New venue for Flowforms Open Conference - NOW NO CHARGE, donations only - 'Water: Nature's Mediator' - November 1st – 3rd 2013 (Friday evening to Sunday lunch)

Flowforms Open Conference - 'Water: Nature's Mediator'. November 1st – 3rd 2013 (Friday evening to Sunday lunch)

Now at the ..........

Foundation for Water building.

Foundation for Water building (Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18 5JX)

http://www.foundationforwater.org/

Contact Philip Kilner
p.kilner@rbht.nhs.uk
if you would like to come along to this unique event (Space is now limited so contact in advance to be sure of a seat)

Water: Nature’s Mediator

An enquiry into water and its role in our environment and in human life

Water is an essential constituent of all known life forms, including our human form. In each living organism, water provides the medium for ever-changing fluid and semi-fluid processes of exquisite complexity and order. At the same time, water is a crucial dynamic constituent of our larger scale Earth environment.

An aim of this conference is to approach environmental issues via the subject of water. Water’s very nature is participatory. The conference is to be participatory , appreciative and exploratory in mood. Through panel presentations, discussions, interactive experiments, observation and creative artistic engagement we aim to gain appreciation of water’s diverse roles and qualities and, with respect to them, review our own ways of life .

We feel water has great educational potential, relevant to our current time. In addition to the outline on the webpage we (Simon and Philip) would like to consider:  

Vortex geometry, as studied by Lawrence Edwards. This is lawful yet variable – part of a way of moving – approachable through the path curves of projective geometry. Projective geometry can be related flexibly and specifically to natural forms. Can  its study help us develop flexibility of thinking to meet challenges in a contextual way?

Climate Change – the recent IPCC report:  The recently published 5th report of the International Panel on Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch/ represents judgements drawn from studies of global environmental dynamics by teams of experts worldwide. A 36 page 'Summary for Policy Makers' has been drawn up: http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGIAR5-SPM_Approved27Sep2013.pdf

In it, a series of key points are highlighted and plots representing changes of emissions, temperatures, icecap extents etc., are grouped on the final pages. The document is phrased without emotion or hype. Consideration of it is sobering. How will our great-great-grandchildren look back on our generation – a generation becoming aware of the likely consequences of our rates of consumption of fossil fuels... and continuing to use them anyway?

This last thought may cause you, like us, think twice before travelling far for a meeting. If we meet as a relatively small group, may it be with no less interest, creativity and intention to learn together!  

 Simon Charter and Philip Kilner

On behalf of the International Flowform Association, the  Foundation for Water

and The Science Group of the AS in GB.

 

Open Conference - 'Water: Nature's Mediator'

to book a place for this event please Contact Philip Kilner...........
p.kilner@rbht.nhs.uk

See the booking form for cost and booking accomodation at Emerson College for this event. Accommodation at Emerson is limited, so please book early if wanted.

Sign up for future lectures and workshops on Flowform design and applications. Events in the UK and worldwide will be posted on our website at www.flowforms.com

 

The Foundation for Water building. New venue for conference, Water: Nature’s Mediator: 1 – 3 November 2013

Foundation for Water building (Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18 5JX)

Conference is now for donations, not as publicised costs and so offers great value to all.

We have had a name change!

Foundation for Water is our new name, changed from Healing Water Foundation because our work to apply the legacy of John Wilkes has led us into more global water issues. The name Foundation for Water creates a broader base on which to develop a strong organisation to continue helping water support life

About

John Wilkes

We invite you to help us take the late John Wilkes’ work for water much further out around the world.
John was a paradigm changer, who shared new insights into the profound character of water and also invented extraordinary technologies to help water support life, out of his deep understanding of dynamic flow in nature.
John was an inspiring teacher to many around the world, and his life was spent helping water in every way he could.  And as we know, water quality is one of the most urgent issues facing our ailing planet.
We honour John’s life work to help water by developing it further around the world.  His aim was to help water support life.  Please help us continue to do this.

About Foundation for Water’s Work

Foundation for Water is the UK charity John Wilkes set up in 2008 with the purpose of helping water support life. Wilkes also built a research centre in Emerson College (UK) in 2002, and coordinated significant research design activities there, much of which was voluntary work by qualified scientists, mathematicians and designers supporting his breakthrough insights into water’s dynamic role vital to nature’s health.

