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 [...]

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 [...]

Woke up this morning to fresh orange juice and then spent some time picking oranges.
Highly recommend both!

 Though am saddened that the oranges are ripe so early this year.
(…some action you can take about Global Warming and caring for our Planet Earth here and here) 

I Image source (c) Neil Creek
II Image source (c) Kirill Tropin [...]

"…There is a famous story told of a child who continually annoyed his father. In desperation the father took a map of the world, tore it into many pieces and told his son to put the puzzle pieces back together to make the map of the world.
Knowing the child had not learned what the [...]

"Keep your thoughts positive,because your thoughts become your words.Keep your words positive,because your words become your behaviour.Keep your behavior positive,because your behaviors become your habits.Keep your habits positive,because your habits become your values.Keep your values positive,because your values become your destiny."
- Gandhi"As you imagine, so you become"thanks Andrea!

Greetings from London! So I have had the pleasure of England the last few weeks and the privilege of staying with some fabulous friends and families so thank you! Have resisted the internet for the most part but today wanted to share some things I’m thinking and seeing:
Banksy: I may be a bit late [...]

 “Several years ago I came up with the idea to collect and distribute all our families recipes – many people could cook really well - so young people had an opportunity to be able to cook the same things that their parents and grandparents cooked.

But what we quickly learned was a lot of people [...]

Image: Echo (c) Steve Solinsky

"Life is no straight and easy corridor along
which we travel free and unhampered,

but a maze of passages,
through which we must seek our way,
lost and confused, now and again,

But always, if we have faith,
a door will open for us,

not perhaps one that we ourselves
would ever have thought of,
but one that will ultimately
prove [...]

"You don’t reach Serendip by plotting a course for it.
You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings serendipitously."
- John Barth, The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (New York, 1991) (via Richard Boyle’s version of "Three Princes of Serendip")

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With the help of some sailors and many other [...]