Sound Of Sirens

‘Art, Ecology & Education provides pathways to an integrated and sustainable way of living. We participate in the development and integration of an ecologically conscious and systemic worldview.
Using a holistic and transformative approach in our work, we support individuals and groups in the process of transition towards a life sustaining society.’

Upcoming workshops (in german and english):
12+13 July CHANGE - a different worldview for sustainable living
20-24 August ‘EFTERFESTEN Gathering for Sustainability’, Sweden
3-7 September SHIFTING TERRAIN - dancing new ways of perceiving
20+21 September PERMACULTURE - the Basics

Next AEE Evening at the HUB, Berlin:
9 July, 8pm, CSA / Community Supported Agriculture - Conscious consumption one step ahead

Art, Ecology & Education (www.art-ecology-education.org) works as international, intercultural consortium based in Berlin.

Participate in shifting the paradigm / feel free to get in touch!

Zurück zu Totnes’ Buchläden. Es ist echt schön und ziemlich inspirierend, was man hier für Input bekommen kann. - Und zwar von konventionellen Buchläden bis hin zur kleinen Bücherei des Ortes: Überall gibt es Bücher zu ’sustainable and green living’.

Wir finden eine excellente Auswahl von Literatur über Climate Change und Peak Oil (überhaupt ist der Umgang mit dem ‘Erdölfördermaximum’ und seinen Auswirkungen auf unsere Gesellschaft hier bereits sehr klar realisiert und es gibt einfach schon sehr praktische Ratgeber und Guides für das Leben in der Übergangszeit bzw danach.) Der Input, wie man vom ‘abhängigen Konsumenten zum verantwortungsvollen Produzenten’ werden kann - ein zentraler Punkt der Permakultur im Entwickeln einer nachhaltigen Gesellschaft - ist hier in Totnes sehr zugänglich und umfassend: Da sind diverse Bücher über biologisches Gärtnern und Selbstversorgung, ökologisches Bauen und Renovieren, ökologisch bewusste Gemeinschaften/Ökodörfer und natürlich über Permakultur. Ausserdem haben wir den Eindruck, dass das Denken, die Philosophie eines neuen, integrierten Paradigmas, die dem ganzen zugrunde liegt, hier sehr weit ist. Es gibt viele Bücher zu Themen wie Ecosophy, Ecopsychology oder Holistic Science. Es macht Spass, unsere Gedanken und Empfindungen (siehe www.art-ecology-education.org) hier so umfassend und individuell ausgedrückt zu sehen.

Dies ist eine (Auswahl)Liste, die euch vielleicht einen kleinen Eindruck geben kann, wie die Buchläden in eurem Kiez, oder eurem Ort aussehen könnten…- vielleicht brauchen die ja einfach ein bischen Unterstützung von eurer Seite…;-). Einige Titel gibt es auch auf deutsch…

First of all, I have to tell you that we had difficulties in deciding wether to write in english or german. Still have…So if any of you would like to know more or get some german input, let us know. Otherwise we’ll keep it english. We are in the process of meeting/exploring/exchanging with people working in similar areas or with similar interests, and there is a lot of great stuff happening in the UK, so here we go.

These are some of the activities on our list:

There will be a talk with Toni Spencer of the Schumacher College:
An Ecology of Making: A Community of Things
An exploration of crafts, design and the aesthetics of sustainability

a talk with Vandana Shiva:
The transformation of Societies. What comes after development?

There will be practical input like a pruning workshop, loads of permaculture and other projects to visit, we will participate in a Transition Town Training in Totnes and then head to London, meeting people from an acting school and more. That’s the rough outline. We will see what emerges around it…Maybe we’ll just enjoy spring for a minute!…

We’ll let you know about all that right here!…

For those of you who are worrying or wondering about a lifestyle of health and sustainability…:

‘…Within this current benign and remarkably stable interglacial climate, humanity has developed agriculture, what we call civilisation, and finally global industrial culture. All of them have accelerated the pace and power of human cultural and environmental change, but all are dependent on the fragile stability of the interglacial paradise. While the adverse effects of global warming have created a reason once more to contemplate our dependence on larger forces and circumstances, any serious consideration of the next ice age (due any time in the next thousand years or so) would have us designing a modest, generalist, flexible culture, carried by a small global population able to make the transition into and through the long slow years of ice age. We need to break out of the delusion of apparently linear acceleration of human material and numerical progress to a world view in which everything is contained by cycles, waves and pulses that flow between polarities of great stability and intense change, all nested one within the other.
This cyclical view of time is not some new idea, but simply a rediscovery of ways of understanding that are embedded in human cultural history and our collective unconscious.’

Excerpt of: Permaculture / Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren

You can keep digging in that context at www.art-ecology-education.org