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Subject: Re: [Bricolabs] bricos input desired...tribes, green technologies, communities, solutions and self determination
yes vick!! so nice all this you are doing!! great! I miss you and the
bricolabs...



2014-02-05 Victoria Sinclair <vickysinclair@???>:

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> Dear Bricos
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> it's been a while!   Greetings from Australia, where i have ended up after
> much travel in recent times, taking me to the lands of the Eagle and Condor
> on several occasions and now to here the land of the Rainbow Serpent.    i
> have been doing a part time MSc in Transpersonal Psychology, Consciousness
> and Spirituality on top of  working linking together indigenous groups
> where possible and studying quite a lot of plant medicines and healing
> modalities.   But i havent quite lost sight of things Brico, and now, as i
> have just been called to present at a delegation with numerous elders and
> innovators or Green Technologies at the weekend  (no pressure
> lastminute.com style of course) on
> what various networks of Elders are doing internationally to lead to self
> determination

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> i have been working a little with the international sovereignty movement,
> but when i got the request for a presentation last night, began to think
> about the networks i know, and talked to some of them
>
> what i have been asked to talk about still hasnt progressed to full
> realisation in a majority of communities because of many problems the
> Bricolabs network have been working on
>
> p2p networking, low tech solutions, distributed networks, water projects
> etc
>
> and i felt that rather than giving a presentation on the opening morning
> about all the trauma and lack of communications and rifts in communities
> (which will get a mention of course) it would be great to look at how there
> are many Elders in communities
>
> hubs, young people, groups working to preserve their heritage or to work
> with green technologies/knowledge sharing etc
>
> and just wanted to ask the Bricolabs network if anyone has any info they
> would like to share at this time about the progress of any work you are
> doing, or how you would go about empowering Elders (especially indigenous)
> ones to lead to greater self determination
>
> One of the reasons i got asked to speak is because a major objective of
> the delegation is to identify some pilots of green technologies that will
> be replicated in commmunities, first in China, Australia and Chile, and
> then elsewhere.    There is a substantial amount of money being put in for
> the pilots, and one reason i am there i guess is to make sure that there is
> representation of the fact that there is awareness of grass roots
> communities and how they can be involved in this rather than some high end
> testing which just leads to profit by some  rich entrepreneurs.

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> So, Bricos, if you have any updates or stories for me please, i would be
> really grateful to be back in touch with this. The meetings have the
> blessing and attendance of numerous Origine, Maori, Fijian, Easter Island
> and beyond tribes....and further solidarity with groups in more distant
> places is particularly welcomed from them at this time
>
> hope to connect soon!
>
> vx
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> www.ethicalsolutions23.wordpress.com
> Project Manager Generate Project and founder ArcSpace Manchester
> Co-ordinator Hackademia festival www.hackademia.org.uk
> Alumni Asian-Europe Foundation 360degrees
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