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I believe it’s time for a Collective Council here in Los Angeles, CA (and beyond).

To that end I’m working on a new project but old idea (think Gathering of the Tribes, aka GoTT), something which I foresee benefiting all of the LA communities and others and am looking to get the word out to the various, key community leaders.

Below is an initial overview of the project. If anyone has any input on any of this, can suggest members, or wishes to get involved, please let me know.

Additionally, I see this expanding well beyond Los Angeles and our related communities at some point, as I often think big, on a global scale.

I’ve even worked on or discussed similar concepts with some of you out there before. I believe that this venture stands free and clear of anything else prior to this initiative and that any related ventures can serve some part in this. I am not looking to usurp anyone’s dreams or current ventures, but rather instead wish to connect and help strengthen them all, just as I wish to do with the community leaders and members here in LA (and beyond).

Many pieces are already in place or soon will be, to further fuel and catapult all of us to new realms of wonder and enlightenment. Some present pieces include:

Abundant Sugar, Amoration, Burning Man, Coachella, Creative Citizen, Dianovo, Empowerment Works, GLiving, GoTT, Green Nectarine, Green Sector, Growing Architecture, Hipgenesis, Lightning In A Bottle, Lucent Dossier, Moontribe, Mutaytor, Orangekids, Pocket Underground, Space Island, The Do LaB, The Sugar Shack, Tribe, Twitter, ToyShoppe Pro, WordPress, Words For The Many, Virgin Music Festival, YouTube, etc.

Official Description (subject to change):

You, the leading members/representatives from each of the major communities within the greater Los Angeles collective underground, are hereby cordially invited to join the Collective Council to help stimulate, educate and otherwise empower stronger bonds between each others organizations and the communities they represent.

I believe the time has come that each of your respective communities be brought together in a sacred and respectful manner to offer up each others strengths and wisdom to insure a healthier, wiser, safer and more protected collective community. From questions on business, to legal matters, to fundraising for projects, legal and health matters, to greater community outreach, we can all come to benefit from each others experience and wisdom for greater prosperity and evolution.

To that end I have begun several viral web initiatives including a tribe online to start connecting those that wish to play a part in this. For those who enjoy the micro-level of connectedness, a Twitter log has been initiated as well. You can find us online at these locations, more to follow soon:

http://tribes.tribe.net/collectivecouncil
http://twitter.com/thecollective
http://collectivecouncil.com

As a participating member to varying degrees, of a number of Los Angeles based collectives: Green Gurus, Green Sector, Mid-City Neighborhood Council, Moontribe, The Do Lab, Sugar Shack, etc. and as a maturing entrepreneur, Capricorn, and all around social architect if you will (those who know me well should understand this better) of collective bits, I’m confident I can help shape and lead a unifying body of consciousness to help council, develop, assist, and otherwise insure a stronger web of resources to be called upon as needed throughout all communities.

Should you wish to become active in this endeavor, I will greatly honor and appreciate you as a valued member and participant and take any suggestions, criticisms and all around council with the utmost respect and gratitude. All I ask is that you honor this vision with an equal amount of respect and formality, as this is an attempt to propel and unite each other into the unfolding universal flow and convergence that is now occurring and rapidly accelerating around us all.

I will be contacting many community members through the coming days and weeks to further shape these efforts. Plans are also loosely coming together for a first, formal meeting of interested parties.

I eagerly welcome your response, input and any questions that you may have.

Jedi Wright / Founder
The Collective Council
collectivecouncil [ @ ] gmail [ dot ] com

I was reminded by Adam Wiggins today that the annual Startup School is fast approaching.

I submitted my application this evening for the event here.

Looking forward to this and several other dot-com, marketing and startup events this spring.

Today I got confirmed for work on another event in what’s turning out to be an even busier summer of festivals than last year.

I’ll be working a job with The Do LaB for an event in Portugal this summer, so I’ll finally have a chance of seeing my sister who’s lived in Spain since 1999 (incidentally, the first time I ventured out here to Cali); we’ll also be working on some of the usual jobs this spring: Coachella and then a few weeks out from that, Lightning In A Bottle.

Then in addition to the summer Portugal trip we’ll be hitting up the 3rd annual Virgin Music Festival (great fun, our 2nd year and a great production job by Mitch Kirsch).

Then, well maybe a breather from travel and work before Burning Man or maybe I’ll just dive back into my own work, of which there’s never a short supply.

Anyway, looking forward to the camping, the team work thing, nature, travel, and all that wonderful jazz. Many pictures and stories to come as these events unfold…

Lately I’ve been consciously observing my behavior, especially with regards to its closely linked relationship to entrepreneurialship, more specifically, to my businesses: DistinctiveFabric.com, GreenGurus.net and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (others in the works too).

Not only is my behavior effected by moods as a Capricorn, but also by the ebb and flow of business within my companies.