Worldwide, there is much discussion on how to heal the planet in this time of environmental crisis, and healing water’s poor condition is a major aspect of this challenge.
The task now is to build a professional organisation around legacy of John’s life work, so that the Foundation for Water can respond effectively to the urgent issues facing water worldwide, while developing his work further.
Read more about our plan

What is John Wilkes’ legacy regarding water?

It is held in our Five Focus Activities for Water.
Please click below to read about them.
Education
Research
Technology
Water projects
Water 2050
All donations will help us continue our unique work for water. Thank you.

5 Year Development Plan:  2011 – 2015 in three stages

We need to build an strong organization around the legacy of John’s insights and innovations. Only then can we effectively meet the many requests coming to us to help people understand and improve water around the world.  Some existing requests are to help village water in India and mining dams in Chile, run education courses in London and in Bucharest, research stagnant ponds in Canada  and develop new technologies in Holland.
We completed Stage 1 Development of John’s charity, the Foundation for Water, during 2011 and 2012.
We set up communication systems, developed long term plans, restarted research and education courses and  best of all, purchased the centre John built back in 2002, along with an acre of research land.
To achieve this we raised £65,000 during 2012, and received two long term loans from generous supporters.

 “The work of John Wilkes continues to inspire me today as I uncover further layers of his thinking through my contact with the Foundation for Water. I am grateful to John for opening that door in my consciousness.”

Peter Wilder, Wilder Associates, Urban & Environmental Design, London

Now we want to complete Stage 2 Development in 2013

To take this second step we need £90,000 by the end of July this year.

We will use the money to establish a working organisation, with regular staff members.
We invite you to help raise this amount and thereby become part of John Wilkes’ work for water.

With Stage 2 Development we will create an operational organization, the next step to becoming financially self-sustaining by the end of 2015 through our existing activities, each of which can attract income to enable further development
Our Five Focus Activities for Water

1. EDUCATION: share a profound understanding of water and its vital importance to nature
2. RESEARCH: conduct research into nature’s effective ways of creating  good water quality
3. TECHNOLOGY: develop eco-technologies to restore good water quality, using nature’s methods
4. WATER PROJECTS: with associates, install sustainable water projects worldwide as examples
5. WATER 2050: challenge humanity to return our planet’s water back to its 1950 quality by 2050,  through the creation of a comprehensive interactive ‘world water website’ and action network

Our resolve is to build international working capacity in all five areas and be a self-funding professional organisation through these activities, with active colleagues worldwide.
John Wilkes had many supporters and colleagues worldwide who helped him achieve a remarkable amount over 40 years.
Now is the time to create a scaled up organisation around his legacy to help water where ever we can.
We need funding urgently to take the Foundation for Water to the next level of effectiveness.
We will use the Stage 2 funds to …

• Scale up activities and develop more income from
  • research programme for 2013 summer
  • education –2013/14 School of Water programme
  • technology –  new fish ladder and municipal water treatment designs
  • water projects -  income from water improvement projects
• Hire new staff who can help grow their job into full time positions
  • research technician  (half a week, all year)
  • development manager (half a week, all year)
  • Stage 3 Development fundraiser (contract)
• Maintain operations
  • administrator (2+ days a week)
  • director (2+ days a week)
  • running costs of the operation (minimum)

Click here more detailed information about Stage 2 and Stage 3 Developments.

 “We need new kinds of technologies which express a new ‘water consciousness’ and ways of living in harmony with nature.That is the significance of the work of John Wilkes’ and his international network of co-workers.”

 Gary J. Coates, Professor, Dept of Architecture, Kansas State University

Technology from the heart of nature

The water humanity uses is often poor quality.  So, we add chemicals, and use machinery to filter and oxygenate it.
Why? Because we separate it from nature, which knows how to look after its water.
John Wilkes understood this issue profoundly – and developed practical answers.
The key is to move water through ‘complex dynamic flow’ – as happens in nature. Then it becomes a ‘liquid crystal’, highly oxygenated and vitalized.
John Wilkes invented ‘dynamic flow’ technologies with tremendous potential to improve water quality worldwide. They return water to nature, while it is still being used!
This Flowform technology needs scaling up for high volume situations, and for villages in the developing world.

