Reinterpreting a key parable of Jesus in this light, the Parable of the Tares, Jesus can be most plausibly understood as an incarnation of Adam, the original prototype human who God, in Genesis, appointed to oversee his creation and guide our spiritual evolution.
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Joseph Schumpeter and John Hicks were aware of the role of technology in cyclical variability, but their thoughts were not elaborated upon after they passed from the scene. Edmonson goes beyond formal theory, reviewing the record of economic growth and the role of technology in this growth. What does the technology future hold? Richly illustrated with helpful charts and diagrams, Living an Authentic Life will explain, in the everyday language of psychology, each step of the universal journey to wholeness.
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Inspire Integrity is addicting. Despite the influx of young people and tourists attracted by the lively shopping, architecture. Main Verte has inspired 18 working projects and 30 proposals for future sites.
On the initiative of local residents, supported by the AQSB, JN was developed as a community garden, built on a site which had been abandoned for almost a decade. Local residents and families undertake the daily care and cultivation of the vegetable garden, and local schools provide environmental education activities for the children.
Current situation After several years of trying and a change of municipal leadership, JN came to life in The experience Design challenges From an empty plot, the first flowers and vegetables were harvested in The JN is now authorised to remain on site until JN has inspired the design and common environment and feeling other projects. Developing decorations by designers with local gardens department which underpins the protocol for use of the garden, and sets out rules Pride in making and maintaining a children.
The charter has served to inspire other similar projects in Paris better neighbourhood. The garden has matured and the success of the neighbourhood dynamic widely Expressing oneself in creating original recognised.
Originally designed to be moved on once the city-owned plot is reclaimed a multimedia centre is scheduled to replace the garden in , locals hope that the city will make the garden permanent. This seems more and more likely. City Hall loans the site, provides infrastructure, servicing and equipment. JN provides management, supervision and gardening advice, and distributes the 54 Authors garden plots. Healthy, outdoor nature activities for all have evolved. The dilemma is that JN has become a victim of its success - there are now too many users for too few growing plots!
There Society. Since the residents started doing things together, communication barriers have diminished are a lot of public green spaces in Overvecht: residents wanted to use these particular areas to sharply. Gardening provides an opportunity for a Dutch woman to talk with a Moroccan man, etc.
Residents who want to garden, first ask permission from People have started feeling more accepted in society, improving their daily lives. The fear of the community centre, which provides the information they need. When permission is granted the unknown has disappeared — for example, residents now know that one of the hang around residents receive a management contract, and some funding, which makes the inhabitant fully youngsters, who previously they perceived as threatening, is in fact the son of Mr Chamli, their responsible for the maintenance of a piece of public space.
An neighbour. It also means a cleaner environment, with both gardeners and non-gardeners looking out for litter. The local authority can save on public space maintenance, now the green spaces are better managed. Overvecht is a suburb built in the ties in Utrecht. It consists mainly of appartament buildings rented by people with low incomes and from different cultures; the area tended to be drab and grey, and lacked a positive identity.
Another problem was that residents tended not to know each other, even in their own appartament block, and felt no responsibility for their neighbours. Current situation Loan Gardens came to life in the s. The general idea is not new, but was a new concept for this neighbourhood, giving it an identity and solving the problem of lack of social contact in the neighbourhood.
From the Loan Gardens initiative, initially taken by an artist of the neighbourhood, new services have been developed The Loan Garden service itself has improved, and housing The experience Design challenges corporation Portaal has created a new division, focusing on social circumstances, which aims to improve the neighbourhood.
Inhabitants mostly buy the plants and tools themselves, with the Pleasure in taking care of both individual Creating services and infrastructure to manage district office or the housing corporation providing funding when necessary. The district office has and common environment, and feeling problems collectively. Generating platforms for sharing instruments Pride in creating, and maintaining, a better and skills. Expressing oneself in creating original garden designs. Estonia, Tallinn Materjalid.
New groups interested in sustainable renovation and recycling of used materials are the new environment. It collects, removes, stocks and transports valuable used building and emerging thanks to workshops regularly organised by Materjalid. Participation in construction elements, ranging from door handles and postbox labels to bricks, stairways and these workshops encourages personal involvement in the renovation of homes, and encourages roof details.
