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Hi Rick,
Due to a conflict with another event that is happening that night, I had to shift the Potluck/Book Exchange up one week to January 15th (a Friday). Hope you can still consider coming.

How are you? What's new with you?

Hi, Rick. I still need your contact info (phone and e-mail.) for the solar tour. You can send it to mjoneshome@gmail.com. Thanks for your help!

Moira

Okay, thanks! I have you down for house prep on Friday, 9/25. It would be helpful to have your e-mail or phone number. You can send it to mjoneshome@gmail.com. Thank you!

It is Saturday, September 26th, so a little ways away. We are responsible for things like greeting people at the homes, helping at the registration desk (by the Farmers Market), helping with the expo, or getting food for the volunteers. We also need help on Friday, 9/25, prepping the homes. All four homes are in Louisville. No shift would be longer than 3 hours.

Hi Rick. Just a reminder that we've moved our Transition Louisville activities to a new site. If you want to keep up with current LV, please click here.. Hope to see you at one of our Tuesday evening gettogethers. And one further, would Lafayette be interested in a Transition Lafayette community and website?

Hi, Rick.

I am trying to recruit volunteers to help with the 2009 Solar Homes Tour! The southeast portion of the tour is sponsored by the CRC (a non-profit) and Transition Louisville. We have several different volunteer opportunities from helping with registration, prepping the homes, greeting, expo, food, etc. Do you think you would be interested in helping?

Hey Rick,
Comments are disappearing. Yours and mine, A glimpse & gone.
Not sure which comment you are speaking of as not knowing what to make of, I thought I had sent you another comment about watching a Jeremy Rifkin video on http://www.foet.org/JeremyRifkin.htm last night - he was so gung ho on globalization no matter the energy used, it felt as if he was out of touch with all we know of Transition & the triumvirate of post-peak-oil, global warming and economic turmoil, and has all these things to rationalize about genetic engineering, all part of the globalized markets. We know that irradiation for instance used on all store-sold herbs is a by-product of waste from nuclear facilities foisted on the public to make huge sums of money from waste, as is Fluoride in toothpaste coming from the aluminum industry waste. So I do not see any future for globalization's foisted externalization of waste onto humans and Nature beings, only localized business will be scaled to answer to the interests of humans and Nature beings.

Of course i would like to see those so steeped in their money making they cannot have a conscience, get caught up in the powerdown and lose their power with ill spent and ill begotten money.

Cheers/
Coco

Hi Rick
Last night wanted to speak with you in person, so better than on a website, somehow it didn't happen, but was heartened to see you there in the Transition circle.

Cheers/
Coco

Hi Rick and Les- this discussion interests me now interwoven with Transition. To me, Transition needs to be injected into the IFG story.

I've supported the IFG since it inception. They are still the scene runners, tho seem less visible today.

In the early 90's I felt David Korten's books were right on in the positive ending category, it seemed he understood the need to proactively bring in the permacultural, the bioregional, the action plans that later seeded movements such as Transition. At that time Paul Hawken was also high on my list, yet was not ready with the proactive action plans to get us moving out of the problem phases.

I wrote interactiv' books for both of these authors, after marking up their books extensively to get at my critique and my nuggets drawn from sage writers. Interactiv' #9 is uploadable, #10 and #11 are being transcribed now to the computer.

Here are all the table of contents:

Interactiv #11 PASS THE PERMACULTURE AUDIT: TO CLEAN SOURCE ACCOUNTABILITY COCO GO
For David C. Korten, The Post- Corporate World, 1999 Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc. and Kumarian Press, Inc.
October 2008
Table of Contents

1. A Bush Tactic, Subsume Without Blinking prologue p. 3-4
2. Modern Buffalo herding for Hamburger p. 5
3. The Mirror That Mocks, That Freaks p. 6
4. Lose Democracy Fast Track! p. 7
5. Gaia a Renewal Fun Mirror p. 7
6. Widen Your Swale Vistas p. 9
7. No Till, Get Keyline Earth to do the Work p. 9
8. No Machines Needed, Run Rabbits Over the Chickens p. 9
9. Nature’s Acute Sense of Rot p. 15
10. Stay Awake in Every Moment p. 16
11. Colonizers of Seed, Life Basics p. 30
12. We Attributed Value Prior to Scarcity p. 34
13. Contamination Appearing p.34
14. First Trees Go, then Water Scarcity, then Money Collapse p. 35
15. In Age of Accounting, a People’s Audit p. 43
16. Subservient to Industry p. 43
17. No More Bottom Lines p. 58
18. Financial Economics Are the Emporer’s Clothes p. 58
19. Heads-off Profit p. 65
20. Tie Income to Your Place p. 69-70
21. Your Life is my Auction p. 77-78
22. You Dump Me, You Dump Me Not p. 78
23. You Play, I Die p. 78
24. Pass the Permaculture Audit, p. 78-79
25. To Clean Source Accountability p 79
26. King of the Hill Seduces Access p. 82
27. How All the Fish Fly Away p. 82
28. A Bank Tree Hath no Roots p.82-83
29. Don’t Do the Substitute AbunDance p. 83
30. One Way, No Entry Yet p.105
31. PPP Replaces PPPP p. 166
32. Start using Proactive Declarations p. 193
33. Planting Lone Trees is La-La Land Practice p. 231
34. Scorecard Your Abundance p. 233
35. United We? P. 241
36. Cosmetic Nourishment, Colbin Suggests, p 248
37. Weakens, as Wigmore Before Her p. 248
38. Colonized Abundance, p. 251
39. Destabilizes life p. 251
40. We are Always Still at War p. 255-256
41. Put Your Plants Under Where the Birds Roost p. 262-263

