Preparing Ben for the CotW meeting March 27, 2011
Hi Ben, Mark, Charley, CotW team and readers of my open letters at http://dadamac.posterous.com
- Ben Knowles http://www.dadamac.net/network/ben-knowles
- Mark Roest http://www.dadamac.net/network/mark-roest
- Charley Quinton http://www.dadamac.net/network/charley-quinton
- Coalition of the Willing http://www.dadamac.net/network/coalition-willing
Ben - I said I'd email you something as a starting point to prepare for the meeting. For starters I've copied an email below which Mark posted in response to a CotW introduction I started yesterday - Ref Patrick Hadfield - "Engineering the Future": climate change and ...
Although mark wrote it for Patrick it may be helpful for you too.
Hmm - I was going to find more emails to post on to you - but I see Charley is online now - so with luck you two will meet in the Tavern and he will get you up to speed for the meeting.
On 27 March 2011 00:22, Mark Roest wrote:
Hello Pamela,
I read Patrick's full article, and came up with a response:
Let's take your closing question to the next level, which is fractal in a way. The answer works the same way answering whether we can adapt works. There are lots of things we can do to organize humanity to solve this problem, and the other main challenges we face at the same time, which are common-sense to people who know about information technology, internet games (especially immersive ones), renewable energy and structural materials, natural building and CaptiveColumn.com geometry, permaculture, whole systems analysis, the Partnership Paradigm (Riane Eisler), Tibetan Buddhism's technologies (Stanford CCARES program), and a few other things. Again, the question is whether the multitude who know about one or a few of these will get together to detail an outline of how it all fits together, so everyone can look at the part that relates to their challenges and go, "Aha! -- NOW I get it!" So, if you want to jump in and do what clearly needs doing, come to the Coalition of the Willing and make yourself known!
For the what-why-where of Coalition work, look to http://cotw.cc. That wiki functions as a routing-portal and a locus for some of the work. All group efforts should maintain an updated statement of current focus, channels and spaces of work and anything necessary to support orientation & keeping up-to-speed.
"BetterMeans" is where we coordinate our work: making proposals, endorsing & signing up for work, and tracking tasks. https://secure.bettermeans.com/projects/163
Share the film: http://cotw.me/film
Regards,
Mark