overview of all charlie alice raya websites

Why would anyone have 14 websites?

For me it’s all about clarity. Until autumn 2022, I had a single website and clarity was not its strength. The additional websites allowed me to give selected ideas room to breathe, and visitors have a chance to focus on one subject, on one project or on my photographic work.

At the time, all my projects had an obvious connection to my main work: the easy town books. Then my body went on strike and finally got my attention. 2023/24 has been a lot about recovery. As I return from this period, new projects have taken their first steps. These projects still have some overlaps with my main work, but they are also independent of the easy town story.

That’s where this new Charlie Alice Raya website comes in. It provides an overview of all my works and gives short introductions of all books, project ideas, and how everything is connected, after all. At least, that’s the plan I will follow over the next weeks and months.

This website will also be the place for all the latest news & events, for all available books, and maybe most importantly the place for my offers, challenges and invitations.

On all other websites, you can find the Charlie Alice Raya icon at the end of the page, click it and return to this website.

You can find a short list of all websites at the end of this page >

easy town books

www.easy-town-books.com

Overview of the easy town books, background information, sale of easy town books, news & events regarding the easy town books

Highlights are

• overview and tour of all easy town books (published and unpublished)
• The origins of the easy town story
• The town team presents their first ideas, extract from book 1, beginning
• plus the fun lists: locations of the easy town books, animals in the easy town books and book 2, travelling, in most highest, best
• and two photo specials: title images and chapter trees

Status: Some new and extended content is already online. More will follow.

The easy town story is my playground where I develop and test ideas regarding town planning, architecture, landscape architecture, ecology & agriculture, health & care, business models, business ideas, business practices and economics, arts & crafts, society & admin, community life, sexuality, research & education, digital platforms, software, simulations and more.

Some of those ideas are presented and further explored on their own websites.

Overview

The easy town vision website provides an overview of easy town business ideas & prospective business projects.

www.easy-town.vision

Status: This website gets a complete makeover and will solely focus on business ideas, business models and business practises once it is completed. Some new content is already online and a good deal more is queued up and will be added in the upcoming weeks and months.

towns and cities international

www.towns-and-cities-international.org

This is one of my favourite pages with ideas for towns with a purpose and a long list of amazing garden ideas.

At a time when so many talk about housing as if all that’s needed was a spot to stow away humans, it’s worth it to press pause and rethink how we build and live, and why, what for and for whom we build.

The ideas on this website can inspire and help us to build and create for the human and for communities. I’m happy to talk about these ideas and to lend my mind to those who put community and the environment first.

Status: updates incomplete

the hub

www.hub-international.org

The Hub is an idea for a new internet which is rooted in all corners of the planets, has real hubs (called Hub Stations), benefits the communities, and has found a way to keep bullshit out. And that’s just a small part of what the Hub can become.

Status: updates complete

dot.

www.dot-international.net

dot. is the idea for a clothing company (fashionable but not fashion) for which I developed a business model which empowers creators, producers and customers. Like all my projects, the company should be rooted in all corners of the planet.

Status: partly updated

book stations

www.book-stations.org

I just realise that all my business ideas are favourites, too, and not least the book stations and with it pepper books publishing and the bespoke books network. All of these ideas work with variations of the dot.business model.

Status: updates incomplete

How I measure business success

I measure business success by the amount of people who benefit from an idea and by the amount of people who were able to unearth their potentials because of this or that business, and by the extend of recovery of the natural world this or that business can contribute.

In short: for all my business ideas I measure success in terms of human empowerment and the planet’s recovery.

we need to talk about sex

www.we-need-to-talk-about-sex.org

One of the aims of my work is to find the roots of the mess we as humanity find ourselves in. One of those roots seems to be our restrained views on sex and gender, and our inexplicable excuses for violence and dominance which don’t even serve us.

While I consider this a very important subject, which is discussed in some detail in book 2, travelling (easy town books) and found its way into the new book The end of all wars, I have to pause my work on this website until funds and a team make it possible to contribute more proactively to this subject again.

Status: updates complete for now

The universe is a collection I started in 2022.

As an outlet for my anger about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I invented a universe full of peopled planets. The people of these planets are aware of planet Earth but have so far kept their distance since Earth people make so many mistakes that they are quite a good study object.

However, by now, the universe’s alliance is seriously worried about planet Earth and has decided to share some of their stories and insights with Earthlings in the hope that the Earthlings take some courage from those testimonies.

views from around the universe

www.views-from-around-the-universe.net

This is the website for the overall universe collection, and it has grown considerably in mid-September.

Recommendable are the comments on intelligence, artificial and brain, the. I’m also excited about a new collection of planets and introductions to their stories of how they dealt with the big problems earthling face. Also, take a look at the vision for this project and at the Make it happen stories pages.

Status: good

the end of all wars

www.the-end-of-all-wars.net

The end of all wars is a collection within the collection Views from around the universe. This collection consists mostly of testimonies about how this or that planet ended all wars.

The testimony of planet one, the roots of war, was published on 28 September 2024.

Ideas for more than fifty other testimonies are published on this website, too, along with collections of statements on subjects like: human, the, strongman, the, and war. Here, too, the pages Visions and Make it happen stories are recommendable plus the new This is my kind of rebellion.

A special treat are the few stories from other planets which are now online: We need trust, Resolve and The big clean-up.

Status: there are plans for a new front page structure and additional content

BREASTLESS

www.breastless.net

This is the most personal of all my projects. I am very lucky to be happily breastless after a double mastectomy due to cancer. Having seen how much cancer and the loss of one or both breasts can affect people, I want to share my story to give a glimpse of hope.

Presently, this website is under construction, but I hope that I can interest others to contribute.

Content, so far

• breastless, a peek into my breastless story
• some thoughts about breasts
• visions for the breastless project
• Charlie Alice cooks

Status: more content will follow

Charlie Alice Raya photography

www.charlie-alice-raya-photography.com

Due to a shoulder injury in April 2023, I couldn’t lift and hold my camera for nearly a year, and in 2024 I only did a single photo series so far, for The end of all wars – easy going, camera on my windowsill and only picked up when I was certain that the sky had something to offer. You can find some of the images on https://the-end-of-all-wars.net/photo-special-clouds/

The big photography website serves one purpose: to support the easy town projects and the new universe and breastless projects financially via the sales of Fine Art Prints.

So, if you want to support any or all of the projects, buying a Fine Art print is one way to do so.

Status: Some new additions are in planning, but generally the updates are complete.

Ripples Publishing

www.ripples-publishing.com

There are two publishers I would like to initiate to be set up: ripples publishing, which focuses on my work and on related work. For example, another author might want to invent a planet which overcame all wars. That would be a candidate for ripples publishing.

The second publisher: pepper books would aim at connecting writers from around the world with readers from around the world with a preference for original stories and stories which contribute to shaping life on planet Earth.

Both publishers would work with variations of the dot.business model. Introductions to the idea, plus material to download are now available.

Status: good for now