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Amazingly inspiring time at the European Summit for Global Transformation!

I had a really good time presenting on the sunday morning and then met many many inspiring people.

Also we have appointed a CEO whom we met at the summit. Please bid welcome to Marie-noëlle Keijzer who is simply amazing and will shortly be providing her bio for the blog.

Finally had an exciting meeting with Tree O'Clock a BBC initiative to plant a huge number of trees on the 5th of December go and pledge some tree planti...
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We are on the brink of announcing several new partners and several new initiatives which is exciting and there is a lot of preparation for Copenhagen.

We have recut our video down to 2 Minutes 55 seconds and we are looking to release it with in several new versions with different voiceovers.

We now have three new reforestation projects being prepared one in St Kitts, one in Zambia and one in Thailand.

Stay tuned.

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The Green Thing have produced an amusing little film that expresses a key sentiment that I think bears repeating.

There is a lot riding on Copenhagen and it is very possible that nothing significant happens there because people are looking for elegant solutions and frankly speaking most things that work do not start out elegant.

You see most complex things that are built that work are at first made out of lots of different little things that worked already that have been cobbled together and th...
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Here is an example of a civilization that collapsed due to deforestation http://www.physorg.com/news176368228.html

Now given that today we have one huge planet wide civilization that is becoming more homogenized all the time and given we are rapidly deforesting our world is it perhaps just possible that we might have something to learn from the mistakes of ancient civilizations such as these?

Now you could argue that technological progress will serve us better than it did them and my question t...
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Just a very quick update tonight.

Today we made progress on several fronts;

We began our partnership on rural radio to promote permaculture forestry education in Zambia where we will aid in the production of shows that teach local farmers how to grow more economical and economic crops.

We continued development of our proposal to begin a reforestation, permaculture and entrepreneurial school on St Kitts and Nevis.

We began the follow up communications from the meetings on Friday and to prepare to ...
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