Now of course solar cooking is nothing new, but why is it not more used - even in the north? Or why is biogas not more used? or why is “this and that” not more used??? well you can keep asking yourself why “this and that” is not or has not been done before. In order to make it work, that is order to develop a sustainable world where we all have access to a decent amount of “MATERIALISTIC CONVENIENCE” we need to look at a lot of things in RADICALLY DIFFERENT ways. And we need to be open to do things in new and most of the time very exiting and believe me or not often also very healthy and inexpensive ways. Solar cooking is one of them - so instead of writing more  have  a look at the video I have done here and feel free to come with comments etc. about whether this is appropriate or convenient in for MODERN LIVING. I think it is and I hope seriously to see some RADICAL SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION from Panasonic integrating SOLAR in some of all their products - the possibilities are endless and incredibly important to do, not only for the planet but as what Panasonic apparently already has realized - for business too. So please feel free to watch my little contribution to CONVENIENT NEW FOOD made in a solar cooker here - and btw the solar cooker I am using is from India designed and developed at the Ghandi Ashram in Ahmadabad, India - Maybe in interesting partner for Panasonic (read full article here).

Click here to see the film about Solar Cooking

-welcome to a lot of exiting hard fun...

Well believe it or not - Ricemilk is easier to make than going to the supermarket to buy it. If you drink soyamilk or ricemilk or any other nut or grain based milk then STOP buying it but do it yourself instead - it can contribute to the savings of tons of trees and many other resources + its far more healthy than drinking that old and most often seriously treated substances that they sell in these very problematic Tetra Pack composite packaging.

And see the next video too - its about what you can use the leftovers for - from the ricemilk production.

Mr. Andersen inspecting the new experiment in compost toiletting at MMM

We all know it - “flush and forget” - we need to turn it into “Flush & Remember” - how can we design activities and acts that makes us understand that waste does NOT exist - everything is a resource, nothing EVER is waste - or should we say should or rathar CANT be. We need to redefine our view on how we manage our resources - all of them - even our own “left-overs”.

This video is the part 1 and 2 of maybe 10 more on same project - the ultimate composting toilet experience - and this film just shows some initial experimentation, just you wait and see the final result. And in case you want to come and work on this project please contact me. And also if you know where to get funding for the project - please contact me.

The following link is for Blip.TV - the quality is unfortunately not very good so a new version will come up asap. So please go to this link:

http://blip.tv/file/2061646/

“Rubbish - you are taking the piss”

This is acording to writer Adam Hart-Davis from the UK what people said to the men who were sailing urine to be made into alum (to be used for color fixation) in the UK in the 1600. Urine has been used for numerous purposes - and should if you ask me be again. Adam Hart-Davis has written some very interesting and entertaining articles about urine and feces - please click here to read more.

DIVINE OYSTERS

DIVINE DANDELION, GOAT AND SAUSAGE...on danish ryebread

DIVINE FOOD - NEW FOODS - or rather food is DIVINE - or its like being in heaven indulging in DIVINE FOOD….and the whole thing about eating does not takes up a lot of time for me here on MMM - and yet it does. The intention with the little blog here on NEW FOODS - DIVINE EATING is purely to inspire you yourself to start exploring what you eat. Eating is obviously not just about food, but about life - if we dont eat we die….I personally believe that if we dont eat with respect and beautifully then we uptain the important matters from the food we eat in ways that might harm more than it helps.

Food is such an essential element in our life and therefore its also something I think we need to deal with - every day - in a appropriate ways - NOW and whats that…well see here and maybe you get ideas to how you can eat less (which all in all is good - just dont starve), more green, MORE RAW  (which should be as local as possible and grown with as big respect for nature as possible), more creatively and beautiful (which is part of the importance of “ENJOYING LIFE”), more improvised (which is all about daring to experiment every day in life - we need to explore life in all its aspects - also in terms of food - creative cooking without recipees is highly recommendable to enhance your ……well what do you think?????) …and many other issues - this is NOT a cooking blog, but hopefully inspirational hints about how to live a better life, for less, with less and MORE EXITING….

As one of the many activities there is to do here at MMM is of course gardening - and the DREAMS are BIG. I want to create a paradise here where nature and culture thrives - and I want to write and do more videos about the considerations and experiments happening here at MMM. This posting on the EXDL blog will be dedicated to the development of the MMM Gardens and micro farming.

The first video to be posted here is about the actual design of the kitchen garden - a garden for lazy people..or maybe busy, BUT also gardening about having a pact with the system around - as in nature, the plants, the earth, the water etc…see some of the considerations here.

Me with my planting in the new MMM kitchen garden - rubarbs and melons and some flowersseeds - will probably look stunning in some months..

