6 Information and Communication Technology – astraea

Feast Upon The Earth Engages Everyone in Choosing Our Future

Posted on 2 August, 2024Updated on 12 February, 2025by PamCategories:1 Perspective, 5 Environment, 6 Information and Communication Technology, 7 Holonics and Life, 8 Activities and Media, Climate Change, Education, Europe, Living, Media and Gatherings, Philosophy

Summer Inspiration At DLR Lexicon, Dublin The inspirational timescape Feast Upon The Earth has moved from Tullow to Dun Laoghaire’s Lexicon Library for the rest of the summer. The launch talk in July was “very engaging,” said Susan Lynch, senior executive librarian at Lexicon, who welcomed the timescape. “I don’t usually see so much participation …
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DLR Lexicon Welcomes Feast Upon The Earth

Posted on 11 July, 2024Updated on 15 July, 2024by PamCategories:1 Perspective, 5 Environment, 6 Information and Communication Technology, 7 Holonics and Life, Climate Change, Education, Europe, Holonics, Media and Gatherings, Philosophy

Feast Upon The Earth is on the move! DLR Lexicon will host the timescape from 26 July to 31 August 2024. The timescape prompts new perspectives. It situates us in geographical time and shows connections between nature, humans, food, finance, fossil fuels, consumption, pollution and climate change. We see how we have impacted our world, …
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Art as Activism at Tullow Community School

Posted on 23 April, 2024Updated on 27 February, 2025by PamCategories:1 Perspective, 5 Environment, 6 Information and Communication Technology, 7 Holonics and Life, Climate Change, Education, Home and Garden, Living

We were delighted and grateful for an invitation to meet with a class of 5th Year art students at Tullow Community School, and very impressed with the students’ engagement with the big ideas presented in Feast Upon The Earth. Our presence was part of a day celebrating the student’s exhibition of a project bringing new …
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Feast Upon The Earth – The Book

Posted on 8 November, 2023Updated on 8 November, 2023by astraeaCategories:1 Perspective, 3 The World of Money, 4 Energy, 5 Environment, 6 Information and Communication Technology, 8 Activities and Media, Climate Change, Holonics, Living, Media and Gatherings, Risk and Terror

Back in April when we sat down to brainstorm over a coffee and dreamed up an installation exploring the human relationship with nature we had no idea it would lead to such wide insights and wonderful feedback from visitors. Feast Upon The Earth was a powerful experience and the resulting timescape brought out new understanding …
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The War Will Be Over in a Week, and Ukraine Forgotten in a Month

Posted on 5 March, 2022Updated on 5 March, 2022by astraeaCategories:1 Perspective, 2 Geopolitics, 3 The World of Money, 4 Energy, 5 Environment, 6 Information and Communication Technology, 7 Holonics and Life, Climate Change, Risk and Terror

People around the world are yearning for peace. But leaders do not want to make it happen. Instead prevarication and incompetence is allowing Putin to take Ukraine. The Russian army will have control of Ukraine in week. We will have forgotten about it in a month as we will be distracted by another sensational news …
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System Change – videos of our meeting

Posted on 12 December, 2021Updated on 12 December, 2021by astraeaCategories:1 Perspective, 2 Geopolitics, 3 The World of Money, 4 Energy, 5 Environment, 6 Information and Communication Technology, 7 Holonics and Life, Media and Gatherings

Thanks to all who joined our gathering on 8 December 2021. A fascinating conversation ensued (part 3) after an introduction to System Change (part 1) and a tribute to Richard Auler (part 2).

Unplanned and Unexpected – A Vision of the Future

Posted on 13 December, 2019Updated on 18 December, 2019by astraeaCategories:1 Perspective, 3 The World of Money, 4 Energy, 6 Information and Communication Technology, Holonics, Media and Gatherings, Risk and Terror

Life’s journey has no beginning or end yet events, like seasons and birthdays, mark its progress. So, in anticipation of astraea turning 20, and to say “thank you” to all the people who had helped us along the way, we thought about having an exposition of our work and a party. Many people around the …
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A Vision of the Future

Posted on 11 December, 2019Updated on 12 December, 2019by astraeaCategories:1 Perspective, 3 The World of Money, 4 Energy, 6 Information and Communication Technology, Holonics, Media and Gatherings

The live-stream video:

Let’s all babble!

Posted on 11 March, 2019Updated on 11 March, 2019by astraeaCategories:1 Perspective, 6 Information and Communication Technology, Education

In their article Babel is better The Economist encourages education in a person’s mother tongue, rather than English, and they are right to do so. It would have been helpful to explain why from a neurological and personal development point of view, rather than simply rationalise that it is difficult to find teachers that speak …
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Tumbleweed Update Breaks DNS/Network -FIXED

Posted on 8 February, 2019by astraeaCategories:6 Information and Communication Technology

OpenSuse Tumbleweed is a factory rolling release. It has the latest updates which means it has the greatest functionality, … unless a bug appears which disrupts stability till the next update (which usually happens within 24 hours). So, on a couple of occasions an update has broken the network connection – it looks connected, but …
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