NEWS
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(Very non-frequent news will come through this email group, whenever there is time to compile a bulletin)
december 08 News and Goods
As the Transition Movement picks up speed and with so much good work on various fronts happening, we've been fairly slack on the Chaordic Institute News provision front ... but less so on the development side.
We now have 98 profiles on the english pilot wiki, http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com
and 28 on the spanish pilot wiki, http://institutodepermacultura.pbwiki.com
and no-one knows how many new fertile connections created .. but hopefully many!
As with all things that aim for sustainability we advance in small steps and some of the advances in the last period have been:
* Supporting the LatinAmerican PC Convergence in Cuba with a page just for them in the spanish CI, http://institutodepermacultura.pbwiki.com/CLP3 + an email list to keep in contact
* Supporting the European PC Convergence with the same thing, http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com/EUPC (this resulted in a few more profiles also but not many) + email list
* Two PC students travelled across Spain as 'pollinizing bees' collecting profiles of pioneers and teaching how to edit the wiki
* Martine started a great Development Dialogue page but we kept it so secret that only very few somehow found it and participated so far ... DO add your voice, just go here and follow instructions: http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com/development+dialogue
* Some (slow but interesting and potentially very fruitful) dialogues started with other initiatives to 'globalize PC information' from the Australian Instute and the British PC Association
* And in january am visiting Bill and Lisa Mollison and hopefully present the Chaordic Institute idea to them also and get as much feedback and advice as I can - will report back
Wishing everyone a fertile and Transition-full 2009!
* * * and do contribute your ideas to this international pilot ..
ALL permaculture designers are warmly encouraged to participate * * *
kind regards
Stella
june 08 Progress Report
5 june 08 - trying out a Pre-Convergence experiment for EUPC9 (European Permaculture Convergence)
see
http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com/EUPC
and talking about doing the same for the Latin American Convergence in Cuba
2 june 08 - put up some Education questions
following some noticeable resurgence of the matter in various lists:
http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com/Education
13 may 08 - We created the Portuguese pages for the Institute!
http://institutopermacultura.pbwiki.com
thanks to David: http://institutopermacultura.pbwiki.com/David
and there is talk of some French pages coming soon ...
4 jan 08 - Progress Report
much to tell and little time to write ...
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1) INSTITUTE DESIGN
THANKYOU to all who have sent comments, proposals and especially to the brave ones who have enrolled on the Designers Group for the Institute.
We start with the english group this month (see http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com/DesignOfPilot for who they are), hoping that the spanish-speaking group get together so that we can start with that one too (see http://institutodepermacultura.pbwiki.com/DiseñadoresInstituto for more on this one)
We will inform everyone about what we come up with in this small investigation / design group, and we encourage all to contribute as they wish, contacting with any of them directly. We really want everyone's ideas and contributions in order to design this well.
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2) GRANTS
The first and small attempt to get some funds to move on the work needed for this new type of Institute is up on this page:
http://wiki.rising.globalvoicesonline.org/ChaordicPermacultureInstitute
We were encouraged - in Spain - by some of the students of one of our permaculture courses, who wanted to multi-function a journey to various projects in the Iberian Peninsula.
Although we were not selected, the experience was very useful in order to summarize the project ... please do use it to make something similar for your area, if you can.
Quickly we started getting some welcome supportive feedback and interest from people who would like to collaborate, like the young people of the Traveling School of Life http://www.tsolife.org/ and the Idem (Identity through Initiative) youth: http://www.idem-network.org
We were hoping with this iniciative to support the journeys of some Cuban colleagues ... maybe next time. If you have some ideas or suggestions please contact the Designers group.
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3) REBOOT FESTIVAL
We were invited to Portugal to give a 2 day workshop in August 08, about the Institute project, a the Reboot Festival, www.rebootnow.org
This came to us as an interesting synchronicity given that we were thinking whether to form another part in portuguese of the Institute (because we have some active members in Brasil and interesting contacts in Portugal).
We hope this will help to move this group in another important language, and we hope to see some of you there at the Festival also.
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4) PERMACULTURE DESIGN DIPLOMA
and welcoming new people to the permaculture family.
Remember that the Chaordic Institute provides an ideal set of projects especially for permaculture students, who are encouraged to get to know the wider international community by participating actively from the start.
Infact this design came about originally as an idea to facilitate the process and open up the diploma standards for general scrutiny, by encouraging pre-diplomats to make their portafolio available using new internet technologies.
