With thanks to Joel for passing on a gem of an inspirational talk - I recommend this to everyone!
Ted talks: Jonathan Harris: The Art of Collecting Stories”…

Jonathan -any chance you want to collaborate one day?!?

I would like to invite you to watch "The Story of Stuff".
Have you ever wondered where all this stuff comes from…and where it goes when we throw it out?
Created by Annie Leonard (and a team…) The Story of Stuff details exactly that - how stuff travels through our system! And it presents extremely complex [...]

Over three years ago I made a statement in print (via email) that I wanted to go around the world and collect people’s stories. To some extent this is true of what I have done - with the odd consulting career, living in three (or more countries) and more thrown in for a bit of [...]

That is the premise of Pangea Day, an event that takes place globally this Saturday night May 10th, on- and offline.
I’m always a fan of public events that bring people together and show them something new / different…especially when they try and sync the times…I love that idea of lots of people having similar [...]

Last year (’07) I was visiting my hometown Sydney, and I found myself quite proudly part of a little experiment by the city of Sydney "Earth Hour".
The concept was simple: have the whole city turn off their lights for 1 single hour to reduce greenhouse emissions.
Well this year Earth Hour has gone GLOBAL!

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Been thinking about trying to make and submit a last minute entry for Pangea Day focused on bringing dialogue about Earth, what we are doing to it, and raising awareness for how everything is interconnected…the challenge for me is balancing the positive and negative - and also getting it done in time…
Meanwhile,here is a perfect [...]

Verba Volant /
Scripta Manent
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Spoken words fly away /
but writing remains 
via The Treehouse  - Naomi Wolf 
“…This is one of the … words. Its roots sink deep and stretch out far…There is a great moving force therein.
A great moving force and yet again, only a lost sound.
It is a lost sound, when somewhere - in that [...]

Photos are stories - layers and layers of story. Layers and layers of time and place. Set still, in one… 
 
This photo is the first of an exhbition series "One Family" by Vardi Kahana -
I can’t take my eyes off it! And I really sorry that I have missed the exhibition!
 
I heard [...]

I got an email about Pangea day - and it touched me.
Go to the site and watch the video/trailer. Or view it here, on youtube. Essentially it is a global event that takes place next year on various sites (think live earth etc) but shares films and music of the world - about the [...]

I have been thinking about this poem a lot the last few weeks: 
“As I dig for wild orchidsIn the autumn fields.It is the deeply bedded rootthat I desire,Not the flower.”- Izumi Shikibu, Japan (974-1034)

It is summer on this side of the world.
I am in the process of a ’start’ - I have started to [...]