Economic Reality Check: http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_jackson_s_economic_reality_check.html

Put a Value on Nature: http://www.ted.com/talks/pavan_sukhdev_what_s_the_price_of_nature.html

http://climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/4/planId/15101

Maybe somebody we should pay a visit to during the UK meeting?

http://www.blindspot.org.uk/

http://www.community.blueeconomy.de/m/videos/home/

Blue Economy has a Berlin based Lab which is cooperating with my university Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance.

A project that directly relates to Prinzessinnengarten and the first UniGrow City workshop at HAU in Berlin http://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/zellen/2010/11/19/unigrowcity/ is this one:

http://chidos.org/index.php?id=47

The cultivation of edible mushrooms on common coffeegrounds. We hope to offer you a taste during the Berlin meeting.

http://berlinfarmlab.tumblr.com/

A project by Valentina Karga – who I met yesterday at Universität der Künste in Berlin.

This blog is a research about systems for domestic production of all goods for contemporary living (electricity, biogas, food, biodiesel, heat, water). Ways of food cultivation, diet models, cooking techniques aiming to less processed food, alleviation of domestic waste and reuse of waste materials are also part of the research.
EXPERIMENT: all acts done by the researcher
REFERENCE: found data

Homepage of the director: http://nick.uing.net/

Sous le macadam des plus grandes villes du monde se cache un secret. Les modernes gratte-ciel, comme les somptueux monuments du passé, s’élèvent sur une histoire méconnue et obscène… Cette série renverse un tabou et exorcise, par la reconnaissance et l’humour, notre rapport avec ce que nous jetons et ce que nous ne pouvons nous contenter d’oublier : les ordures… Comme catalyseur historique, elles ont fomenté des révoltes, alimenté la corruption, initié des guerres, mais aussi stimulé la science, la médecine, financé de grands travaux et apporté de la nourriture aux pauvres. Elles ont défié de grands hommes, encouragé l’avidité et changé la forme de la planète. Nous leur rendons hommage en racontant leur histoire à travers cinq grandes villes, du Moyen-Age à nos jours. Ces documentaires racontent l’histoire des ordures dans 5 grandes villes, du Moyen-Age à nos jours:  Paris, Le Caire,Rome,Londres,New York

Genre : documentaire / Réalisateur(s) : Nick Quinn / Auteur(s) : Nick Quinn Pays : France, Canada / Année : 2011 / Durée : 43 minutes / Partenaire(s) : Pixcom / Diffusion(s) : Arte, History Television Canada, TFO

Have a look at: http://www.blueman.name/Des_Videos_Remarquables.php?NumVideo=3381#NAVIGATION

This website is a source of information for specific target groups which work in fields directly or indirectly related to recyclers (public policy, government, NGOs), waste pickers and the informal waste management sector. This website provides links to organizations, institutions, and experts that work in this area. Visit the website:

http://www.informalwastesector.net/

Hello everybody,

After our meeting last week, Marco and I have a suggestion to share:

As you might know already, the financial situation for Pari Center will stay unclear until the successful completion of our learning partnership in 2013. Although we tried all possibilities to find a different solution – there’s no other way but to agree to the terms of the Italian agency.

This means that it would be very difficult for Pari Center to fully engage in the project – if they have to pay all travelling and accommodation costs out of their own pockets for the next 18 months.

Therefore Prinzessinnengarten suggests to put together 8000€ from all 5 organisations which received funding already. Pari Center would sign an agreement to give back the money to us after they received their funding and guarantee for 4000€ in person.

What do you think? To us Pari center is a very valuable partner that we would like to enable with you to participate in the project as equally as possible. Please let us know your suggestions.

Thank you very much,
Caroline and Marco

Colin Tudge argues that the current approach to agriculture and food is not sustainable and a radical change is needed if the world is to be fed. His website can be found at www.campaignforrealfarming.org

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Hi everybody,
sorry to bother you with emails…..
I created a new category in the blog, called Mailing Group. When you want to send a message to all the group, simply write a new post and give it the category Mailing Group. That way it won’t show up in the group blog (either private or public), but it will still appear under a new link called Mailing Group.
Everybody will still get an email for each new post and each related comment. This way, we should have a system similar to the Google group (new messages and comments sent by email and archived online)

You can reply by commenting on this post.

Andy

“Whole Earth – aligning human systems and natural systems”
In 2006 the environmental photographer, Mark Edwards, launched an exhibition of photographs, in collaboration with Bob Dylan, entitled Hard Rain. It explored the state of the planet with each line of Dylan’s song, Hard Rain, being illustrated by an image. The exhibition has been shown in many cities throughout the world and led to a book and DVD. Since then Edwards has been exploring some of the positive changes that are being proposed and has created a new exhibition, “Whole Earth”, that will open in London in 2012.

Mark Edwards writes below:

Mark Edwards Rio+20 + Hard Rain
Hard Rain: Whole Earth exhibition is designed to renew the public’s ambitions for change and encourage citizens to support political and business leaders to make bold, long-term decisions to secure our gains and avoid disasters that appear increasingly imminent. More than 15 million people on every continent have viewed Hard Rain in city centres, botanic gardens, universities, and at the United Nations headquarters since its launch at the Eden Project in May 2006. One of the most successful photographic exhibitions ever created, it has attracted huge public and critical acclaim, along with the support and endorsement of political and environmental leaders across the world. Continue reading →