The new page http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com/DiplomaProcess
documents some of this history, together with news on this aspect of the work.
(in the Spanish pages a slightly different approach was to create a History page for this project:
http://institutodepermacultura.pbwiki.com/Historia)
We welcome teachers actively involved in the diploma process to join the research group on this, or / and share their news with us.
20 nov 07 - Progress Report
Hi!
I'm new to this email-group so I'll introduce myself: my name is Lucas Gonzalez and I live in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). You can see my profile here: http://institutodepermacultura.pbwiki.com/Lucas (soon in English).
I attach the Progress Report on the "Permaculture Chaordic Institute" initiative.
Regards,
Lucas
Hello,
Starting VERY small ... and also very slowly, but surely:
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WHY - A re-design in order to facilitate communication: simply because it is difficult to read "bilingually" but especially difficult to keep it all up to date in two languages.
REQUEST - Please speak up if you think we should do the same with this email list. For now we'll keep it bilingual, but it is possible to split it up intwo lists.
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- 2) The profiles are now also accessible in the main menu. There's a minor glitch in the menu, which isn't always visible. We hope that the "> > >" message is enough to understand how you can activate the menu if it doesn't appear for you at first.
REQUEST - Please tell us if you find any problem in reading and navigating these pages. And also if you have any suggestion on how this could be better: we need everyone's help.
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- 3) There are two growing groups of Designers of the Institute, one in each language. WE INVITE YOU TO PARTICIPATE: it will take about 1 or 2 hours per month of your active thinking about this design. You can see who they are and the purpose of the group here: http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com/DesignOfPilot
THANK YOU - to all the people who have made this committment to co-design this exciting new venture.
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- 4) We're starting to look for grants for the Iberic "node" of the Institute, and we encourage everyone to copy this effort for their bioregion.
WHY - Here we've identified it would be great to be able to pay trip expenses for some of the young among us who were going to visit permaculture projects around, while they
- share the news about the Institute,
- carry out short workshops on how to edit wikis, and so
- grow the number of profiles available.
We'd also like to pay trip expenses for Cuban colleagues who would like to visit our projects, for them to do the same thing.
If you want a copy of the project please write to anyone in the spanish Designers' Group http://institutodepermacultura.pbwiki.com/DiseñadoresInstituto and we'll send it to you (the application is in english).
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- 5) We are experimenting with a new currency (Permis) to value the work
that we are doing for the common benefit of the permaculture network.
The page http://institutodepermacultura.pbwiki.com/LosPermis explains the initial thoughts on this (will be translated into English soon).
Below you can see more general information in the footer.
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A) The wiki for this pilot is here: http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com
and there is another page in spanish that is being developed at the same time (link in the menu of the english institute)
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B) If you want to be informed whenever there is a change in this wiki, click on "Notification Settings" at the very bottom of any page, under "Wiki Information", then select "1 day" and insert your email.
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C) There are 57 people in this group and we are aiming for only between 1 & 4 emails per month with basic news of how the design of the PC institute is going, and to remind you of the wiki address and how to contribute to it.
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D) You may write to this group (it´s moderated) and also and you can contact directly with any person who is in the Designers group (we very much welcome all your questions, ideas, suggestions, etc.):
http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com/DesignOfPilot
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5 oct 07 - The way forward for PC Conferences?
hello esteemed Global Permaculture Colleagues,
If you have high speed connection and time please have a look at this:
http://transitionculture.org/2007/09/14/peak-oil-transition-towns-and-resilience-building-my-talk-to-the-ifg-teach-in/
it is Rob Hopkins giving a video-conference on Transition Town Totnes
Rob's lecture was presented at the conference he was invited at (I
don´t know how many people were there, but say several hundreds) but in
addition to those people, many thousands more potentially have access
to that same presentation, forever, just by switching to a more
appropiate technology for this job.
He could stay at home and do this, and we can watch him 'live' and
learn from our homes too.
This is exactly the aim of the chaordic permaculture institute.
(I am in Madrid in order to speak at a Complementary Currencies
conference right now - not having worked out how to do the
videoconferencing yet - but as soon as I get a while I'll make a page
for Rob and post his contributions there)
I do not agree with the views of 'not flying' on ideological reasons as
part of some generalized 'post-peak culture' strategy, nor the
attempted guilt-trips to that effect - there are great logical
inconsitencies in the argument, as well as dubious forms of it being
presented, often.
