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Toby Hemenway presents Redesigning Civilization with Permaculture

Overview of Managing as Designing concept which influenced the formation of a conference and subsequent book by the same title. Great video!

"The art of hosting is an approach to group leadership [which] creates spaces for us to be learning together... co-creating, teaching each other, offering our gifts." Rather than seeing groups as hierarchical and with fixed roles, Art of Hosting practitioner Chris Corrigan sees groups as living systems

Jerry Nagel, co-founder of the Meadowlark Institute, talks about worldviews and the importance of understanding the origins of our own worldview and appreciating the worldviews of others.

A day's work = 2 months of hot water

Permaculture teacher and author Aranya, talking about the value of using a design process, to a packed hall at the London Permaculture Festival on 21st July 2012. For more details of Aranya's book and courses see http://www.aranyagardens.co.uk

Great free documentary site - I just watched one on the Biophilic City of Singapore it is also on youtube - http://youtu.be/XMWOu9xIM_k

Simple how to video for creating a multi-paged PDF from multiple documents. I used this to create the Community Booklet on my eportfolio profile.

The Green Wall Project - Greening the Sahara

video on backcasting

Here is a video of Jacque Fresco of the Venus Project demonstrating how our world-view is created.

Follow the story of how a group of engaged citizens in Bangalore transforms a polluted urban lake into a co-managed, healthy ecosystem with rich biodiversity.

A blog post with lots to explore on sustainable city design

I am particularly struck by the idea of decomposing problems into sub-problems whilts paying attention to the intersection of these so that a sub-team can work on a bounded project and konw that what they solve will link well to problems on all sides ... I have looked at the Ushahidi software a number of times but don't have the capacity to run it or fully understand it -- a joint project anyone?

I really liked this video showing the process of "Holistic Pattern Mining" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plpwld6dIms&feature=share&list=PLJgEdsvavJ1Un66I1Pf--cJEOunbjCFBp I am also wondering about Morphological Analysis for solving these complex issues. Does anyone have any experience with it? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_analysis_%28problem-solving%29 I would be interested in working on such a project.