Hi everybody, and especially Nico. Sorry to be late for this ongoing, extended and I hope increasing party. As usual, I have been a bit busy...
So this is cool, innit? I have wanted to see something like this online community for several years now, and thanks to Nico, we now have the start.
Several reasons why I feel it is important:
One, I am not the only one who mises you all. So it's a way to re-connect and stay in better contact.
Another, many of the graduates from Cultivate's activities want to keep involved in the subject matter of sustainability and to do it creatively, cooperatively and proactively. But we are often scattered around the world, and find ourselves in places with less support. So here we can come back together and encourage each other, share experiences and inspirations, and make plans.
And so many have left Cultivate saying something like, "I will go home and start a Cultivate in ____". But it's not so easy when you get back there. We have enough graduates from Spain, Italy, France and Germany to begin building local support networks in these places, creating the critical mass for something to happen in each country. I hope you can use this BLOG to assist the process.
As we all work in different capacities, and as we gain more experience over time, our skills increase, our understanding gets deeper, and we become more able to offer each other support. Not just people from the same time at Cultivate, but now through this network spread over time and distance. We can use the BLOG to advertise jobs we may know about, or even be creating. We can ask what the others know when we look for new work or study possibilities, or projects to link with. We can share skills for projects we may be involved with, knowing that through the Cultivate community there will be some basic shared understanding, perspectives, and commitments.
So come on everyone, let's use this for everything we can do with it! And if you know someone missing from here, and how to contact her/him, then let them know where the party is happening.
Love to all of you,
Erik
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Hi, sorry I am late
Hi everybody, and especially Nico. Sorry to be late for this ongoing, extended and I hope increasing party. As usual, I have been a bit busy...
So this is cool, innit? I have wanted to see something like this online community for several years now, and thanks to Nico, we now have the start.
Several reasons why I feel it is important:
One, I am not the only one who mises you all. So it's a way to re-connect and stay in better contact.
Another, many of the graduates from Cultivate's activities want to keep involved in the subject matter of sustainability and to do it creatively, cooperatively and proactively. But we are often scattered around the world, and find ourselves in places with less support. So here we can come back together and encourage each other, share experiences and inspirations, and make plans.
And so many have left Cultivate saying something like, "I will go home and start a Cultivate in ____". But it's not so easy when you get back there. We have enough graduates from Spain, Italy, France and Germany to begin building local support networks in these places, creating the critical mass for something to happen in each country. I hope you can use this BLOG to assist the process.
As we all work in different capacities, and as we gain more experience over time, our skills increase, our understanding gets deeper, and we become more able to offer each other support. Not just people from the same time at Cultivate, but now through this network spread over time and distance. We can use the BLOG to advertise jobs we may know about, or even be creating. We can ask what the others know when we look for new work or study possibilities, or projects to link with. We can share skills for projects we may be involved with, knowing that through the Cultivate community there will be some basic shared understanding, perspectives, and commitments.
So come on everyone, let's use this for everything we can do with it! And if you know someone missing from here, and how to contact her/him, then let them know where the party is happening.
Love to all of you,
Erik
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So, I uploaded Erik's face (the one on the right, Maggie's the one on the left!). I'm very happy you managed to get in Erik.. What you've said may be actually this blog's manifesto! Look: are kaospilots (http://www.kaospilots.nl/) still around Cultivate? Geezz.. it would be great to listen a story from them.. to let them stick a post here about their activity and their approach to organization.. or wath they've been doing along with Cultivate last weeks.. I think we might learn a lot! Do you believe this is gonna be possible? Come on! ! Yee!
Yeah, thanks nic that you gave erik that picture...And I agree with you guys we should share our ideas here in that blog and not talk about a meetin where most of us have no glue what the story is...
Xxx from the mountains
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