We each have to decide our own strategies for where we think we are
most effective individually as permaculturists, and sometime that will
be getting our physical selves somewhere far, so personally for eg. I
do fly when it makes sense for me, but I also applaud Rob's use of his
personal no-flying politics to move this type of alternative vision of
conferences. It´s great!
I think all permies should see this video. Not only for the content
(the great work they´re doing in Totnes to move forward a sustainable
bioregion in an over-'developed' country - no easy feat!), but
especially for the form.
I would love to support any permaculture pioneer (that is, all of YOU)
who has something important to say like this to try and find a way to
make it as globally accessible as possible. We need each's minds in
this way, and all our other colleagues and the planet certainly needs
it too.
mucho love to you all
Stella
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http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com/Stella
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skype: StefaniaStrega
Telf. (0034) 922 40 01 33
stella@finca-luna.com
www.nodoespiral.net
"You never change things by fighting against the existing reality.
To change something, you have to create a new model that makes
the old models obsolete." (Buckminster Fuller)
4 jul 07 - General Info
he main news for July is that the wiki is up, see below for
instructions
Stella
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4 jul 07 - System Thinking
hello from Spain,
this is a bilingual email (very multifunctional, you can practice spanish while you get occasional news from us) - however some forwarded news might be in one language only.
- este es un corrreo bilingue (muy multifunctional, puedes practicar inglés mientras recibes noticias periódicas de nosotros) - pero algunas de las noticias que pasamos podrían ser en un idioma solamente.
You're receiving this because either you put your name down on the list of interested in the Chaordic Permaculture Institute design at IPC8, or you mentioned your interest to someone who put you on that list.
- estás recibiendo esto porqué o pusiste tu nombre en la lista de interesad@s en el diseño del Instituto Caórdico de Permacultura en IPC8, o comentaste este interés a alguien que te puse en esa lista.
At the bottom of any email from this address you will see the general reminder, and also how to unsubscribe from this list if you wish (I hope not!)
- Al final de cualquier correo de esta dirección verás el recordatorio general, y también como quitarse de esta lista si es lo que quieres (espero que no!)
Here below is some really inspiring news of an international collaboration of very young system thinkers which I received recently ... good permaculturists have to be skilled system thinkers.
- Aquí abajo hay unas noticias muy inspiradoras de una colaboración internacional de pensadores sistémicos muy jóvenes, que he recibido de recién ... buenos permacultores tienen que ser hábiles pensadores sistémicos.
Especially designers of chaordic organizations ... if you are interested in being in the Designers Team for this project, please email me personally at stella(at)finca-luna(dot)com
- Especialmente diseñadores de organizaciones caórdicas ... si estás interesad@ en estar en el Equipo Diseñadores para este proyecto, por favor envíame un correo personal a stella(at)finca-luna(dot)com
Very kind wishes and welcome to an exciting adventure!
- Muy cordiales saludos y bienvenid@ a una aventura interesante!
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De: "isee systems"
Asunto: STELLA Powers International Cooperation in Systems Thinking Education
US-China Project Focuses Student Teams on Real World Problems
Students collaborate using STELLA
Students at the Vermont Commons School in Burlington, Vermont and their peers in Nanjing China make it look easy to collaborate on complex models of real world issues.
This year, four cross-cultural student teams used STELLA to examine urban sprawl, water quality, maple syrup production capacity, and rocket engine fueling and staging. While email and videoconferencing helped break distance and time zone barriers, STELLA provided teams with a universal language that permitted problem solving while highlighting cross-cultural perspectives.
About the US-China Project
The US-China Systems Science Learning Project is a three-year initiative that teams students in Burlington, Vermont with peers in Nanjing, China to create, design and test solutions to real world problems. Founded by educators at the Vermont Commons School and Nanjing Education Technology Center to ensure that students are learning how to innovate and graduating with solid problem solving skills and experience in international collaboration, the project relies heavily on STELLA, Systems Thinking software.
A case study detailing the US-China Science Learning Project and its use of Systems Thinking and STELLA is now available at www.iseesystems.com/vcs
To learn more about STELLA and other Systems Thinking tools
visit http://www.iseesystems.com or call (603) 448-4990
SOME HISTORY of this project
Did you know that this project started with thinking about how to improve the Diploma Process for the permaculture community?
You can see the original proposal (written in 2003) here: DiplomaProcess
At IPC7 (International Permaculture Convergence in Croacia, 2005) a pre-proposal in the shape of a presentation about Chaordic Theory was presented
At IPC8 (International Permaculture Convergence in Brasil, 2007) a presentation on this design.
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