We can make it work!

I just got a fantastic mail from my good friend, the pianist, Mads Granum.

In the mail there were a link to Story of Stuff.
The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

This video at Story of Stuff looks at the underside of production and consumerism as it is today. I believe we can make it work in a more sustainable way.

What about the future?

Let me say that I do not know what the future will bring, but I sure hope that we will all start caring more about eachother and try to learn what is really good for us. What we need to have and what is nice to have.

Changing the focus of the world today from consumerism to a more (and now using a word that might scare some people...) spiritually wealthy world.
Do we need a life pictured in the music videos, magazines and commercials or is it possible to live a life without all those materialistic goods and still be happy and have good friends?

Is it possible to be succesfull without being the richest and the most beautifull and having the latest gadgets and brands?

Will it be possible that the world in general will change from the way we think and teach our kids to think today, -assume and judgeing, to a world where we live in (once again a dangoures word) harmoni and focusing on communicating our needs and on getting ours and others needs met?

I think that it might be possible and that we are starting to see some signs that could lead to some what this world.

You and me are starting to share.

Share experiences, thoughts, oppinions and other things.

This is a whole world that I would like to discover some more, therefor I have decided to join the user generated conference called BarCamp

BarCamp is an open, paticipatory workshop-event, whose content is provided by participants. If you would like to learn more about what BarCamp is and its origins, please feel free to read or write on the wiki.

BarCampCopenhagen is initiated by Henriette Weber Andersen and Thomas Kristiansen.

This could seem to be far from what I was starting the blogpost with, a wish that you and me could be better at adding value to the more spiritual things then the materialistic goods. But as I wrote, at BarCamp participants share their knowledge and to not focus on them holding the cards to them selfe, in a desperate fight to be the best or the wisest. Here we share and work together.

I am looking forward to participate and hope that we will be able sometime to arrange a specific Camp on a topic like "GoodBuy Comsumerism?".

I will recogment that you check out Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies and especially follow Thomas Geuken and Gitte Larsen, the authers of the book "All Dressed Up - But Nowhere To Go!"

Travlhed, men jeg bør ikke forsømme dig!

Jeg blev i lørdags gift med min kæreste Louise og vi havde en helt fantastisk fest med venner og familie.
Vi blev viet i Skt. Johannes kirke på Nørrebro, hvorefter vi holdt stor fest på den fantastiske restaurant spiseloppen.

Det har selvfølgelig betydet at jeg har haft alle mine tanker fokuseret om en ting og det var brylluppet og forberedelserne til det. Hvilket igen har betydet at jeg har været en sjuft og har forsømt dig med tanker og indput om hvad jeg går og tænker på og synes er inspirerende.

Men jeg vil nu forsøge at finde en retning jeg vil gå og holde dig opdateret på hvad jeg finder ud af.

Jeg vil starte med at tage til den tilbagevendende konference kaldet BarCamp , som afholdes på fredag.

Jeg vil i den næste blog fortælle lidt om BarCamp, men skrive på engelsk, da det også er en af de overvejelser jeg går med i øjeblikket, om jeg helt skal droppe det danske sprog på min blog og går over til engelsk, for at der er flere ude i verden der evt. kan finde inspiration i det jeg skriver.

Jeg synes du skal tjekke ud hvad BarCamp er i min næste indlæg.

KH
Anders Bendix Kiel (Ja fint nyt efternavn. Hvad synes du om det?)