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American Hydrogen Annuities (AHA!)

Posted by: Ben Roberts

http://americanhydrogenannuities.com/, contact: Bob Beth

With the prospect of not only divesting from fossil fuels but also reinvesting that institutional money into thriving resilient community infrastructure now becoming a reality, this new venture looks intriguing. Imagine an entire municipal bus fleet powered by fuel cells, with the hydrogen produced by solar panels on the bus depot roof. It's only in the "ideation" stage, but founder Bob Beth (who I know through our joint work with the Charter for Compassion) says the technology is actually ready for prime time (and investment).

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"This Machine" (song)

Posted by: Ben Roberts

Thought I'd share this bit of initial inspiration I'm using to charge my Round One participation...

http://youtu.be/E-RepvSwOUo

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Grieving could offer a pathway out of a destructive economic system (article)

Posted by: Ben Roberts (h/t Heather Tischbein)

A recent opinion piece from Jo Confino, executive editor of The Guardian, based on his inspiring experience with a grief ritual led by indigenous people at Findhorn's New Story gathering. This is a theme we have explored in the Collaboratory, and which I see as remaining at the heart of what challenges us. It speaks the the +TRCF's desire to see the "center" of our "collaborative compass" reflected in this co-project. An excerpt:

Just take the recent news from WWF and the Zoological Society of London that we have decimated half of all creatures across land, rivers and the seas over the past 40 years. We read this and perhaps shake our heads in dismay, and then consume the next news story. The question we should all be asking is why aren’t we on the floor doubled up in pain at our capacity for industrial scale genocide of the world’s species.

The same is true of the human blood and tears that have flowed in continents such as Africa over hundreds of years as a result of our system of economic and cultural exploitation.

It’s time to stop searching for reasons why we are failing to act over the imminent dangers of climate change and other sustainability challenges.

The answer is obvious. We don’t need more scientific data or superficial behaviour change initiatives but to engage individuals at a deep emotional, psychological and spiritual level.

As the mythologist Joseph Campbell pointed out: “It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal – carries the cross of the redeemer – not in the bright moments of his tribe’s great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.” In particular we need to grieve for the destruction we have wrought so that we have a chance to heal ourselves.

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The Tree of Life (art/dance)

Posted by: Ben Roberts (h/t Michelle Holliday)

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The Roadmap Mandala (image)

Posted by: Ben Roberts

The Metta Center for Nonviolence's Roadmap is an entire initiative, about which I'm sure we'll hear more from founder Michael Nagler. Meanwhile, I wanted to bring the mandala itself into our "field."

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Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing

Posted by: Ben Roberts (h/t Jon Scott)

PDF here. Six basic principles, e.g. "let the people speak for themselves." From the preface: "On December 6-8, 1996, forty people of color and European-American representatives met in Jemez, New Mexico, for the “Working Group Meeting on Globalization and Trade.” The Jemez meeting was hosted by the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice with the intention of hammering out common understandings between participants from different cultures, politics and organizations. The following “Jemez Principles” for democratic organizing were adopted by the participants."

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Network Weavers

Posted by: Ben Roberts (h/t Michael Toye)

http://www.networkweaver.com/

A consulting firm that also has a blog and a handbook. From their"About Us" page: "The Network Weaver Consultants Network is a loosely affiliated group of consultants who provide a wide range of network services for organizations, networks and communities. All of the consultants have taken a 5-month intensive practicum on network consulting led by June Holley and Kristin Johnstad."

- See more at: http://www.networkweaver.com/about-nw-consultants/#sthash.2Rog0dzp.dpuf

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The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady State Economy (book)

Posted by: Ben Roberts (h/t Michael Toye)

https://ccednet-rcdec.ca/en/resilienceimperative (Excerpt of summary below)

In his new book, CCEDNet founding member Mike Lewis, of the Canadian Centre for Community Renewal, builds on 35 years of leadership in community economic development, the social economy and development finance in Canada and internationally to cast the challenges facing us in a new light.

With so many books being written about peak oil, climate change, and their implications for our people and planet, what’s different about The Resilience Imperative? Its central thesis is that climate change and escalating energy prices compel us to reinvent our economic life on a much more local and regional basis. But how to do it? This is the vexing question. How do we forge a steady-state economy that is socially, ecologically and economically sensible and sustainable? Is it even possible, or just the naive notion of do-gooders?"

The Resilience Imperative resonates with the possible! Using a range of theory and incisive historical and contemporary analysis for a launchpad, it presents case after case of creative, strategic action in the world of today.

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Why TED Talks Don't Change People's Behavior

Posted by: Ben Roberts (h/t Suzanne Daigle)

http://youtu.be/W0jTZ-GP0N4

Tom Asacker describes clearly and simply how, as living, feeling warm-blooded and intelligent animals, it is our stories about ourselves that ultimately drive our sense of what is "true" and thus our choices, not facts and data. Although we haven't spoken, I have a personal connection to Tom through my friend Suzanne Daigle, so if anyone wanted to connect with him, we could do so.

