Recycled Electrons
December 2004
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In this issue...
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Go Local |
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Take A Walk |
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Laugh |
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Tune In |
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Fix Your House
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to:
Tom Huston
Carol Townsend
Maggie Erotokritou
Craig Hamilton
MSU Extension
Elise Harvey
Solomon Harvey
Steve Pilkington
John Addiss
John Sarver
Sue Levandoski
John Melcher
Rob Curtner
Go Local...
- from Sue Levandoski
Also, have a balle with this...
Business
Alliance for Local Living Economies
- Local Living Economies: The new movement for Responsible Business, Judy Wicks, White Dog Cafe' and National Co-Chair, BALLE. Read More...
- The Next Step for CSR: Economic Democracy, Marjorie Kelly: After 15 years of publishing Business Ethics, she is struck by how little of real substance has actually changed. While codes of conduct, social investing, and triple bottom line reporting have become common place, they fail to tell us what’s really going on inside companies: unremitting pressure to get the numbers, by any means possible. In this article she says we must focus on democratizing the structures of power. Read More...
- Why Buy Local?, Michael Shuman, Author "Going Local": Four compelling economic reasons to buy from locally-owned businesses. Read More...
- Rebuilding Community-Rooted Enterprise, Stacy Mitchell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance: Over the last few years, citizens in hundreds of communities nationwide have organized to build public awareness of the benefits of local ownership, and press for new land use and economic development policies that curb chain store expansion and nurture local enterprise. Read More...
- Living Economies for a Living Planet, David Korten, Author When Corporations Rule the World" and "The Post-Corporate World": Having reached the limits of an Era of Empire, humanity is compelled to accept responsibility for the consequences of its presence on a finite planet, make a conscious collective choice to leave behind the excesses of its adolescence, and take the step to species maturity. It is the most exciting moment of opportunity in the history of the species. Read More...
Collective Intelligence
by Craig Hamilton
Can we discover a depth of wisdom far beyond what is available to individuals alone? As Bill Veltrop, former Exxon executive and founder of the International Center for Organization Design, puts it, “We're absolutely convinced that we're experiencing the beginnings of an evolutionary shift that's greater than anything we've ever experienced . . . as [a] society.”
http://www.wie.org/j25/collective.asp
New Resource
from John Melcher
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported today that Google has launched a
beta version of a search engine that is keyed to scholarly search results.
The service is at
http://scholar.google.com
Home Improvement Resources
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Exterior:
http://www.startremodeling.com/exterior_showcase.htm |
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100+ home repair and maintenance articles: http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/knowhow/repair/browse/0,17154,,00.html |
- from John Sarver
click the picture
Now and Then...
from John Addiss
http://thechrisproject.com/images/map_nowvsthen.jpg
Walking Meditation
Interesting sites tell you how... 1 2 3
What we make up is what happens!
-Danaan Perry (from Elise Harvey)
In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want."
-- Marianne Williamson
The Big Lie
As early as grade school we are taught to compete for gold
stars and grades and only the strongest survive....
more -by Steve Pilkington, from Maggie Erotokritou
Bush and Kerry Get Funky
-from Solomon Harvey
http://www.miniclip.com/hiphopdebate.htm
Tune in to Local Radio...
http://www.wyce.org/
tunes on your PC!
PASSION PROJECT
from Rob Curtner"…and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make"
The purpose of this visioning template is to bring into awareness and action more details about a work related project that embraces and is in alignment with your passion. The importance of connecting passion with envisioning new work projects is simple -- happiness, motivation and the health of congruence. If you make your dream come true it feels good! More here
What the Bleep Do We Know!?
by Tom Huston
Something unusual hit the world running this past
spring. Opening at art-house theaters across the western U.S., and winning
every independent film festival award it was nominated for, an effects-laden
docudrama began stunning viewers everywhere with its creative confluence of
science and spirituality—and subverting common notions of reality along the
way. “Once in a while a film comes out that can change the world, and this is
one of those films,” avowed one fan on the film's website.
http://www.wie.org/j27/what-the-bleep.asp?ifr=hpf
Tokenism provides the opportunity for input without the opportunity for impact.
- Dr. Eric Jolly, - from Carol Townsend
Please send along your comments, words of wisdom, thoughts, questions, and
suggestions.
Sincerely,
LeRoy