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[Jennifer Nazak <jnazak@yahoo.com>]

Hello All -
 
Now that more and more of us are waking up to what we DON'T want, it's time 
to find common ground and get to work on creating what we DO want. We've done 
a lot of fighting and opposing and resisting.  Of necessity, in many cases. 
Now it's time to get to work on visioning and CREATING.  
Following is an article by Bill Becker that's making the rounds on the social 
networks. It invites us all to participate in a grassroots global 
conversation that is getting underway at www.futurewewant.org, at 
facebook.com/futurewewant  , at @futurewewant on Twitter, and at the UN’s web 
site http://www.un.org/en/sustainablefuture .  
I've posted the full article for you below. I hope you find it as inspiring 
as I do. And since the article is long, here is an excerpt for you also.  
Thanks for reading and participating in whatever way you see fit. 
 
-- Jenny Nazak, Austin Permaculture Guild www.austinperm.com  
Excerpt:        * The Future We Want will grow into an exercise that uses 
many of the amazing technologies today that permit a global conversation.  
But we’ll also reach out to people not connected to the Internet and invite 
them to send us letters, essays, drawings, videos and photographs.
        * We are not looking for utopian fantasies, or life with the Jetsons. 
We want you to base your visions on the technologies and information 
available today.  How can we use them to build the communities we want our 
families to live in 20 years from now? We want visions that show us we can 
get there from here.
        * Some will wonder why we’re having a conversation at a time we need 
so much more than talk.  We do indeed need concrete action by national and 
international policy makers.  We believe that to motivate our leaders, we 
must motivate the people; to help motivate the people, we need the power of 
vision — the same power that informs, entertains, shocks and inspires us in 
the media and that sells ideas and products in the marketplace.
Clear vision is a precursor to coherent action. In this latest time of 
trouble, we have come to another teachable moment. We see evidence nearly 
every day that the old vision of prosperity and progress isn’t working. We 
need a new one. It starts with a global grassroots brainstorming session. 
That session is just getting underway at www.futurewewant.org, at 
facebook.com/futurewewant  at @futurewewant on Twitter, and at the UN’s web 
site. http://www.un.org/en/sustainablefuture . 
The Full Article: 
Let's Talk About the Future We Want
by Bill Becker
Here are some questions for the Occupiers, the Tea Party demonstrators, the 
people engaged in the Arab Spring and those around the world who are too 
hungry, too tired, too discouraged or too occupied with basic survival to 
protest.
These are questions, too, for the young people who will inherit the future we 
are setting in motion today, and the elders who are concerned about the world 
they are leaving their grandchildren.
Most of us want things to be better.  We don’t want the kind of world we’ll 
get if we allow global climate change, resource conflicts, resource 
constraints, environmental degradation, overwhelming population growth, 
helter-skelter urbanization, war, social injustice and other looming problems 
to go unaddressed.
We have a pretty good idea what we should avoid. But what should we build?
We have incredible technologies and tools today – arguably all we need to 
create communities that are resource efficient, resilient, safe and 
prosperous while treading lightly on the environment.  How would our lives be 
improved if we deployed the best sustainable development technologies and 
practices? How would it impact future generations?
Those questions are at the heart of a campaign called “The Future We Want,” 
announced this week by Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations.  
The UN has chosen “The Future We Want” as  the tagline of Rio+20, its  
international conference next June on sustainable development.  Coming on the 
20th anniversary of the first Earth Summit, the conference has symbolic 
importance. We hope it will have concrete significance, too.
I am part of a group of  visual artists, policy wonks, technology experts, 
urban designers, civil society leaders and former public officials who have 
been working on a Future We Want campaign the past three years.  We brought 
the idea to the UN and it embraced the theme.  We have volunteered to support 
the campaign over the next several months.  We are not part of the United 
Nations.  Our part of the campaign is supported by private donations from 
philanthropists, foundations and corporations interested in producing what we 
need for greater sustainability.
First, we have launched a global conversation to learn what people want their 
communities to be like in 2030.  We want everyone – all ages, cultures, 
religions, genders and countries – in the conversation.  If we finally 
confront head-on the economic, social and environmental challenges we face, 
and if we get busy building more just, peaceful, and sustainable communities, 
what would ours look like?
We’re starting with a simple tool to gather comments on our web site. Over 
the winter, we’ll add more dynamic ways for people to share their ideas, 
including a crowd sourcing exercise next February.
“Look” is the operative word in this campaign.  At the conference where “The 
