RegenVillages

RegenVillages

ReGen Villages has gone viral around the world after our announcement at the Venice Biennale for Architecture In 2016. Since then we have received over 45-million pages to our website and thousands of emails from all around the world.

ok this is getting cool:

A half-hour commute from Amsterdam, a piece of farmland is slated to become a new kind of neighborhood. Vertical farms, along with traditional fields and orchards surrounding homes, will supply food to people living there. Food waste will turn into fish feed for on-site aquaculture. Houses will filter rainwater, but won’t have driveways. A “village OS” tech platform will use AI to simultaneously manage systems for renewable energy, food production, water supply, and waste.

The 50-acre neighborhood, which will be nearly self-sufficient as it collects and stores water and energy, grows food, and processes much of its own waste, was initially planned for construction in 2017. The developers, called ReGen Villages, struggled with red tape–the area, on a piece of land that used to be underwater but was reclaimed in the 1960s when a seawall was constructed–has regulations that make it difficult for someone other than an individual homeowner to build on land that is mostly used for farming now. But after the project finally got government approval this month, it’s ready to take its next steps

Mining the Chat Groups for Truths

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Vasectomy and Hysterectomy are both very profitable for doctors and hospitals. . . However, people then loose their fundamental systems for hormones and lymph system operations.  Thus, the resulting health complications are extensive and completely impossible to link to the actual medical surgery.  This is a strong exploitive monopoly with excessive profits and very little liability risks. 

I did research on this once.  The Florida hospital systems have nearly a dozen different names for a Hysterectomy and literally hundreds of excuses to complete them . . . birth control, stop hot flashes, reduce stress. . . etc. . .   I was stunned to find out how often these are done "routine"  (similar to prostate surgery) - - - Of course the resulting defective hormones and lymph leads to a defective immune systems = Creating Cancer!

But all the profit on cancer means they will never admit any "causes" for cancer except immediate toxins, like asbestos. However, the dentist will carefully cover your body with a protective lead blanket to x-ray your teeth for a millisecond, but every flight you take is like 10-50x that for hours of security, and those security folks are certainly all getting fried, with no liabilities, but major exploitive cancer monopoly profits. . . 

The American Machine gone Mad!

Understand your own energy and learn stronger techniques: 

Yes Qi moves faster as it has less to move through, basic physics. . . 

Course Project Activity #2

Course Project Activity #2 | Course Project Activity #2 | edX101 Courseware | edX

Brainstorm with your course team and write a brief memo to record your thoughts. Documenting your discussion will come in handy during the self-assessment.

How would I get my course out more?  I'm comfortable with moving this forward with the existing school systems that I am engaged with.  Creating more Experiential Learning opportunities are fundamental for who I am.  Making this system stronger and more available seems necessary for the next step of this plan. Getting this out is where I need to start first!

Course Project Activity #1

Course Project Activity #1

What are the ultimate aims of this course?

• create a portal for team building
• allow simple data collection for teams
• interface directly with students to support personal projects

What do we want learners to know after taking this course?

• building teams and projects are easy
• creating a team with peers is ideal to complete any project
• everything can be defined as a project

What should they be able to do?

• read, understand and share freely
• commit and follow-through
• be honest and direct

How does this influence a) what we teach, b) how we teach it, and c) how students are assessed and graded?

• this allows all processes of society to be formulated as an academic "experiential learning" course
• Teaching and learning become fundamental to all social interaction and infrastructure development
• assessments are based on results, not just memorizing data

Who will be responsible for what roles throughout the course development process?

• all participants are responsible for their own project development, results and next steps

The Followers are the Game Changers: It’s a New Dance - i.b.mee.

The Followers are the Game Changers: It’s a New Dance - i.b.mee.
Learn to be a "First Follower"

Have you seen this 3 minute popular video showing how followers are the key in changing a culture? …check it out


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ

Great leaders have the gift of vision. They see and know what positive changes could be even in the mist of cultural and system complacency or chaos. It takes a vision to jumpstart a change. It takes followers to make and sustain the change as the video brilliantly points out. Without their risk-taking, the norm would not have changed and the others would not have experienced the fun and excitement of moving their bodies to the music, -a new dance.

Fwd: Is Plastic Harming Your Health?

From: Earth Day Network <email-reply@earthday.org>

We hear a lot these days about plastic bottles, bags, straws, packaging and other plastic materials polluting our planet, with news reports highlighting threats to wildlife and devastation of coral reefs. But the plastic problem doesn't end there. Time and time again, scientists have proven that what's bad for the planet is bad for people.  The negative impact of plastic pollution is found inside our bodies. And these chemicals inside our bodies are likely contributing to a wide range of harmful health issues. Plastic Fact: Bisphenol A also known as BPA—used to make billions of plastic beverage containers, dinnerware, protective linings of food cans, and toys— is considered an endocrine disruptor, meaning it can both increase or decrease endocrine activity in humans and cause adverse health effects. Plastic Fact: Growing literature links many Phthalates— a group of chemicals used to make plastics more flexible and harder to break—with a variety of adverse outcomes, including weight gain and insulin resistance, decreased levels of sex hormones, and other consequences for the human reproductive system, both for females and males. Want to know more? Click to see our TOP 10 Plastic Pollution and Health FACTS and read our recent blog post What's the problem with BPA? Ready to take action? Download our Earth Day 2018: Plastic Pollution Primer and Action Toolkitdesigned to help individuals, organizations and educators like you to learn more about the issue and organize your friends, family and community to End Plastic Pollution this Earth Day. Together, we can protect the planet and people we love.  -The Earth Day Network Team

Earth Law

Earth Law: Community Bill of Rights

While a law of Ecocide is an example of International Earth Law, there are examples of Earth Law happening at local levels too. Community Bills of Rights have been pioneered in the US by the Community Environmental Legal Defence Fund (CELDF) in recent years. They are local laws to elevate the rights of communities and nature above corporate rights, and they have proved effective in empowering communities to allow them to determine whether corporate developments, such as fracking, can proceed.

Community Bills of Rights are an example of bottom up legal systematic change. Where communities feel that their voices are not being heard Community Bills of Rights redirect rights, so that people and planet are put first. This has parallels in successful rights based movements like the abolitionists and the suffragettes.

In the UK, communities can be empowered in the same way as has happened under a Community Bill of Rights in the US. Community Chartering in the UK is now emerging. You can read more at communitychartering.org

In the UK, a Community Bill of Rights changes the legal framework in two fundamental ways:

it enshrines the right to local community self government by giving the local people the right to decide what happens in their communities; it recognize the rights of nature. By identifying that nature has intrinsic value, and is not merely property a Community Bill of Rights is an example of Earth law which complements and supports law to eradicate ecocide at the international level.

Essentials of Theory U - Otto Scharmer - YouTube

Creating "awareness based field research"

(3) The Essentials of Theory U - Otto Scharmer - YouTube

Weaving Influence

Published on Mar 22, 2018

Since its first printing, Theory U has evolved into a movement within both academic and organizational development programs on a global scale. Otto Scharmer details the latest Theory U developments into a short handbook that focuses on three essential components:

1. A framework for seeing the blind spots of leadership and systems change.

2. A method for implementing awareness-based change: process, principles, practices.

3. A new narrative for evolutionary societal change: updating our mental and institutional operating systems (OS) in all of society’s sectors.

hOurworld - Time Bank Mobile Web Services

Time Bank Mobile Web Services

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded a team of researchers at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) to conduct scientific research into timebanking. Their goal is to understand timebanking practices and the role that technology plays in enabling them and to develop new innovative technologies to make it much easier to do and more popular. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-1218544