Education
Lost Valley and Meadowsong Eco-Village is located near Eugene, Oregon in the USA. This well-established community is home to resident artists and workers who help run the associated education and permaculture centre.
A useful site to explore just how they deal with visitors and those seeking to join the community team.
A book written by Mark Boyle and friends after Mark lived for over two years entirely without money. This website links to the entire contents (for free) online, together with linked ideas and a film. Lots about off-grid living.
The motto is: Live well – Live rich – Live free!
Based in the USA, this is a hub site with lots of video links and information/resources.
“The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space promotes and archives the work of community activists and artists in the squatting movement, which successfully reclaimed and repurposed derelict housing stock, and affirming those practices as an alternative sustainable strategy for social and community development.”
UK-based organisation providing information, materials and resources for teachers working with a wide range of children with nomadic parents.
Organics network in Denmark. Active in sustainability issues, and organising conferences and events that support organic solutions in building, agriculture and every-day living.
Eco village development and applications of ecological solutions to societal problems are central to the OKO-Net’s work and practical approaches.
Site dedicated to archiving a wide range of counter-cultural materials, films, music video, magazines and more, including the whole archive of the underground newspaper, ‘Oz’. They also run courses.
A Big ‘hub’ site.
Links to their website and FB page.
Links to the ideas, writings and video film of Brazilian, Paolo Freire. A critical thinker and originator of the term ‘conscientization’, which is much more than consciousness-raising. Highly influential in alternative, radical education. The Freire Institute is a portal to his life and thinking.
“Pateo.nl is much more than an alternative news website. It is a multilingual portal for open-minded and independent researchers for the truth” thus sais it’s introduction. The site and method of Wholly Science is founded by dr. Johan Oldenkamp, one of the precursors / initiators of alternative thinking in the Netherlands. He has connected a lot of dots within science and created a method which is theologically responsible, taught in courses-on-location by himself.
His team spans across Arabic, Chinese English, Dutch French, German, Italian, Russian and Turkish languages, so the site is very accessible to the World. Books and videos are all available over this site, mainly free and sometimes against a modest fee.
A whole host of info and links to Pagan and Christian beliefs. A lot about spirituality and nature. Communality and celebrations.
They say:
“We participate in dedication and initiation ceremonies. We celebrate life’s transitions with coming of age and croning rituals. If Paganism is a celebration of life then the Rites of Passage we participate in are the mile markers of that celebration.”
Renowned architect and father of geodesic domes and Spaceship Earth. He was known to many as ‘Bucky’.
As it says on the official BFI site:
“R. Buckminster Fuller was a 20th century inventor and visionary who did not limit himself to one field but worked as a ‘comprehensive anticipatory design scientist’ to solve global problems. Fuller’s ideas and work continue to influence new generations of designers, architects, scientists and artists working to create a sustainable planet.”
Links to the official site and a compilation of videos.