Archive for November, 2013

Living Tips From an A-List Supermodel: Mother Nature – 10 December

November 25, 2013

Documentary Screening & Solution Talking

Mother – gold ? Nature – green ? Naaa, it is more than that. Nor is this going to be a two hour discussion on how many karats or the types of gold.

What else in life that you see as gold, besides gold then? What are the Muslims there doing to manage their scarce water supply? Mark down your calendar for Rebung Restaurant in Bangsar on 10th of December and checkout one of the places featured in the film that in ancient times referred to the land of milk and honey – Jordan.

We’ll be screening Green Gold by environmental film maker John Liu, with Permaculture Research Institute Founder Geoff Lawton, Jordan Princess Basma Ali. Link to FB Event Page, click here.

peace meal permaculture documentary screening

This is a series on environment focusing on permaculture based thinking and solutions, namely looking at polyculture ecosystem (2 December), modeling nature (10 December), and counter deforestation (18 December), organized by Peace Meal and Basatin Filahah Permaculture. It’s free and open to non-tree huggers and coffee drinkers. See poster above.

Basatin Filahah Permaculture (BFP) is a company recently set up by four friends with a passionate interest in the permaculture approach toward actualizing a world of right livelihood for the common good. BFP offers educational, research and advisory services in permaculture design, right livelihood and the gift economy.

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Alternatives to Monoculture: Bangau Oh Bangau – 2 December

November 20, 2013

Documentary Screening & Solution Talking

This will be a time we’ll look at how to move ahead with a clear view in mind of the principles it will take us to get there, and how to translate that into action. Many of the principles of permaculture (permanent culture) is also in existence with Islamic teachings. We’ll try to look at that too.

Hmmm.. how does the classic Bangau Oh Bangau song relate to all this? Listen carefully to it. And come join in on 2nd December okay? 8pm Monday 2 December 2013, at Mukha Cafe in TTDI. Link to FB Event Page, click here.

peace meal permaculture documentary screening

This is a series on environment focusing on permaculture based thinking and solutions, namely looking at polyculture ecosystem (2 December), modeling nature (10 December), and counter deforestation (18 December), organized by Peace Meal and Basatin Filahah Permaculture. It’s free and open to non-tree huggers and coffee drinkers. See poster above.

Basatin Filahah Permaculture (BFP) is a company recently set up by four friends with a passionate interest in the permaculture approach toward actualizing a world of right livelihood for the common good. BFP offers educational, research and advisory services in permaculture design, right livelihood and the gift economy.

 

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On Education with Buddhists – 3 November

November 18, 2013

Recently we were invited to join the International Buddhist-Muslim Forum on Peace & Sustainability, specifically to be part of the session entitled, It’s a Child’s World. Keep It! (Discourse on Children to Higher Education). Thanks Vienna Looi for roping us in.

The general drive of the discussion was on alternative education as most participants, largely from ASEAN countries felt that what was made available to them either was not effective enough or not suiting the needs of their community.

It was interesting to have Chong Wai Leng from Malaysia’s Learning Beyond Schooling , a strong advocate in home-schooling, and a monk in the room who was doing his PhD on alternative schooling.

The latter commended the Muslims for teaching the religion on a day to day basis and suggested that those present in the room, teaching Buddhism to their community on weekends and school holidays, should allow the kids to relax during that time of the year because, “they are kids man. Let them play!“

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