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The Gulf Strean & the Global Environment 1 Reply

Started by Franz Hrazdira. Last reply by Franz Nahrada Dec 28, 2011.

Inspiring books, films, resources 5 Replies

Started by Franz Nahrada. Last reply by Rafael Reinehr Nov 29, 2010.

Global Villages Yahoogroup = Our Mailing List at Yahoo. please subscribe - <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalvillages">here</a>

CC Documentary

Hi this is my project a documentary licenced under creative commons. The Yachachiqs: Modern Technology and Traditional Knowledge in the Andes of Peru

jingles for the first village innovation talk - please have a look

As things heat up towards the village innovation talk on Friday 16th of December here is finally the jingles, giving you the story in one and a half minute in

Asking 12 Questions (crosspost)

Mark, Thank you for encouraging me! Indeed, when I first came to Occupy Chicago, I was encouraged by people that there was a need for the 12 questions and

Re: Minciu Sodas: Thanking and Forgiving

Hello Andrius, I just thought of a great project for your 12 questions! Could you go to the various Occupy! camps and non-camping demonstration sites, or tap

Minciu Sodas: Thanking and Forgiving

Greetings from Chicago! From 1998 to 2010, I organized "Minciu sodas" http://www.ms.lt as my business for serving independent thinkers around the world. My

We need partners for a Grundtvig Partnership Project

We need partners for a Grundtvig Partnership Project The main aim of the project is basically about providing vocational education for unemployed disabled

Video Stream, Translation

Andrius ... It will be all in German We were looking for a way to get the stream translated to english on the fly. Now we de-prioretized this. If anybody would

Re: Global Villages Network co-creates "Village Innovation Talk" [1

Franz, Congratulations! I know that you've worked for many years with some of these villages. It's exciting to see them coming together in very much the way

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[ http://globalvillages.ning.com/ ]Global Villages Network local community - global networking Dear Members of the Global Villages Network, Dear subscribers of

Fwd: The connection between Wall Street and destruction of the envir

Hello All, ... Date: Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:52 PM Subject: Fw: The connection between Wall Street and destruction of the environment This piece is quite well

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Important Announcement

This network is kept for archive purpose - we chose the NING Mini plan and will keep you posted where the new epicenter of the global villages network will be. In the meantime find the many branches with http://www.globalvillages.org. Franz Nahrada

Sorry all groups and pages were deleted by NING because this is only a NING mini plan - no warning issued when it happened.

Blogs and fora are still alive, but we will leave this place as soon as we can.

In the meantime. please follow the preparations for Village Innovation Talk and Village Innovation Summit 2012

The founding declaration of the Global Villages Network (then still Global Village Network) (16th February 1997, Vienna City Hall)

"One of the most powerful potentials that we are just beginning to unleash, is the feeling that in a time of increased global competition, diminuishing resources and growing uncertainty we have to use our local resources more wisely and that we can increasingly do so with the access to global knowledge, the sharing of experiences, the division of mental labour and the local connectedness that new information technologies make possible. The discovery of the full potential of this combination between local resources and global knowledge is the purpose of the GLOBAL VILLAGE NETWORK."

see full text here
visit sister sites:
* Our wiki and our mailing list
* globalvillages@worknets

Speech excerpts from a Vienna Workshop. Franz Nahrada about the necessity of villages:

Sorry there are two slight flaws in the speech, but I think the big picture is important. "rural areas" and "urban areas" are mixed up twice.

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Franz Nahrada replied to Franz Hrazdira's discussion 'The Gulf Strean & the Global Environment'

Franz I think we must move this thing because its out of the scope of a villages network ;-)

Dec 28, 2011

R. Oellinger-Guptara is now a member of Global Villages Network Dec 5, 2011

Welcome Them!

Franz Nahrada commented on Steve Thompson's blog post 'Occupy Stanhope'

It takes the electronic media to discover this. A warm thought to Marshall McLuhan up in the Skies, especially for the amazing things he wrote about the extension of our nervous system in "war and peace in the global village".