MMM waterfall

Did you know that 70% of the earth surface is water and approximately 70 % of the human body consist of water. Water is one of the main elements for life on the planet. Without – read: CLEAN water - things could get rather grim. We actually know this and yet what do we do with water? Well we all know – and currently water is as so many other elements of the planet a bit out of balance due to our maybe not so appropriate use of it. There is perhaps nothing as important as the huge challenges we are facing when it comes to water. As all other elements we need to come to terms with our relationship with it. We need to treat it again as matter that’s as precious – or even more precious than gold. It is abundant but maybe too wild and mysterious to understand how we have managed to “influence it” in maybe not the best ways. Water is not dead or passive matter just floating in and around and everywhere us – it’s a beautiful amazing series of molecular structures which provides us with access to life as we know it here on the planet. Without clean water in todays and tomorrows world human life will stop to exist.

The challenge

We need to find more intelligent ways to live with water. Water dissolves more substances than anything else – but water has many more capacities, for remembering, for healing – some claim water has emotions and a kind of intelligence. Well for sure its smart and we could learn a lot from it – if we were listening and open enough as fx. Masuru Emoto (http://www.masaru-emoto.net/). Water is like all other natural elements needed to be seen as another collaborator – another living element - that helps and which as we do need care, love, and admiration. We need to re-establish a co-evolution with water – in all ways.
And as the Native Americans said: we do not own the water on this planet. We have to let it flow. We could also describe in a way that water needs to be considered and respected in equal ways as everything else that surrounds us . we all come from the same substances and we will all go back to the same forms. There is really not very much hocus pocus around that – its life as we know it here in this planet. And as animals, plants and the earth it self we all share life with water – in harmonious cycles – eternal cycles  – water is really air – its every ones and no ones – its just essential matters for life.
Lets work with water in respect for what it is and what it brings us and lets try and develop some amazing concepts where we live with and show apriciation at the same time. As we are doing it with other projects here on MMM – lets try to be as pragmatic as possible and allow for communal inspiration and accept of each others diversities and needs – does it sound gaga, well then go Mr. Emotos site and read about what water is all about.

Micro Macro Monde project:

-Aqua Culture MMM

The MMM project to be developed during this MMM Future Camp is called AQUA CULTURE – and a real project will be developed at MMM where some of the spaces in the old watermill will be developed as a kind of public bathhouse or spa or a sacred place for working with water – just an AQUA CULTURE project – a possible public bath or water house of tomorrow.

With:
- Niels Peter Flint,  designer & founder of MMM and EXDL
- Søren Femmer Jensen, Concept Developer, Strategic Director of Cocreative

Assisted by:
- Peter Pilkington, MMM centre operation manager

Time:

June 15th to June 20th 2009

IF YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD THE ENTIRE MICRO MACRO MONDE PROGRAM PLEASE CLICK HERE.

Paint On for Interfaceflor. Radical Sustainable Innovation concept developed by EXDL & Niels Peter Flint for INterfaceflor Europe. Photo Per Morten Abrahansen

-short intensive courses over 2 to 3 days or longer with top level executives, where you learn and experience how you can develop Radical Sustainable Innovation concepts and also learn about how you can implement them into your business / organization. The courses consists of lecturers, group work etc. steered by Niels Peter Flint & Søren Femmer Jensen.
Please require more information by e-mail or phone (please see below). These courses are only offered to companies and institutions – either at MMM or elsewhere, but please enquire about possibilities.

These courses are available to do on any location and can vary in length.
Reg. timings, payment and other practicalities please send an email to direct to npflint@exdl.com.

F YOU WANT THE MICRO MACRO MONDE COURSE & CAMPS PROGRAM summer 2009 focussed at students FOR DOWNLOAD PLEASE CLICK HERE.

Intense days about how to developing life-cupboards as NPF defines this RSI-concept on how to design your own very personal space. An kind of furniture which is where you keep your most “precious things” as well as “personal objects” etc. but its also a piece of furniture that you live with – and transform with – its possibly a coffin but for sure its your life rider cabinet. Come and build this unique object – and take it home (at your own cost - and materials are NOT included unless its scrap from the MMM re-resource centre).

With:
Niels Peter Flint, CEO and founder of MMM & EXDL

Possible Gueststars:

Peder Thomasen - UNdertaker and managing director EVERGREEN & Begravelses Service

Dorte Dahlin - Visual Artist www.dortedahlin.dk

Assisted by:
Peter Pilkington – MMM Centre Operation Manager

Time:
August 10th to August 15th 2009

IF YOU WANT THE MICRO MACRO MONDE COURSE & CAMPS PROGRAM FOR DOWNLOAD PLEASE CLICK HERE.

Liferider - the life cabinet - exhibition

Liferider - the life cupboard