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A Pattern Language (How To Create Places That are “Alive”) – Christopher Alexander
WHO IS CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER? http://www.patternlanguage.com/leveltwo/ca.htm WHAT IS A “PATTERN LANGUAGE”? A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction is a 1977 book on architecture, urban design, and community livability. It was authored by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein of the Center for Environmental Structure of Berkeley, California, with writing credits also to Max Jacobson, Ingrid [...]
Continue reading...Permaculture (How to Design Systems for Sustainable, Community Living) – Bill Mollison
WHAT IS PERMACULTURE? Permaculture (permanent agriculture/culture) is the use of Ecology as the basis for designing integrated systems of food production, housing, technology, & community development. The objective is to produce an efficient, low-maintenance, productive integration of plants, structures & people, to obtain on-site stability & food self-sufficiency in the smallest practical area. See also: [...]
Continue reading...Guns, Germs and Steel – Understanding the Roots of Global Inequality
The following set of videos are based on Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name, Guns, Germs and Steel which traces humanity’s journey over the last 13,000 years – from the dawn of farming at the end of the last Ice Age to the realities of life in the twenty-first century. Inspired by [...]
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I’m in the process of learning more about social media marketing and came across this Social Media Marketing Report based on a survey which was recommended by a company in LA that we are working with: ThinkLA (we are very impressed with this company). I found it on their Twitter site. Major Report Findings Here’s a quick summary [...]
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The night before last, Joe and I attended a “Dynamic Dialogue” evening with 6 other people where we discussed the topic of leadership from our own respective perspectives (wasn’t that a fun choice of words!). We had been asked by the host to think about the following: Think of a leader (alive or not) who has [...]
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