James Samuel

I discovered this tool yesterday, while looking for a timeline of the evolution of social media technology. I decided to create my own timeline of how I’ve used social media, since embracing email back in 1985.

In New Zealand we have so many opportunities for redesigning our world in a positive manner, and embracing the uncertainty of these times we live in. Be gentle with yourself and each other, do your own research and seek out ways you can become part of the solution. The possibilities for the future are endless, and it’s up to each and every one of us to find where we can or feel moved to contribute, and play our part in singing a brighter and healthier future into existence.

Software is being developed to facilitate vegetable box schemes, offering practical community benefits where ever it is used, and being software it can be used everywhere. The idea is to make is easy to coordinate the collection (gathering) of local food, and then the redistribution of it, in a consistent and predicatable manner. It will create opportunities to entrepreneurial types to quickly begin a local business that benefits eaters (all of us) and growers alike.

“…when a society reaches the limits of its stability, and turns chaotic, it becomes supersensitive, responsive even to small fluctuations such as changes in the values, beliefs, world-views and aspirations of its members.”

Yesterday was momentous. If you have been following Ooooby news, you’ll know that a number of people have been beavering away on this one for the last three months. Well yesterday we delivered.

www.ooooby.org went live last night! This is the story of the first Ooooby food box, which is connecting growers and eaters in a community in a most efficient manner. It’s about the growing and intersecting communities of interest using the readily available technology and readily available resources, to organise. With a focus on the small, intensive, local growers who use the most natural soil regenerating methods, the Ooooby Box is facilitating the distribution of healthy food for local consumption.

Nothing beats an organic, nutrient dense beet grown in your very own backyard. But what if you can’t grow everything you eat?

How do you decide which is the next best?

My heart sang last night, to see members of my community look at the challenges of the future, square in the eye, and then with energy and creativity name some creative, and do-able solutions. Here’s a six minute video I put together summarizing the evenings activities. Read on…

The crowd is building, down at the buyers club, which has only been open for three weeks now. A simple concept… get a group of people together, who know each other, and begin buying (in this case organic foods in the form of dry goods and produce), have some people run it like an enterprise [...]

While energy is a factor in the fall of the economic system, it was always going to implode, because it is a giant pyramid scheme that depend on growth to maintain its structure. Once growth stops, the laws inherent in the ‘house of cards’ financial system based on pyramid dynamics will inevitably cause a collapse.