this was first posted on 16. April 2003, at
easa.antville.org
ECOTOPIA 2005 could and i feel should happen in bosnia. the country mostly affected by the worst war in europe since WW2.
ECOTOPIA 2005 is exactly the type of project that could unite people, rebuild communities and promote more sustainable living
ECOTOPIA
Held normally over the first three weeks of August for the past 14 years, Ecotopia is an attempt at building a self-reliant community, putting into practice the governing principles of an environmentally friendly life-style: waste recycling, vegetarian kitchen, consensus decision-making process, the use of alternative energy (hot water for dish-washing through solar panels, etc.). Furthermore, Ecotopia is a place to exchange experiences, spread information and enrich one’s knowledge through workshops and discussions. Day-to-day policy is made through direct democracy (concensus decision making) at the daily circle. Where possible Ecotopians participate in regional actions and clean ups, working with local organisations.
www.geocities.com
gives more info on ECOTOPIA, past and present
www.eyfa.org
is this years ecotopia in The Carpathian mountains in Ukraine this summer, theme- YOUNG PEOPLE AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN RIGHTS
www.ecotopia2002.org is last years in ireland, 1000+ people participated, lived, worked together from all over the world , theme- conflict resolution
these are one of the best networks to talk to and listen to in terms of “sustainability” today; they are living it and trying to spread it, i lived with them last summer for about a week and i learned a lot, i think many “architects” have a lot to learn
one problem with a system like ECOTOPIA, is that, for the most part, it only deals with the rural, and i feel we have to deal also and more so with the urban
there are serious challenges, the most important being that of making urban systems more “sustainable”, as so much of the worlds population is moving into the urban. that is what ECO CITY BANJA LUKA has started to explore with its initial workshop last april 2003
www.indymedia.org.uk
the initial networks and processes have been put into place so it would be great if ecotopia addressed this, and tried to have an “ecotopia” in banja luka in 2 years. either in the amazing forest at zelenkovac
www.mrkonjic-grad.com
or in tackling the urban problem- by occupying the presently unused industrial area of banja luka??
wherever though, ECOTOPIA is a great event. the balkans and bosnia in particular need something like this.
so please think about and make real
ECOTOPIA 2005 @ BALKANS
posted by duncan
Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:47:20 GMT
has been moved without consent by webmaster. undemocratic and unprogressive process, why?
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posted by duncan
Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:59:59 GMT
people are raelising how and why the world is messed up.
and they are doing something about it
please get involved
www.indymedia.org.uk
is summary of our invovlement here in oxford
www.tjm.org.uk
www.maketradefair.com
are main sites, global networks
think global
act local
posted by duncan
Sat, 28 Jun 2003 20:30:55 GMT
a simple vision of urban permaculture
where all gardens are managed for wildlife and foodproduction, where property is seem as gaurdienship and access is related to landuse to optimise the land use of the cities. after all most cities are built upon ecologically unique sites, with waterc courese ect.
getting children and teenagers involved with a continuity for all age groups to regreen the cities. It may involve smashing a few things up occasionally, like roads and big walls and structures which are out of scale with the community. open up the water courses, have them exposed to the light, create combustion free zones, electric and cycle acces only, so the air and water quality improves to allow fish back into the smaller water courses. encourage a new peasentry, with people who work the land, working hand in hand, working for food, for nature conservancy, for community. have street fairs and local markets. exchange of seed and advice on vegy growing. just more of the good stuff and less of the bad.
robin hood and dick turpin may need to come back.
the foxes should be esteemed as should all wildlife. build habitat into the architecture of tommorow. eat meat, but let it live a life first. legalise all drugs and then educate the youth to reduce consumption. encourage dance that makes you sweat, organise community work days where you get a work out, build local financial trusts, celabrate the seasons, get people singing together, holding hands, sharing problems ans solutions. create safe places to sleep out, give the smoothest roads to the skate boarders, deface colonial memorials, put up police free zone signs and create safe communities with restorative justice systems. deal with madness in a creative and exploratory way, with art and music therapy. shut down the zoos, and hunt down the perpetrators of bush-meat trade and bring them to justice. step up the counciling process for victims of sexual abuse, and look into the causes of this again.