I have been working more recently to regain my center as business can really monopolize one’s energies, if you let them. While administering some comments I was especially struck by this with one of my more recent posts, which came about after an intense bout of the flu and the collapse of my fabric company’s sale (quite the ups and downs with that in itself).

Now all this past week I’ve been kicking ass and making S**T happen. It’s interesting to note that when you’re on an up-swing, you’re really working in harmony, your chi/ki is rushing through you, demanding release. Hours will slip by as you work tirelessly, without food and little to no breaks.

Then all of the sudden you crash, realizing your last meal was like 6, 7 or more hours ago. So when you finally get to eating, you devour it like you’ve been starved a week in the desert. All the while (eating) you tell yourself: “Gotta’ take better care of myself, from now on…”. I’m sure you know this story well or will soon, if you’re just now exploring this kind of focus in your work.

Anyway, just thinking about how it’s nice to find that middle ground, that one-point…once you do life is just beautiful again.

Daniel Taylor started an interesting discussion on Daniel Pinchbeck‘s views regarding 2012 yesterday on the Synthesis blog.

He commented on Pinchbeck’s statement:

“My view is that “2012″ is useful as a meme if it helps us to catalyze a shift in global culture and consciousness. Rather than fretting about what may or may not happen on that date, we should concentrate on the work that needs to be done now, on an inner as well as outer level.”

Taylor’s comment:

“Despite being one of the foremost recent repopularizers of the idea that the year 2012…author Daniel Pinchbeck doesn’t seem so sure in a recent article posted to his Reality Sandwich website in which he calls 2012 a “useful meme”

-doesn’t seem to undermine the widespread thoughts on what 2012 portends.

Rather it seems directly in line with everything I’ve ever read, experienced or discussed with others. 2012 is a rapidly approaching date that requires nothing short of the most intensive self-analysis, self-discipline, self-healing, and awakening. And, as I commented on Taylor’s post:

“Now is the time for preparation: whipping yourself into shape for this event closing in fast is more important than any one thing any of us can do right now. Those that don’t find their footing and center now and clear the clutter from their lives (spiritually, emotionally, etc.) won’t be prepared to process and handle the forces at play.”

Just my two cents on the matter.

UPDATE: We’ve booked Daniel to speak at this year’s Lightning In A Bottle along with some other great guests.

From my Green Gurus consulting company’s blog today:
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Green Gurus is on the prowl for some new tech-driven team members.

Our team is comprised of a wide-range of talents from sustainable energy systems designers, feature film miniature and mechanical engineers, sustainable architects, Second Life programmers, and a host of other skills. Our projects range from multi-thousand person events, to on-air consulting, to feature films, to eCommerce, to manufacturing, and much, much more.

We’re well connected and very active in the Los Angeles underground modern tribal scene (cliche yes, but it fits the part), utilizing a vast range of science, technologies and metaphysics.

Here are our current task priorities:

1. Our site: GreenGurus.net

We’ve got to nail down a site design fitting of our name and team’s skills. We’ll have a much better conversion rate in closing new clients if we get this locked down.

2. Our keyword domains

We’ve got around 500 domains, most of them green-themed: We’re looking into monetizing a bunch, selling some and building out others.

3. Green eCommerce platform

One of our other companies, Distinctivefabric.com has an extensive, proprietary code base that we’re looking to overhaul into a green eCommerce platform and then license and/or sell.

4. Solar powered web hosting

We’re working towards our own solar powered data center chain, but until we’ve raised the money to put that together, we’ll be running on a dedicated server through AISO.net, configuration with them happening right now, should be up and running within the next week.

If any of these projects appeal to you and you think you’d like to explore a potential partnership with us to help manifest any of these items, then please let us know. We’re only able to pay through profit-sharing, performance-based pay and/or sweat equity right now. Assuming we get our site up to snuff, we can really start creating some exciting and meaningful compensation opportunities.

We continue to receive steadily increasing inquiries, have got some great natural page ranking on Google, especially under “green consulting” search terms, our team member’s individual projects and companies continue to complement our own here, and much more.

You are adept in any of these programs/languages/CMS:

PHP, MySQL, Python, Perl, Ruby, RoR, Ajax, Java/JavaScript, XML/XHTML, Drupal/Joomla/etc., WordPress (including installs), Apache/Debian, Photoshop/The Gimp, Illustrator, Quark, InDesign, AutoCad, Maya, Flash, ActionScripting, API interfacing, version control systems, Unix, ProTools, Logic, Ableton Live, and any other language or science you’re competent with in producing results.

You have experience from school and/or on-the-job training, can provide live and close to or fully completed projects online, have a working/proficient understanding of iterative, agile and atomic coding techniques/philosophies, and are otherwise a bad-ass online.

Preferably: you work in open source, off a Mac or Linux box, but have some working understanding of PC to get around should the need arise; live within the US, ideally w/in CA > Los Angeles…if not, possibilities still exist. Telecommunicating okay.

Please submit any relative content, links, resumes, or other media format…just be creative, inventive, entrepreneurial, and socially/eco-conscious in your approach to contacting us.