Sep 10, 2007

The End of Real Estate

The End of Real Estate explores the existential/social/environmental disaster that the Real Estate industry is leading to, and presents some alternative resolutions to ameliorate the process.

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7 comments:

  1. on Oct 12, 2007 -


    Hi Josef,
    Thanks for your email. The articles (including the Real Estate issue) look very interesting and we hope to publish them in our online edition soon.
    Best Wishes,
    Dada Vedaprajinananda
    Webmaster, Renaissance Universal
    www.ru.org

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  2. on Oct 11, 2007 -


    Hello, Josef,

    We hope you are well.

    As you may remember, we published your article on bees a few months ago:

    http://www.goodwriters.net/bees.html

    We agree that land cannot truly be "owned" -- a capitalist concept to be sure. Have you seen the DVD "Seeds of Change" -- Monsanto is arrogantly trying to "patent" life as well.

    The links at the end of your article regarding alternative building/shelters were fascinating. If you will be writing specifically about alternative building structures in the future, we would be interested in an article and pictures.

    Thank you for your submission.

    Sincerely,

    Viktoria Vidali
    Editor
    Goodwriters.Net

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  3. on Oct 10, 2007 -


    Dear Josef,

    Herein is your published article:

    http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/10/09/01880.html

    Thanks so much for your consideration.

    John Stokes

    The Canadian National Newspaper

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  4. on Dec 11, 2007 -


    Dear Joseph,

    We would like to thank you profusely for your previous editorial submission.

    In the meantime, we also respectfully invite you to submit any other article or commentary that you think would help inspire additional public introspection and constructive debate.

    We seek to provide an eclectic alternative as a "public enterprise" to the often cynical and commercially driven (private enterprise oriented) priorities of Big Business owned mass media.

    We hope that you will continue to consider The Canadian an outlet for your critical perspectives and thoughtful exploration of topical issues and current affairs areas.

    Please feel free to circulate our invitation to any of your colleagues who might also seek to contribute to our collective efforts.

    Please feel free to ask any additional questions.

    John Stokes

    The Canadian National Newspaper
    Toll-free tel: 1-888-377-2222
    internet site: http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com

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  5. Ann Palmer wrote:

    Authentic forms of relationship with land. (You are invited to expand on this theme.)

    I find new paradigms helpful, as obviously you do too. A while back 'superstructure' came to me as a way of defining the totality of human activity on the Earth. It pleased me greatly on many counts. Not the least because it cuts across the instant, the info-overload and what I call 'culture mainframe' - but for which you have far more elegant expressions.

    More particularly, using the concept 'superstructure' says it as it is. Helps reinstate the long-ago and the far-future - inspires a more geologically-framed mindset. Psychologically, this can distance us from what is 'in-our-face' all the time - in one simple move. So it's easy, easily accessible. If we have the startpoint of seeing what we have created as merely a SUPERSTRUCTURE built by humans on the Earth, many other aspects - to do with bees, bison, wolves, the land itself - can speak to us more clearly, because we have removed a human-imposed barrier, a delusion. And re-embraced the right relationship - Earth first.

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  6. Nice essay on "un-real" estate. I could not agree more. I liked the line that likened owning land to owning star light.

    Best Wishes,

    Chuck

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