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	Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Links for the Week: April 19, 2009 Beach in Esperance, Westerm Australia, where I'm writing this blog post - thanks to Cheryl for the photo Can Permaculture and Social Networks Save the World?: Rob asks "If we learned how to work with nature and if we learned about our own nature - what could we achieve?" And Eric Lilius points us to Maya Mountain Research Farm, which is showing us the way to permaculture. You're Not My Everything: Janene's story makes a compelling argument for polyamory, on the basis that one person can never hope to be everything another person needs. Why I'm an Unschooler: PS's book on unschooling is out, and you can download it for only $5. I'll have more to say on this subject soon. Are Electric Cars Our Future?: Shai Agassi takes an entrepreneurial approach to transport and peak oil that follows my book's advice exactly -- find your sweet spot, find the right partners, do great research to find and understand an unmet need, and use an innovation process to evolve solutions to that need. Hope he sees it through to execution. (Thanks Geoff and Viv for the link) ... Or Maybe Bicycles are a Better Idea: I know some intrepid Toronto bike commuters, in a city where the few bike lanes are accidents waiting to happen. If biking to work can work in Toronto, it can work anywhere. Thanks to Graham Clark for the link. The Aboriginal Weathermen: Tree points us to indigenous weather knowledge from Australia -- where they've been tracking the weather and climate change, effectively, for twenty thousand years. Making a Living Online: Seth Godin points us to a free downloadable book on how to make a living through your blog. Haven't read it yet but it sounds interesting. How to Deal with Complex Systems: Dave Snowden provides a comprehensive recap of managing in complex environments, in which he discounts the value of scenario planning and offers some other alternatives. Thought for the Week: From  Colleen: EVERYONE'S GOT HER BASKET Everyone has her basket. And in that basket are all the things a body gets in a lifetime: The long legs the natural grace The way with words or people or numbers or animals The force field that makes money or love or ideas or children come to them first The gene soup that makes eyes blue stomachs sturdy loins fruitful brains prodigious Even the luck— the ponies the Kojak parking the pair of pants on sale or the person of their dreams available at the exact moment where need and want meet— even that is in the basket. There will be days when you look down at your basket and marvel at the wonderful wonderful things inside And there will be days when you cannot bring yourself to look at all or rather where the only place you can look is at the basket next to you and with longing. But every day someone is looking at your basket with longing Every day someone would trade baskets with yours sight unseen I have been in all of those places and mostly I am grateful for the grace that forgave my foolishness This is my basket to carry and uncover layer by layer day by day year by year And sometimes story by story. May your basket overflow with beautiful things of incomparable joy and wonder And when it does not may you be visited by the same grace that sat down beside me to show me the beauty and the joy and the wonder I could not see 1:00:46 AM  trackback []  comment []

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