Hi There :)

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.

I have a passion for learning. Learning to connect the dots, to find missing pieces, to reassemble the pieces into a comprehensible whole, to make sense of the whole picture with the best of ideals our world could have, and to paint a better whole when things end up just not good enough.

At the beginning of 2007, I (finally) started blogging to archive, organize and share those learnings @ "Nooventures -- Mind Ventures in the Quest for a Life-Sustaining Civilization Design". I consider this quest as my mental Everest and it is encouraging to learn that WiserEarth is full of seasoned climbers of this very mountain I am trying to picture clearly and conquer. I hope to learn from you all and give a little something in return for this collective endeavour. 

Other than that, I enjoy smooth music, horizon-broadening readings, thought-provoking-emotion-stirring- spirit- enhancing movies, fast-moving sports (basketball, soccer, table tennis), and friendly conversations with good and long laughs in them.

We Are

A little while ago, I finished reading the Deathly Hallows, the final installment of a series I consider to be an excellent symbolic representation of the human condition and predicament--right there in the same league with Matrix the trilogy. In many ways, it also symbolize the things that folks in WiserEarth are doing all over the world.

The difference with our reality is the fact that either we don't have any Harry Potter or Neo, or ours is one no longer in need of such personas. I believe, like many others, it is because "we... are the ones we have been waiting for", and it will take each and every one of us to think clearly, to make conscious choices, and and to take actions -- however small -- that will help make the world a better place for all.

"What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad....You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." (Morpheus, The Matrix)

"Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy." (Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

Recent Learnings   06.10 Restoring Balance: Nurturing the Commons, Taming the Market, Reorienting the State   05.14 Taming the Commercial, Empowering the Communal   05.11 Toward the Redesign of Money   05.07 How Community Collaborative Design Can Save the World   04.30 Breakthrough… to What? Green Economic Strategies and the Environmental Movement by Brian Milani 04.30 Ten Principles of a Green Economy 04.23 A Pattern Language for Sustainability - Toward a Conservation Economy, by Ecotrust 04.22 The Simpler Way: An Outline of the Global Situation, the Sustainable Alternative Society, and the Transition to It by Ted Trainer   03.22 Building the City of Man: Outlines of a World Civilization by W. Warren Wagar 03.15 What is Sustainability? 03.11 What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out? by Richard Heinberg 02.27 Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges by C. Otto Scharmer 02.26 Guidelines for the Emerging Global Civilization by Juan Carlos Kaiten 02.25 Green Economics: Turning Mainstream Thinking on Its Head by Thomas Prugh 02.20 Granting Legal Rights to Nature by Paul Hanna 02.20 If Nature Had Rights, What Would People Need to Give Up? by Cormac Cullinan 02.19 The Six or Seven Axiom of Social Change - Margaret Mead’s Gift by Zaid Hassan 02.18 Lifecycle of Emergence: Using Emergence to Take Social Innovations to Scale by Margaret Wheatley & Deborah Frieze

Groups I'm Actively Involved With The Earth Charter A WiserEarth group that's built around an extremely important document I and many others have personally endorse. If you haven't read it, be sure to do so at least once. The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental principles for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society for the 21st century. Created by the largest global consultation process ever associated with an international declaration, endorsed by thousands of organizations representing millions of people, the Earth Charter seeks to inspire a sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the human family and the living world. The Charter is an expression of hope and a call to global partnership at this critical time in history.   WiserEarth Editors Group "Collaboration in serving the greater WiserEarth community."   As active community members, we would like to make this group into a gathering point where we collaborate to make WiserEarth a true platform of support for the global community of concerned citizens and NGOs in coordinating their effort to create a just and sustainable world.   I'm actively involved in running this group. It's an open group, so if you're interested in helping out, hop in any time!   Wings for Wisdom  "Setting Free the Wisdom Confined in Copyrighted Works"   In the great race between education and catastrophe, this would accelerate the education of concerned citizens in creating a just and sustainable world. Precedents exist for others to follow.   A little while ago, I started this initiative with the goal of making the digital form of 1000 of the best books covering the range of issues in our cause, free for everyone to download and read. These are the kind of books that can become a powerful catalyst in transforming people's mindsets into ones that help create a just and sustainable world. Lester R. Brown with his Eco-Economy, and Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, are two great examples of setting important books free for all to read.

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