Avoid Critique, Contempt, and Comparison
I was doing yoga, as I sometimes do, and in the opening pose the instructor said that the full benefits of practice can only be […]
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Be Brave, Learn, and Celebrate
One of the biggest challenges (I wanted to say frustrations) in the efforts of a change agent is the balance between moving forward into a […]
Continue reading »Resilience and Mitigation: My Cup of Tea.
I was chatting with a dear friend and colleague about the burden of our knowledge related to resilience, adaptation, and mitigation. As professionals and designers, rising […]
Continue reading »Nature Knows: Essence
Diversity is not about more. It’s about filling in the gap in knowledge with essential, locationally specific information and insights.
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I attended Greenbuild, the international Green Building conference, just before Thanksgiving, and had the great pleasure of listening to President Obama speak with the CEO […]
Continue reading »Nature Knows: Teamwork
What makes a team? Is it a bunch of rah-rah and pom-poms and look-alike costumes? Is it always and completely believing the same thing? Is […]
Continue reading »Nature Knows: Adaptation
There is a tree that is known as the “walking tree” because many say that moves over time through the forest. The story is that […]
Continue reading »Nature Knows (a lot)
I realized something the other day, as I was engaging in a ten minute, morning meditation. The leader of the meditation (on the Gaia yoga […]
Continue reading »More Possibilities with Fewer Cars
Ten years ago, we reduced our number of owned cars to one, from three. To be honest, one barely worked. Suffice it to say we […]
Continue reading »Don’t Solve the Problem…
Instead, create the opportunities within which the problem will be solved. Time and time again I encounter situations where people just “fix” things, or so […]
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