With all the recent events in Egypt -- it is becoming obvious that the Internet is a great resource.
For all sort of things. Organizing, Demonstrating, Discussing, Learning, Resourcing.
This diary is posted with the Goal: to discover and document Internet Resources -- that can help the average person build a "saner planet".
In my "formative years" many decades ago, such tools were limited to "hard copy" formats.
"Whole Earth Catalog" and "Mother Earth News" magazines, "Appropriate Technology" Handbooks, were the touchstones, that inspired hope in naive young minds, then.
Indeed I still have many of those "hard copies", stored safely in boxes, as I discovered during a recent move. They should make nice "collectibles" someday. Hard copies, that's so last Century!
As I was responding to Laurence Lewis, insightful FP analysis today, Egypt is the future, I found myself connecting a few surprising dots.
Naively once again thinking that People CAN someday determine their own destinies ... as the events in Egypt can lead us to believe ...
First my comment in Laurence Lewis diary:
according to the movie W.
building "Empire"
is about controlling the world's oil reserves.
So, that points a way for short-circuiting
their power.
similar reasoning could be applied to the control
of food, and land, and water.
Now if people could learn to use the internet,
to build community co-operatives,
and employee-own businesses,
and networks of people, helping people.
Where is the "Whole Earth Catalog" of the modern age?
Where are the "Mother Earth News" magazines?
Where are the internet resources for surviving,
without the reliance on "Empire" and all that
that entails?
After Asking those questions, I did a little digging, and found some modern equivalents:
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"Whole Earth Catalog"
Back Issues -- The content from many back issues of Whole Earth publications is available here on the website.
"Mother Earth News"
current issue
The Complete "Mother Earth News" Archives on fully searchable CD-ROMs or one DVD-ROM
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Those are a stab from the past, and possibly still very relevant and useful.
SOOO, if YOU have any similar internet "Resources" that you would like to share
-- that can help the average person build a "saner planet"
-- Resources, that would help People, to help People
Post em, if you got them. They don't have to be of the "Vintage" variety.
Thanks.
We CAN Change the World.
... or so we used to say, way back in the after-glow of the very first Earth-Day. We were so young and fool-hardy, back then. ... some of us, still are.