog. I just saw the movie abut the beautiful paradise-planet and the wild, free people living on it, in it, with it, and I thought: if I could die now knowing that I'll be reborn there, I would do it in an eye blink. I felt homesick. Happy because I got a glimpse of home and ready to cry, because I wasn't there. Then I looked around me and realized that I don't have to go anywhere, that the paradise is right here and I don't have to die to ente… Continue

Added by Pausha Foley on December 20, 2009 at 9:28pm — 2 Comments

Wishing You a Merry, Merry, Low Carbon Christmas!

It's the last Saturday before Christmas and snowflakes are falling outside Open World Café while I watch the still ongoing plenary session of the COP15 Summit in Copenhagen. Delegates from 192 nations have been meeting without breaking since yesterday Friday December 18, officially the last day of the summit. Negotiations at lower levels have been ongoing for two years, and with delegates and ministers in Copenhagen for two intensive weeks. I was in Copenhagen last Sunday and Monday together wi… Continue

Added by Christer Soderberg on December 20, 2009 at 7:02pm — No Comments

A Responsible Man

A man came to my house today. He works with my husband, I've met him a time or two before. We don't know each other at all, not really, our conversations are always brief, never go beyond a polite chitchat. It hasn't today, either. And yet during the few minutes I spent talking to him I could feel something definite, something subtle, something very different. He is a man with quite a remarkable life. He lives in London, has a job that hardly deserves that name, being way too much fun. He trave… Continue

Added by Pausha Foley on December 9, 2009 at 6:58am — No Comments

For the love of adventure

I saw the movie "2012" few days ago. It was a story about fear, desperation and survival. A story about how very rich people get to buy themselves a way out of the end of the earth, while everyone else dies. It wasn't portrayed as a bad thing, it was simply what's so. "And it is what's so", I thought afterwards. "It is a picture of reality, but oh, what a reality that is! What a world to live in! " "This is not my reality", I thought in self defense, and then I read an article about a certain p… Continue

Added by Pausha Foley on December 9, 2009 at 6:30am — 1 Comment

It's Not The Trees!

As I sit in my room no. 1 of the quaint Pousada Dona Zilah, a family owned and run inn located in the trendy Jardim district of São Paulo, a two story building surrounded by 10 to 15 story apartment blocks. It’s raining and about 17 degrees in the Brazilian high summer (with usually 30+ degrees). Two days ago it rained and six people died (and three are still missing), mostly in favelas, the shanty-towns that were washed away by the storm. In one hour it rained as much as usually in one month.… Continue

Added by Christer Soderberg on December 5, 2009 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments

A call for innovation

“Many of the things you do in the name of continuous improvement are the polar opposite to what you need to do if you were committed to continuous innovation”. The quote is from innovation expert Darrell Mann who held a presentation at the Technical University of Denmark last week, which I was fortunate enough to attend. So why do focus so much on improvements? In the business world we talk LEAN and Six Sigma … in the environmental discussions we hear the community talking about… Continue

Added by Jacob Rønnow Jensen on December 5, 2009 at 8:23am — 2 Comments

Replanting a Rainforest: Update 2 - 091111

Replanting a Rainforest began in earnest three weeks ago on October 20th, after having received a generous donation from WeForest.com. And things started happening in a big way. Almost immediately a group representing our local partners, Fazenda Ambiental Fortaleza (FAF) and the local NGO Grupo Ecológico Olho D’Agua, and neighbors with lands bordering on FAF, went to inspect and study more closely some of the areas which had been defined to be a part of the total project of almost 300 hectares;… Continue

Added by Christer Soderberg on November 11, 2009 at 6:00am — 4 Comments

Awareness Day

October 24th will surely go down in history for the many events, actions, rallies, and meetings. It's United Nations Day and it's International Day of Climate Action (www.350.org). At Open World Café we are contributing by having an "Organic (Low Carbon) Food Day", one of more than 4500 actions in more than 180 countries (and we hope you join us, or any other 350.org event around the world)! I would like this to go down in history as Awareness… Continue

Added by Christer Soderberg on October 24, 2009 at 3:34am — No Comments

What is This Really About?

We didn’t need the financial crisis to tell us that something was wrong. We didn’t need the environmental crisis to tell us something was wrong. Social injustices coupled with ignorance and poverty has been with us for a long time. There is no justification or excuse for the fact that more than half the population of the world, that’s more than 3,500,000,000 human beings, are unable to lead dignified lives; where fathers and mothers can’t bring home enough food for the family to eat a healthy me… Continue

Added by Christer Soderberg on October 18, 2009 at 9:00am — 3 Comments

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