invade th countryside with ecofarmers, and restore the peasentry to the land, get ride of broadscale agriculture, get rid of GM, tell the texans to fuck of in no uncertain terms. make friends with europe and north africa, and start rebuilding the international rail system by nationalising it then giving it over to brussles to run. shut down the nuclear power stations, and give all households the means to have local power production {solar, wind, biogas], stop pooing into water, everyone gets compost tiolets and local procees ing of poo.
loby the un for the gloabl passport and a travellers dole, where folk can travel on the cheep to where ever they might want to go, or be needed. scrap uni fees, in fact delete all debt personal and national and international.
invade norway and japan and destroy all their whaling vessels and deport all the whalers to Milton Keens. Invade switzerland and release all that money held in secret bank accounts to pay for all the outrageous ideas i have listed. apologies as a nation to the aborigionies of the world, do a total geneological analysis of the wealthy to trace any ill gotten gains and redistribute the dosh.
organise a mass debate between all religions to be screened every friday night until its sorted out. move the british monachy to New Zealand where they are better loved, so that they can marry into some top Maori tribe and let the U.K disband into 4 countries, then i can get a scottish passport at last, unless i get a U.N one first.
map out the laylines and remove energy blocks from them, reenergies the earths energy grid, and have it resonating on the highest of vibrations. Make Jerusalem the capital of Semetia, and engeneer a few significant marriages between Jewish Princesess and Arab princes.
Clean up the meditaranean, make the best saling fleet to carry freight and passengers, again outlaw combustion engins, make the oil companies pay for the transition then arrest all the heads of companies and put them on trial for thoughtlessness. reforest the med coastline, built a cycle rout all the way round with a big cycle tournament in Tripoli every janauary. Give everyone a ticket on the transiberian for their birthday and increase capacity.
Trick all the generals and compulsive soldiers to enter cyber space and t=have thier battles there, bigger brighter better bullshit!!! Then turn of the machines and carry thier limp bodies out of the life support rooms down the the african plains so they can get eaten by Lions and come back as lions, which would appease theri spirits.
make the Whales and Dolphis the recognised authorities in the ocean, and then try to find out what they would like us to do. reintroduce all the medieveal fauna to Britain, so we can hunt boar like Asterix did.
ok ive got an exam tommoro, better go
posted by mattmorton
Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:08:39 GMT
posted by jelkkruk
Thu, 26 Jun 2003 21:12:59 GMT
EASA, why are you being so quite, get up off your lazy arses and
start getting involved- you have the power to bring about huge
global change
and doing it is FUN
what are you saying to the world?
www.indymedia.org.uk
posted by duncan
Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:13:09 GMT
FUSPEY-fun-sustainable-peaceful-existence
FUSPEY is a direction to work toward, individually and as a network.
creativity is a very powerfull tool for change, we are trying to use art to communicate and to challenge (in a non-violent way)
a revolution in perception
(you can find this article on INDYMEDIA OXFORD – www.indymedia.org.uk )
FUSPEY
fun
sustainable
peaceful
existence
FUSPEY is a direction to work toward, individually and as a network.
www.geocities.com
tels more about the THINKing and the DOing behind the FUSPEY idea
creativity is a very powerfull tool for change, we are trying to use art to communicate and to challenge (in a non-violent way)
recently the FUSPEY network came together in oxford brookes university, it evolved from the “Oxford Brookes Peace Network” which worked with other networks to try to prevent the illegal war in iraq by the US and britain.
”All of us must have the courage to stand up and condemn what is wrong.” is a quote from nelson mandela, speaking recently in galway, ireland.
www.indymedia.ie is more on that
earlier this year we organised a week of events, talks, film screenings
FUSPEY week @ Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane campus, Headington road
Monday 12th – Sunday the 18th may 2003
easa.antville.org
Brookes university media unfair
due to whatever reasons? corporate control of uni, pro war sentiment, apathy???
