Projects
Tools for Human-Environment Transformation
What is Wilderdom?
Wilderdom refers to "natural living". Anyone can experience Wilderdom by living in conjunction with nature.
Why this website?
The internet is the only technological tool which has a good chance of saving the planet.
Explore Wilderdom
Human<->nature principles, stories & images
Wilderdom explores human-nature relations and seeks sustainable solutions to modern-living.
"I wish a were a park..."
"...you will be again one day."
"I see the world gradually
being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which
will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I
look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this
cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again."
- Anne Frank, 1944
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We can't put it together.
It is together.
Content on this site may be used, modified, reproduced and redistributed. Copyleft is the opposite of copyright.
Videos
Mt Tennent Snow Walk, June,
2007 - 2:22m - 11 MB
There was snow on Mt
Tennent, so I did a late afternoon run to suck in Mother Nature's winter
rapture. Water, rivulets, sweat, rocks, trees, kangaroos, drink,
wombat, dusk, sky, silence, ice, snow, descent, home, share, memories,
edit, upload, reflect.
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Global Eye
Peace, Culture, Environment, IT, & the Future
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 Footprint of Man
(www.timesonline.co.uk)
If humans were to vanish from Earth today, our footprint would linger for a blink of an eye in geological terms. Nature would immediately begin eradicating our impact. In 50,000 years only archaeological traces would remain. (see image)
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 WorldChanging
(www.worldchanging.com)
WorldChanging was founded on the idea that real solutions already exist for building the future we want. It's just a matter of grabbing hold and getting moving.
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 Dropping Knowledge
(www.droppingknowledge.org)
112 of the world's 'wisest' are coming together around the world's largest table, with 112 cameras set up to record each of their answers to 1000 questions. The multimedia and text content will be copyleft and made available for all to read and discuss.
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 Why schools should use exclusively free software
(www.gnu.org)
Richard Stallman, champion of the free software
movement, presents a powerful social argument for why real education requires
that we use free and open source software.
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 All Is One
(www.globalcommunity.org)
A hip and groovy wombat explains it like it is - we are interconnected, there is only one planet (for now),
so we need to learn how to share and get along. Funky message for young & old. 1.4MB SWF, 30 secs.
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 Knowledge Navigator
(www.digibarn.com)
Made by Apple in 1987, this is a classic and
inspiring vision of academia and technology fusing for the 21st century.
Believe it or not, we now have all these tools - its just a matter of a
few tweaks in conceptual thinking to enact the potential.
World Facts
History of the universe & human activity on Earth
- homo sapiens emerged ~70,000 years ago through a series of glacial epochs (ice ages)
- there are currently ~6.2 billion people
- human population is growing by ~25 million / year
"Homo sapiens...a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree."
- Stephen Jay Gould
“For the first time in history it is now possible to take
care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.” (1980)
(Buckminster Fuller Institute)
Humanity & Nature
Healing & transcending the cleavage between humanity & nature
"Humans and nature construct one another."
- Alexander Wilson, 1992
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the
Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man."
- Rachel Carson, 1962
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