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Ben Arieh Phillips
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Choices
13 members
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New ZeaLAND Day
23 members
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Seasonal Celebrations
31 members
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Wellington Intersectors
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Ooooby
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I love how colours can become synonymous with social, political and philosophical movements, but how about sounds, textures & flavours? I think my ideal would be coarse and tangy with a heavy bassline
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Choices, a NZ initiative developed by our mates at the Sustainability Trust, to improve life for people and our planet.
This is a great opportunity for you to do something good for yourself, for Intersect, and for the world we’re part of.
Seeding the idea of re-appropriating the meaning of the Queen's Birthday Weekend Holiday to a day that celebrates our treasured land - in its true form - as a gift.
Moving celebration from consumption to connection.
Honouring our natural world, energies, elements and directions.
How did our Ancestors celebrate? What could we create?
For Intersect members in Wellington - this is a space to keep up with local events and develop ideas that are specific to our wonderful windy capital city.
World Environment Day Party in Wellington! at Downstairs at Bodega
June 5, 2009 from 8pm to 11:45pm
Greenpeace, Intersect and Sustainability Trust have teamed up to bring you a World Environment Day special after party.
Entry is free, live music and special guests.
Inspiration, resources and sharing for food growers and locavores.
I've often thought about pine plantation waste such as trimmed branches and their potential conversion into ethanol/fuel. I suppose getting them out of the forested landscapes would be an interesting task.
Field trial anyone?
They're doing someth...
Green Drinks 2009! Open Season! at The Lodge - Southern Cross Bar
March 18, 2009 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Green Drinks Wellington 2009 Kick-off, hosted by Southern Cross Bar. This event celebrates the launch of the Sustainability Trust's new national project, Choices.
Come learn about voluntary behaviour change, getting communities engaged in action ...
Profile Information
- Date of Birth
- October 14, 1982
- About Me:
- I love it when people tell me that they feel happy with where they live. This means that they are identifying in some way with their surroundings. I also think that lasting social change has almost always been championed by-the-people, for-the-people, rather than coerced into existence by central agencies. This is why I'm interested in positive educational and soft paternalistic approaches to environmental management. I appreciate it when I hear not what may be wrong with us, but what will work best for all of society. It's focusing on stewardship and our sense of place that can transcend the barriers to social holism and environmental responsibility. I think that people will connect meaningfully with their environment if they're given plenty of power, information and respect when it comes to preparing for their future. I also fear that green issues are a bit faddish at the moment, with new ways and angles to be eco-friendly popping up in every context. Environmental conciousness must be promoted with gusto, but must also be meaningful and recyclable not disposable. Green fatigue is real and is out there, as most people have little patience for something that they may not identify with directly or deeply. Its all a bit obvious but thats what i think....right now. plant trees feel good.
- Areas of interest and expertise
- Areas of interest: Sustainability learning, civic-environmentalism, socio-ecological resilience, adaptive management, community-based ecological restoration, eco-socialism, political ecology, environmental justice, social-eco-capital, citizen science, focal restoration, eco-recreation, eco-therapy, urban greening, landscape ecology, traditional ecological knowledge, the transition town movement, organic gardening, slow food and of course reggae music.
Comment Wall (9 comments)
- At 3:14pm on September 22, 2009,
Nick Potter said… - Hi Ben
We’re meeting at Mon Ami Cafe next Tuesday evening for some more friendly conversations. All the details are on the events page.
If you’re free on Tuesday we’d love to see you there!
All the best from Nick, Josie, Rebeka and the rest of the Intersect Crew
- At 8:53am on September 21, 2009,
Rachael Patching said… - hey mr... where r u based these days ? capital W ?
i was just there - should have tracked u down
xx
like to catch up
- At 2:26pm on February 23, 2009,
Josie Newman said… - p.s. your a bit tangy.
- At 7:56am on February 6, 2009,
Erin Beer said… - ai ben! fantastico! pleasing food for thought there. being based in london at the mo makes me all the more aware of how true those sentiments are and how hard it is for people being in the city to really connect with these issues and feel enough ownership to create change. But onto what works for me as part of our society... reggae music, wholesome food and snow!
Hows the fams?
x
- At 5:45pm on December 8, 2008,
Anna Dadson said… - Ah, lovely for you to have found me. Yeah, this photo was taken by Te Rawhiti roa in Raglan earlier this year. Summer will be spent in Takaka, possibly Caanan Downs. Will you be there again this new years? I have about three weeks off to cruise and hope that someone is watering my hothouse plants at Lincoln - yes I'm studying organic horticulture there and loving it.
x
- At 12:16pm on December 8, 2008,
Josie Newman said…
- check out your long list of interests. can i join your club??!!
howareyabenny?? miss you! xxx
- At 7:22am on December 4, 2008,
katie pai said… - chur chur brother! i agree with the colour theory - since starting work i seem to have gravitated in a definate way towards wearing green as it seems to embody my moods and thinking...as for sounds, flavour and texture.. waiata with a heartbeat that corresponds to your own, a savoury wholesomeness and rough like the feel of bark underhand. nice.
- At 7:15pm on December 3, 2008,
Nick Potter said…
- Hi Ben
Welcome to Intersect... and lucky number 600!
You can add events and videos, create discussions, join groups and invite your friends and colleagues to join. It's your network, so use it in ways that support you. Please contact us if we can be of any assistance.
Nick and the rest of the Intersect Crew
www.intersect.org.nz
- At 6:01pm on December 3, 2008,
Joanna said… - Yeah!! Go greenbook. might be time to leave facebook once and for all... ;)
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