Possibility Management

The Solar CITIES Biogas Workshop and The Eco-Village Movement

The recent workshop continued work that Culhane had done with the team at Tamera in 2011 when we held a Global Campus workshop to build Tamera's first kitchen-connected Solar CITIES style modified ARTI (Indian floating drum) digester, a delightful living fire breathing dragon now named "Holda".   Holda is  a 4 cubic meter work-horse (play-dragon)  of a biogas system fed on kitchen scraps who (who, not which, since she is alive) has now been in continuous and successful operation for nearly four years, going from a crawling baby to a running toddler.

A Solar CITIES team member aspires to be a "Possibility Manager"innoventor

As we work to define our roles in the Solar CITIES movement around the world, clarity comes from considering that what we really aspire to be are "Possibility Managers" in the sense discussed by Clinton Callahan. These paragraphs from his book "Adventures in Thinking" do a good job of summarizing how a Solar CITIES team member should approach the work: