Is a forum of lectures/debates encouraging individuals to ‘take control’ rather than ‘be controlled’. So far eight workshops have taken place at the ICPPC Eco-Centre in Stryszow, Poland. Under discussion are issues such as: establishing an eco-village; practicing the ‘new resistance’; renewable energy and clay-straw houses; understanding corporate globalisation; ‘building community’; the battle for a GMO Free World; ‘the New Education’. (more…)
Here is a challenging initiative to redesign our educational system from the roots up! It is being co-authored by Julian Rose, Jon Berry of New Horizon/Frontiers (see www.teacher-centre.org.uk Jadwiga Lopata, Oliver James (and no doubt others..) An absolutely neccessary task in order to birth a better society.
Is essentially what has been going on at Hardwick since 1975, when I (Julian) first started converting my farm to organic methods of agriculture. Now there are a number of self autonomous components to this: mixed organic farming, organic vegetable production and sustainable forestry. How can they interact for more integrated shared benefits? We explore this on an ongoing basis - and have already experimented with running pigs in the woods as well as holding educational events that explore the interrelationship between these different disciplines.
9. Art, Education and Spirit: United
“We cannot solve our present problems using the same type of thinking which created them” (Albert Einstein)
Being artistic is not the opposite of being practical. Far from it: to be a true artist one must draw on practical skills. Likewise to be truly practical, one must draw on creative skills. However, due to the advent of mass production of goods and specialisation of skills, these two facets of humankind’s potentiality have been separated out over time and made to appear as opposing qualities. (more…)