Materjilad finds out about potential reclaimable materials from construction or real participants to look after their own environment. Nevertheless, more active promotion via mass estate companies, who are demolishing old buildings to develop new projects, or members communication would increase awareness of using old materials in renovation.
Only a very small of the public interested in a sustainable lifestyle. The organisation both sells the elements, via the website or from the stock area, and runs workshops about renovation. People are taught to lengthen the lifespan of objects that have Environment. Recycling used materials is directly connected to sustainable thinking and resource served us well rather than throw them away.
New compoments cost more than used components. In fact, saving money is very often the main reason why young families buy used materials. Tallinn and other Estonian cities are rich in original, preserved wooden housing.
Now, everything that is new and imported is attractive, and the old and homemade is not worth considering. This attitude has resulted in several culturally and historically important buildings being destroyed, and the waste of valuable materials.
Environmental thinking has developed in the opposite way to Western Europe, only gaining attention in the last few years. Fortunately, there are organisations that promote sustainable thinking and resource-saving. Department, driven by Tarmo Elvisto, who is a passionate promoter of sustainable thinking and old buildings. The project encourages people to think sustainably and renovation. The concept of recycling used materials and elements was created with support from to make maximum use of existing resources.
Although this kind of project can be found in other European countries, especially in the Nordic region, recycling is still rare in old Soviet countries.
The project initiated in Tallinn can be considered as a pilot, Authors and members of materjalid. Once they have attended the lecture on sustainable renovation techniques or bought a used component, they will probably be involved with sustainable thinking for the rest of their lives.
Typical users of the project are young families, renovating their apartments themselves in a district of old wooden houses, and want to do it cheaply, stylishly and with originality. Most people have been raised to be accustomed to intensive agriculture, with its heavy using decomposing plants as nutrition, and battle diseases by using insects.
The website www. Environmentally friendly gardening enables people milieuvriendelijktuinieren. Teeltwijze encourage environmentally friendly gardening, by providing information, publishing newsletters and brochures, and maintaining a knowledge bank.
VELT is a membership organisation, Environment. This method is good for the environment, as no fertilisers or toxic chemicals are being organises meetings, and has an example garden which the members maintain collectively. Amateur used. The plants are healthier, because they are exposed to bacteria and fungus, and thereby have gardeners also visit each other now and then to see their gardens and exchange knowledge. Gardening could become a more popular hobby, providing an opportunity for a new range of products and services.
For small gardening the costs of adopting environmentally friendly The background context methods are pretty low, by using, for example, compost made from waste from the same garden. Most gardens are less environmentally friendly than they might appear. People often use machines and chemicals, such as herbicides and fertilisers, to keep the plants healthy and growing well. It is possible to achieve a healthy garden without using chemicals, but this knowledge of ecological gardening is not widely shared.
The VELT association has been running for several years, has 13, members, and is still growing. The web site still exists, but unfortunately is not updated anymore. The experience Design challenges The taste of ecological and healthy food Creating platforms of services and tools to grown by yourself.
The satisfaction of giving a personal Developing amateur networks to share contribution to sustainable development experiences and skills. In environmentally friendly gardening Ine has just started this method of crop rotation is essential. One cycle maintaining the garden, and her first lasts six years, with six types of impressions are positive.
She used to plants cultivated in a specific order. It now Europe. The residents cover the includes an environmental education centre whose activities include organising courses and costs of guests who arrive for consultation purposes of a given project. People largely work as ecological education events. The project makes available a variety of existing but previously volunteers, but the creators of the project and census takers are paid.
It is worth emphasising that separate resources: products by local craftspeople, natural riches, cultural monuments, the Amber with the school saved, the teachers could keep working and earning. Trail route and the monastery wind power-station. Now, products are easily accessible, as they are sold in a special shop, the Sklepik pod Magurka.
