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Valentina maini's Blog – May 2010 Archive (30)
Strawgame closer to be an Evokational reality ? :-)
Added by valentina maini on May 18, 2010 at 6:53pm — 6 Comments
EVOKE Manifesto Draft
The goals of the network are:
- empower - educate - enhance awerness
How does it work:
- learn by doing and sharing
- empowers by feedback and file storage
The members are:
- people that are willing to take a challenge
They join because:
- they think they can give and receive from the experience something that can devellop a potencial for good and wellbeing
What are the…
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Added by valentina maini on May 11, 2010 at 11:42pm — No Comments
EVOKE Season II Episode 1 Freedom
2030 New York UN Building a tense session is being held... Farheneit Inc. Corporation is about to succed in the destruction of the last piece of democracy still active on the Planet.
In the last 20 years a continuos attack on privacy and democratic institutions has been happening around the world. Very few country resist with democratic structure...almost everywere corporations are helding the power and laws have been made just to protect bussines and monetary…
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Added by valentina maini on May 11, 2010 at 11:10pm — No Comments
EVOKE tackle next Learn
WHICH great challanges and social problems:
- cultural integration/dialogue....immigration
- transparency and political distrust/mistrust....democracy
- intergenerational dialogue (elder...young)....pubblic welfare system
- digital gap
WHERE new communities:
- i would love to see a European Evoke in this moment of great challenge to European Community Idea
- i would love to see more local EVOKE community to…
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Added by valentina maini on May 11, 2010 at 10:27pm — No Comments
Networking crises Imagine
I imagine a team composed by:
- a video artist
- a sound engeneer
- an actor or mimic
- a bakery owner
- a builder
- three kids
and myself as architect
We will work together during emergency as a center for spreading information and give first help on building safety and hygiene
Video artist is making with the help of actor video like HOWCAST on basic…
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Added by valentina maini on May 11, 2010 at 9:30pm — No Comments
Indigenous Secret Vision
I'm afraid the indigineous in the future will look like the old man caracter (played by great E.G.Robinson) in the '70 Soylent Green movie with Charlton Eston
Sorry this vision comes from…
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Added by valentina maini on May 11, 2010 at 3:30pm — 3 Comments
Indigenous Secret Act
Ok, this is not exactly indigenous...a sort of...is knowledge on how to build with straw that was lost and now is under recovery...and here is on object that i made to pass a piece of this knowledge.
FOR WHO
Is a model for the selfbuilder, a guide for the building process, is like lego game so you can practice with the model before going to reality...
WHY THIS OBJECT
Ok you can think that tha building itself is a "knowledge…
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Added by valentina maini on May 11, 2010 at 3:15pm — No Comments
Traditional Knowledge-Learn
FROM CBNRM i went:--…
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Added by valentina maini on May 11, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments
Urban Resilence Imagine
In 20120 all good potencial of the city and community work is in act:
- high efficiency buildings
- roofttops as solar and urban farming
- pubblic space wil be use more and more as a space for educational activities
- infrastructure more rational in the street (sewege and optic fiber)
- near to zero car traffic only bicycle, bus, metro and taxi and walk
- the network of neighbours will have a proactive and productive relation with…
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Added by valentina maini on May 11, 2010 at 2:01pm — 1 Comment
Barcelona Urban resiliance
Barcelona is a town with a strong community network that has worked with local institutions since the democracy was restablished in 1976. Now is a moment of Crisis in the network organization and relation with institutions. There is a void of purpose and a contiunous struggle without clear perspective of future.
There ara a lot of "institutional" strategies for a more…
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Added by valentina maini on May 11, 2010 at 1:07pm — 2 Comments
Girls ten years after CARE Program
I'm so moved i received today a feedback of how the girls i've gave (little help) in 2010 thanks to the evoke experience are doing....now they are around 20 years old.
It's incredible the efficiency of this educational practice, these girls have now presented their plans for the future and is really astonishing.
Teir are pubblishing great multimedia stuff on the web....but most of all they are prooving that can make a big deal of a difference in…
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Added by valentina maini on May 10, 2010 at 3:14pm — No Comments
Facing Social Crise in Barcelona
The luck of trust in pubblic institutions and the exponential increase of corruption and mob-like actitude in companies behaviour have brought Catalonia and Barcelona to a breakpoint of social equilibrium.
Everything was going downfall quickly when the financial breakdown came and the draughts/fload due to climate change are getting worse and worse.
