I’ve been commenting on the social impacts and responses to the evidence for climate change for 5 years. Before that, I toyed with the idea of building a global dashboard on the Web where all the parameters relevant to the warming situation could be checked daily. But things were changing so slowly – I thought then [...]
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Extreme Community 3.0
Sep 28
What is XC ?
The convergence of local needs with global media
The next necessary stage of local collaboration
Proactive and urgent local engagement to build resilience in a fast-changing world
Awareness that all local communities can and should share new knowledge
Extreme Community is going beyond simply living in proximity; it is a consciousness of local interdependence and shared [...]
There’s been a lot of action since Obama took office in the development of the idea of Government 2.0 – an increasingly transparent and open sharing of information collected by the federal government with its citizens.
Extreme communities must be closely involved with the actions of government at all levels. Government – to the extent that [...]
I’ve been thinking about where we’re headed, what with the approaching climate changes and the irreconcilable balance sheets for national debt, health care costs, aging population, deteriorating infrastructure…the list goes on.
For years I’ve agreed with those who see the necessity of greater localization – more interdependency and collaboration among people living in the same place. [...]
One of the necessities and products of social networking is trust. Without a minimum level, no one would interact through the Web, and through building relationships at an acceptable pace through these networks, most people can establish enough trust with selected others to do some sharing or exchange of valued stuff.
So how can trust improve [...]
…but this pessimist is very likely to be right.
Somewhere in your life or lifestyle, you’ve probably come across the term Gaia. Like zen, it’s been appropriated for marketing and commercial naming convenience, but it came into my consciousness through the Whole Earth Catalog, which in 1980 positively reviewed a book titled Gaia: A new look [...]
Though my father was a subscriber to Organic Farming magazine in the Sixties, the practice was till pretty exotic until just a few years ago when most chain grocery stores began carrying organic produce. Now organic farms have become so popular that housing developers are beginning to incorporate them in their planning. Localized food growing [...]
Outside.in and the local
Jul 21
Part of my vision for a locally-based global network that works to build climate change resilience is the establishment of good tools and habits that reinforce local community activities and consciousness.
If you live in a place, it behooves you to know the people there, what’s going on, how it’s supported, and how its services work. [...]
It’s half empty because it looks to me like the powers that be (in business, politics and big media) continue to underestimate the downside of today’s and tomorrow’s conditions.
It’s half empty not so much because there’s no reason for hope, but because there is so much obvious ignorance, superstition and unmitigated greed in influential places, [...]
Iterative culture
Jun 23
I once helped create a community where we agreed to start everything from scratch. In Monopoly, they say “return to Go,” and that’s what we did in terms of both the social and physical manifestations of our living situation. We agreed to invent our own village and our own infrastructure. We borrowed from models that [...]
