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Aardwerk: PDC course in 2012

January 8, 2012Cultura21April 2007, Berlin Germany, Collective Intelligence, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Creative Teaching Methods, Detai, Ecosystem Services, Energy Security, Environment, Essential Services, Eustatius, Francesca, International Organizations, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Local Food, Management Projects, Mexico City, Municipality, Nature Management, Netherlands, Oleg, Organic Farm, Paris France, Participants, Rana, Resilient Community, Sacha, Social Cohesion, Social Organisation, Statia, Strenghts, Term Challenges, Traditional Culture, Vitality, Volunteer Positions, Water Security

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Netherlands (Special Municipality of Sint Eustatius)
Aardwerk: PDC course in 2012

For the time from the 1st of May to the 21st of May 2012, Aardwerk offers an international PDC course in a remote place, so that participants are able to see their environment in a new way. Instead of offering ready-made solutions, the course enables its participants to face the everyday challenges as well as the long term challenges they are faced with through their own strenghts and the collective intelligence of the group. The courses aim is to provide a new way of thinking: Rather than seeing problems, participants will be able to see opportunities.
Creative teaching methods and lots of practical field work will be part of the course. In the end graduates will receive the internationally recognised PDC certificate, which opens all possibilities for further work concerning permaculture.
There is the offer of several volunteer positions at local organic farm and nature management projects, for participants who would like to stay longer.
Benefits for participants is the development of skills throughout the course, among others the following ones:

greater food sovereignty
food and drinking water security & quality assurance
more efficient use of natural resources
energy security
more sustainable an resilient community life
practical community development & social cohesion
teaching traditional culture, knowledge & skills
more autonomy and security in essential services, products and materials
ways of social organisation that suit your own communityâ€™s needs and abilities

Participants will learn that following the patterns of Nature isÂ more satisfying and rewarding than e.g. switching Nature off and taking on the burdens of providing ecosystem services.
Furthermore the participants will contribute their share for Statia in terms of climate forest, local food security, healthy economic development and cultural enrichment.
The detailed programme, information about the location and the teachers can be found on http://aardwerk.org/school/international-pdc-2012/
Registration will be open from 1 December 2011 till 1 April 2012.

Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.

Cultura21â€²s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.

The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:

– Sacha Kagan (based in LÃ¼neburg, Germany) and Rana Ã–ztÃ¼rk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)

Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21

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1200 Buildings Commission: Enhancing Melbourneâ€™s Sustainability Performance through Public Art Â« Carbon Arts

November 30, 2011newsArchitects, Carbon Neutrality, City Of Melbourne, City Vision, Designers, Eco City, Fort Knox, Guy Wilson, Melbourne Vic, Municipality, Pilot, Proposals, Public Art Project, Self Storage, Signatories, Spencer Street, sustainability, Target, Vic Gov, West Melbourne

The 1200 Buildings Commission is a pilot public art project responding to the energy and sustainability performance of a commercial building within the City of Melbourne â€“ the Green Spaces at 490 Spencer Street in West Melbourne. The Green Spaces building is an early entrant in the Cityâ€™s 1200 Buildings scheme, which aims to facilitate the energy retrofit of 1200 buildings within the municipality, making a significant contribution towards meeting the City of Melbourneâ€™s target of carbon neutrality by 2020.

Carbon Arts is working closely with the City of Melbourne, Guy Wilson of Fort Knox Self Storage and Dave Collins of The Green Spaces to deliver a $30,000 commission by the end of 2011. Eleven artists, designers and architects have been selected to provide proposals for the space and share in the development of a new public arts program. The public arts program aims to leverage the efforts of signatories to the 1200 Buildings scheme by making these largely invisible efforts visible to the public and engaging all Melbournians in the Eco-City vision.

Links:Â http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/1200buildings/Pages/1200BuildingsPublicArtCommission.aspx

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Culture Futures Conference: Eco-Leadership through Culture , Dec 5, 2011, City Council Chambers, Durban

November 29, 2011COP17, Culture FuturesAfrica Centre, Africa World, African Perspective, City Chambers, City Council Chambers, Climate Summit, Creative Cities, Creative Industries, Cultural Values, Culture Conference, Danish Cultural Institute, Decision Makers, Dissemination, E Mail, Ecological Age, Ethekwini, Financial Motivations, Futures Conference, International Collaboration, Mediums, Municipality, Necessary Transition, Pieterse, Pixley, Preconceived Notion, Regional Development, Research And Development, Sequestration, Signup Procedure, Social Leadership, Urban Sustainable Development, Vision Of The Future, Way Of Thinking, World Leaders

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Culture|Futures is organising the conference â€œEco-Leadership through Cultureâ€ on December 5th from 9.30 to 19.00 during the UN Climate Summit COP17 in South Africa.

The conference is co-organized with the Municipality of Ethekwini (Durban), the Ecological Sequestration Trust and the Danish Cultural Institute in co-operation with many other partners in Durban and worldwide.

The conference will take place at the Durban Municipal City Chambers located at The City Hall, 263 Dr Pixley KaSeme Str (West Str), 1st Floor Council Chambers, Durban. The program will feature key notes and panel-interventions from some of the worldâ€™s highly recognised specialists and activists highlighting solutions needed to solve the challenges of the World and Africa.

Key notes include Peter Head, one of the world leaders in integrated urban sustainable development and chair of the new Ecological Sequestration Trust, and Prof. Edgar Pieterse, director of the Africa Centre for Cities. They will present a global andÂ African perspective to address major global and African challenges for urban/regional development and discuss the significant role of culture.

The purpose of the conference is to:

clarify the vision of an Ecological Age by 2050, how to deliver it and the role of culture
inspire institutions working with culture, and cities in Durban/Africa/World to undertake eco-social leadership
build Culture|Futures as a new international network for cultural institutions/actors, cities/regions and other stakeholders in eco-leadership

If you want to attend the conference, please register by sending an e-mail to info@culturefutures.org with your name and organization (if relevant), or by signing up to http://culturefutures.ning.com/events/culture-futures-eco-leadership-through-culture-conference-durban â€“ (this requires that you first go through a signup procedure to join the Culture|Futures online network (approval to the site may take one day).

As there are only a limited number of seats at the conference, confirmation of registration is required. The conference is free of charge.

Full details of the Culture|Futures 2011 Durban conference, keynote speakers and presentations, can be downloaded hereÂ Culture|Future Eco-Leadership through Culture Programme (pdf)

Culture|Futures is an international collaboration of organizations and individuals who are concerned with shaping and delivering a proactive cultural agenda to support the necessary transition towards an Ecological Age by 2050.

The Cultural sector that we refer to is an interdisciplinary, inter-sectoral, inter-genre collaboration, which encompasses policy-making, intercultural dialogue/cultural relations, creative cities/cultural planning, creative industries and research and development. It is those decision-makers and practitioners who can reach people in a direct way, through diverse messages and mediums.

Affecting the thinking and behaviour of people and communities is about the dissemination of stories which will profoundly impact cultural values, beliefs and thereby actions. The stories can open peopleâ€™s eyes to a way of thinking that has not been considered before, challenge a preconceived notion of the past, or a vision of the future that had not been envisioned as possible. As a sector which is viewed as imbued with creativity and cultural values, rather than purely financial motivations, the cultural sectorâ€™s stories maintain the trust of people and society.
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