The Educative System: A 17-year-old Boy’s Perspective (video)

Publicado el diciembre 23, 2011 por Create and Share

This great video, recorded by a 17-year-old boy, represents the voice of many other young people that are feeling trapped by our current debt-based system. The content, presented as handwritten sheets of paper accompanied by some illustrations, questions the current educative system using an impeccable logic. Why are we doing things in the ways that other propose? Why so much dogmatism? Why are we forcing our children to do what they do not want to do? The only reason is to satisfy an obsolete paradigm that leads to unhappiness. Sigue leyendo →

Homeschooling By the Numbers (Infographic)

Publicado el diciembre 21, 2011 por Create and Share

Homeschooling is the education of children at home, usually by parents but sometimes by tutors, rather than in other formal settings of public or private school. Although prior to the introduction of compulsory school attendance laws, most childhood education occurred within the family or community, homeschooling in the modern sense is an alternative in developed countries to private schools outside the home or educational institutions operated by civil governments.

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Homeschooling: educating outside the system

Media Consolidation: The Illusion of Choice (Infographic)

Publicado el diciembre 16, 2011 por Create and Share

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Every once in a while it is very positive to remember the source of all what we receive from the media. And reflect about the fact that most of the things that we watch or listen to come from the same source. This is the opposite to the fundamental richness of live: diversity. We are living in the so called “uniformediatization”, and this useful infographic, conceived by the alternative education site Frugal Dad, refers to as “the illusion of choice”. Sigue leyendo →

Joining Forces to Change the World

Publicado el diciembre 13, 2011 por Create and Share

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Change.org is a community formed by individuals and organizations that fight against injustices in a joint effort. The site (in collaboration with the Spanish community actuable) offers the opportunity to support initiatives in form of a petition or challenge, as well as to create our own campaigns.

This form of online activism is starting to spread giving birth to sites that act like platforms for all those initiatives aimed at creating social movements around problems, injustices or inequalities. One of the most widespread and known at an international level is Avaaz. Sigue leyendo →

The Times They Are A-Changin’

Publicado el diciembre 11, 2011 por Create and Share

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This song by the great Bob Dylan is a beautiful poem that reflects perfectly the current change of paradigm that we are expericing. Let’s accept that our environment has changed, as well as our relationships and awareness. It is time to forget about those old patterns and structures that have shown to be unsuccessful.

The times, well they certainly are changing. Even if we try hard to avoid this fact, it is useless… Change is permanent and unavoidable. So, let’s welcome the times to come. With a smile on our faces. With joy in our hearts.

Then you better start swimmin’, or you’ll sink like a stone, for the times they are a-changin’. Sigue leyendo →

Minding Mother Nature, by John Ptacek (reader’s article)

Publicado el diciembre 4, 2011 por Create and Share

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When you go to a movie, you willingly suspend your beliefs for an hour or two. I’m only asking you to suspend them for a few minutes. This has to do with your happiness, so do pay attention.

You don’t exist.

At least not in the way you think you do.

Oh, you’re a human being, alright, a physical contraption with a sophisticated brain that guides you step by step through your earthly journey. You had a mother and a father and perhaps a sibling or two. You’re married or you’re not. You have children or you don’t. You eat, sleep, have sex and recreate. One day you will stop breathing and either be incinerated or put into the ground. At your memorial service a lovingly arranged photo collage will capture the story of your life.

But was it really your life? Sigue leyendo →

A Simple Banana: Letter by a volunteer physician about gratitude

Publicado el noviembre 30, 2011 por Create and Share

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This letter, written by Dulcina Fonseca García, summarizes a significant part of our life philosophy. We found it on our friend site El Blog Alternativo and we have translated it in order to share it with you all: Sigue leyendo →

Education Through the Ages (Infographic)

Publicado el noviembre 25, 2011 por Create and Share

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Education is part of our identity. Education is instinctual, we begin learning instantly, taking insights and sounds to make sense of the world. We are all products of education, but the education process has changed dramatically through the ages.

The Freelancer Revolution (Infographic)

Publicado el noviembre 18, 2011 por Create and Share

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In the last 20 years, the number of freelancers in has gone up. It seems that there is an increase in the freelancers just in the every-day people we run into. Whether it’s a freelance writer, programmer, copy writer or researcher, these business titans mostly work their own hours from their own home.

Every Drop Counts (Infographic)

Publicado el noviembre 11, 2011 por Create and Share

The average American family of four can live on 3 gallons of water a day, yet 400 gallons is closer to the daily usage. We can blame faulty faucets leaks and inefficient toilets, or we can start taking small steps to decrease our consumption. The infographic gives some simple ideas on how to start like turning off the tap water while brushing and only showering for 10 minutes.