Interactiv #10
Taking Turns Petals Open Coco Go, for David C. Korten, When Corporations Rule the World, 1995 Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc. and Kumarian Press, Inc.
October 2008

Table of Contents

1. Tunnel Vision Ricochets Snippets of Reportage p.11
2. Permaculture opens Vision p.11
3. Earth Fails Industrialism, p.13
4. By Human Greed p.13
5. Go Gently Within Earth’s Entropic Defenses: p.37
6. Exuberant Flirtations p.38
7. Use and Disappear, p.39
8. Leaving No Replicable Forms p.39
9. Masking Gras-roots p.115
10. Co-opting Language Definitions p.116
11. A Diversionary Strategy, p.143
12. Dangles Hell in heaven’s Clothing p.143
13. Creates Couch Potatoes p.144
14. Da Blip is Da Bait p.148
15. Publicity Worms In p.146-147
16. To Think Laws Developed for Cosmology p.147-148
17. Need to Locate Zones of Use 1,2,3,4,5 p.150
18. First in Human Productivity Fast Becomes Last (I Ching) p.151-`52
19. Monoculture Takes Over p.165
20. Pre-Foetal Monoculturing, Move On p.168
21. Become Oxygen Producers p.174
22. Co-opting Works p.223
23. Take Harmonizing to its Highest use p.237
24. Happiness is Experiencing p.250
25. The Elixr of Selfhood’s Control p.253
26. Spiral Through Nature’s Shared Patterns p.261-262
27. To a Collective Permaculture p.262
28. Forced Scarcity p. 265
29. The Principle of Source to Sink Uses p.272
30. Jobs That Create Enhanced Livelihoods p.288
31. De-Industrialize p.290
32. Community Industry p.290
33. Turn Off hype On Demand p.291
34. Taking Turns Petals Open p.327

Interactiv #9 VALUE ADDED LIFE for Paul Hawkens’ The Ecology of Commerce

Prologue - Futurism Recurs

1. Books Come From Books
2. You are Here & There Here
3. Pull & Play Your Junk in the Universe
4. Corporate Crime takes Away Forever Waters
5. Freakage Breakage
6. Permaculture Shrinks a Footprint
7. Corporate Crime Gives Away Forever Resources
8. The Oil Economy Pouff
9. Breakage Freakage Compounded What do you Effect?
10. Life System Disability
11. Medical Biological Dilemma,
12. Disease vs Disability
13. Do Local Daily
14. A Politico Twist of lemon Effect?
15. To Conserve is a Fundamental Life Question
16. Privateering Creates poverty
17. Substitute Abundance = Foolsgold
18. Growth Expectations Create Cancer Capital (CCC)
19. Corporations Excuse Profligacy
20. Do Business Creating Carbon credits
21. Beyond our Care, Hidden from View
22. If Today Becomes Tomorrow, We Did the Right Things
23. Life Translates to Subsistence First
24. ||: Life Translates to Subsistence First : ||
25. Audit Every Action for Eco Health
26. The Consumate Consumer Makes Waste
27. We Bottom feed on our Poisons
28. The Larceny of Balanced Budgets
29. Product of Real Need
30. Restoration Medicine as Motivation for Business
31. Permaculture is the New Tip-off Canary
32. Humanures Teach Awareness
33. Problems are Dynamic Accumulators
34. Takes Make Waste
35. The Biogene Corner Gambling Scam
36. Runneth Over
37. Harm is Introduced Unreusable Waste
38. Define Security, Food Security
39. Follow Earth’s Patterns on Every
40. Many Micros Create Unending Space
41. Having it All Now by Debt
42. Convenience of Use Must be Reviewed Often
43. Large in Front Dominates Scale
44. Who Scales Heavier Than Whom?
45. A Gift of Power Can Charge a Species
46. Government as Mega Trickery
47. To Protect Speech Implies Dictators
48. Tax the Transgressed Outcome
49. Who Owns Us?
50. We Want a Locally Kicked up Bottom Line

