ine and then attend a one week hands-on course. In this chat along with Sivananda Yoga Farm sponsor Vidya Chaitanya, Wayne discusses principles starting with with observing elements like wind, water, sun and topography in a specific property.
Bill provides alarming information on "peak soil".
Together they note that permaculture's goal is to create small, intensive ecologies, a foodweb where everything is exchanging with everything else.
Eat and Be Eaten, and Share the Bounty.…
Added by Michael Grove at 14:20 on November 30, 2010
rices that everybody could potentially afford, as a basic concept which has transmogrified into what we now know as IKEA • I have been well impressed more recently with his own commitment of support for the Regenerating Nature with a Circular Economy initiative of the ELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION.…
ent Tufte Trilogy of Envisioning Information has become my guiding LIGHT, so to speak. I have yet to purchase Tufte's latest book BEAUTIFUL EVIDENCE. I never had my own bedroom at home, until my soul-mate and I moved into our first house in High Wycombe, and even then I was sharing my bed of course, as well as our bedroom. It was as a teenager, however, living with my parents in Borehamwood, that my bed at night was a Scandinavian designed, convertible sofa-bed in the living area downstairs, over which my mother graciously allowed me to hang a few of my most treasured aircraft models, one of which had taken the shape of a Vickers Wellington WWII bomber. It was during the building of that model that I was first introduced to the geodesic method of geodetic aircraft construction and I suppose that's where the seed was sown for the creation of my very own design for a 3 DIMENSIONAL MODEL.…
Added by Michael Grove at 11:51 on December 21, 2021
ortunities facing the 21st century. Currently the CEO of Mattereum, a platform that harnesses blockchain to automate and streamline the systems of global commercial law, Gupta has played a massively influential role in the development of the blockchain industry. Notably, in 2015, he coordinated the launch of the neutral, open-access internet and native currency system Ethereum. He has also served as strategic architect at the leading crypto venture ConsenSys, designed Dubai’s blockchain strategy, and serves as the Blockchain Fellow at the UK government’s Digital Catapult. Gupta also applies systems-thinking to issues surrounding environmental sustainability and resilience. A previous member of the Rocky Mountain Institute, one of the world’s top energy policy think tanks, Gupta advocated for solving oil supply issues through new technologies. In 2002, Gupta designed the hexayurt, a public domain disaster relief shelter easily constructed using four-by-eight sheets, the common industrial size of plywood. Intended for use by climate refugees, the hexayurt is also omnipresent in Black Rock Desert every year, iconic in the Burning Man counterculture. This Penny Stamps Speaker Series event is co-presented by the New Media Caucus: Border Control Symposium with support from the Dissonance Event Series.…
video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts.…
Renaissance". Despite the "Dark Ages" we see multiplying around us in different parts of this planet, we believe that aesthetics and design, innovation and enlightened leadership can make a massive difference.
Our headquarters are based at Chateau La Tour Apollinaire in Perpignan in the South of France, where the Galatea sustainable leadership development programme also operates from. The Chateau is run as an environmentally friendly boutique hotel, where workshops, seminars and retreats are offered in a beautiful natural environment.…