Brookes university media choose not inform its students of the society that “has been doing most in the uni”
easa.antville.org
FUSPEY film 1
we put our first film online its 35 seconds of sound and vision
uktest.indymedia.de
is link to the film
some of the projects we are presently working with are
EASA (euroepean architectural students assembly)
ECO CITY GROUP
Indymedia
World Bank Boycott
Ecotopia
Oxford Brookes Peace Network
the next major one will be “sustainable living”, through EASA, whereby 400+ students, eco builders, artists will live in a freestate in denmark and do a 2 week workshop, we are in the process of setting up the FUSPEY workshop.
www.geocities.com is the link to those projects
the first FUSPEY lecture was delivered in September 2002
it has been since delivered in Dublin, Oxford, Denmark, Bosnia,
these were all public, some were from architecture and art departments
The basis of the lecture consisted of presenting recent changes in technology and worldview that has resulted in the paradigm shift we are now going through in world history; The next renaissance or even more than that, another major REVOLUTION in perception and action. We are now living in the NETWORK AGE.
We don’t have the answers yet, but we have started to ask the right questions
www.geocities.com is the temp website, another will be online soon
feedback is essential for healthy open living systems, please tell us what you think or get involved.
peace is more fun
dunk
FUSPEY-fun-sustainable-peaceful-existence
posted by duncan
Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:31:03 GMT
is online at
uktest.indymedia.de
just click on the writing in blue, should download in a minute
35 seconds long, sound and vision
what do you make of it?
posted by duncan
Sat, 14 Jun 2003 22:24:14 GMT
Dear Julia, Javier, Tamara, Miroslava, Natasha, Alexander, Irina,
This is great that the co-ordination meeting will take place in Kyiv
already tommorow, on Tuesday, 10th June. I hope, communication
sufferings of Green Dossier will come to the end soon!
At this meeting SVIT will be represented by its general co-ordinator
Julia Myasyscheva and Alexander Bagin, head of SVIT member group from
Donetsk region, town Gorlivka. Julia made up a nice list of issues for
discusson. Here just to reiterate issues, which SVIT would need to
know as soon as possible:
1.How much participants, except for prep.team, could be sent by SVIT?
2.What would be daily rate for a participant? Usually, when we invite
volunteers for camps they do not pay for meals and accommodation. For
this reason SVIT would need to solve this problem for all volunteers
recruted through SVIT (Ukrainian and foreign). Would be great if
volunteers recruted through SVIT could have some reduction.
3. Communication in the prep.team:
This year SVIT organises three camps apart from Ecotopia. All
interetsted volunteers send their applications to the special mailing
list. Besides, SVIT has a specially dedicated placement officer Olga
Kryvenko (SVIT member group from Kryvyi Rig, svit_info@mg.dp.ua)who
together with the general co-ordinator shall deal with issues like
putting people in special camps, facilitate contacts between
volunteers and camp host,logistics and invitations. SUGESTION, maybe
reasonable to use the existing SVIT placement list for all
communications on Ecotopia preparation. Or, to think on the creation a
new one? The most important is that the list will create a space for
discussion for all people, involved in preparation of Ecotopia in
Ukraine. As far as I understand, the prep team is located in different
places (like Kyiv, Artemivs’k, Gorlivka, Kryvyi Rig, others?)
Wish you a very nice meeting.
With all good wishes,
Olga Malakhova
P.S.: I plan to be in Kyiv this Friday, on 13th of June. Maybe to have
a quick chat? Should I call you?
–
Best regards,
Olga mailto:molga@mg.dp.ua
posted by eyfa
Tue, 10 Jun 2003 20:20:30 GMT
Ecotopians, please send us the application forms!
the form you can find on
www.eyfa.org
eyfa team
posted by eyfa
Wed, 04 Jun 2003 15:43:51 GMT
MM interview with Don foresta
(involved with www.mmmarcel.org – MARCEL network)
MM: At the end, any message or final thought you have for EASA people?
DF: I think that the thing that makes sense of EASA is to become a network. And not just to meet once a year, but to come up with some kind of a sustainable program, during the course of the year, and the best and easiest way to do that is just to go network, and make sure that the participants just don’t all disappear, and to find some way of staying in touch and working together. But it has to be more than e-mail. It really has to be an extension of visual space and a high bandwidth network permits that. It would make a perfect sense to me to see this kind of organization move into that direction. So, that becomes, not just the summer workshop, but nearly a whole year workshop. And then, the summer is the chance for people to actually meet physically, that’s essential. When you meet physically then you can go work on the network. That, probably, would be a good goal.