Tourists walking the Amber Trail can also visit newly marked-out paths the Educational Trail and the Trail of Local Chapels , stay the night in one of the agro-tourist hostels, and buy souvenirs from one of the ecological shops. The Association for Sustainable Development, which has its headquarters in the school, comprises people who The benefits most actively want to solve the problems in their area, and work to improve quality of life while Society.
People get socially engaged, local residents have activities, the school is maintained, respecting the local cultural and natural heritage. The greatest drawback is that it clearly divides the residents into two groups: active and passive, which can divide rather than unite the society.
Context Environment The scheme promotes environmental defence and saves water and energy, by introducing sustainable energy systems. Zawoja Przyslop is a village at the foot of Babia Gora mountain. Residents were inspired to develop environmental projects by an ecological windmill erected by Father Wilk from a nearby Economy.
Some of the active Development in co-operation with the Barefoot Carmelite Monastery, aims to create a modern residents sometimes get one-off payments, if, for example, they come up with a project. Based on pre-existing ecological investments wind power stations, school-time garbage clean-ups, solar panels and hot air pumps , a plan was developed to introduce this sort of innovation to individual households.
Once they see the economic advantages of the changes, the idea is that the pioneering house-owners inspire others to do the same. The experience Design challenges Involvement in activities which result in the Improving access to and implementation of the positive development of the village. Current situation spread to the whole region.
Developing marketing. The residents created the Association for Sustainable Development in the year The idea of an ecological hamlet Authors was already known in Poland and around the world, and the development and transfer of these Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland ideas to other locations is quite possible. This service promote the creative re-use of goods, meanwhile developing, and maintaining, owner.
The shop sells both bespoke and ready-made furniture, all made from pieces that would craftsmanship skills. The pieces are mostly from the s or before. The main motivation for the founders is environmentalism, but they also make a small Environment. Recycling old furniture reduces consumption of new furniture and increases a profit. The cost of restoring old furniture or buying a restored one is similar to buying a new one.
Context When people move into a new home, they often cannot use their old furniture but it may be perfectly suitable for other people. Basically it costs the same to restore an old chair as to buy a new one, but by saving one chair you also save the materials for the new, now un-needed, chair. It would like to expand, and take advantage of the increase in environmentally friendly thinking, as well as consumers who want something a bit different. Any profit comes from the sale price, minus time, service and materials.
Spreading the culture of creative re-use. She needed a new bed with unusual dimensions, in a particular colour and for a good price. Residents are stimulated to take care of their own neighbourhood, to start initiatives their neighbourhood. The local authority pays the association or group that takes on a project work.
The local authority and environmental Environment. By tending gardens and tidying streets, the project has made this part of The Hague organisations give residents practical advice while doing a project. In addition environmental awareness is created. The system saves money for the community. A neighbourhood maintenance fund has been created which is managed by the residents; shareholder meetings decide how to invest the money in The idea of resident involvement emerged from a discussion group called the Denktank thinktank.
This panel of resident and local authority representatives continues to have monthly meetings where they share ideas about how to improve the neighbourhood. Current situation In the first half of the planning of Neighbourhood Shares started and, in autumn, the first activities were organised. It was initiated by the International Institute for the Urban Environment, NV Woningbeheer a company organising communal maintenance projects for houses in private ownership and the department of Nature and Environmental Education of the City of The Hague.
It is one of the first examples in the Netherlands of such an initiative being taken on a local level. The experience Design challenges Pride in maintaining the beauty and Creating a technological platform for sharing cleanliness of the neighbourhood. As a result of consultation Society. Residents gain both as individuals, by feeling more involved in what goes on in their among the villagers, and the formation of a committee, the village became a nicer and better- town, and by feeling they can make a difference collectively to the future of their town.
Because organised place to live. Eighty per cent of the residents participated in a survey, conducted by so many people are involved, communication in the village has improved, creating a better village the inhabitants themselves, to describe assets and suggest improvements.
A consultation group to live in. In Environment. All the inhabitants are now aware of any community problems, and the sense of principle, all inhabitants ca. Because the inhabitants, not the local authority, explore and articulate solutions for actual problems, what gets done is always both necessary and approved by the entire village. This Context makes the decision process a lot more efficient, saves money, and reduces the number of wrong decisions, thanks to the extensive research undertaken by work groups.
