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prk and transcendancing. prk drove us out to John St Cafe in Cottesloe, which had been recommended by samvara and does an excellent breakfast in a pretty set-up. We then went and lay on the grass overlooking Cottesloe beach and dozed and chatted in the pine trees.
We covered a whole range of topics from ideal cultures and economies to the ways work is valued or devalued totranscendancing's theme for the year. I have Thoughts bubbling all over the place, but little coherency for the first two. I am developing a theme of my own, though, which is forming based on a bunch of things I've read recently, and how I want to live, and the sort of world I want to live in.
To that end, my theme for 2011 is Sustainability.
How I envision this looking (and what I'm already doing, in several cases):
Lots of these overlap, but I'll have a stab at categories, anyway.
( Categories include environmental, relationships, money, health and creativity )
Also, while I remember it: I brought up in the morning's discussion my ideal culture whereby food and shelter were basic rights, rather than something a member of the culture ever had to seriously worry about, and what our culture would look like if that were true.prk suggested at one point that it'd be best suited to a culture like The Culture by Iain M. Banks, where there's no resource issues, at all (possibly this was more related to transcendancing's idea of creating money equality? It's all blurring together in my head).
I was thinking further on that, and remembered much later that the fourth largest city in Brazil, Belo Horizonte, declared access to food a right of citizenship in 1993, and has been providing food for its citizens accordingly for the last fifteen years (the above article makes my heart sing every time I read it). The city earned the Future Policy Award in 2009 (link is a 20 page pdf, and well worth the read).
prk and transcendancing. prk drove us out to John St Cafe in Cottesloe, which had been recommended by samvara and does an excellent breakfast in a pretty set-up. We then went and lay on the grass overlooking Cottesloe beach and dozed and chatted in the pine trees.We covered a whole range of topics from ideal cultures and economies to the ways work is valued or devalued to
transcendancing's theme for the year. I have Thoughts bubbling all over the place, but little coherency for the first two. I am developing a theme of my own, though, which is forming based on a bunch of things I've read recently, and how I want to live, and the sort of world I want to live in.To that end, my theme for 2011 is Sustainability.
How I envision this looking (and what I'm already doing, in several cases):
Lots of these overlap, but I'll have a stab at categories, anyway.
( Categories include environmental, relationships, money, health and creativity )
Also, while I remember it: I brought up in the morning's discussion my ideal culture whereby food and shelter were basic rights, rather than something a member of the culture ever had to seriously worry about, and what our culture would look like if that were true.
prk suggested at one point that it'd be best suited to a culture like The Culture by Iain M. Banks, where there's no resource issues, at all (possibly this was more related to transcendancing's idea of creating money equality? It's all blurring together in my head).I was thinking further on that, and remembered much later that the fourth largest city in Brazil, Belo Horizonte, declared access to food a right of citizenship in 1993, and has been providing food for its citizens accordingly for the last fifteen years (the above article makes my heart sing every time I read it). The city earned the Future Policy Award in 2009 (link is a 20 page pdf, and well worth the read).
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