Habib's Garden
Connecting People to Weave a Better World
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Steve Habib Rose. A number of us met this evening and thought that this group would be a fitting tribute. Lets use this group to recognize, honor and appreciate the many gifts and blessings he bestowed on so many of us. Please add yourself and your reflections.
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Created: Sep 26, 2007
Updated: Jul 22, 2009
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Mike Zeidler
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I'm on a mission to support learning that reconnects what we do with our place in nature. I do all I can to Walk my Talk, and have the following ‘natural talents’ to offer: a) deep curiosity that brings steady learning for me and others; b) a playful mind that connects wide ranging ideas to create new opportunities c) a compulsion to build relationship with others that creates strong networks.
I listen and learn constantly, and mentor people when they invite me to. I facilitate group processes and meetings, and have a wonderfully rich set of connections to people, organisations and thinking that can be very useful in helping people to get to elusive practical solutions. I also find that I can be a helpful 'tutor' - not by providing lots of answers, but by asking good questions that help people to find their own keys.
I've been involved in a variety of membership organisations for around 15 years, and 'responsible business' for around 12. In all that time, I've consistently wondered why things 'have to be' any particular way.
We're clearly in the middle of a huge shift in human understanding and I think we're in the most chaotic part of the change process right now. The old order is more and more disrupted, and vast creative energy is being unleashed to make sense of what is to come.
We mapped
pretty much all of the physical geography of the globe, and since the internet
was built, we're now able to start mapping the social networks and thinking
around the globe. The irony is that it's so easy now to create a network,
and so many people are driven to be connectors, that the connecting actually
gets harder/more fragmented. That's why I'm such a fan of this site,
which I think has phenomenal potential.
To play my part in helping connect the connectors and make sense of the patterns
which will allow us to settle into a new way of thinking and being, I encourage the members of the networks I'm involved with to become
a part of Wiserearth and am beginning to explore the role of 'steward' with this community.
I don't think we need to invent more fixes. I think we need to make the most of our differences and all that we already have by focusing on shared purposes.
Finally - (thanks for the tip Bowo) - here's my 'Countries Visited' Map....
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Hi Mike - hoping to meet you tomorrow Monday June 22nd at maybe 7.30 (mtg until then) Chris Church |
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All,
I really like the idea of single projects that are going to save the planet such as reforestation or the drive for clean energy.
My work focuses on, however, the underlying organisational structures of how these endevours, if they happen at all, actually are hampered by the current system that we as humans choose to rally under; capitalism.
We know now that when that system fails, in its own terms, that is, the creation of profit, we, as humans, end up suffering. That much is becoming clearer and clearer to even the most “sheltered” and “non-thinking” pro “capitalism” human on the street; mainly as it is hitting their wallet and life style.
Obviously the affects of this system have been felt most harshly and historically by the vast number of humans that the system can not utilise in its endeavour right now.
This awakening of “privileged” people will be a hard learning curve for most of them to climb given the nature of the graph. However, it is with learning and understanding that we, as humans, can choose a more human centric approach to commodity production.
It is to that end, an easing of the pain, and a flattening of the curve, that I give you
I hope they make some difference to someone, somewhere.
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Hi Mike, Thanks for persisting with drawing my attention this way. With so many competing platforms it's getting harder to know which ones to focus on. I agree that "we" are going through a profoundly chaotic time on the planet, but the result will be well worth the effort.
Our current effort http://replantingtherainforests.org/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55&Itemid=107 is to harness to power of Web 2.0 to create the largest rainforest reforestation project on the planet. Our goal is to replant 250 million acres before the 50th anniversary of Earth Day in 2020.
If you have any ideas about how to, or whom to, get this in front of, the planet would be very grateful.
Thanks again for your persistence.
Dan T @TreeBanker
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Dear Mike; you are already doing successfully, what I have been trying to do of late. I would like to be a part of your network system, if you can direct me in right process. My website for clean energy resource sharing is: http://www.lelandcewns.ning.com Please keep up the great work Mike, sincerely William Leland Luster/Las Vegas,Nev./03-23-09
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Dear Mike,
It was wonderful to read your profile and know about your work connecting people, ideas and both. I think we share the same passion. Would love to connect with you.
Also wanted to thank you for promoting WiserEarth in three of your networks. I share with you the thought that this platform and community called WiserEarth has some huge potential to defrag the movement.
Hoping for more conversation and collaboration here and beyond.
With kind regards, Bowo WiserEarth Chief Editor |
Hi Mike, Subject - Peggy Duvette visit. I'd like to make my reply to this open and transparent, so's others can see, agree, disagree, discuss, etc. Sounds good, but would be even better if linked to online discussion, both before and after the event. I know sometimes people can be wary of discussion before meetings - the fear being that it sets or too highly influences an agenda, but personally I reckon it'd needn't be this way. Those who turn up to a face to face meeting can still always choose their own agenda, but online discussion beforehand just creates more (and potentially better?) options. If this message gets moved, perhaps leave a link to the new place here? Cheers, Phil
Set this up myself as a separate forum topic: the form thingy wouldn't give me a link so here it is (messy):
http://www.wiserearth.org/forum/view/f04660b1e95eac632f31ae2c73f63705/new/1