Please note : This website is no longer being maintained. Please use the recently redone Zeitgeist Movement Australia website.
Or more likely the Facebook Group – Zeitgeist Movement South Australia.
To Repeat :
South Australian Zeitgeist Movement Chapter
Please note : This website is no longer being maintained. Please use the recently redone Zeitgeist Movement Australia website.
Or more likely the Facebook Group – Zeitgeist Movement South Australia.
To Repeat :
Welcome to the South Australian Zeitgeist Movement website. Here you will find information regarding the Adelaide (and surrounding) ZM chapter events. If you are new to the movement then follow the following steps :
Optional : You can also talk to one of the chapter coordinators (who are listed on the about page). Our primary contact is currently Andrew C. His mobile is +61 405 526 945.
So, come along to the awesome Box Factory. It’s in the Adelaide CBD, not far from the Astor hotel. The meeting starts at 6:30pm and you’ll be able to meet other people who also want to kick money’s ass or talk about the Womad Earth Station, Noam Chomsky’s visit to Adelaide, Occupy Adelaide/Occupy Together, Beyond Zero Emissions, organising next years Zday and national Zeitgeist Conference. Amongst other things…
Meeting details
What : Zeitgeist Movement South Australian chapter meeting
Date : MONDAY, 7th Nov 2011 – 18:30 till 20:30
Where : The Box Factory, 59 Regent Street South, Adelaide CBD
Email : contact@zeitgeistsa.com for more info.
Mobile : Call Michael on 0433 483 008.
What : Zeitgeist Movement South Australia meetup Theme : General Meeting. Time : 6:30pm ~ 8pm Date : Tuesday the 19th of July Location: Astor Hotel, Cnr. Pultney & Gilles Streets, City Contact : Guy B or Tamara O Mobile : 0430927414 or 0438558185 or Email : contact@zeitgeistsa.com
What : Zeitgeist Movement South Australia meetup Theme : General Meeting. Time : 6:30pm ~ 8pm Date : Tuesday the 5th of July Location: Marcellina Darlington – 1512 South Road, Darlington 5042 SA Google Maps : Here View Larger Map Directions (input your address) Name : Guy or Tamara Mobile : 0430927414 or 0438558185 or Email : contact@zeitgeistsa.com
What : Zeitgeist Movement South Australia meetup
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Theme : General Meeting. Time : 6:30pm ~ 8pm Date : Tuesday the 21st of June Location: ASTOR Hotel, Playford room, corner of Pulteney & Gilles St., 437 Pulteney St. Adelaide SA 5000 Google Maps : Here View Larger Map Directions (input your address) Name : Guy or Tamara Mobile : 0430927414 or 0438558185 or Email : contact@zeitgeistsa.com
What : Zeitgeist Movement South Australia meetup! Theme : General Meeting. Presentation by Andrew on hydraulic fracturing (aka fracking, as seen in the movie GasLand).
Additional Zeitgeist related presentations, ideas, requests for discussion, especially by new members, are highly encouraged!
(Please contact us)
Time : 6:30pm ~ 8pm Date : Tuesday the 7th of June Location: Marcellina Darlington – 1512 South Road, Darlington 5042 SA (Opposite the Flagstaff Hotel) Google Maps : Here View Larger Map Directions (input your address) Name : Guy or Tamara Mobile : 0430927414 or 0438558185 or Email : contact@zeitgeistsa.com
What : Come and have a chat with our members at the Psychic fair in Adelaide! Theme: General Presentation and first contact with The Zeitgeist Movement. Workshop at 11:00, Sunday, 5th June 2011. Time & Date: 10:00am ~ 19:00pm, Saturday, 4th June 2011. 10:00am ~ 18:00pm, Sunday, 5th June 2011. Location: Stand N° 224, Adelaide showground, Building: Jubilee Pavilion (near the big wheel), Goodwood Road, Wayville, SA 5034, Tel.: 8410 1115 View Larger Map Directions (input your address) Name : Guy or Tamara Mobile : 0430927414 or 0438558185 or Email : contact@zeitgeistsa.com
This is a MUST WATCH video of Derrick Jensen talking about the premises of our Civilisation and why it is not sustainable.
In the talk he does a great job of explaining the premises, although if you enjoyed the video, or if you didn’t fully understand it then you should probably read the book. (NB : ZInfo is not associated with Derrick and does not receive any money for any form of advertising, in any way).
Premises :
There are some points that I think could be debated or slightly tweaked. Especially premise 6. I agree that whilst civilisation won’t go voluntarily, you don’t have to have a Price of Infinity (enviro, energy, economic) collapse. We can guide civilisation through a Price of Zero collapse (using abundance, sustainability, automation and education) .
As you’ll see in the next post (about changing the value system), I think that point 8 needs to be pointed out to people. They know it, but don’t realise that the economic system is given priority over nature, life, and human wellbeing. The Sydney, Australia chapter is currently editing some vox-pop/street interviews which show this mentality in action.
Regarding point 9. It’s possible that if we were to be efficient and effective with the natural resources, we would likely be able to keep similar numbers of people or even raise the population whilst maintaining a stable equilibrium with the environment. But we would need to be net positive not net destructive to the environment. Humanity would also expand in numbers as we colonise other planets. But would shouldn’t and likely won’t do such a thing under the current culture and system. If we did it wouldn’t be pretty for anything that got in our way.
This is a quick announcement of the creation of the Transition Ideas Team (TIT) a new ZM team that Scott Wrampler and Michael Kubler are currently helping kick start.
For those who are interested here’s a recent Blog Talk Radio show regarding the team which talks about the organisational structure and some of the initial teams. It’s only 30mins long.
The team will be split into 3 main groups :
The Admin staff will be a small group who run the website, organise the tools and help co-ordinate the other two groups.
The Transition Proposals group will be a collection of people who, working alone or together, come up with various transition models then propose them.
The Proposal Analysts are those who are knowledgeable within their field and as a group can analyse the proposal and undertake useful critical analysis and highlight potential issues and also make suggestions or reccomendations.
The process of submitting, analysing and refining a proposal will itself need to be developed and refined over time. One of the hardest parts of the process will be removing human bias, especially those which are predictable. An example may be that proposals are to be made anonymous before being presented to the proposal analysts. Once the analysts have provided feedback and the proposal refined the proposal can then be presented on the website for further analysis and discussions with the wider public.
It’s possible that the team may itself change from being about transition ideas, to be a Transition Implementation team (or more likely, a group of teams).
If you have any transition ideas or suggestions then feel free to comment or email transition@zeitgeist-info.com
Thank you
The change from the current monetary system to a Resource Based Economy requires changes to what we value, what the cultural and personal definition of success is, and the defaults.
This is part 1 of 3 I’ll explain the change to the definition of success.
According to Western media plus the types of people the average person would say has ‘made it’ or aspire to be, the current definition of success is how much financial wealth, power, control and fame a person has acquired.
In a Resource Based Economy this is likely to change to become how much you’ve contributed to society and the environment.
Contributions can be a wide range of things. Everything from helping someone up the stairs with their bags to curing cancer, planting 10,000 trees or organising a mission to Mars.