social - Depth Psychology Alliance2024-03-28T17:33:33Zhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/feed/tag/social“United Permaculture Workers” - Vision for a Global Permaculture Trade Union (PTU) by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Designhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/united-permaculture-workers-vision-for-a-global-permaculture2015-05-09T20:34:50.000Z2015-05-09T20:34:50.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><div class="field field-type-image field-field-image"><div class="field-label"> </div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>“United Permaculture Workers” - Vision for a Global Permaculture Trade Union (PTU) by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Design</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong><em>Working Paper 1.0</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong>What is a Labor Union?</strong></p>
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<p>A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union" target="”blank”">labor union</a> is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve common goals such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, achieving higher pay and benefits such as health care and retirement, increasing the number of employees an employer assigns to complete the work, and better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members (rank and file members) and negotiates labour contracts (collective bargaining) with employers.</p>
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<p><strong>Permaculture Trade Union (PTU)</strong></p>
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<p><strong>First</strong>, any labor-focused Permaculture Trade Union must not be confused with a “permaculture guild”, whose focus is to “… support a local community of designers and those interested in permaculture by producing educational and social events, enabling permaculture projects and providing opportunities to exchange information related to permaculture design.<br/> <strong>-- <a href="http://www.permaculture-sf.org/?page_id=213" target="”blank”">The San Francisco Permaculture Guild</a></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Second</strong>, a PTU should be charged with the protection and counsel of any undocumented laborer in the harvesting and processing of permaculture crops.</p>
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<p><strong>Third</strong>, the PTU can must contribute and integrate with other <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy" target="”blank”">social democracy</a> movements and organizations like the United Farm Workers, the Sierra Club and the <a href="http://transitionpaloalto.org/" target="”blank”">Transition Movement</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Finally</strong>, what are the work roles or trades that could be represented by the PTU? Investors, land owners, designers, material suppliers, labor, PDC school instructors and students come to mind.</p>
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<p><strong>Some advantages of a PTU</strong></p>
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<p>+ In addition to the critical collective bargaining mandate, the Union can actively educate and support the <a href="http://www.patternliteracy.com/resources/ethics-and-principles" target="”blank”">global values of permaculture</a> including care for the people and care for the earth.</p>
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<p>+ Permaculture has a huge marketing / outreach problem and the Union can help the fledgling vision out of the backyard and into the Commons!</p>
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<p>+ The PTU can and must contribute to the ongoing standardizations of land design and harvesting tools and techniques.</p></div>“The Coil Pattern and the Global Warming Meme” - Vision by Willi Paul, NewMythologist.comhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/the-coil-pattern-and-the-global-warming-meme-vision-by-willi2014-04-08T19:19:20.000Z2014-04-08T19:19:20.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>“The Coil Pattern and the Global Warming Meme” - Vision by Willi Paul, <a href="http://newmythologist.com/" target="”blank”">NewMythologist.com</a></strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>I. Consider Two Definitions:</strong></p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" target="”blank”">Global warming</a></strong> refers to an unequivocal and continuing rise in the average temperature of Earth's climate system. Since 1971, 90% of the warming has occurred in the oceans. It is extremely likely (95-100%) that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.</p>
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<p>A <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme" target="”blank”">meme</a></strong> is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture." A meme acts as a unit for <strong>carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices</strong> that can be transmitted from one mind to another. Memes spread through the behavior that they generate in their hosts. Memes that propagate less prolifically may become extinct, while others may survive, spread, and (for better or for worse) mutate.</p>
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<p><strong>II. Web of evolution of connected memes resulting in Global Warming Meme:</strong></p>
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<p>The Global Warming meme is a Global Meme – made of smaller events, protests and political shenanigans. Chaos in society has increased from 1950 to present as have the number of memes. While some Small Memes are more important than others, all are inter-connected – like the World Wide Web. As the graphic illustrates, memes can be film-based, political-based, government-based, business or grassroots-based memes.</p>
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<p>Whether one small meme is more important in the development of the Global Warming Meme is debatable.</p>
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<p>Please see the <strong><a href="http://communityalchemy.com/GWmeme/GWmeme.pdf" target="”blank”">meme map attached</a></strong> (.pdf)</p>
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<p><strong>III. The Global Warming Meme Story:</strong></p>
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<p>Life Cycle of a Meme:</p>
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<p>1. <strong>Inception</strong> - combination of science, commercial trends and spirit = community alchemy</p>
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<p>2. <strong>Diffusion</strong> - memes are linked to habits and brands and are assimilated by communities</p>
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<p>3. <strong>Morphing</strong> - a sort of social DNA mixing, changes occur and new memes are created from old ones</p>
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<p>4. <strong>Integration</strong> – finally memes get “stuck” and become political cliques, song titles, or names for babies and Start-ups</p>
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<p><strong>IV. Discussion and Value of Memes</strong></p>
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<p>Memes are “disruptors “or early warnings of chaotic behavior. Of course, memes equally arise out of current chaos (war protests and the PEACE symbol). Memes are Small Data (re: Wilderness Act in 1964) that can combine to form Big Data (Global Warming Meme in 2014 and Peak Oil in 2018).</p>
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<p>Memes are about specific events, but also about building overall awareness, challenging and integrating new values into the next Big Meme. <strong>Memes are evolutionary agents.</strong></p>
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<p>Memes are often the “trend” before the trends arise. Best and strongest memes embedded in cultural dialog. Memes could be experienced as archetypes. It is possible that memes contribute to our dreams and help to predict future memes, movements, more disruption and global chaos.</p>
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<p><strong>V. Future Memes:</strong></p>
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<p>1. Memes are the building blocks for new stories and myths.</p>
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<p>2. The inception and diffusion patterns of memes should support the argument that they are predictors of future behaviors. Thoughts?</p>
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<p>3. Are there any new memes “under the Sun?”</p>
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<p>4. Will we survive the <strong><a href="http://openmythsource.com/2012/07/29/the-cascadia-funnel-and-the-last-3-eras-on-earth-new-myth-25-by-willi-paul-openmythsource-com/" target="”blank”">Chaos Era</a></strong> together?</p></div>