Flash Documentation

Creating rapid documentation of world changing activities, while simultaneously engaging in the process of change is quite a difficult proposition.

That is exactly what Gaian Actionists are doing all over the world.

Here is a quick video I put together to help share best practices for Flash Documentation, the art of rapidly capturing and editing information to share with the global commons.

Mind Mapping, online tools and planetary evolution

Working on my Masters Degree learning contract today I spent an hour supported by Grifen Hope and Javiera Carrion of Ecoescuela El Manzano documenting my learning design. During this dynamic process Grifen mapped my thinking in a program he likes to use called Mindmanager.

In order for me to view the document holding the structure of my learning design, I went a a change to convert the file type into .mm format for freemind .0.9.0

This catalyzed me to sign up for mindmeister, an amazing online collaboration tool that allows for exporing and importing mindmaps as well as working on them simultaniously with online collaborators. This tool was first brought to my attention as a tool of best practice by Kiterina Webber, and member of the German ROG.

So, I find myself sitting here at El Manzano, Biobio Chile, following up on advice given to me by a member of the German ROG at HuehueCoyotl Ecovillage in Morelos Mexico. Funny local, global world we live in eh?


This map gives a good overview of online tools that enable this kind of global collaboration to take place, and are empowering the grassroots mobilization of world changers. This technology is enabling us to create flexible organization around shared vision. This type of web2.0, adhoc, organizational structure is both collaborative and agile.

This type of collaboration is a very clear sign of the growing influence of the synergetic systems thinking and ability to collaborate that charecterizes what Spiral Dynamics calls Yellow (GT) thinking.

With the combination of high tech communications technology, a keen awareness of group process (social), systems thinking and awareness of environmental process (eco), and somatic awareness, we start to see the glimers of true intelegence, and the hope that humans can persue a course of consiouce evolution in step with the processes and needs of mother earth.

The protonoosphere that is the internet, seems to be evolving rapidly towards a connecting intellegence analogous to our own neural pathways....
with raising complexity we find increased emergence...
Web Technology as sacred




Here we go!

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Financial Permaculture .Global

Financial Permaculture from Greg Landua on Vimeo.


This video shows the interactive, participatory design process to create a sustainable business ecology as a part of a community transition process in the town of Hohenwald, TN. This safe phenomenon is happening all other the world. In fact, the edges being designed and surfed by nearly all my permaculture and regenerative design collegues have a similar theme as we apply permaculture principles and ethics to social and economic design problems to help address injustice and inequality by empowering participation in the local and global economy.

This video, by Byron Palmer seems even fresher in light of the re-embracing of the old paradigm of banking and toxic loaning that Obama seems to be chasing after.

It is, after all, up to us to harness the collective, youthful and vibrant spirit that has changes the USAmerica Administration from Bush to Obama, to continue to push for participatory solutions to the global financial crisis.

BodyVersity and Ecosomatics

Plan, and body wisdom are two key parts of the emerging sustainable culture.

Nala Walla's BodyVersity offers a glipse into the art of ecosomatics: integrating graceful movement and individual body/mind awareness into movement that gives back to the planet and her people.

Tuning into what you body needs: diet, exercise, touch, play, is not an extraneous extra, but an essential part of integrating into the world in a healthy way.

This quick video really shows the deep wisdom of designing play, improv and movement into group activities.

During the last Gaia University International Gather In, play and improve, lead by Nala Walla of the BCollective, was an integral part. This allowed us to ground into our bodies and integrate the heady intelectual design processes and conversations that were swirling around between the amazing permi desingers, organizational designers and educators from around the world that came to help design the next phase of Gaia Unviersity's transformitive action learning pathway as a social organism.