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Michelle Holliday's "The Pattern of Living Systems" TEDx

Posted by: Ben Roberts

So, after posting Tom Asacker's TED talk (just above) about why these things "don't change people behavior," I offer another one from Roundtable participant Michelle Holliday, which I think actually has the power to prove Asacker wrong! Or maybe a better way to look it is that it might prove him right, because it is precisely the kind of New Story framing that he suggests is the only way to change someone's beliefs and therefore their actions.

The ideas presented in this talk not only inform +the co-project she is proposing with Gretchen, Bob, Leslie, and Hina, but is also a wonderful framework by which we can understand and find engagement points with the Movement for systemic transformation at many different levels.

http://youtu.be/RUIStx-nZ3I

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Just seeing this now - thank you for sharing it, Ben!

International Alliance for Localization

Posted by: Ben Roberts

A NEW initiative that I heard about via Kosmos. The local focus is especially framed in terms of food systems as a key leverage point. Looks like Transition is involved already! Here's some basic info and a video from http://www.localfutures.org/, the website of the International Society for Ecology and Culture (Helena Norberg-Hodge, Founder and Director), which is launching this initiative:

The broad objectives of the IAL include:

to identify common threats to cultural and biological diversity, as well as economic security, and seek common strategies to resist these pressures;

to explore community as well as institutional supports (at all levels – local, national and international) needed to sustain diversity and security;

to enhance the capacity of members to make reasoned, well-informed choices on issues related to economic development, resource use, and cultural and environmental integrity;

to expand the existing knowledge base about strategies being implemented to localize economies, rebuild resilience and adaptive capacity, strengthen food security, and maintain cultural integrity in different parts of the world;

to forge global partnerships in support of such renewal and resilience-building initiatives;

to discuss alternative strategies in the production of basic needs, especially food

More details here: http://www.localfutures.org/global-to-local/international-alliance-for-localization/the-international-alliance-for-localization

http://youtu.be/PucOhupKQa0

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"Nothing Too Fancy" (music)

Posted by: Ben Roberts

An Umphrey's McGee tune to inspire us as we move into action together. This got stuck in my head during my recent drive back to Newtown from the NCDD conference in Reston, Virginia.

http://youtu.be/6AIqXi1s7dQ

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Supper's Ready (music)

Posted by: guess who!

More music! This Genesis classic with themes of apocalypse and salvation has also been in my head these days. One of those things I fell in love with and learned by heart in younger days. I still get chills from listening to it: "we've finally been freed to get back home!" I also find it pretty funny and goofy in parts (see the 11:45 mark). Some might call this Prog Rock at its most pretentious -- e.g. Peter Gabriel's costumes, haircut and make-up and lines like "he's the guaranteed eternal sanctuary man" and "something tells me I better activate my prayer capsule" -- but I say you're just missing out on the fun and the passion!

The sound is way better on the Seconds Out version, but here you have video and are seeing the piece the way it was originally staged, and with all the original members of the band...

http://youtu.be/Gx6S32thDNw

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"Making the Invisible Visible" - De'Amon Harges @ TEDx Indianapolis

Posted by: Yeah, it's me again

Hot off the presses! My friend, the lovely and very talented April Doner shot this video of her mentor in Asset-Based Community Development on 10/21. It's a moving illustration of the power that story and the recognition of gifts has to change the lives of those on the margins.

http://youtu.be/GyrLavx44AM

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Anthem (music)

Posted by: Ben

Leonard Cohen's inspirational song, live in London. Lyrics below, including an interesting change he's made from the original version, in the fourth verse. He introduces the song by saying that we are so privileged to be able to gather in moments like this when so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos, so...

Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack in everything

That's how the light gets in.

http://youtu.be/2HfvV5CDiiI

The birds they sang

at the break of day

Start again

I heard them say

Do not dwell on what

has passed away

or what is yet to be.

Ah the wars they will

be fought again

The holy dove

She will be caught again

bought and sold

and bought again

the dove is never free.

Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack in everything

That's how the light gets in.

We asked for signs

the signs were sent:

the birth betrayed

the marriage spent

Yeah the widowhood

of every [single] government --

signs for all to see.

I can't run no more

with that lawless crowd

while the killers in high places

say their prayers out loud.

But they've summoned, they've summoned up

a thundercloud

and they're going to hear from me.

Ring the bells that still can ring ...

You can add up the parts

but you won't have the sum

You can strike up the march,

~~there is no drum~~ on your little broken drum

Every heart, every heart

to love will come

but like a refugee.

Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack, a crack in everything

That's how the light gets in.

Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack, a crack in everything

That's how the light gets in.

That's how the light gets in.

That's how the light gets in.

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American Hydrogen Annuities (AHA!)
"This Machine" (song)
Grieving could offer a pathway out of a destructive economic system (article)
The Tree of Life (art/dance)
The Roadmap Mandala (image)
Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing
Network Weavers
The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady State Economy (book)
Why TED Talks Don't Change People's Behavior
Michelle Holliday's "The Pattern of Living Systems" TEDx
International Alliance for Localization
"Nothing Too Fancy" (music)
Supper's Ready (music)
"Making the Invisible Visible" - De'Amon Harges @ TEDx Indianapolis
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