Shifting the paradigm in Berlin: Art, Ecology & Education

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

‘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!


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Lernen fĂŒr nachhaltiges Leben - Das Schumacher College

Friday, March 14th, 2008

schumacher collegeThe Schumacher College, in partnership with the University of Plymouth, is the first in the world to offer a post-graduate programme in Holistic Science.’

‘Das Schumacher College in SĂŒdwest-England ist eine der bekanntesten internationalen Institutionen fĂŒr ökologische Studien und Nachhaltigkeit, wo namhafte WissenschafterInnen am Kreuzungspunkt zwischen Naturwissenschaften, Politik, SpiritualitĂ€t und gelebter Nachhaltigkeit ihre Konzepte zur ZukunftsfĂ€higkeit lehren.’

Ich mochte den ersten Eindruck, den ich vom Schumacher College bekam, als wir von Toni Spencer, Researcher und Project Developer des College, empfangen wurden und zusammen aßen. Das GebĂ€ude war kleiner, als ich es mir vorgestellt hatte, die Leute schienen freundlich und offen. Ich sah den Tagesplan, der jeden morgen an eine Tafel geschrieben wird und auf dem unter anderem steht, wer an diesem Tag kocht. An diesem Tag war dafĂŒr Satish Kumar zustĂ€ndig, der Programme Director des College…

Nach dem Abendessen trafen wir uns im Garten mit einigen Studenten zu selbstgemachtem Apple Cider. Die Gruppe des Master Programms fĂŒr Holistische Wissenschaft ist klein (maximal 13 Teilnehmer) und international. Die Dozentenliste fĂŒr das Programm ist sehr ausgewĂ€hlt und inspirierend. Ich kann mir vorstellen, dass dieser Studiengang eine sehr intensive und besondere Erfahrung sein muss.

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Was in Totnes’ bookshelves steht

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

ZurĂŒck zu Totnes’ BuchlĂ€den. Es ist echt schön und ziemlich inspirierend, was man hier fĂŒr Input bekommen kann. - Und zwar von konventionellen BuchlĂ€den bis hin zur kleinen BĂŒcherei des Ortes: Überall gibt es BĂŒcher zu ’sustainable and green living’.

Wir finden eine excellente Auswahl von Literatur ĂŒber Climate Change und Peak Oil (ĂŒberhaupt 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 fĂŒr das Leben in der Übergangszeit bzw danach.) Der Input, wie man vom ‘abhĂ€ngigen Konsumenten zum verantwortungsvollen Produzenten’ werden kann - ein zentraler Punkt der Permakultur im Entwickeln einer nachhaltigen Gesellschaft - ist hier in Totnes sehr zugĂ€nglich und umfassend: Da sind diverse BĂŒcher ĂŒber biologisches GĂ€rtnern und Selbstversorgung, ökologisches Bauen und Renovieren, ökologisch bewusste Gemeinschaften/Ökodörfer und natĂŒrlich ĂŒber 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 BĂŒcher 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 ausgedrĂŒckt zu sehen.

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

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Sound of Sirens on Tour

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

on tourFirst 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!…


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We do not need to invent sustainable communities…

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

This is an text excerpt from Fritjof Capra’s ‘Hidden Connections’. Enjoy…

…We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can also model communities after nature’s ecosystems, which are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms. Since the outstanding characteristic of the biosphere is its inherent ability to sustain life, a sustainable human community must be designed in such a manner that its technologies and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature’s inherent ability to sustain life…

The german title of ‘Hidden Connections’ is ‘Verborgene ZusammenhĂ€nge’…


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Once again: The info is out there…

Monday, February 18th, 2008

permacultureWe got another great ebook for you!

‘The Essence of Permaculture ‘ by permaculture’s co-originator David Holmgren. It is also available in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. To be found and downloaded here.

Get a short info on Permaculture in our definitions, get the book and get started!…


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Natural Capitalism - Read excerpts of the book for free

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

natural capitalism Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins is an important and very valuable book, that has been set free by the authors for everyone to read. Again…:
Information is the critical potential resource. It becomes a resource only when obtained and acted upon.
(’Information as a Resource’ - out of the principle summary of ‘Permaculture, A Designer’s Manual’ by Bill Mollison, Tagari Publications,1988)

It’s all out there…


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Rediscovering Ways Of Understanding

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

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


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