7 posts tagged “energy”

Most of my day is spent envisioning ideal environments. 
Here's my life desires:

*  Collaborative safe spaces for creativity, innovation and invention

*  Surrounded by sweet people in vibrant communities supporting each other through interlaced networks

*  A vibrant mix of flora and fauna respected and integrated with human life

*  Low cost local energy production from existing materials and resources

*  Easy to find resources without searching multiple websites and real world locations

*  Immediate supply and material retrieval for projects

*  Low cost exchanges and shipping of objects with little friction or time wasted

*  Secure access to basic survival needs:  water, air, food, shelter

*  The right to cultivate and consume any food or medicine known to man that's still available and not extinct

*  To be surrounded by beauty, filled with art, living in love

What do you want most?  What do you need?

We are up against some epic challenges in these coming decades.  We have each other and only this awareness that will chart our future.  Where do you see us going?

Inspired by a look ahead ten years on Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120119369144313747.html

Start doing this NOW if we want to survive and thrive these next 50 years:

• Stimulate green industries and build local alt-energy solutions into daily life
  
• Challenge the US FDA, the WTO and World Health on issues regarding the Codex Alimentarius
• Local water purification systems available to all people (and animals, plants, ecosystem)
  
• Stop deadly practices like Mountaintop Removal and chemical dumping in our waterways in favor of clean mining
  
• Gut parts of the USPS and our local post offices (I'm a Postmasters' granddaughter -- this is heavy to say)
• Rethink our entire transportation system and reduce automobile use
• Work from home in virtual spaces, attend business gatherings without unnecessary travel
  
• Create a foundational framework for international transparency and governance that is decentralized and democratic for the vox populi
• Restore Habeas Corpus
• Provide universal internet access, public computers and basic training to all students at a young age
• Learn to see ourselves as infinitely abundant, free and capable of reshaping our experience
  
• Love without fail: no abandon, no boundaries. 
  

Tell me your path, your desires, your challenges.

For today's address before the UN Climate Change Conference the congressman from Massachusetts chose to appear in Second Life rather than fly to Bali and address the crowd directly.  His talk on climate change and the metaverse of possibilities echoes the policy reflected at globalwarming.house.gov

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Rep. Markey, head of the House's committee on climate change, fielded questions on education, conservation and the "use" of Nature.....should we consider nature something to be used until those resources no longer exist?  Do we have a role in preserving land, planting new forests, considering the greening of our cities?

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"The technology is moving so fast that this really is just the beginning."  Daniel Nelson from OneWorld UK noted.  Daniel is also featured at the end of this In Kenzo machinima video attached from today's interactive town hall meeting with Rep. Markey at OneWorld Meetings Island in Second Life.

Elucidate my friends! 
Holden @ GiveWell challenged us this week to speak from the heart and get to the core of why we support our primary cause. This is your AMO Challenge for the week....write your own blog post explaining your contribution to the Giving Carnival and link your blog back to Holden by 8/4/07.

Why Do You Do What You Do?

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There are certain things our avatars cannot fully do for us.  For the past few years I have grown deeply quiet, speaking more through blogs and threads than through direct hand and eye contact.  DIRECT CARE AND TOUCH is what we need now more than any other gift we can give to one another.  As much as we need to plug in, we also need to feel the flow that we share with others as a direct current, a circuit formed every time we invest in each other. 

Every motion we make in this world is an investment.
Our lives are full of practices that bring us closer to the world or away from it. 
To be honest, right now I feel deeply wrong at some level, a bridge with little land to anchor in. 
We have a great time moving others into AMO Action Dances, PeaceTiles project workshop, OYA and Sugar Arts there are missing pieces, ways that I have not been able to successfully bridge in my community.  Serving on my local neighborhood council has been a trial by fire and I'm not made for long meetings in hard chairs.  At heart I want to be home, creating, mentoring and working with others to amplify and spotlight their dreams in development.

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Admitting imperfection in love gives me room to grow
There are so many things I would like to change about myself...first on the list is my weariness with the homelessness and displacement so common in our world (and on my doorstep!).  It is inhumane how we allow so many people to suffer right in front of us without care or compassion.  I do this every day, pass a homeless person without offering them food or anything that can help them.  When I think of 10,000 people here, another 70,000 ejected from another refugee camp in Darfur forced to close by the Sudanese government....how can we let our people die right in front of our eyes in silence, without a tear?  Have we lost all touch with ourselves?

Sometimes it saddens me that two decades of love inquiry has not moved me past these fundamental fears.  I still feel every emotion in the book and struggle with the silly ideas and presuppositions that my culture tries to thrust upon me.  Inundated with messages on beauty, fear and imperfection as airbrushed fantasy....here is my ocean to bridge, the walkway to a reality where you are beautiful no matter what is going on at surface level.  I strive to give room for these passions to grow into fruitful endeavors, large and small.  Every movement, every moment.

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I want to be more for you, and for me too
There's nothing too big, too impossible.  We specialize in dreambuilding and love creating new visions for the future.  I feel so blessed to live this life of creative pursuit yet want to do much more with this space, with you.  Help me help you grow by telling me here what you need most and how we can help you create more love throughout your circles.

In February the last traces of ManorMeta disappeared off Better World Island.  Where did this mystical, mythical build end up?  After NMConnect we started a new island called AMO Island that will be opening later this month for the Digital Be-In on BioMimicry cohosted in Second Life.  The integral community has joined us on AMO and many visionary artists are now coming in to install unique interactive pieces to spark creativity, conversation and compassion amongst avatars.

The ManorMeta community has been nominated for the NetSquared Innovation Awards and you can vote for us THIS WEEK ONLY!  Your vote (for up to 10 amazing projects including SL Relay for Life, Info Island, Avatar Action Center and many Omidyar Network endeavors) will go a long way to helping these new innovators grow into vibrant organizations. 

So what is ManorMeta?  Some call it our Living Learning Lab, a place where innovators connect and explore ideas from science and technology, art and music, spirit and creativity.  ManorMeta includes a series written for youth designed to move from TV to web, print and educational gaming.  We began building in Second Life in early 2006 and now with our new build will be anchoring a new community of creative leaders from the virtual world.  ManorMeta is the place where rockstars, scientists, kids and world leaders can talk and work out solutions for positive change....anything is possible in this space!  We encourage you to become a part of the story: get involved with our online forums or visit the Amoration website and photo galleries to see more of the ManorMeta world.

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