Getting in Touch


Immediate IP access:
  • Overview of how all this works
  • Click for direct Skype link
  • Click for SightSpeed link
  •    Check good time for call/meeting


    Old technology access: Phone (POTS), Fax
    Email us direct
    Email the group


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     Getting around in Paris
     Finding a hotel
     Currency calculator
     Economist Paris Guide
     Wi-Fi Hotspots in Paris

  • What you have here has been designed to serve as an(a)
    interactive, (b) multi-level, (c) multi-directional Web site and communications toolset: one smart node on a world-wide network that works for those who make it up. The goal of this component of the program is to seek out and put the low cost, widely available tools of the Information Society to work to help us communicate efficiently and together to build for the future.

    The kinds and range of contact possibilities is rapidly expanding and improving -- and one of our support objectives is to make a contribution toward sharing not only this information, but also to spur the use of these group work tools with the growing numbers of people and groups around the world who share our concerns about sustainability and social justice.

    This program makes use of several levels of electronic contact, as you will see if you click your way through the links to your left. In addition, we maintain fora (sometimes

    And when it comes to the latest generations of "next desk" communications -- that is video and voice conferences, and other forms of IP mediated group work support systems -- we have been on line and using this stuff on a daily basis for years. Check out our main Communications page for more on this. (And if you want to get in touch in this big world of ours, you may want to run a local time check, which you can do right here. Especially handy for planning distance meetings.)

    That we all get together to do this freely, efficiently and in a neighborly manner is just part of a whole broader process. All progress toward sustainability is going to be something that we will achieve rather like this -- by working together, simply, efficiently and without a whole lot of personal afterthoughts.


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