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David Holmgren on Permaculture, Business, Resilience and Transition » Transition Culture

A while ago now I had a conversation with David Holmgren about how his 12 principles of permaculture might apply to business.

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David Holmgren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

David Holmgren (born 1955) is an ecologist, ecological design engineer and writer. He is perhaps most well known as co-originator of the permaculture concept with Bill Mollison. Through the spread of permaculture around the world, his environmental principles have exerted a global influence.

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NOMADIC FUTURES

Artists, technologists, performers, gonzo engineers, (tech)nomads, hacktivists, squatters, designers, architects, makers, videographers, writers, historians and more are invited to submit proposals for projects, events, or workshops as part of NOMADIC FUTURES during summer 2010 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

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TOURIST INFO FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ** USE-IT EUROPE

USE-IT makes tourist info for young people who are travelling on a low budget. USE-IT guides, maps and websites are made by locals, are not-commercial, free, no-nonsense and up-to-date. Every member organization gets money from local governments or institutions.

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Local and Interest-Free Currencies, Social Credit and Informal Credit Systems

Virtually all civilizations, except the Incas, developed some form of money. Today our currencies and banking systems increasingly extend beyond national boundaries. However, co-existing with that movement there has been a revival of interest in alternative financial systems.

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Resilient Communities - P2P Foundation

The resilient community has broad applicability beyond just improving the ability of those of us in developed economies to preserve wealth and a quality of life despite severe system shocks. It can also be applied to the problems of counter-insurgency in semi-modern urban environment (to radically update a process that was built for the last century) and provide the potential for organic development in underdeveloped areas of the world. The key is that we need to support the open source efforts currently underway to expand this capability underway such as the transition towns movement to MIT's low tech solutions effort." (http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2008/01/the-resilie...)

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Free City of Christiania

The Free City/Town of Christiania (Fristaden Christiania) is a democratic commune, which is partially self-governing neighborhood in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1971 as an alternative society, which was an offfpring of the Danish counter-cultural movement and the student / hippie squatters uprisings of the 1960s. The community appropriated some abandoned military/army barracks because the vacant tract and boarded-up buildings became an eyesore, and they wanted to convert it into a playground/park.

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“Homeless Shelter” by Paul Elkins by CubeMe

the “Homeless Shelter” by designer Paul Elkins is a mobile shelter intended to fulfill the housing needs of the fast growing homeless society. Featuring a simple, lightweight (225 pounds) and watertight structure, the portable shelter not only provides refuge to the homeless at night but it can also be used to display and vend products during the day, so the homeless people could earn their livelihood.

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