Sound Of Sirens

The great thing about the States is that beside the most ignorant politicians and the most unethical corporate system you will find a lot of people with a sense of self-responsibility and creativity who put ideas into action.

For example….

‘The Sustainable Living Roadshow (SLR) is a caravan of educators and entertainers who tour the country in a fleet of renewable fuel vehicles to empower communities and individuals to utilize sustainable living strategies for a healthier planet. Visiting k-12 schools, university campuses and community festivals across the United States, the caravan sets up off-the-grid eco-carnivals with experiential learning villages, featuring workshops, speakers and entertainment.’

Read into their principles and ethics, it’s inspiring! Have a look at the diversity of offerings/elements, it’s fun! Makes me want it to happen in Germany…

Check them out!

The Global Oneness Project is a web-based video initiative exploring how the simple notion of oneness can be lived in our increasingly complex world.

We’re traveling the globe interviewing creative and courageous people who base their lives and work on the fundamental understanding that we are all connected and thus bear great responsibility for each other and our shared world. Our living library of films is available for free from our website or on DVD for events and educational use.

We are committed to documenting what is being born during this time of planetwide transformation. While we are confronted with unmistakable signs that our current way of life is no longer sustainable, inspiring and innovative people and programs are blossoming in all areas of our collective society. From a pay-it-forward café in Ahmedabad, to a youth program that brings African wisdom to Los Angeles, from the General Secretary of the Andean Nations, to the spiritual guardian of Ayers Rock, our film subjects live and work with many of the following values, attitudes, and beliefs:

* We are responsible to each other, the earth, and future generations.
* There are enough resources for us all, if we share.
* Free exchanges of information allow for greater, collective creative potential.
* Love, care and compassion have the power to transform the fabric of society.

We hope that by showing the diverse ways oneness is expressed—in the fields of sustainability, conflict resolution, spirituality, art, economics, indigenous culture, and social justice—others will be inspired to create solutions to personal and community challenges from their own lived understanding of oneness.

www.globalonenessproject.org

Ok, this is about the media and its functions. Again: I do not claim to be an expert, call me a generalist, however, let’s see how far we get.

I’ll start with a quote of a beautiful essay by Donella Meadows, a professor, biophysicist, systems analyst, organic farmer, author, journalist and inspiration in the movement for sustainability. The essay is called ‘Dancing with Systems‘ and this particular part is about ‘Honouring and protecting information.’

A decision maker can’t respond to information he or she doesn’t have, can’t respond accurately to information that is inaccurate, can’t respond in a timely way to information that is late. I would guess that 99 percent of what goes wrong in systems goes wrong because of faulty or missing information.

If I could, I would add an Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information. You can drive a system crazy by muddying its information streams. You can make a system work better with surprising ease if you can give it more timely, more accurate, more complete information.

Forschungsergebnisse aus dem Ausland und dem Inland zeigen, dass nicht schulgebundene Bildung häufig zu besseren Leistungen befähigt als unterschiedsloser Schulzwang, den es seit 2008 europaweit und international in Demokratien nur noch in Deutschland gibt. Dadurch wird das Bildungsbedürfnis eines beachtlichen Teiles seiner jeweils nachwachsenden Generationen blockiert und ein enormes Bildungspotential unwiederbringlich vergeudet.
Aus dem Dossier zur Kampagne ‘Für das Menschenrecht auf Bildung - Freiheit und Vielfalt der Bildungswege’.
Das vollständige Dossier findet ihr hier.

Dazu fallen mir zwei Permakultur Prinzipien ein, die auf der Beobachtung natürlicher Systeme basieren:

Prinzip der Unordnung
Ordnung und Harmonie produzieren Energie für anderweitigen Gebrauch. Unordnung konsumiert Energie ohne dienlichen Zweck.
Ordentlichkeit, Sauberkeit, Einheitlichkeit und Gradlinigkeit bezeichnen eine Unordnung in natürlichen Systemen, die durch Energieaufwand aufrechterhalten wird.

Prinzip von Stress und Harmonie
Stress kann entweder durch Verhinderung natürlicher Funktionen oder durch aufgezwungene Funktionen entstehen und dadurch definiert werden; Harmonie (im Gegensatz dazu) entsteht durch die Erlaubnis ausgewählter und natürlicher Funktionen und die Versorgung essentieller Bedürfnisse.

Aus ‘Permaculture, A Designer’s Manual’ by Bill Mollison, Tagari Publications, 1988

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