To create a officespace where social entrepreneurs from all social classes of Colombia can work together and connect to a international network of like minded people and people to can help them realize their dreams and projects about creating a better Colombia and a more lifeaffirming world.
Purpose:
To create the possibility for unlikely meetings to happen and to create a Colombia that is less polarized.
To create a network of social entrepreneurs and play mates in Colombia
Key People:
Internationally: Jonathan Robinson, Maria Glauser, Simone Poutnik, Tatiana Glad, Simon Ulvund, Frauke Godat, Silje Grajsvit, Janne, Yulia, Lesley, Danny Gol
Colombia: Pablo, Susanna, Paula, Carolina,
Income potential:
Potential some income from consulting work, and spin off projects, but not initially.
Status:
There is a community of 150 people who are interested and a concept proposal is just about created.
To live in a community where we can practice sustainable living. Where we can be selfsufficient with food, have no carbon footprint, where we can build our own house build from sustainable materials and where we can be part of a community that can support eachother with cooking, childcare, carpooling, and other shared things.
We would like to bridge the Urban and the Rural, Nature and Culture, Home and Work…
Purpose:
To walk our talk of sustainable living. To experiment with how a new social structure can look like, that caters for the modern persons needs, without compromising the wellbeing of our planet.
Key People:
International: Daniel, Jonathan, John Milton, Rasmus, Benjamin, Kathrine
Colombia: Carolina
Income potential:
Not much direct income here
Status:
Idea stage – connections to Findhorn, ClearVillage, Global Ecovillage Network
To create a learning center, based on an experiential and practical learning style, building human capacities to deal with the uncertainty of our times. To have a physical location where we can offer trainings, retreats and host processes. A place where we live sustainable a place that invite the diversity of the Colombian Society.
Purpose:
To empower people to make a difference in their lives, their communities and the world towards creating a more life affirming system of infuence, through concrete tools and a translocal network.
Key People:
Internationally: Sarah and Maria, Debbie Frieze, Margaret Wheatley, Vanessa Reid
Colombia:
Income potential:
Depends on the activities, but has potential when the place is found and ready.
Status:
Idea state and there are many good connections and cases to draw on.
Some time ago Michael sent me the catalogue of Esalen, an alternative educational centre in California USA.
This is what they write about people who come to esalen “They come for the intellectual freedom to consider systems of thought and feeling that lie beyond the current constraints of mainstream academia.”
This TED talk gave me lots of good ideas for what we might play with in Colombia. It is about how clever and competent nature is in solving design questions that we are far from solving.
Some of the ideas I got was combining this approach Biomimicry with learning journeys to Colombia with Nature experiences focussed at improving a specific need and at the same time building the inner capacity and leadership in the participants to be better at bringing these new ideas forward.
Janine Benyus has started this website called Ask nature, where the idea is to gather a database of a large number of design achivements in nature, and when you are designing something yourself you can ask nature how it does.
Check out: www.asknature.org
So what does a home look like according to nature?… hmmm…
Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you’ll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. Here she reveals dozens of new products that take their cue from nature with spectacular results.
Como una expedición botánica personal en un jardin de Tabio a 2700 metros sobre el nivel del mar.
Fotos bien bonitas e impresionante detalle y conocimiento sobre las plantas.
Esto es lo que dice mariasimona sobre su blog:
“Aquí encontrarán un inventario de los árboles y plantas de un jardín en construcción y de un bosque nativo. También podrán ver los procesos del oficio de jardinero, como la manera de tener compost siempre a mano. Los problemas y las dfificultades del mantenimiento de las plantas serán siempre un tema de discusión, y por supuesto también los logros y los hallazgos.
No es el blog de un profesional del oficio, más bien me declaro en taller permanente. Bienvenidos.”
“El sistema de drenaje que utilizamos se hace con material reciclado. Para el sustrato donde se pone la capa verde acudimos a escoria de acero o desechos de demolición como ladrillo o bloque inutilizado. Además, para el soporte del material vegetal usamos, a cambio de tierra negra, compostaje fruto de la recolección o reutilización de desechos orgánicos que se producen en la plaza de abastos o incluso en las propias cocinas de cualquier hogar” – RICARDO ANDRÉS IBÁÑEZ GUTIÉRREZ - maestria en construccion y arquitectura UNAL.
Live in harmony with the nature,
Learn from the nature, and
Recover the health in the nature.
Konohana Family is an organic agricultural community which is almost 100% self-sustained, located at the foothill of Mt. Fuji, living as a big family of 47 people (as of November, 2007). There are 11 children, 4 teenagers and 32 adults.
In 1994, the original 20 members moved to Fujinomiya city, Shizuoka Prefecture, hoping to live together and help each other beyond the generation gap and the family relationship. We founded
“Konohana Nouen (Farm)”, that is the original form of Konohana Family. The name of “Konohana” comes from the Goddess of Mt. Fuji, “Konohana sakuya hime no mikoto”.
Since the foundation, the Family has established an original life style based on the spirit of harmony. Everyone plays a great role in the community where he or she can make the most of his or her ability.
Following a natural flow of energy, each member works for the good of the whole group, making sure that what needs to be done is done.
Download a PDF file with the full story of the konohana family:
EsalenCatalog2009b-JulyDec
