Permaculture Blue Mountains

Enabling permaculture knowledge and action in the Blue Mountains

Blue Mountains Permaculture is an informal network enabling permaculture knowledge and action to emerge in the Blue Mountains, Australia. We seek to build beneficial connections both within the Blue Mountains bioregion and beyond.  

GROUP DETAILS

Created: May 13, 2008

Updated: Nov 25, 2009

Membership: Open To Apply

Semi-Private

 
Created: Jan 05, 2006
Updated: Sep 28, 2009
Viewed: 232 times
Page Status: active
  •  
Not Yet Rated
Non_profit_lg

Dropping Knowledge International
(a.k.a.: Dropping Knowledge)

( Non Governmental Organization )

Organization Info   [Edit]

Activities: Activist, Educational, Networking
 
Type: Non Governmental Organization
 
Scope: international
 
Website: www.droppingknowledgeinternati...
 
Main Email: info [at] droppingknowledgeinternational.org
 
Contact Name: Ceasar McDowell
 
Contact Email: ceasar [at] droppingknowledgeinternational.org
 
Phone: + 1 773-530-1233
 
Fax: + 1 773-539-5758
 
Headquarters: 4559 N Drake Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60625
United States
 
Staff: 3
 
Local Time: Fri Nov 27 14:40:25
 

Network [Add] · [List] · [Visualize]

Connected with 0 organizations
Connected with 6 people
Sm_avatar
Sm_avatar
Sm_avatar
Sm_avatar
Sm_avatar
Sm_avatar
Connected with 0 resources
Connected with 0 solutions
Connected with 0 jobs
Connected with 0 events
Connected with 0 wikipages

 

Areas of Focus  [Edit]

About  [Edit]

     Dropping Knowledge International, a project of the Tides Center, is a global initiative to support the free and open sharing of knowledge among people of the world. Born out of the unprecedented democratizing power of the Internet, Dropping Knowledge employs advanced web-technology to empower the global public to engage in dialogue, learning, and action for the social change it seeks.

 

     DKI launched in 2005-2006, by conducting a global question campaign that generated over 25,000 questions. On September 9, 2006, 112 visionaries from around the world came together in Berlin, Germany to answer the top ranked 100 questions at our Table of Free Voices event. The 600 hours of answers to these 100 questions are now open to all on DKI's website. Among the content generated that day are some of the freshest perspectives on today's most pressing themes.

     Under the leadership of MIT Professor and civic engagement thought leader, Dr. Ceasar McDowell, DKI’s media tools, social process skills, and communication methods are being used to build a transparent, democratic process and infrastructure that allows individual members of the public to ask questions, share knowledge, engage in discussion, build community, and produce ideas, actions, and solutions.

 

     DKI is currently collaborating with the Parliament of World Religions to generate 100,000 questions for the council meeting in Melbourne this December 2009.  One of the main themes for discussion at the council is "Healing the Earth with Care and Concern".  Environmental change and policy are an extremely important topic for international and intercultural discussion.

Please refer to our website or facebook page for more details on how to submit your question!

Comments (1 - 2 of 2)

Login to Post a Comment.
Sm_avatar
I just spent some time browsing through the site and loved the quality of comments and thought-provoking questions. They're definitely the kind of everyday questions all of us would benefit from hearing and discussing. I started out with the question "What if all Chinese people want a car?"... definitely looking forward to reading more. I definitely would support all efforts for WiserEarth to connect with Dropping Knowledge.
Sm_avatar
benjammin over 2 years ago
On September 9th, 2006. 112 visionaries gathered around the largest table ever built to answer some of the most pressing questions of our time, put forth by the global community. I was nominated and selected to sit at this table with an amazingly diverse collection of people.

We gave answers to 100 question over 9 hourse and everyones answer was recorded un-edited, copyleft, to a living library that can be veiwed on the web-site. It is an amazing collection of answers that is to inspire and engage people within the discussion.

Ask yourself some of these questions, ask your friends and community and see how the mind response and where your answers take you.

The DK team is hoping to continue the discussion and build community, Wiser earth and Dropping Knowledge hold similiar values and could benifit tremndously if efforts were connected.
1 to 2 of 2 Comments