“As water recycling becomes more important its energetic properties need to be brought within the radar of water providers.  Financial support for Foundation for Water’s work is vital as a contribution to tomorrow’s sustainable world.”

 Richard Thornton Smith BSc PhD, Honorary Research Fellow Leeds University

Many people know something of John’s extraordinary work for the world. If many of us help we can raise the £90,000 by July 30th – and take the next crucial step forward to help water support life.
The Foundation for Water work depends primarily on donations at this stage of it growth and we ask you to help by Donating and also becoming an Ambassador to enthuse other donors to act for water.

 It is the understanding of the essence of life and its underlying physics that will inspire us to design a sustainable future.

The Foundation for Water deserves support to continue their vital work with water over the next decades.”

 Prof. Dr. Gunter Pauli, author of “The Blue Economy”, South Africa

Latest news for the conference.... now free of charge to attend, donations towards costs appreciated

Latest news (Tuesday 22nd October) is that the conference is now in the Foundation for Water building and so under donations and not charged as on the booking form and previous notifications.

Please contact Philip Kilner if you want to come and only need use the Emerson College if you want to have accommodation.

email Kilner Philip <P.Kilner@rbht.nhs.uk>

Important change: As we will fit comfortably in the Foundation for Water building, you no longer need to book through Emerson College (you only need to use the Emerson booking form or office number +44 (0) 1342 822238 if you want to book accommodation at Emerson).

Flowforms Open Conference - 'Water: Nature's Mediator'. Emerson College November 1st – 3rd 2013 (Friday evening to Sunday lunch)

A general water conference at Emerson college organised by Philip Kilner and Simon Charter. November 1st-3rd under the name of the Science group of the Anthroposophical society. We hope many scientifically and medically minded people will attend.

Please note change of venue (Tuesday 22nd October), Change of venue for the conference now at the Foundation for Water building (Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18 5JX) http://www.foundationforwater.org/

Contact Philip Kilner
p.kilner@rbht.nhs.uk
if you would like to come along to this unique event (Space is now limited so contact in advance to be sure of a seat)

At Emerson College

November 1st – 3rd 2013 (Friday evening to Sunday lunch)

Water: Nature’s Mediator

An enquiry into water and its role in our environment and in human life

Water is an essential constituent of all known life forms, including our human form. In each living organism, water provides the medium for ever-changing fluid and semi-fluid processes of exquisite complexity and order. At the same time, water is a crucial dynamic constituent of our larger scale Earth environment.

An aim of this conference is to approach environmental issues via the subject of water. Water’s very nature is participatory. The conference is to be participatory , appreciative and exploratory in mood. Through panel presentations, discussions, interactive experiments, observation and creative artistic engagement we aim to gain appreciation of water’s diverse roles and qualities and, with respect to them, review our own ways of life .

We feel water has great educational potential, relevant to our current time. In addition to the outline on the webpage we (Simon and Philip) would like to consider:  

Vortex geometry, as studied by Lawrence Edwards. This is lawful yet variable – part of a way of moving – approachable through the path curves of projective geometry. Projective geometry can be related flexibly and specifically to natural forms. Can  its study help us develop flexibility of thinking to meet challenges in a contextual way?

Climate Change – the recent IPCC report:  The recently published 5th report of the International Panel on Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch/ represents judgements drawn from studies of global environmental dynamics by teams of experts worldwide. A 36 page 'Summary for Policy Makers' has been drawn up: http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGIAR5-SPM_Approved27Sep2013.pdf

In it, a series of key points are highlighted and plots representing changes of emissions, temperatures, icecap extents etc., are grouped on the final pages. The document is phrased without emotion or hype. Consideration of it is sobering. How will our great-great-grandchildren look back on our generation – a generation becoming aware of the likely consequences of our rates of consumption of fossil fuels... and continuing to use them anyway?

This last thought may cause you, like us, think twice before travelling far for a meeting. If we meet as a relatively small group, may it be with no less interest, creativity and intention to learn together!  

 Simon Charter and Philip Kilner

On behalf of the International Flowform Association, the  Foundation for Water

and The Science Group of the AS in GB.

 

Open Conference - 'Water: Nature's Mediator'

an event at Emerson College, Forest Row, Sussex,

November 1st to 3rd November 2013

to book a place for this event please go to...................
http://www.emerson.org.uk/conferences-2013-0/

See the booking form for costs. Accommodation at Emerson is limited, so please book early if wanted.