Nieuwlande is a small village in the east of the Netherlands. Its residents did not have much contact with each other. The results of the plan are visible, and validated by the winning of an international award. Each solution that comes out of the workgroups of the village development plan has to be approved by the municipality of Hoogeveen, which then provides the funding if necessary.
The experience Design challenges Pride in improving living circumstances Creating a platform for sharing ideas and in their village, maintaining it and expressing opinions, also involving the young being involved in deciding about the people living in Nieuwlande.
The service gives an immediate solution to two big problems in Milan: the lack of cost accommodation in exchange for a little household help. A campaign generated a lot of offers accommodation for students and the need of company and a little assistance for elderly people from elderly people who had at least one room free in their house; many students also submitted living alone.
At the same time it reduces the generation gap, and provides new ideas for dealing requests. A psychologist was employed to visit the houses, interview students and elderly people, with problems of elderly people. Two problems are emerging: sometimes the elderly people are and match the two together.
Megliomilano keeps track of everybody involved through weekly using the students as nurses, which was never the aim of the service. A female bias is evident: feedback, gives both parties free legal assistance and support from a psychologist and organises elderly people look for female students, and students look for female elderly people. This reduces monthly meetings with all users of the service. Reducing the number of student commuters has the potential to reduce traffic, pollution and overcrowding on public transport.
Sharing of buildings, rooms and facilities reduces Context the need for heating per person, and produces a more efficient use of the buildings. Large European cities like Milan have a huge demand for student accommodation; in , nearly Economy. There are clear economic benefits for both users of the service: The elderly people get 20, places were needed in the city.
An increasing number of elderly people living alone need financial and practical help; while students get access to low-cost rooms and so can afford to live a little help with everyday activities. In addition, room prices in Milan are some of the most and study in Milan and enjoy the cultural life of the city. The providers are currently using funds expensive in Italy, forcing students to live in nearby cities and to commute to college.
As the Milan from the private sector and their own resources, but this will not be enough for much longer. Meanwhile, increasing numbers of elderly people need help to live independently in their own homes. A pilot project of the first 12 intergenerational The experience Design challenges house-shares started on November , in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano.
Intergenerational house sharing had already been successfully developed in Piacenza and Como, For the elderly: to have, everyday, As populations age, large numbers of households in two small towns in Italy. The problem in Milan is on a different, much bigger, scale - similar to someone to provide supportive Europe will contain elderly people who have unused Barcelona and London which run similar schemes.
By , 30 intergenerational house-sharing cases were under way, all monitored weekly for For the students, it seems like The Milan system of matching these people with roomless feedback. The cost per room varies from to Euros per month, paid directly to the house finding a new grand-father or students is one response; another could be a service that owner.
MeglioMilano provides the resources, with a little funding coming from a private company. They often need the company more than the money and enjoy having young people around: that makes them feel younger. Young students, keen on social issues, love the idea, especially considering the high cost of accommodation in Milan. Inhabitants registered firm that owns all the residential buildings and handles the rent contracts.
Residents participate in the renovation from the beginning, and maintain the houses afterwards. Neighbours pay for their own renovations while Oranssi Housing pays for the larger collective renovations and know each other and are active in taking care of communal maintenance. Oranssi flats are as maintenance. Members, who must be under 24, need to take responsibility for the work involved and to be The benefits prepared for a more communal way of living.
The original members have become valued experts in traditional wooden house repair techniques, which they pass on to new residents. Unemployed Society. Young people can afford Oranssi housing and are not therefore threatened with young people can also get temporary work placements and young carpenters can do their practical homelessness or cold, isolated council living.
Unemployed young people can get work placement training there. Residents, neighbours, and others learn the value of older buildings, especially Context wooden houses, and members learn important skills, such as construction techniques, alternative energy choices, etc.
The material waste is reduced. One problem is that Oranssi is perceived as There is a shortage of houses for the young people of Finland. Oranssi emerged in Helsinki during a deep recession about ten years ago.
