Monday, November 14, 2016

Koh, Scot and Ants, and Adam, Bill and Craig,

Found some films about the great Masanobu Fukuoka, author of "One Straw Revolution," (and influencer of many of my friends at Reed College in the first half of the 1980s), which you might enjoy ...

One Straw Revolution - by Masanobu Fukuoka


24:37 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8atbgaiekZI

Larry Korn: Permaculture and the Philosophy of Masanobu Fukuoka


126:50 mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv2e5gbjnnM
(speaking at Evergreen College in 2016)

The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka


126:26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA98_poGmM8


All of these films would go to the wiki subjects at WUaS such as
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Permaculture and
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hippies, for example, especially since hippies seemed to shape these films and the West's understanding of Fukuoka ...

Scott

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To

Philosophy -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Philosophy

Taoism -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Taoism

as well.

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I can see these films as a form of Reed College ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ...

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Looking too now for films about the Cathedral Forest Action Group, seeking to save old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest nonviolently in the 1980s, as well as about Earth First ...

Hi M,

Nice to be in touch again with Craig, Bill and Adam from Reed over the weekend. Bill was a very good friend at Reed, and is getting to a fairly senior writer at the NY Times. Adam and Craig seem pretty cheery navigating the modern world as they have. All three are Dads of teens or twenty year olds.

Here's a recent NY Times' article by Bill: