Robert Gilman set out a definition of an ecovillage that was to become a standard: «human-scale full-featured settlement in which human activities are harmlessly integrated into the natural world in a way that is supportive of healthy human development, and can be successfully continued into the indefinite future.» You can find a couple of directoriesSigue leyendo «Ecovillages»
Archivo de categoría: Inspiración
Let's make better decissions for the oceans
Help me please!
Open source Hardware – Arduino
David Cuartielles – ‘In our daily life electronics are everywhere’ ‘Education is about sharing knowledge with other people’ Thank you for your work David !!
Hacker spaces
Community and creative expression + Do you want to start a hacker space?
Foodscaping-Waterscaping-Solarscaping
If you had a land wouldn’t you want it to be in production rather than being a cost? We have got use to look at our gardens as something to show and pay for. We pay taxes over them, we pay to water them, we pay for their maintenance and all that is paid backSigue leyendo «Foodscaping-Waterscaping-Solarscaping»
Economic invisibility of nature
What is the price of biodiversity? What’s the value you give to a clean environment against a degradated one? How much is the Amazonas worthed? The clean fresh water? The breathable air? It all belongs to the commons. It is the gift Mother Nature has given us, but as human social structures become more andSigue leyendo «Economic invisibility of nature»
Electric city
During this summer Yahoo tried to gain ground to Youtube-Google launching a webseries produced and written by Tom Hanks, ‘Electric city‘. The plot is set in a post-apocalyptic era, where mankind has been reduced to small settlements whose main business is to produce electric power. With fossil and nuclear fuel sources mostly depleted, the communitiesSigue leyendo «Electric city»
Solar Flower
A really simple system to turn sunlight into heat. Daniel Conell came out with this idea while living in Spain and developped a web site where he shares several tutorials to build your own solar flowers. Easy, cheap and very well explained DYI projects. It’s worthed to take a look at SolarFlower.org.
Commons-based peer production
What the Internet and its descendants teach us is that there are now new models for doing things together, success stories that prove convincingly that you don’t need bureaucracies to facilitate public collaboration, and you don’t need the private sector to innovate. “So was the Internet created by Big Government or Big Capital? The answerSigue leyendo «Commons-based peer production»
Utopia stakes for sale (@honduras)
Have you ever dreamt of creating your very own society from scratch?, with your own laws, taxes, social services, education system, police forces, courts? Have you ever thought how would your living place be if everything could be defined from zero? What kind of community will you end up having? What would be your systemSigue leyendo «Utopia stakes for sale (@honduras)»
Sylvia García 