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2011-11-22T17:35:00.000+11:00

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

2011-04-09T07:52:00.001+10:00

Here is another example of how we limit our creativity. In the hierarchy of education of maths and language at the top, humanities next and the arts last the skill that we need the most for the current age is creativity. We usually educate it out of kids and move whole body education up to the left side of the brain.

300 Years of FOSSIL FUELS in 300 Seconds

2011-02-20T11:35:00.004+11:00

I first saw this informative clip on Patrick Jones' blog http://permapoesis.blogspot.com/Filtering the volume of information we have at our finger tips can be overwhelming. This clip is one of the simplest potted history I have seen and is a great introduction to the new book by Richard Heinberg and William E Rees, Thinking Resilience, Ch.3, The Post Carbon Reader, Edited by Richard Heinberg and

Changing Behaviour Is As Important As Changing Technology

2010-12-08T14:17:00.000+11:00

Compared to what is put into technological research behavior change is a neglected area of climate change education. Yet unless we can do something different things wont change. I think this is a brilliant article on how to get more savvy with behaviour change. Using behavioral science to make smarter energy policy | Energy BulletinHere is a small excerpt from the article:"How much does it

metro regrets.... as sung by men in suits

2010-11-25T12:26:00.000+11:00

Coming Home Workshop December 3 Melbourne

2010-11-08T14:15:00.002+11:00

I had the privilege of doing Ian McBurney’s ‘Coming Home’ workshop earlier this year which is a meaningful, fun and inspiring professional development experience that explores ecological sustainability from a really unique approach. The workshop content is up to date and relevant AND his facilitation is really brilliant. As a professional facilitator I cannot help but admire work that is

The Golden Rule

2010-10-28T23:47:00.000+11:00

Leadership Change Comes from the Heart

2010-09-16T10:41:00.002+10:00

I am really getting into Otto Scharmer's work after working with the wonderful Dale Hunter in a Facilitation Master Class in August:"The key leadership challenge of our time is to shift the inner place from which we operate. As individuals, as teams, as institutions, and as societies we all face the same issue: that doing 'more of the same' won't fix flawed and failed systems. We have to leave

Nimble Minds at U3A

2010-06-20T10:30:00.003+10:00

My hero votes this week go to the 90 people in Hepburn Shire who signed up to get their energy from the sun. I feel very encouraged by this, and although I was never that interested in statistics, the numbers are impressive:The average household produces 15 tonnes of greenhouse gas per year.

World Peace - Is it Just Good Manners?

2009-05-04T17:19:00.001+10:00

These thoughts were sparked by watching Alexander McCall Smith, an English gentleman of a certain age speaking about the characters in his novels on an interview last night and the importance of good manners......There is a kind of irony for me to write about good manners given I was an adolescent of the seventies. In the era of make-love-not-war, flowers-in-my-hair (actually down one side of my

Use Your Innate Power to Predict a Fabulous Future

2009-05-02T20:29:00.000+10:00

I was reminded when I saw this picture of how important it is to focus on being the cause of what is possible rather than at the effect of what might happen. Sometimes I forget this and think life is happening to me, then I remember to focus on the kind of things I want to experience. What we have our attention on pretty much creates our life experiences. I thought I'd share an experience I

What are the guiding principles of our time?

2009-04-21T09:52:00.000+10:00

Saturday I was hit between the eyes with an acute awareness of a state that some call ' blessed unrest.' I was invited at relatively short notice to co-facilitate a workshop called "Changing the Dream." It's about bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on this planet as the guiding principle of our time. The sobering start

The Incisive Awareness of Children on Climate Change and the Future

2009-04-09T09:26:00.000+10:00

I cried when I heard them share their views about the future of the earth......I watched a couple of short video clips (is that what they are still called) in the last few days. The first clip of less than 2 minutes is a piece of brilliance by a young woman about the future of the world. (thanks Carla from AFN) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rAThe second, The Human Sign Project for

ORGANIC SANITY PREVAILS

2009-04-09T09:22:00.000+10:00

Praise the Lord and pass the port, the email about the legislation mentioned in the previous post was a grossly exaggerated worst case interpretation of the plan to outlaw organic growing! Had fresh tomatoes out of the garden this morning.

Legislation That Kills Us

2009-04-05T10:12:00.000+10:00

Earlier this year I spent some time in Orlando Florida where I was delighted to find good quality organic food aplenty in the whole food store. This meant for the two weeks my companions and I could eat unadulterated fresh and nutritious produce without having to ingest over-packaged food items that had been chemicalized, pasteurised, sanitised and pack full of corn syrup and other addictive

Where Reason Marries Passion

2009-04-04T12:29:00.001+11:00

This last weekend I had the privilege of being initiated into womanhood in the traditional indigenous way by a Wirradjiri lore woman. It was a simple and profound experience and the tears pricked my eyes as my face was daubed with sacred ochre. In traditional society once you reach 30 you become a migai - a woman. One aspect of the ceremony is about wiping the slate clean and letting go the

2009-03-14T20:06:00.000+11:00

In many new ventures, sometimes it is important just to start. It is surprising what unfolds. I started a blog about three years ago as an experiment but there was nothing compelling me to continue, so with lost password and lost interest it sat suspended in cyberspace locked into a place that only those with the correct key could find.It is interesting to reflect on the notion that what we need