Future We Want” idea was born three years ago, we asked: What’s missing in 
the dialogue about change? Why aren’t more people excited about sustainable 
development? Why isn’t everyone insisting that our leaders, neighbors and 
families take action?
One answer, we decided, is that people need to see sustainability,  to 
experience it.  Dry policy documents, esoteric science and abstract concepts 
don’t stir everybody’s blood.  So,  The Future We Want is all about vision.
Second,  based on the ideas you submit and the comments they receive, a team 
of world-class visual artists and subject-matter experts will select the most 
promising ideas for sustainable communities in a variety of cultures. We will 
turn those ideas into life-like, high-definition videos and computer 
animations.
Third, we’ll unveil the visualizations in an exhibit at Rio+20, and broadcast 
them worldwide on the Internet and with social media.
Fourth, after Rio we will put up links to the latest tools to help urban 
planners, architects, local officials and citizens build more sustainable 
communities around the world.
A demonstration of vision-power took place 70 years ago at the New York 
Worlds Fair.  During the Great Depression, with World War II looming, General 
Motors sponsored its “Futurama” pavilion, in which hundreds of thousands of 
visitors were submersed in an exhibit of  what life would be like 20 years 
later in a highly mobile, car-centered society. At a time people needed to 
know there was a path out of despair, GM used the best communications 
techniques available to show a dynamic future.
There are a few things we’d like people to understand as the conversation 
begins.
        * The Future We Want will grow into an exercise that uses many of the 
amazing technologies today that permit a global conversation.  But we’ll also 
reach out to people not connected to the Internet and invite them to send us 
letters, essays, drawings, videos and photographs.
        * We are not looking for utopian fantasies, or life with the Jetsons. 
We want you to base your visions on the technologies and information 
available today.  How can we use them to build the communities we want our 
families to live in 20 years from now? We want visions that show us we can 
get there from here.
        * Some will wonder why we’re having a conversation at a time we need 
so much more than talk.  We do indeed need concrete action by national and 
international policy makers.  We believe that to motivate our leaders, we 
must motivate the people; to help motivate the people, we need the power of 
vision — the same power that informs, entertains, shocks and inspires us in 
the media and that sells ideas and products in the marketplace.
Clear vision is a precursor to coherent action. As one good book has put it, 
without vision we perish.  I’ve argued before that in this latest time of 
trouble, we have come to another teachable moment. We see evidence nearly 
every day that the old vision of prosperity and progress isn’t working. We 
need a new one.
It starts with a global grassroots brainstorming session. That session is 
just getting underway at www.futurewewant.org, at facebook.com/futurewewant  
at @futurewewant on Twitter, and at the UN’s web site. 
http://www.un.org/en/sustainablefuture .
We want everybody in this conversation. Spread the word and jump in.
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From: Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [permaculture] Looking for SE US cob builder
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I'm looking for a good cob builder and rocket stove builder in SE US who 
might be interested in doing a weekend workshop in the Tampa Bay area to 
build a double barrel cob oven at a non-profit organization. Looking to find 
a reasonable price to do this - we will be charging attendees but as most of 
them are dedicated community volunteers, their funds are limited. Would 
prefer a builder who has experience building cob in humid environments, like 
Florida or at least knows someone who does that you can talk to about it :-)�

We have found several sources of quality clay in the area and have been 
extracting it from the ubiquitous sand, and are very excited to start using 
it. We've started experimenting with bricks, etc. �We will have all materials 
needed on site before arrival. �

We do not expect to finish the project on that weekend, but to learn enough 
about it to be able to finish on our own. I've worked on several cob projects 
and ovens and can do the cob part on my own, but I have very limited 
experience with getting the rocket stove right, and there are definitely more 
things I can learn about cob, so would prefer to bring in an expert for the 
community.�

Koreen Brennan
www.permacultureguild.us
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Most insects are useful for poultry feed Lawrence. It is a question very
much of what feed stock for insect larvae is readily available and what
conditions the insects need to do well. Where I live it would be too cold
for mealworms and you would need extra heating to make this a success.
john

> Google search results for "mealworms":
>
> http://www.google.com/search?gcx=w&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=mealworm+breeding
> .
>
> Found out about them from Paul Wheaton's recent podcast.
>
> http://www.richsoil.com/permaculture/597-podcast-092-canning-worms-chickens-weeds/
>
>
> Along with sawfly larvae are they useful for poultry feed?
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