Sign up for future lectures and workshops on Flowform design and applications. Events in the UK and worldwide will be posted on our website at www.flowforms.com

Water in an agricultural organism

Water in an agricultural organism.

 I suggest that we can see water active in 3 realms of the agricultural life. Just as higher animals have 3 aspects to their organic life.

1. In digestive and metabolic activity

2. In a breathing, circulation and interactive activity

3. In an informative and sensing activity.

We need to see what is going on in order to know how to handle the water to enable the processes to serve our intentions.

If we have a garden or farm pond this will attract birds and amphibious animals and collect fallen plant material. All this accumulates organic material within the water body which requires digestion. It is mainly a metabolic realm . The digestion can be with oxygen- quicker and odour free, or without- slower- resulting in faster sludge build up whose removal can be a smelly event. The ecological diversity in a well oxygenated water body is usually greater than a stagnant one.

Regular recirculation of the water through a Flowform of an appropriate size can provide high levels of oxygenation up to 2 milligram per litre per pass in a single form. The oxygen can also be detectable for longer than with other oxygenation methods ( unpublished results from Laverstoke Park farm).

If we are collecting water for irrigation, this forms a reservoir which can be kept fresh by recirculation, for distribution as and when needed . Water irrigating a green house or polytunnel yet held and moved outside may be experienced as integrating the protected crops more into the whole life of the place. The experience of fresh water moving within a space can create a good mood, particularly in a social area where people may pass by or stop and communicate with one another or with the beings of nature. A Flowform can be a particularly harmonious experience in such a setting, where it may even be felt to become a heart for the farm or the garden.

If we wish to convey particular qualities into our soil life and plant life, we can choose to try to do this through the medium of water. We need then to inform the water, to make it potent with the desired quality. There are many methods for potentisation and the opening up of such water through movement means that the soul qualities of those present can also be brought into play to further enhance the process. So methods of direct human action stirring or shaking may be the method of choice for many.

However it is the experience of agronomists in many countries now that the biodynamic preparations can be potentised by Flowform stirring. Alternating current pumps can be used either submersed or dry mounted without destroying the effect. This method enables more different preparations to be made at more times and in greater quantities—if this is desired.

I would definitely not wish it to be thought that Flowforms are good for everything, or that Flowform treated (“energised”?)  water is the panacea to enhance all life. In fact such claims seem likely to engender a greater scepticism and reluctance to experiment. However it is not difficult to see that there are many ways to enliven the agricultural or horticultural organism and I would like to suggest that there may be one or two places where one might  try using a Flowform.

 Simon.

Flowforms and Water - Nature's Mediator,

an event at Emerson College, Forest Row, Sussex,

November 1st to 3rd November 2013

to book a place for this event please go to...................
http://www.emerson.org.uk/conferences-2013-0/



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Open Conference - 'Water: Nature's Mediator', an event at Emerson College, Sussex, November 1st to 3rd November 2013

Open Conference - 'Water: Nature's Mediator'

an event at Emerson College, Forest Row, Sussex,

November 1st to 3rd November 2013

to book a place for this event please go to...................
http://www.emerson.org.uk/conferences-2013-0/

Conference only fee: £130 (concessions £90, by application), mid morning and afternoon refreshments included.
Main meals and accommodation (if available) at Emerson College will are charged separately. See the booking form for costs. Accommodation at Emerson is limited, so please book early if wanted.

revolutionary new Hydroelectric Turbine based on the Archimedes Screw

The Archimedes Screw Company

The Archimedes Screw Company (TASC) has designed and built a revolutionary new Hydroelectric Turbine based on the Archimedes Screw principles. It is a fish friendly, efficient device for converting the potential energy in water to electricity.
The TASC turbine is made from reinforced plastic and is suited to smaller, domestic sites producing less than 15kw. The Turbine is designed and manufactured in UK and is easily transported and installed with minimal construction works. There are Archimedes Screw Turbines currently available in the market, but these are made from metal and are thus expensive to manufacture, transport and install. They are suited to large scale sites where you might hope to generate more than 50Kw. The Archimedes Screw Turbine is the turbine of choice of the Environment Agency, due to its low impact on the environment.


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