{"id":21029,"date":"2016-06-07T19:31:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T00:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21029"},"modified":"2016-06-07T19:32:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T00:32:14","slug":"a-simpler-way-crisis-as-opportunity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21029","title":{"rendered":"A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header title-container fix\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<h3 class=\"posttitle\"><a class=\"entry-title\" title=\"A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/2016\/06\/a-simpler-way-crisis-as-opportunity\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DogWithHeadphones.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-container fix\">\n<div class=\"entry fix\"><center>Jordan Osmond and Samuel Alexander\u00a0<b>Image from \u2018A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity\u2019\u00a0<\/b>2016<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-r8m8TEniMh0\/UpdDAVFgEtI\/AAAAAAAAMYg\/v-ruyUQ1YCQ\/s1600\/65x2pxFiller.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>On July 27 2015,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/2015\/07\/interview-nicole-foss-for-a-simpler-way-crisis-as-opportunity\/\" target=\"new\">I posted<\/a>\u00a0a 2-hour interview with Nicole Foss that was recorded when we were in Melbourne in April that year. The interview -though not the full two hours of course- was always meant to be part of a documentary by our friends Jordan Osmond and Samuel Alexander. The documentary is now out.<\/p>\n<p>Below, you can find the trailer, the full documentary, as well as a re-run of the full interview with Nicole. I haven\u2019t had time to watch the documentary, just got the mail from Sam, but I will later today. No doubt, it\u2019ll be worth your while and mine. I remember complimenting them on the sound- and picture quality of the interview last year. Plus, get the likes of our dear friend Dave Holmgren together with Nicole and Ted Trainer, amongst others, and you can\u2019t very well go wrong, can you?<\/p>\n<p>(NOTE: Saw some rushes, and it may contain a tad much hippieness and\/or reality-TV semblance for some)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-r8m8TEniMh0\/UpdDAVFgEtI\/AAAAAAAAMYg\/v-ruyUQ1YCQ\/s1600\/65x2pxFiller.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/HorLine300px.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>The trailer:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yEYREEnymnk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><b>With the text published with it:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The overlapping economic, environmental, and cultural crises of our times can seem overwhelming, can seem like challenges so great and urgent that they have no solutions. But rather than sticking our heads in the sand or falling into despair, we should respond with defiant positivity and try to turn the crises we face into opportunities for civilisational renewal.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>During the year of 2015 a small community formed on an emerging ecovillage in Gippsland, Australia, and challenged themselves to explore a radically \u2018simpler way\u2019 of life based on material sufficiency, frugality, permaculture, alternative technology and local economy. This documentary by Jordan Osmond and Samuel Alexander tells the story of this community\u2019s living experiment, in the hope of sparking a broader conversation about the challenges and opportunities of living in an age of limits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity Jordan Osmond and Samuel Alexander\u00a0Image from \u2018A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity\u2019\u00a02016On July 27 2015,\u00a0I posted\u00a0a 2-hour interview with Nicole Foss that was recorded when we were in Melbourne in April that year. The interview -though not the full two hours of course- was always meant to be part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[139,181,10983,14020,490,6803,622,13924,5192,13548],"class_list":["post-21029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-civilization","tag-crisis","tag-david-holmgren","tag-gippsland","tag-localization","tag-nicole-foss","tag-permaculture","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-simplicity","tag-ted-trainer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21031,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029\/revisions\/21031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}