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Think locally, act locally

think locally, act locally

The local is gaining in importance again.
New local initiatives are emerging.

Many local initiatives have emerged in recent weeks, offering supplies of food and consumer goods, as well as help in all forms.

For instance, there is now an “Online Shop in South Tyrol for the Promotion of Local Shopping” in which everyone can offer and ask for products and services. The facebook group was intended to “Help everyone to strengthen the trade in South Tyrol in the crisis!” https://www.facebook.com/groups/270258110629872/?fref=nf

THIS IS GREAT!

BUT WHY DID IT NOT EXIST BEFORE?

The central idea is on a common helping of each other. If my community is well, then I have the best chances to be well aswell.…?

In times of Covid19 people who live nearby will be close to us and we can form a stronger cohesion, so we can manage to provide save and best help to each other. Is local the future? Local, the old global will be awesome again.

But how does it exactly work? How did it work?

Let’s take it a step back.
Barter goods and services.
Money looses importance.
What do we actually need? Is it love and a good community or tropical fruits and coffee? Yes, coffee, please but also love!

With the possibilities of digital networking we have today, we could create a new local network. What are the positive sides of barter and the former local networking and trading and how can we pick out what is interesting for our time and generate a new local? What were the advantages and disadvantages?

Only now I realize that there are MANY local possibilities. Many small companies selling nearly everything. Many small existences that need to be supported. Now and also after the Covid19 crisis!

Let us build a network that will sustain! Local, regional and global!

We are happy about numerous links to local-social initiatives!

Help to strengthen the local trade in the crisis!

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SLOW – DOWN

Slow Down in times of Covid19

What is happening to our mind and body when we slow down?

From a lot of people you hear that they enjoy their “slowed down” life. We have more time at home, because we can not move. There are no overcrowded public busses, nightlong parties, meetings we have to rush to and social live we have to manage.

In the right company, at the right place and with things to do, it can be a blessing to stay at home. It might become a sitauation of reconnecting to family and friends.
But, staying home can also cause conflicts. And Loneliness can hit one or the other.

What is happening to our mind and body when we slow down? Covid19 stayhome

What is happening to our mind and body when we slow down?

Some thoughts came up . . . during slowing down . . .

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Clarity can only be found
within oneself, in the deep heart of being –
which is always available!

The vulnerability of the outside is no longer
perceptible on the inside, – but vulnerable. 

The clear being in such a critical, different
situation as we are experiencing now makes
us experience other thoughts, thoughts that
might have been hard to grasp in the past.

A new diversity is the storm before a 
holistic renewal – a global new world in 
the we.

The creation, understanding and linking of
new forms, colours and structures and a way of thinking
that gives us hope and does not let us stand still!

How does a new way of thinking define new actualities?

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How can we foster change?

Studies show, that in some regions the abrupt stop of our activities lead to a quick recovery of nature. We have to say that this is a state – we, as eco social designers, dreamed of. Just not under those circumstances.

But that’s where we are now. What can we do with it?

Our concern is, that everything will go back to „normality“ when we mastered the crisis. But we think that if we can make a change now, we can be better prepared for the future, with all the new challenges that might come.

Can we foster a change?

A few articles we find worth reading dealing with the environmental change:

“There’s an unlikely beneficiary of coronavirus: The planet” by Rebecca Wright, CNN, March 17, 2020 // https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/16/asia/china-pollution-coronavirus-hnk-intl/index.html

“Empty Cities and Stalled Industrial Production, New Analysis Shows Coronavirus Has Cut China’s Carbon Emissions by 100 Million Metric Tons” – Akshat Rathi and Jeremy Hodges, February 19, 2020 // https://time.com/5786634/coronavirus-carbon-emissions-china/

“Offsetting The Coronavirus And Other Lessons For the Climate Crisis” – Raz Godelnik, February 18, 2020 // https://medium.com/@razgo/offsetting-the-coronavirus-and-other-lessons-for-the-climate-crisis-d1639dfb7055

“Corona: By dystopic foretaste to utopian momentum?” – Kris Krois, March 8, 2020 // https://designdisaster.unibz.it/corona-by-dystopic-foretaste-to-utopian-momentum/