So the main emergency are:
- social communication and trust
- water related…
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Added by valentina maini on May 10, 2010 at 3:03pm — No Comments
Future of Money? Imagine
A strange event is going on in the old town of Barcelona, after the evoke experience, citizens organized themselves and went far beyond the old Time Bank that was used in early XXI century...
The financial breakdown of 2010 put in evidence all that money can't buy: time and nature...so in 2020 this are the values that are used as Gold patron in this new project of Barcelona City Council..
Now…
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Added by valentina maini on May 10, 2010 at 2:51pm — No Comments
Community action
I've seen and actually made a donation to a CARE project for woman education...a small amount very easy and quick.... but strange...now i feel guilty...is because i'm doing this to "finish" the evoke game....and i'm not really acting on it just "paying"....
Maybe is useful even just paying....but...strange how i feel...actually i'm thinking:
i didn't give any economic support to my local community association....today monday at night there is a meeting....and i'm using my energy…
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Added by valentina maini on May 10, 2010 at 12:52am — No Comments
Virtual Center Against Woman
I choose the news appeared the 29th of april: Virtual Knowledge Center to end violence against womens and girls...…
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Added by valentina maini on May 10, 2010 at 12:32am — 1 Comment
Future of Money? Act Discovery
I made a new action with an old payment methods.... i made a donation using kickstarter web page...using amazon account...that ia already have…
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Added by valentina maini on May 10, 2010 at 12:03am — No Comments
Future of Money?
Even though i participate in experiments that are working on community money...like
I think the future of money goes in systems like PayPal+Mobile...and is already happening...and i'm quite worried..... if one of the ideas of the founder of PayPal is to free maoney from governamenta control (and corruption).... but..who will control a company?...do we have elections in…
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Added by valentina maini on May 9, 2010 at 11:43pm — No Comments
Water 2020 event
Real event:
organizing a Trip to sahara to discover how humans "create" water from deserts....ending trip on the Nile...publisihing on line the entire trip and meetings with peoples and institutions
on the day of the event is connection below...
1) connection on live camera recordings and data flow from the Nile river fload: from 3000 bc till today water that flows freely is the richness of a country and…
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Added by valentina maini on May 9, 2010 at 11:15pm — No Comments
Water alliance
I' ve made contact by mail and twitter with Spanish page of ashoka and especially with JordiPietx:
i have sent the link to his page to the Architectural Organization of Catalonia, i'm a board-member of this association but never heard before of him or even about ashoka.
I'm connected with entrepeneur Carl Linstrom that was at CLIVUS dry WC…
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Added by valentina maini on May 9, 2010 at 10:46pm — No Comments
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Fourth of July on the Lake
This past weekend was the annual celebration at the lake house in Connecticut. It is amazing that the lake is still so clear and beautiful after all these years. The watershed association has done a wonderful job protecting these waters from the damaging effects of development.The wood grill was finally ready to cook on, so we didn't miss the propane tank fueled grill anymore. The food actually tasted fresher than in the past and was easy to keep fueled.Dad was very proud of the solar hybrid…See More
Stinging Nettle
In this blog post I will focus on a plant that is abundant in our nature, and which is immensely nutritious. It's of course the Stinging Nettle. Let's start with the chemical constituents of this plant:37 % Non-Nitrogen-Extracts19 - 29 % Ash9 - 21 % Fiber4 % Fat22 % ProteinOnce the leaves are drid, their protein content can reach an astounding 40 %, which is much higher than beef, which even under the best of circ**stances can never exceed 31 % protein. In addition the Stinging Nettle consists…See More
The meal
It is 7'oclock, I was late home from work due to an assignment that i wanted to get ahead on. By the time I get home I am feeling extremley tired and I cannot be bothered to make a proper meal. I walk to the fridge and open it to see what there is for me to eat. All of the out of date foodstuffs have been automaticaly thrown away by the fridge, they will be recycled tomorrow as animal feed or something. I see i have organic local eggs and some local cheese. Foods are vacc** sealded for easy…See More
Future
FutureToday is 2020/1/1. It is just like yesterday. The war is still continuing. It has started since 2010. In 2010, that year was a horrible year. Almost every energy ran out. Every country’s governments were crushed down at the same time. There were riots everywhere. All of the big company’s bosses were killed xdeadx in the riots. Troops fought each other everywhere. Food was bought up xawayx at once. There were no more food supplies in any shops. The economy was all crushed down. All the…See More
public servants
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