1302 Orientation

This article was referred to me by the author, Naresh. He presented for an online Transition Town call that I participated in (Jan. 24, 2013) The call was titled -"Is Your Transition Initiative (TI) as effective as it can be?" I took the call thanks to Liora's recommendation.

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Work abroad, integrate in local cultures, learn a language, acquire new skills, make new friends through......Workaway.info

This is similar to WWOOFing yet they have integrated some feedback loops, much like couchsurfing - So you can read peoples reviews of places they worked and you can build a reputation through getting reviews.

SMART is a mnemonic, giving criteria to guide in the setting of objectives, for example in project management, employee performance management and personal development.

Many free online calls with renowned Permaculture teachers Oct 1-3

Such a wonderful interview!!!  MUST LISTEN!

The Permanent Culture Now Project is an outlet for the knowledge we have built up from decades of thinking about ways to address the major problems facing ourselves and future generations. We have now reached the point where we believe that there needs to be a move towards a Permanent Culture.

Deep Web Search Engines To get started, try using a search engine that specializes in scouring the invisible web for results. None of these can search the entire invisible web, but they make some inroads that Google has not as of yet.

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.

On one level, myths are simply stories. This introductory essay explains the features common to all stories, stressing that while the storyteller's words and the images they conjure up may be fleeting, their stories are often long-lived

Mahara has a very pluggable architecture, which allows people to add their own artefacts, blocks for views, methods for authentication and more. Here is a list of plugins developed by members of the community.

sync (backup) all your book marks to a free online account at xmarks which allows you to share entire bookmark folders with others using a urls or rss feed.

This is cool because you can post RSS feed of your bookmark folders on your OP so they should be updated as when ever you sync your Xmark account. ;)

This section explains some design methods and how they are used by designers. We talk you through everything from brainstorming to physical prototyping.

Transition management can be described as a new governance-model based on complex systems´ thinking and is aimed at facilitating and directing processes of societal change in the direction of sustainability.

Journal of the International Community for Ecopsychology

A blog post all about Pattern Languages

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.

"The Science and Engineering of Composting" from Cornell University

A Pattern Language of Sustainability - Ecological design and Permaculture - By Joanne Tippett - April, 1994