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
Nature based play
Nature based play is vital to early childhood education.
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Global Eye
Peace, Culture, Environment, IT, & the Future
- Cell size and scale
A cool zooming flash tool to visually show the size of cells (drag the horizontal bar). - A pattern language viewer
Christopher Alexander's best-selling book on 253 underlying, fundamental patterns for architecture of cities, regions, houses and living spaces is also available online via a hyperlinked summary viewer of the patterns. - Living Barefoot - Barefoot Walking, Barefoot Running, Barefoot Shoes, Barefoot Lifestyle, Barefoot Community
Why barefoot? Because being barefoot is healthy for you and can feel great! Because being barefoot is how our bodies were designed. More and more people are discovering the health benefits and personal enjoyment of living life in a more barefoot way. - James Neill (jtneill) on Twitter
Tweets from James Neill, psychology lecturer aka (life)hackr interested in ideas, tech, outdoors, free culture, wilderdom - Dig baby dig! (And grow baby grow!)
With all this gloom and doom around, here?s something positive you can do. Grab a shovel, go out to the verge in front of your house, and dig it up. - Thriving too
Relentlessly searching for geeky hubs of irrepressible social goodness...
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 ~6.9 billion people
- the 2009 growth rate of humans is 77 million [[Population Growth]
"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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