51. The Dead Return to Advise us
52. Don’t be Jealous of Ultra-human power
53. Transition to Self-Democracy
54. Law Buries our Rights
55. Fear of Job Loss Creates Demons
56. Our Stolen Wealth Past Persists
57. Stress Games are not Fun
58. Value Added Life
59. Is the Product of Conscience
60. Megamind the Store
61. Government as Superstore
62. Submersible Wisdom Does not Vanish
63. Ask First Take Little Thank Truly
64. Eat Live to Stay Well
65. Eliminate Profit
66. Industry as True Water Waster
67. The Multiple Functions of Vulture Capital
Epilogue: The Bottom Line of Joy
Appendix: Read Agenda 21

Epigraph

The restorative company “finds the shortest, simplest
way between the earth, the hands and the mouth.”
–Wendell Berry, “Conservation is Good Work”

We know that every natural system on the planet is disintegrating.
The land, water, air, and sea have been functionally transformed from
life-supporting systems into repositories for waste.
There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world. Paul Hawken, P.3

“Irrelevant Abundance" Paul Hawken, p. 154

Agenda 21
Chapter 1 Preamble

Section I. Social and Economic Dimensions
Chapter 2 International Cooperation for Sustainable Development
Chapter 3 Combating Poverty
Chapter 4 Changing Consumption Patterns
Chapter 5 Demographic Dynamics & Sustainability
Chapter 6 Human Health
Chapter 7 Human Settlements
Chapter 8 Decision Making

Section II. Conservation and Management of Resources for Development
Chapter 9 Protection of the Atmosphere
Chapter 10 Land Resources
Chapter 11 Deforestation
Chapter 12 Desertification & Drought
Chapter 13 Sustainable Mountain Development
Chapter 14 Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Development
Chapter 15 Conservation of Biodiversity
Chapter 16 Biotechnology
Chapter 17 Protection of the Oceans
Chapter 18 Freshwater Resources
Chapter 19 Toxic Chemicals - Management
Chapter 20 Hazardous Wastes - Management
Chapter 21 Solid Wastes - Management
Chapter 22 Radioactive Wastes - Management

Section III. Strengthening The Role Of Major Groups
Chapter 23 Preamble Major Groups
Chapter 24 Women
Chapter 25 Children & Youth
Chapter 26 Indigenous People
Chapter 27 Non-Governmental Organizations
Chapter 28 Local Authorities
Chapter 29 Trade Unions
Chapter 30 Business & Industry
Chapter 31 Scientific & Technological Community
Chapter 32 Role of Farmers

Section IV. Means of Implementation
Chapter 33 Financial Resources
Chapter 34 Technology Transfer
Chapter 35 Science for Sustainable Development
Chapter 36 Education, Public Awareness & Training
Chapter 37 Capacity Building in Developing Countries
Chapter 38 International Institutions
Chapter 39 International Legal Instruments
Chapter 40 Information for Decision-making

Download
Agenda 21 WordPerfect 5.1, zipped
Programme 21 Français - WP5.1, zipped
Programa 21 Español - WP5.1, zipped

Other Rio Agreements
Framework Convention on Climate Change
Convention on Biological Diversity
Forest Principles
The NGO Alternative Treaties

The Local Agenda 21 (LA21) Campaign promotes a participatory, long-term, strategic planning process that helps municipalities identify local sustainability priorities and implement long-term action plans. It supports good local governance and mobilizes local governments and their citizens to undertake such multi-stakeholder process. The LA21 process leads to the preparation and implementation of a long-term, strategic plan that addresses priority local sustainable development concerns.

The development of Local Agenda 21 and its subsequent endorsement at the Rio Earth Summit as Chapter 28 of Agenda 21. A 2002 survey found that more than 6,400 local governments in 113 countries have become involved in LA21 activities over a 10-year period. Through LA21, local governments are establishing stakeholder groups, developing local sustainability plans and acting on these plans.
The movement from Local Agenda 21 to Local Action 21 ushers local governments from general sustainable development planning to working with local stakeholders address inter-related challenges to poverty and sustainability. ICLEI seeks to build Sustainable Communities and Cities by enabling local governments achieve justice, security, resilience, viable economies, and healthy environments. The four initiatives are: (a) Resilient Communities and Cities, (b) Just and Peaceful Communities, (c) Viable Local Economies, and (d) Eco-efficient Cities.

http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=798

All best/
Cocogo