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Words & Pictures | Jon Barrett
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A personal response to the world's converging crises. EXCERPTS FROM ‘SILENT MEMOIR’. 8216;SLOW FLOW’ – SOME THOUGHTS, SKETCHES and PAINTINGS. 8216;Silent Memoir’…. Has been released in the wild. An off-beat 'stream of consciousness' of awakening to ecocide, it is named for Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring'. But, fifty years on, is maybe less hopeful. See ‘Silent Memoir’ in 'My Other Sites' below. Forever Groundhog Day For Climate? Un message de Pierre Rabhi. Adventure as ‘Therapy’. Hemp, Lime & Clay. Send ...
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The Invitation | Jon Barrett
https://jontybarrett.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/the-invitation
A personal response to the world's converging crises. 8220;It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for,. And if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love,. For your dreams,. For the adventure of being alive. It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the centre of your sorrow,. I want to know if you can get ...
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Forever Groundhog Day For Climate? | Jon Barrett
https://jontybarrett.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/forever-groundhog-day-for-climate
A personal response to the world's converging crises. Forever Groundhog Day For Climate? This is a guest post by David Cromwell, co-founder and editor of Media Lens. A public interest organisation which, since 2001, has been raising awareness of “how mainstream newspapers and broadcasters operate as a propaganda system for the elite interests that dominate modern society”. In 2007, Media Lens was awarded the Gandhi Foundation International Peace Prize. Forever Groundhog Day For Climate? And it’s no...
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The firstSTEP handbook | Jon Barrett
https://jontybarrett.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/the-firststep-handbook
A personal response to the world's converging crises. I have been thinking about whether to review the predictions for 2011. That I made – not from personal expertise, I should add, but from paying attention to those who. Expert in these things. But, to be honest, I really don’t want to. After the whirlwind of globally consequential events of the past twelve months, a brief glance back at the predictions shows how many not only have come to pass but also are now self-explanatory. 8220;not only in classro...
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Vernacular Solutions | Jon Barrett
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A personal response to the world's converging crises. Properly refers to those languages or dialects that are specific to the indigenous peoples of a locality – as opposed to the officially recognised language of a country or nation. But the word has taken on a wider meaning that is relevant to how we might come to relocalise our lives and communities. In architecture, for instance, ‘. It seems to me that many other skills for localised living are also essential. So I use the term ‘. Some pages below lin...
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Tips for Communicating Sustainability to the Sceptical | Jon Barrett
https://jontybarrett.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/tips-for-communicating-sustainability-to-the-sceptical
A personal response to the world's converging crises. Tips for Communicating Sustainability to the Sceptical. Here’s a taster from the Activities Section of the. 8216;Sustainability through Experience Handbook’. Currently in preparation…. Tips for Communicating Sustainability to the Sceptical. 1) Start from where other people are at. As activists and change agents, we need to work to understand the worldviews of those who disagree. Reactions to deeper reflective. Our own fears about the dire prospects fo...
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Un message de Pierre Rabhi | Jon Barrett
https://jontybarrett.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/un-message-de-pierre-rabhi
A personal response to the world's converging crises. Un message de Pierre Rabhi. Nous lançons dès janvier la (R)évolution des Colibris pour que tous ceux qui ne savent plus où se tourner dans la chaotisation grandissante du monde, trouvent des voies possibles pour se relier à d’autres et pour agir. Find out more about Colibris here. Posted in Converging Crises. Laquo; Tips for Communicating Sustainability to the Sceptical. Forever Groundhog Day For Climate? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Hemp, Lime & Clay.
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The Last Post | Jon Barrett
https://jontybarrett.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/the-last-post
A personal response to the world's converging crises. This is the last post on this blog, written not by Jon but by L, his lovely gypsy wife , as he referred to me in his book Silent Memoir. Jon tragically died a few weeks ago, on the 5. He didn’t make money from these engagements. He would pay his staff, but generally we worked for nothing except a small food allowance. I personally was paid a token amount during our last two years at Basecamp, having worked for ten years unpaid. While we were discussin...
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Converging Crises Blog | Jon Barrett
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A personal response to the world's converging crises. To go to latest blog posts. To go to earlier posts, see archives. In sidebar at right. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. Effets de Ter...
