Happy Birthday

Each day about 375,000 children are born into our world. On August 29, 2009 a most peculiar event took place that will forever change the landscape of human culture for those babies. On that day the idea of Planet Earth 2.0 became a reality as its birth was witnessed and celebrated at an exhibit aptly named "The Birth of Planet Earth 2.0."

Minutes before the celebration was to begin, thousands of miles away, a child was born to the family of one of the early supporters of the Planet Earth 2.0 idea. The two births, I think, carry an enormous message for us.
About 150 people gathered in the salon at Frame Gallery & Gift in Cape Coral, Florida USA to witness and ratify the birth of a cultural choice - an alternative to "business as usual" and "more of the same" called Planet Earth 2.0.

About 357,000 children were delivered that day around the world along with this baby named Elijah Alexandrio into troubled and uncertain times when even hope is a commodity that is hard to afford. But, their futures no longer need to remain just hope and wishes. Instead, these babies are the first group of human beings to be born into a cultural alternative that can be their path to a new world that future generations can sustain and a planet that can sustain future generations.

The critical role of art in the 21st century has come into view. Since the birth of Planet Earth 2.0, nearly a million babies have been born. How marvelous to know that their parents have the opportunity to lead them on to the path of transition to a life in closer concert with the new world.

Happy birthday to all !

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Entity Greeting Transcription #2

I'm featuring a work of art today I call "Entity Greeting Transcription #2" - the second of only two images in the series.

As we begin to contemplate a new world like Planet Earth 2.0 in contrast to Planet Earth 1.0, a bridge can be imagined to appear between the two worlds.

This is wonderful because the span brings to mind that there is now a choice between "business as usual" and something new. The more abundance of workable new ideas that become evident the greater the contrast becomes between both ends of the bridge.

The bridge is the metaphor for the transition between worlds and the period of time it will take for us to adapt to the improvements that make Planet Earth 2.0 worth the crossing.

One contrasting feature resulting from our partnership with nature on Planet Earth 2.0 is embraced by the word "Sufficiency." Sufficiency extends our interpretation of balance from being a point of comfort between two extremes to new levels of distribution where Sufficiency stands for the best amount of balance at a given moment in time.

This is very important because until now we could never seem to agree upon how much is too much or too little or for how long.

Sufficiency, or something like it, is old news in Nature. But now we can begin to learn its secrets in order to properly manage what is left of planet Earth 1.0.

In the image of "Entity Greeting Transcription #2" we see the images of two bearers. Each represents one polarity or extreme, be it positive or negative, but both are taking their place at each side of Sufficiency (the entity) not as the destinations they used to be, but as agents of Sufficiency.

Sufficiency is new to us. Its exploration and uses in Planet Earth 2.0 are wide open with all of its secrets waiting to be discovered.

Good luck to all new explorers. We have a new world to create and little time left to do it.

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Transitional Forms #9

The work featured in today's blog is from a series with the title "Transitional Forms." It is #9 of the series.

The idea of Planet Earth 2.0 is much more than a metaphor for a desire for a better world in which to live. Planet Earth 2.0 begins like all other ideas that mange to enter the panorama of human existence. That is, they begin as a concept that is structured by a number of aesthetic qualities which define its character and provide us with a preview regarding the value of the idea and its applications in the real world.

The transition from planet Earth 1.0 to Planet Earth 2.0 is, of course, a cultural transition - one that has an effect in everyday living that continues untill the time when the former is history and Planet Earth 2.0 becomes the norm.

One of the qualities that distinguish life in Planet Earth 2.0 is that of our new role as co-creators with Nature in order to sustain life in the planet.

That role is new to life on Earth because we are the first species to damage the environment to such an extent that we became the first creatures on Earth to unleash a mass extinction. But that was us in Planet Earth 1.0.

In Planet Earth 2.0 we are going to use our creativity in partnership with Nature to create a new world. Why create a new world?

The answer to that is that if we do not get involved in the maintenance of life on Earth, Nature will take steps to sustain life in a way that is not suitable for our kind of life.

Remember what Nature did after the fall of the dinosaurs? Nature favored us over them and if we are not careful Nature will favor someone else over us.

Anyway, this work of art "Transitional Forms #9" shows the dynamic mixture of human creativity and Nature's tested and true recipes to create structures that meet the needs of life in the new world.

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Enjoy it!

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Dream Hunter #8

I knew that any talk about the birth of a new world such as Planet Earth 2.0 would be taken a lot more seriously if these ideas are illustrated with art that clearly embody an exclusive association with this new world. "Dream Hunter" is a case in point.

The work of art featured in our blog today is one of a series with the title "Dream Hunter." It is the #8 of the series. I have selected this particular "Dream Hunter" because its narrative links closer to the rest of the works that we are showing at the birth of Planet Earth 2.0 event this Saturday. All of these works have one thing in common. They are examples of what I call "Data A" art.

Without getting too complicated here, I can describe "Data A" art as follows.

It is art in the context of life. Or, more clearly, it is a resolute attempt to place art in the context of the life experience in such a way that its practice reveals a new causal relationship between human creativity and Nature. By Nature, I mean our own human nature and all of Nature at large.

