> 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

> 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.