Rents and deposits Economy. Cheaper rents and employment opportunities mean fewer was, and still is, a problem. In , a group of people, all under 20, began squatting in protest social security payments. The return on investment is very high, as the buildings gain in value at this situation, taking over abandoned industrial residential buildings, only to be evicted a few when renovated and maintained to a high standard.
The city authorities benefit as they do not days later by the authorities. Eventually, the city offered them two empty wooden houses that have to cover the cost of renovation or demolition. Challenges in the future may be retaining the had been squatted and needed renovating.
In exchange for cheap rents, the group took over the renovation skills needed, and attracting and retaining those with a good head for business. A system evolved whereby the city offered the group empty residences, and young residents moved in and renovated them. Oranssi became well-known, so numbers grew quickly from 20 to The experience Design challenges Participants learn how to live independently To develop services to encourage more people Current situation from the family but surrounded by people to build or restore houses themselves.
Oranssi was registered in At the moment it maintains about 80 apartments, with about People also learn how to restore and mend residents, in Helsinki. The Oranssi Youth house at Herttoniemi has evolved into an open-minded their own home.
The group does not want to grow too large or take on any new houses at the moment. There is, however, a new phase planned whereby Oranssi will design and build a new set of houses from the ground up. The success and failure of Oranssi will depend largely on the key people involved in the organisation. Biomercatino promotes an urban healthy lifestyle by enabling city inhabitants to be better Lombardia and nearby regions. Around 45 stands of producers and retailers sell certified organic informed and to buy organic and safe food directly from farmers.
It also contributes to the survival products like vegetables, fruits, cheese, sausage, honey and olive oil. Crafts, non-treated cotton of local producers, promotes a conviviality not found in city supermarkets and re-connects city clothes, herbal products and books about culinary and natural medicine are also sold. The stands, and countryside. VAS, an environmental protection association supporting a healthy and environmentally responsible Environment.
The production of organic food, avoiding the use of genetically modified seeds and lifestyle, promotes the market by co-ordinating the work of producers, retailers, artists, craftsmen pesticides and following organic and seasonal cultivation techniques, reduces pollution, preserves and volunteers. It also obtains the necessary permits from the public administration, supervises the landscape and safeguards biodiversity.
As all the food in the scheme is grown locally, the the market and communicates the initiative to the public by sending press releases to newspapers reduction of food transportation radically reduces the environmental impact of the food chain. The market, which gets only minimum support from public institutions, provides a new and alternative retail channel for small organic producers and retailers. Farmers can earn more for their work and consumers can find organic food at competitive prices compared with other Context specialist shops or supermarkets.
Biomercatino came from an initiative by VAS Lombardia in reaction to the increasing threats to food safety, like the introduction of genetically modified seeds, the use of pesticides and the monopolisation of food production. Its aim was also to put producers and consumers in direct contact to encourage trust and shorten the food chain.
Current situation The monthly Biomercatino started in April Today it is in a phase of optimisation, and is The experience Design challenges increasing the direct involvement of local institutions; it is also increasing its range of products and services, adding value to the existing goods and helping spread the values of the initiative.
It Knowing and trusting the producers Creating places and circumstances to enable farmers to is searching for partners in order to become a larger operation, selling the complete range of food met in the farmers market. In general, Biomercatino is trying to refine its management system through the about food products and using it to platforms to connect producers and consumers directly implementation of a database, more efficient communication and the possibility of using paid make the best choices.
Designing dedicated packaging and logistics to be used in the network by small producers. Authors Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Guaranteed employment for people living on farmland, support for traditional and healthy and providing city customers with healthy, cheap, naturall products. It buys local products and methods of making food, and promotion of its advantages.
The dialog with clients through the arranges local people to deliver the goods in a delivery network. It began by distributing mineral water, and in time expanded its product line to include stimulates entrepreneurship and helps the development of other forms of village efforts, such as vegetables, fruit, honey, bread, poppy seeds, soups and pasta.
The line is expanding to include agro-tourism, eco-tourism and handicrafts. Customers place their orders by telephone or online, and the goods are delivered to your home either weekly or fortnightly. The company has two bases Environment. It also promotes natural products and Lublin and 70, customers. The consumption of fresh seasonal food reduces the need of energy for cooling and freezing.
