WiserEarth Governance
Rights, Obligations, and Relationships of All WiserEarthlings
This group emerged out of the WiserEarth Partners meeting held on December 13. Our intention is to open this group up to all that join and participate in WiserEarth.
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Created: Dec 17, 2007
Updated: Sep 17, 2009
Membership: Invitation Only
Semi-Private
Wibowo Sulistio
bowoeditor,administrator
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Every place is a school
Every individual is a teacher Every thing is a lesson Every moment is an opportunity Ceaseless wonder and humility Turns each breath into Eternity. Hi There :)
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I'm a starting-out writer living in the suburbs of Jakarta, Indonesia, and a beginner in the greater movement of making our civilization one worthy of sustaining.
After joining the WiserEarth community for a little over a year and became an active volunteer editor for about nine months, as of August 22, 2008, I joined the WiserEarth team as WiserEarth Chief Editor. I can gladly say, my work is my passion. I look forward to serve the WiserEarth community more and better.
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Names - left 2 right? ... :)
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Yes of course! It was great to meet many WiserEarth friends and colleagues I've 'known' along the way. Got to be at Bioneers 2009 and did a lot of exploring in and around San Francisco.
One of the best part of the trip was a dinner party at Bedy's place with all the interesting and funny stories about people who've supported WiserEarth along the way. You don't get that over the internet!
And there's the 1st WiserEarth Editors meet up of course. This is when we're just about ready to play four square!
Another favorite is the meet up with the friendly giants: the redwoods!
Wish you were here too! |
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@Martin: I don't think we have that feature yet. But it's definitely a good idea. Feel free to cross-post this idea on our upcoming redesign mockup wikipage. Thanks!
@Ernest: Thank you. I temporarily made the group to "invitation only" because someone posted a spam message the other day. I will send you an invite to WEversity so you can join the group and the discussion. |
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Hello Bowo,
I would like to post messages to the Topic: Should (and can) a steady-state economy replace the growth economy. I have registered as a member of wiserearth and this particular topic but still am told I cannot post to it. Take a look at www.indigodev.com/to_what.html and you'll see why I want to be part of the discussion.
with many seedlings in my land from our first rain of the year, Ernie Lowe ernielowe@indigodev.com |
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Hi Bowo,
Is there a way to have a list of those people I have invited to my network, but who didn't yet accept my invitation, similar to what xing is offering?
regards, Martin |
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Hello Bowo,
Thanks for the invitation to join WEversity. Even though Australia is close to Indonesia, I have never really known much about Indonesia. Maybe this is a great opportunity to learn about this country that is so close to mine.
Best Wishes, Christine
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Bowo, Thank you for inviting me to the Formal Consensus conversation. I responded to the invitation and before completing my comments lost the post. So please take that into consideration it is incomplete. What I assess i have to offer to this consensus building process in an exploratory conversation in a new cosmology based in grounded new awarenesses regarding "observer" and "love=legitimacy-in-coexistence" as the genetic biological hard-wired reality of human nature. The emergent paradigm shift is a self-organizing human realization to a new classical cosmological reality that is a primordial perfect knowledge-idea-pattern. In other words I have an optimistic viewpoint based on fundaments in physics, biology, linguistics, cognition, sociology, and cosmology. In this convergence ("All that rises must converge") the deep-root of human behavior is based in an emotioning to draw closer together not farther apart from one another. And the outer circumstances in this moment "trigger" the quantum leap in consciousness into a new cosmological paradigm that is transdisciplinary effectively addressing "Permanent Domains of Human Concerns" in a mood of joyful concern not fighting, argument, or struggling with current discourses, systemic institutions and cultural practices based in power. My assessment is Wiserearth has "cast the net" and what is missing is a cosmology that acts like a positive virus (mood of joyful concern) that ignites the flame already always operating perfectly to destroy misconceptions and misinterpretations while simultaneously impelling a gravitas to effective virtuous actions that lift the humanity from brink of self-destruction. I can be optimistic because I have faith in a structural determined living universe that is present always in the moment and has no reality whatsoever in past or future. So the world I want to live in is the present moment taking effective actions to the human concerns arising ~ human commitment (I request/invite X by Y and I promise X by Y) which thereby builds trust in person-to-person ethical fundaments as a continual revelatory trust in designing a world together. Not based in power rather social relations moment to moment. Thnks Patric |
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@Barr (bwilliams): I would agree that more people need to know about the bioregional perspective and methodology. I think there are others out there doing this. Have you tried searching for 'bioregion' in WiserEarth? (here's the results). I'll be happy to explore with you on how to better utilize WiserEarth to spread awareness about 'bioregion'.