When in human affairs "more of the same" amounts to social and environmental suicide for us at this critical junction in the history of life on Earth, "Data A" art may turn out to be a key player in the dialog for workable ideas.

This is where the "Dream Hunter" series come in. These images embrace the origins of the human hunter. They build upon the remarkable journey of the human hunter that started when the stone spear-point was introduced as advancement in our quest to conquer the world. It continues to the present when essentially the same stone spear-point design can carry a warhead thousands of miles to destroy a city.

Planet Earth 2.0 retains the human spirit of the hunt that has distinguished our species for millenniums. But in this new world the hunter has now become a "Dream Hunter."

Remember the "Calendar of Dreams" in a previous blog? Well, in a way, that is the same idea. You can schedule a dream and then go out and "hunt it down." In regards to the task of building a new world, perhaps the greatest hunt in Planet Earth 2.0 will be the hunt for Nature's own survival recipes.

We will find that Nature already has the solutions to most of our problems. In Nature's own field tested recipe book lay the secrets for fantastic new building materials - ones that self assemble and ones that the only waste created is waste that is perfectly degradable. Nature has a myriad of processes that we can adapt to make everything we need in order to make a sustainable new world.

By doing so, we will be taking care of the world that takes care of the new hunter and the thousands more generations of our kind to come.

The marvelous thing about this is that such hunters are already here and they are ready to begin their magic and there will be countless artists ready to illustrate and communicate their findings now that Planet Earth 2.0 is forthcoming.

For a copy of "Dream Hunter #8" of your own, click the image and you will be directed to a site where you may obtain a complementary one.

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Reconciliation

Can we reconcile the world that we have created for ourselves with the natural world?

I think the answer is yes. But, clearly, we can't get there by staying on the same course that brought us the mess that we are in today.

The reconciliation of our kind with the world is probably easier than we can imagine. I think all we need to do is to begin to act in a reconciliatory manner and stay the course.

"How to begin?" used to be the big stumbling block. But, not anymore if we come to terms with the fact that the world we have created will not service the future of humanity or service life in general.

It is way easier if we have an alternative that is ready-made to be used - one that will take us down the path of reconciliation with the world.

How or why we got to this point in our development is a lively debate that will hopefully entertain us for centuries. But, that debate does not provide new ideas of the kind that we need to move forward.

The reality is that we are here as a result of our creativity and ingenuity. Now is the time to once again summon our talents, reinvent our relationship with the world and go forward.

The art work illustrating this blog entry today, called "Reconciliation," deals with some of the requisites that our reconciliation with the world should have.

First, we have to come to terms with the scale of our challenge. Since our challenge is global and since a global challenge cannot be overcome by a fragmented civilization, then the challenge must be faced by humanity working collaboratively as a single species.

Second, we have come far enough and gathered sufficient evidence to know that we are a part of the natural world. Our insistence that we are somehow separate or superior to the rest of nature must finally be left in the past. We can now look at that old worldview as just a part of our childhood as a species.

Stepping into Planet Earth 2.0 is like a rite of passage from that childhood into adolescence with a fresher view of the world that comes from getting older.

Reconciliation with the world is a path to our eventual adulthood as a species. The image "reconciliation" illustrates our embrace of the planet as an adult species. Within that mature embrace, our priorities about life are now in line with nature and our participation as collaborators with the world fully promotes and sustains life.

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A Calendar of Dreams

Selecting the works of art for the birth of Planet Earth 2.0 was not an easy task mainly because they would be the first works ever to appear in the context of art at the beginning of a new world.

These final selections are going to be the subject of my blog entries throughout this week as we countdown to August 29, 2009 and record the birth of Planet Earth 2.0.

The first one is "A Calendar of Dreams." When you think about it a bit, it seems funny to realize that we could never schedule our dreams before in Planet Earth 1.0. We could talk about them, we could wish for a dream but we could never schedule one. Perhaps that was because humanity never before had a calendar of dreams.

Well, now we do. Right from the start the first scheduled dream to come true is the birth of a new world. I dreamed that dream and was joined by thousands of people over decades in dreaming it. For those like you who are with me now, we will all see it come true.

I selected "A Calendar of Dreams" to be at the birth of of Planet Earth 2.0 because I wanted to share with you, the people of the new world, the fact that you can also schedule your own dreams now that we have a calendar of dreams to do so.

There is another dream that is scheduled in our calendar of dreams. It is a dream that has been around for thousands of years.

It is a dream to which millions of lives have been sacrificed in the search of it. It is a dream that we have almost stopped dreaming since "peace" seems more and more like an impossible dream. At least, it seemed so in Planet Earth 1.0.

Peace may very well be humanity's longest running dream.

The Worldwide Peace Marker Project is represented by another one of the works at the Birth of Planet Earth 2.0 event by the title of "First Step." It shows how close we are from crossing out "world peace" from the calendar of dreams as it becomes a dream that came true. World peace can now be said to be taking its fitting first steps into a new world.

For a copy of "A Calendar of Dreams" click on the image above. It will take you to a site where you may download a copy of the image of your own.

Schedule a dream (or several) of your own. Anything can happen in Planet Earth 2.0. We already know that dreams do.

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