——————————————————————————–
06.08.03 MM
posted by duncan
Fri, 30 May 2003 21:27:50 GMT
FUSPEY ART event will happen in brookes art department on tuesday 3rd of june,
photo studio 1- 1.30 pm
art, network, process, revolution, ecology, communication, world, RTS, architecture, peace, brookes, creativity, film. website,
FUN
SUSTAINABLE
PEACEFUL
EXISTENCE
for more stuff on what is FUSPEY see
www.geocities.com
what are your views?
get involved
live
love
posted by duncan
Fri, 30 May 2003 12:22:20 GMT
Members of FUSPEY here at Brookes University are working on a motion to put to the Students Union asking them to agree not to buy World Bank bonds. The motion will also ask that the Students Union approach the University with the same request. We want to know if the University already holds bonds in the World Bank and if so would like them to agree to pursue alternative, ethically sound and sustainable investments.
The World Bank is renouned for it’s whiter-than-white self image. If you don’t know already it says that it is working to alleviate ‘Third World’ poverty and improve living conditions by encouraging developement. To view this self image visit www.worldbank.org
Actually 3.2 million people in the developing nations that it claims to be aiding are currently being displaced by World Bank projects. Projects include building of power plants, dams and oil pipelines owned by private corporations and payed for (at least in part) by governments of developing countries.
These projects are also seriously damaging to the environment. For detailed info. including case studies on effect World Bank developement projects have on environment/people go to www.brettonwoodsproject.org
There are many other sites documenting World Bank activities and their often disastrous results.
How can these poor nations afford to pay for such extravagant and harmful ‘developement’ projects?
Well, the World Bank, together with the IMF (International Monetary Fund) lend money to governments in developing nations to pay for these projects- but they get it back with interest, hence the value of investing in the bonds. Many governements that borrow money from the World Bank spend more money repaying debts each year than on healthcare, education and public services combined. And many have repaid their originals debts several times over.
In the end it is the people who pay. 7,000,000 people die each year as a direct result of unfair political, social and economic systems. Now I’m not saying that the World Bank and its investors are soley responsible. Of course there are other cotrbutory factors- climatic, corruption within local and national government etc.
But…
The World Bank does not, as it claims, strive to better these systems. It is a profit making organisation. With the WTO it puts pressure on governments that oxe money to open up their economic markets to ‘free trade’ and to sell of public services to private, profit making organisations (mostly multinationals).
That’s enough of the bad stuff for the moment. It’s much more exciting and less defeatist to discuss what WE can do to change this. Without the money that governments, mutinational corporations, banks and other institutions (including universities) invest in bonds the World Bank is powerless to pursue it’s questionably motivated interests in exploiting the people of nations in debted to it.
That’s is why the World Bank Bonds Boycott is calling on individuals, the institutions of which they are part and governments that represent them to agree not to invest in World Bank bonds, to cancel the debts of ‘Third World’ nations and make a stand against corporate and government sponsored exploitation of people and the planet we ALL live on.
Many organisations have already passed resolutions against the purchase of WorlBank bonds including University of New Mexico and entire cities (San Francisco)
Please reply to this posting if you have any questions /other input.
You can visit the World Bank Bonds Boycott website at www.worldbankboycott.org
and find out what we at Brookes are doing to gather student support at www.geocities.com
posted by rupertmow
Fri, 30 May 2003 10:58:24 GMT
DANKAN IMAS POTPUNO PRAVO I MORAS BITI VEOMA LJUT I RAZOCARAN U ECO SITY GROUP JER SMO IZDALI I TEBE I NAS PLANET.
JA SAM BAS LOS JER SVA OBECANJA KOJA SAM TI DAO NISAM ISPOSTOVAO.
DANKAN TI SI NAJBOLI COVJEK KOJEG ZNAM I ZAISTA MI JE ZAO
MILAN
posted by ecocity
Thu, 22 May 2003 07:09:28 GMT
sorry for moving the album, but i think it’s too much for the frontpage.
here it is don’t miss it! ;)
posted by paradeiser
Wed, 21 May 2003 20:56:24 GMT