The service is often used by families for its easy and quick access to essential products. The prices are competitive with the shops, as the number of middle men is reduced.
There are also mineral water deposits. The region has a high unemployment rate as a know where they come from and that the quality is good. The company receives many orders for result of urban factory lay-offs. The first independent telephone and internet co-operative in Poland mineral water. This successful undertaking encouraged further initiatives to be taken up. Chmielnik Zdroj was started to support the development of activity and to combat high unemployment and alcoholism. The Agro-Industrial Association of Strug Valley helped to improve the idea, which provides jobs and promotes the traditional farming lifestyle.
The experience Design challenges Current situation The luxury of receiving food to your home, and Creating multi-channel and multi-media What is unique about the Chmielnik Zdroj company service is the distribution of vegetables and feeling confident about its provenance.
After expanding its line from mineral water Being in touch with the surrounding region and producers and consumers directly to each to drinks, juices, fruits and vegetables, semi-finished products like poppy-seeds, and prepared getting the best from it.
The goods are paid for on receipt. The distributors receive a steady Behaving ethically. In periods where the demand is lower, the number of people employed stays the same, doing work, for example, in water production. It produces a small quantity of high-quality organic product: it makes organic faming and quality of food. It also produces some of its own electricity via a community windmill which generates 15kWh, recycles all farm and tourist waste, composts food scraps for use as fertiliser.
It Environment. The farm produces milk according to the organic scheme and it has created woodland has a strong believe in reusing by repairing, and goes out of its way to source recycled materials. There is also an excellent adventure waste treatments. The courage of such quality rural entrepreneurship brings indirect support to such small, local based, activities, encourages the public towards more conscious and quality consumption.
The local economy of the area benefits from the visitors coming to the farm. Context In the owners of this family dairy and stock farm met and decided that in order to secure the future of the farm and the four families living there, moves needed to be made to diversify and add value to farm produce. They realised that intensive agriculture was continuing in a way that could not sustain itself.
At the time farming was heavily subsidised by the government. Now farmers face charges for over-production. Current situation The visitor centre and the sustainable model is one that could easily and effectively be implemented elsewhere. The visitor centre shows how sustainable and organic farming and can be beneficial, how it works and how to provide excellent customer service.
Plans for the future include diversifying into organic lamb and pork and joining with other farmers in the area to run The experience Design challenges a cooperative abattoir. For the farmers, the pride of carrying on Designing services, events and places where the traditional work, and rediscovering its local traditional products are presented. Develop marketing. Discovering traditional products and food from their original environment, while making an ethical choice.
The small number of people in each group makes themselves. In this way, shopping is both cheap and convenient, and provides the satisfaction communication easier. There is no additional cost for Environment. There is less packaging waste, less need of energy for cooling and freezing food is packaging or advertising products and logistics are optimised. The group meets regularly to decide fresh and seasonal and less pollution from delivery, as the products are bought in bulk.
Some of which producers best fit their selection criteria of benefiting both producers and users. A list of the products are organic so benefit the ecosystem.
It also helps small local producers to survive, giving them an alternative distribution channel to the supermarkets. Context Conventional models of purchasing food do not show how it is produced and distributed, or give any guarantees of respect for human rights and the environment. Consumers are increasingly dissatisfied by the products offered by large distributors such as supermarkets which normally exclude small producers from their trade , and are looking for quality, transparency and traceability.
They would like to actively find out about the background of the product rather than being a passive consumer. Consequently alternative forms of shorter supply chain are emerging. Current situation The experience Design challenges GAS was initiated in and is still developing.
The Milan groups are slowly increasing, but are Regularly spending time with other Creating multi-channel and multi-media still limited in number as they develop locally, mainly comprising friends sharing the same vision. GAS is an informal association, with members doing their part voluntarily without a specific set of Behaving ethically. Designing dedicated packaging and logistics to be rules, but with responsibility and with respect for others.
Also inside the groups, all the processes used in the network by small producers. There is no strict organisational structure, and it runs on a family-friend basis, where all the costs are shared evenly and accordingly.
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