I'd wager a guess that you saw this when it came out, but just in case, the scope of the beautiful silos was described by Paul Hawken here, some 17 years ago at Bioneers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkz2OjMOg88
Yes, I was tracking that back in late 2000s and saw the parallel. I was aware at the time that Symbiotic Culture networks in Reno had a different focus. It was more about re-connecting people to a bigger picture, share virtues, and re-connecting people, community, and our sense of land and place.
The idea of networking has been tried before. I still think it worth engaging in. However 2 efforts I was connected with are instructive. 1 Wiser Earth - which was then cancelled for no good reason as far as I can see. With many of us NOT in the USA that something was working well in the Bay Area of California seemed to be the excuse - which then cut the rest of us off from a functioning sharing network.
NING - this was an online community platform for sharing -again cut off by a revenue business model (it is not the only one to suffer this - CouchSurfing and Hospitality Club are 2 more that have suffered from this "we must be a profit based organisation" mindset even if they did not start out that way.
Now I see Hylo is trying to be more open and non-cost related for building Earth level effective connections for bioregional development (bringing in social and ecological). It is too new to see if it will succeed. I note that it emerged from Joe Brewer's Earth Regenerators - which no longer runs, another successor project is Ecohana - but it is not very active.
All wonderful observations. I am familiar with and was connected to Wiser Earth, am currently on the platforms like Mighty Networks (the successor from NING) and am in a few groups on Hylo, and am on Ecohana. By the way, Joe Brewer is still involved with Bioregional Organizing.
I am describing a fundamentally different approach in Symbiotic Culture and Networks.
I am aware and active to some extent with these things. I do also see some ideas around networking in this way which you say is fundamentally different. Though I am not sure how it is different - even having read the book - from the early efforts of these others. In short I wonder if there is a process organisations and movements go through (I think there is) where what they do is increasingly defined by what they have done. And the event horizon of the possible gets shut down so new ideas and actions cannot arise anymore.
It is this paradox which symbiotic culture must wrestle with. How to keep the dynamism alive through the network without succumbing to silo-isation and thus death of the network while still maintaining a structure in keeping with the logos. - Flexible not a rigid structure.
There has been some effort to do such things e.g. with the UNAvision Learning Journeys. So the Learning Journey - is like the road! journeying builds the voyager on the voyage or journey while moving through time and space and experience.
"UnaVision learning journeys and hiking dialogs connect people, initiatives, organisations and regions within the UnaVision and UnaVersity network in order to learn from each other and co-develop innovative solution for living, learning and working together in a sustainable way.
The global unaVision community is a living laboratory looking for inspiration from all sides, cooperate with rural regions, create Being Spaces and foster Social Entrepreneurship.
Our highest goal is: create small prototypes of the world we would like to see..."
I AM Not selling UnaVision - just mentioning it here as this idea of networking seems related UnaVision says "In 2025, we proudly launch the UnaVersity ecosystem—a visionary space where the art of unlearning converges with the pursuit of lifelong discovery. Over the past few years, we have co-created and refined this transformative concept in collaboration with partners from the Ecoversities, UnaVision, and GEN networks. Together, we are igniting a movement to reshape education in rural communities around the globe." - to give some context.
I'd wager a guess that you saw this when it came out, but just in case, the scope of the beautiful silos was described by Paul Hawken here, some 17 years ago at Bioneers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkz2OjMOg88
Yes, I was tracking that back in late 2000s and saw the parallel. I was aware at the time that Symbiotic Culture networks in Reno had a different focus. It was more about re-connecting people to a bigger picture, share virtues, and re-connecting people, community, and our sense of land and place.
Clearly ahead of your time!
The idea of networking has been tried before. I still think it worth engaging in. However 2 efforts I was connected with are instructive. 1 Wiser Earth - which was then cancelled for no good reason as far as I can see. With many of us NOT in the USA that something was working well in the Bay Area of California seemed to be the excuse - which then cut the rest of us off from a functioning sharing network.
NING - this was an online community platform for sharing -again cut off by a revenue business model (it is not the only one to suffer this - CouchSurfing and Hospitality Club are 2 more that have suffered from this "we must be a profit based organisation" mindset even if they did not start out that way.
Now I see Hylo is trying to be more open and non-cost related for building Earth level effective connections for bioregional development (bringing in social and ecological). It is too new to see if it will succeed. I note that it emerged from Joe Brewer's Earth Regenerators - which no longer runs, another successor project is Ecohana - but it is not very active.
All wonderful observations. I am familiar with and was connected to Wiser Earth, am currently on the platforms like Mighty Networks (the successor from NING) and am in a few groups on Hylo, and am on Ecohana. By the way, Joe Brewer is still involved with Bioregional Organizing.
I am describing a fundamentally different approach in Symbiotic Culture and Networks.
I am aware and active to some extent with these things. I do also see some ideas around networking in this way which you say is fundamentally different. Though I am not sure how it is different - even having read the book - from the early efforts of these others. In short I wonder if there is a process organisations and movements go through (I think there is) where what they do is increasingly defined by what they have done. And the event horizon of the possible gets shut down so new ideas and actions cannot arise anymore.
It is this paradox which symbiotic culture must wrestle with. How to keep the dynamism alive through the network without succumbing to silo-isation and thus death of the network while still maintaining a structure in keeping with the logos. - Flexible not a rigid structure.
There has been some effort to do such things e.g. with the UNAvision Learning Journeys. So the Learning Journey - is like the road! journeying builds the voyager on the voyage or journey while moving through time and space and experience.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1070918199625772 tells ABOUT UnaVision
"UnaVision learning journeys and hiking dialogs connect people, initiatives, organisations and regions within the UnaVision and UnaVersity network in order to learn from each other and co-develop innovative solution for living, learning and working together in a sustainable way.
The global unaVision community is a living laboratory looking for inspiration from all sides, cooperate with rural regions, create Being Spaces and foster Social Entrepreneurship.
Our highest goal is: create small prototypes of the world we would like to see..."
I AM Not selling UnaVision - just mentioning it here as this idea of networking seems related UnaVision says "In 2025, we proudly launch the UnaVersity ecosystem—a visionary space where the art of unlearning converges with the pursuit of lifelong discovery. Over the past few years, we have co-created and refined this transformative concept in collaboration with partners from the Ecoversities, UnaVision, and GEN networks. Together, we are igniting a movement to reshape education in rural communities around the globe." - to give some context.