permaculture

[carolyn anderson <cschampagne@gmail.com>]

This is fantastic!  I love how the acronym for The Future  We Deserve is
FWD, also the abbreviation for FORWARD.  Thanks for posting.

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Chris Watkins <chriswaterguy@appropedia.org
> wrote:

> Really interesting - a collaborative book project about collaboratively
> creating the future.
>
> Who wants to contribute? You've got a week (official deadline is Oct 24)
> then I think you can still tweak your entry for a few days after that.
>
> There are a few references to permaculture, but it would be great to have
> some contributions that come from a deeply permacultural perspective.
>
>
> *7 days left!
>
> The Future We Deserve* is a new book project about collaboratively creating
> the future we deserve. We will be working together at internet scale on
> internet time to brainstorm and barnstorm our way towards an image of a
> world we all believe in, a world of fairness, collaboration and living
> within a harmonious balance with nature. The book is open to all
> contributions — essays about technology, politics, working examples of
> better ways and fantastic ideas which just need to get done.
>
> The print edition will be created together, as we collaborate to select and
> coordinate what goes into the final book. We'll use open licenses and
> crowdfunding to lower the barriers to collaboration, and do our level best
> to make the book the start of a ongoing journey together into the future we
> are shaping with our lives.
>
> This is creating The Future We Deserve.
>
> - from http://thefuturewedeserve.com/
>
>
> More info: http://www.appropedia.org/The_future_we_deserve
> Read some of the 60+ contributions so far:
> http://www.appropedia.org/Category:TheFWD
>
>
> As an aside, this was started by active members of the Appropedia community
> (Vinay Gupta and Lucas González) , without seeking "approval" or help. They
> knew it was a match for Appropedia, and they wanted to give Appropedia some
> exposure as well, so they went ahead and did it. It's a great project.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Chris Watkins
>
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