Help: Regenerative Communities Questionaire Hello friends! I’m working on a school project exploring the idea of regenerative communities from a real estate developer perspective. My group is curious to know if there is a place in the market for real…
Social Web: Google Wave My friend Bob just hooked me up with a Google Wave account. After watching a few intro videos it looks like it will be a really powerful, real-time collaboration tool that allows you to mix text,…
Ethical Basis of an Alternative Nation I started reading the final chapter of Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual with the hope of gleaning insight into how to create resilient and regenerative communities. The title of the chapter is: Strategies for an…
What is Community Resilience? How will our communities adapt to global warming, peak oil and the confounding influence of global-scale resource depletion, pollution and continued economic upheavals? It will be different everywhere but the successful communities will share one thing…
Social Web: How to Influence People My social web class had to watch a 15 minute video by Robert Cialdini called How to Influence Others this week. It is basically about getting people to say yes. Like all skills, the…
Finally Getting into Video I bought a video camera off of a guy whom I met via criagslist.org last year with intent to start sharing my adventures with a larger audience. I hope to utilize the user-generated, on-demand video services…
Inspiration Board I’m reading Daniel Pink’s: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future for my Creativity and Right Livelihood class this semester. This week we had to read Chapter 6 – Symphony and do one of the…
I LOVE Biomimicry Wow, I just finished watching Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in action on ted.com. Thanks Timo! It was totally inspiring. We as a species have to start asking ourselves the question “how would nature solve _________?” before we start…
Canadians: Let’s Adopt a 100 Litre Challenge I awoke this morning with the idea of a 100 Litre Challenge. It looks like the memes driving me successfully mutated 🙂 (see my last post). James and Alisa added to the popularization…
Who is Driving, Humans or Memes? I had to watch Susan Blackmore’s TED talk on Memetics today for my social web class. Prior to the class I didn’t even know what memetics was. Susan defines them as: “that which is…