Dec 4, 2011

Steve Thompson commented on Steve Thompson's blog post 'Occupy Stanhope'

How interesting Franz. The scene we were re-enacting on Friday http://bit.ly/tgUD7G featured 10 year olds doing what 10 year olds did in the 1800's which was to mine lead in order to make bullets for the Napoleonic wars. I visited a…

Dec 4, 2011

Franz Nahrada commented on Steve Thompson's blog post 'Occupy Stanhope'

Steve, your creative passion is always full of surprises....although the story sounds familiar to me. We had a similar case as, for the revitalisation of our village spirit, we re-enacted the "Battle of Schwarzlackenau", the first battle…

Dec 4, 2011

Occupy Stanhope

I have been working with Jack Drum Arts of County Durham on a Community Play based on the subject of the 1818 ³Battle of Stanhope². The play will run for 3 days in March 2012 in a barn in Stanhope.Basically the story goes like this: the Napoleonic wars had ended and there was a lesser need for lead (bullets). Starving lead miners in Weardale turned to poaching to supplement their income. The Prince Bishop sent Gamekeepers on a mission and captured the Siddle brothers. Their friends and family…See More

Blog post by Steve Thompson Dec 4, 2011

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Look at the press release of the Village Innovation Talk: http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VillageInnovationTalk/EnglishVersion

Status posted by Franz Nahrada Nov 26, 2011

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please have a look at http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VillageInnovationSummit

Status posted by Franz Nahrada Oct 5, 2011

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A new years message to Globalvillagers

A new years message to Globalvillagers

                "We are the ones who still seem to be figuring out...

                ....how to be the ones we've been waiting for."

                Tom Atlee, http://tom-atlee.posterous.com/are-we-the-ones

A happy new year 2011 to everybody, be it via the mailinglist or other channels !

I have not written to the communit(ies) for quite a long time and want to give an update on many points… Continue

Posted by Franz Nahrada on January 11, 2011 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

June 2010 letter to the Globalvillages Community

This post goes -identically - to the members of the NING Group 'Global Villages Network' and to the members of the yahoogroup 'globalvillages'.

This is going to be a rather lengthy letter with many messages overdue - and therefore it makes sense to start right away with a table of contents:

thank you for the effort to read this!

Franz

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Posted by Franz Nahrada on June 2, 2010 at 6:06pm — 15 Comments

Message from Russia.

Recently our friend Gleb Tyurin organized a high level meeting on innovative ways in rural development in the Region of Vologda (between Moscow and Archangelsk). A group of experts and local and federal policy makers awaited dialogue with external participants via videobridge. To my bad surprise, Gleb seemed to be very nervous in the morning when the… Continue

Posted by Franz Nahrada on June 2, 2010 at 10:00am

A clarification (especially concerning our friends in Russia)

I have gained some attention in Russia after writing to the governor of Archangelsk about an opportunity to support sound rural development with the help of a Global Villages Network. This network is supposed to be a network of experts and innovators all around the world that cares about the future of Villages.

I need to make some clarification before going on with this matter. It is very interesting that there was a generally receptive attitude to the existence of such a network,… Continue

Posted by Franz Nahrada on June 2, 2010 at 11:30am

Digital Villages

Thank you for inviting me here Franz. I have many stories to tell and many links to share so this may happen over time. I have been using the concept of "Digital Villages" for a while but it's really a metaphore for something more concrete. You may recall Franz that when you visited Teesside I used the concept of "Rivers" to describe where you were in the world and how my heritage and mindset was focussed by the three main rivers that define my region in the North East of England.

My… Continue

Posted by Steve Thompson on February 22, 2009 at 11:11pm — 1 Comment

Pamela McLean and Post Industrial Development in Africa

The following will be pubished in Michel Bauwens P2P blog and I also post it here:

"That is the opportunity that the development of Africa presents. Rural Africa missed out on the industrial revolution that raised the living standards of the industrial nations. It is a fresh canvas where we can paint a new picture of development. We can work together, learning from the mistakes of the past, using the sustainable technologies of the present, developing the technolgies of…

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Posted by Franz Nahrada on October 20, 2009 at 8:59am