@Trevor (trevorpeach): Kabar baik, kabar baik. Thanks for stopping by. Looks like you've been through a lot, including the 1997-1998 crisis! Good to see that you're moving into a more progressive sector in the real estate industry. Too much of the same model bores me really... |
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Wibowo, Apa Kabar from Brisbane. I spent 18 years in Jakarta from 1982 to 2000 involved in Jakarta property development and now in Australia involved in Community and Affordable Housing. |
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thanks for the invite... as you may have noticed, my deepest wish is to see each bioregion of the world develop a website like ours...full of images, essays, stories and more about the region we call home. To utilize WiserEarth to spread the word is intriguing. I imagine many regions have repositories for writings and photographs from which to draw, despite whatever copyright laws may inhibit them, to be able create a comprehensive bioregional website. However, no one else seems to have done it.
In conjunction with the website goal, I hope each bioregion can incorporate into public and private education curriculum that focuses on that particular bioregion. It is amazing how ignorant people are (here in the United States) about their own home, and I would not be surprised to learn the same deficiency exists elsewhere in the world. Knowing the stories of human culture, of the animals and plants of the surrounding landscape, is part of what can define us and shape us. The more we know about our own home, the better decisions we can make about creating a sustainable society that does not deplete natural resources.
I am not sure what step is next, but I am quite happy to make your acquaintance. I applaud your efforts on WiserEarth, and hope to learn how better to utilize it in the future. |
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@Casey: Thanks. How did it go about the possible use of WiserEarth group?
@JC: Good idea. Something that crossed my mind too a while back. Care to post that in WiserEarth Suggestions?
@Kurt: Yes, I stumbled on LUTW quite a while back (when they had no projects listed yet, now they have tons). I think it's a good idea. Glad to know that they also cater to non-profit projects. Water pumps and water filtration would be fantastic! You should check out LifeStraw portable water purification device www.lifestraw.com (which is brilliant! I think).
@Luther: I'll send you a message on why I deactivated that account. |
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hi bowo,i love this network so much that i don't want to let go,if you can recall, my name is luther mendin,i noticed that my account was deactivated.pls help me activate my previous account;luthermendin .I have just created this new account.
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Hi Bowo, Thank you for the invitation. I am the host for the wiser earth group Community Solar Wisconsin. You may have caught my twittering last night on the group that is trying to bring solar and LED lamps to the estimated 400 million people in India (1.5 Billion worldwide) without ELECTRICITY. the URL is: http://www.lutw.org/About+LUTW Do you think if more of these homes (>67 million in India alone) would stop burning kerosene lamps if they had solar powered batteries to run Light Emitting Diode lamps? That's $100 per household for years of free energy from the sun. Of course, the average home without electricity apparently has 6 people living under one roof. I'm guessing they will continue to use kerosene; just not as much, and/or more light would mean more people being able to read at night. And more reading means more access to learning, which leads to developing skills that might improve one's health, wealth, and standard of living. Another solar-powered appliance that could help a community would be water pumps and water filtration systems to reduce the chance for malaria, etc. Your thoughts, sir? Thanks again Bowo! kurt reinhold Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
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How could the thumbnail photos of people shown as "Friends" or people linked to a group show the person's name when you hover your cursor arrow over it? The default is "Sm_avatar;" why not include their names? I get a lot out of reading someone's name. |
This is so helpful...
had I bumped into you without ever seeing these pictures I would never have recognized you... lol :) like two different people all together! :}