As Green Steps ecological director, Gloria has been instrumental in developing the National Urban Park – St. Pölten – a project application facing urban residents – since June 2021. Early 2025 she left Green Steps and moved on to study gardening at the famous Langenlois gardening academy, and will contribute her practical learning to the […]
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A new manual video is online
A new manual video has just been published!Learn how to find your ecoregion of interest and add it to the ARK. Wishing you fair winds and a safe learning journey.
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Welcome Renate Hagmann on the Steering Board
I am an economics teacher, have worked in the securities sector for a long time, and have been focusing as coordinator of GWÖ in Lower Austria on ethical business practices in the common good economy for the past seven years. My professional focus lies at the intersection of economic education and responsible business practices. I […]
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2 new manual videos online
2 manual videos about which we have been thinking for a while are finally online. one video explains how to add a new non-tree species to an ecoregion respectively your home commons. the other one explains how to add a tree species to an ecoregion / commons. the latter is a bit longer because it […]
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ARK phase 3 is around the corner.
Rapid advances in automation and AI are dismantling labor as the primary mechanism through which societies distribute income, recognition, and belonging. Yet the crisis is not only economic. It is also existential and structural: as work disappears, societies face rising anomie — a breakdown of meaning, identity, and social orientation — alongside accelerating wealth concentration, […]
Meet our newest member to the ARK advisory board, Tania Schellenberg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tania-schellenberg/ She is a Zurich based hydro ecologist and urban permaculture practicioner. We are looking forward to get her advice on how to integrate the ARK with her work.
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📘 White Paper Summary
Read a clean, structured walkthrough of White Paper – Version 03 (Oct 2021) created with the support of ChatGTP Section-by-Sction Breakdown + Key Structures 1. Abstract Purpose Core idea Three project phases (Explicitly aligned with UN SDGs 4, 10, 13, 17) 2. The Problem This section frames ARK as a response to three converging crises. […]
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A ChatGTP digest of the ARK white paper
During the last crew call, Hans Galliker said, that it is complicated to explain what the ARK really is. We had to agree. One needs to look at the vision first in order to understand the functionalities. All of them have organically evolved because of the mission laid out in the white paper. I asked […]
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Next Generation Internet
One of the most interesting albeit small grants we have applied for since the beginning of this project had its deadline on February 15th. We have sadly received notification on May 18th that our application for EUR 50k was rejected. We believe that failures need to be communicated and think that the grant application summarizes […]
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February release
ahoi crew 🙂 ⛵ the February release makes the assessment of biodiversity richness 🐛🦚🦉🦗🍄 a great tree watching experience. Learn why trees are also called motherships of (land) biodiversity and why sick or damaged trees 🌳🌲🌴are worth being protected: https://youtu.be/XqmbXZENj2E 00:40 Quiz 03:00 Overview – what’s new? 05:50 Biodiversity richness 23:35 Learning Paths 30:36 Group […]