Reignition!

Well, well. I think a lot has happened since I last posted here and I'm not sure what rubbish I've been writing prior to this. Safe to say, all has been food for thought and thought for food! Sorry, writing rubbish again?!?! Or is it Zen?

I do hope to be keeping stimulatesystems.org more up-to-date. For now, please do 'tune in' a little more often. We promise NOT to disappoint.

Easy,

T. ;)

The Future of the Past

Seems like systems thinking is again badly needed in such a fractured world as the one we witness today. It posits a more 'holistic' approach to the issues facing humankind; one absolved of the fettered differences inherent in tradtional, historically-based memes. We should be moving forward, facing the problems of the Twenty First Century together and not separated by ideologically-based resource contentions which have been to the detriment of progress to date.

Hence we would like to propose a 'therapeutic community' where those who have been ostrasiced by dominator culture can come together to find a common sense of purpose amongst like-minded individuals representative of forward-looking communal mindsets.

The past belongs just there. The future is ours to invent.

Moonbase Beta 0.1.1

This may not look like much but it is a basic shelter put together with stuff that was lying around (had been picked up in the woods, etc. and from leftovers in the loft) and incorporating the fence at the bottom of the garden. It took around twenty minutes to put together. I had the idea over on twitter. My thinking was that OK, so we're not looking after this planet too well so maybe we should consider the Moon. However, having carried out some basic research on starting to build my own rockets (seriously) I figured a. the Moon is quite some way away and b. that I didn't like the idea of using fossil fuel/chemical propellants (surely it only leads to more pollution here back on Earth). I did think about alternatives to the latter like giant solenoids or (more in the realms of science fiction perhaps) solar reflectors/laser propellants (although I am sure some military project is working on this right now).

So, anyhow, I decided a better way to go in the meantime would be to try out an Earthship, something I've kind of experimented with in the past. That time I was attempting to further insulate a standard garden shed with sandwiches of shredded paper but was duly interrupted by other projects and associated misfortunes! However, here we have an improvised shelter which when coupled with the renewables projects (which you can get a good idea of at www.diyngo.org), water capture and filtration (I previously bought a Mountain Rescue hand pump water filter) plus perhaps a few other bells and whistles may lead to a sustainable building of sorts. At least its worth experimenting with and its really good fun to boot. Makes for a great education project for the young people who are the ones who will really be suffering the most if we don't soon sort out the climate mess...

Remember this version is really just a bookmark (a mock-up), a way to get the ball rolling. I'll post further examples of this line of thought here if there's anything substantial to report. For now, go have some fun down the bottom of your garden, assuming you're lucky enough to have one.

Crikey!

Its been all go of late trying to figure out how to legitimise this enterprise! Would like to establish it as a legal entity, probably a Limited Company in the UK.

If I were you, at this stage, I would check back here in a short while when hopefully something more constructive will be happening.

Meanwhile, do check out www.stimulatesystems.com to get an idea of what may well be happening soon!

Thanks,

Tim :-)

We have just added a 'teaser' course to thirdspace.mobi to give you an idea of what we're about?

You don't need to donate to participate in this one, simply log on as 'guest'. You can then listen to the podcast and participate in the subsequent discussions...

...please do consider making a comment. This has all been a lot of hard work so it'd be nice to know if we're striking a chord with people.

Peace out, Tim.

New Course from Stimulate Systems!

Hey everyone!

A new course will be commencing soon over on thirdspace.mobi. Its called System Malfunction, based on a book I started to write once but never finished since a major publisher couldn't see it easily sitting on a bookstore shelf! :-)

This way those who enrol get to delve a little deeper into my own thinking about this matter and we all together help co-construct an even deeper version of this history of events.

Sounds good? Go check out the website and think about participating...

Thanks.

DIYNGO developments

There are some important developments over at our NGO, DIYNGO (pronounced "Dingo", as in the wild dog!) No point in reiterating them here, check out the link!

Peace.