Give and You Shall Receive

Jan 2, 2014 | Learning, Musings

I was debating what I should do after my experience in Australia. There’s a built in transition period designed into my year with Experience Institute and I was thinking maybe I’d have a week or two of ‘vacation’ time riding around New Zealand...

The Art of Team

Dec 19, 2013 | Learning, Musings

Teams are the glue that bind everything together in our world. There’s lots of frameworks and models freely accessible about different functional pieces of a venture like finance, business model, sales, marketing, community building, social media, organic farming,...

Social Enterprise Presentation Earthship Build

Dec 4, 2013 | Musings

A few weeks ago, I was invited to give a talk at an earthship workshop organized by Terraeden Biotecture. The opportunity presented itself rapidly so there wasn’t much time to prepare, but I persisted as best I could. I decided it would be most valuable if I...

A Word of Gratitude

Nov 29, 2013 | Musings

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I like it so much because giving thanks is how I like to live my life every day. I find being gracious attracts me to gracious people and its just a much happier way to be. The world is so abundant and there’s an infinite...

The Beauty of an Ugly Prototype

Nov 21, 2013 | Learning

At Island Vibes, I met Fred who had recently taken a permaculture design course at a newly developed piece of land. Fred spoke of a gasifier machine he learned about at the course which sounded remarkable. They launched a community project to build one – a wood...