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Where Have We Gone? New Website!
The internet, with all of it's unpredictable curves and nooks has beckoned us to re-envision the way we organize our online community. We've been working hard here at the Interdependence Project the past half a year to develop a brand new, highly interactive website, which is hosting a n
posted 10:54:22am Aug. 16, 2010 |
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Mixing technology and practice
There were many more good sessions at the Wisdom 2.0 conference this weekend. The intention of the organizers is to post videos. I'll let you know when. Here are some of my notes from a second panel.
How do we use modern, social media technologies — such as this blog — to both further o
posted 3:54:40pm May. 02, 2010 |
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Wisdom 2.0
If a zen master were sitting next to the chief technical officer of Twitter, what would they talk about? That sounds like a hypothetical overheared at a bar in San Francisco. But this weekend I saw the very thing at Soren Gordhamer's Wisdom 2.0 conference — named after his book of the same nam
posted 1:43:19pm May. 01, 2010 |
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The Buddha at Work - "All we are is dust in the wind, dude."
"The only true wisdom consists of knowing that you know nothing." - Alex Winter, as Bill S. Preston, Esq. in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure"That's us, dude!" - Keanu Reeves, as Ted "Theodore" LoganWhoa! Excellent! I've had impermanence on my mind recently. I've talked about it her
posted 2:20:00pm Jan. 28, 2010 |
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Sometimes You Find Enlightenment by Punching People in the Face
This week I'm curating a guest post from Jonathan Mead, a friend who inspires by living life on his own terms and sharing what he can with others. To quote from Jonathan's own site, Illuminated Mind: "The reason for everything: To create a revolution based on authentic action. A social movemen
posted 12:32:23pm Jan. 27, 2010 |
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posted August 3, 2009 at 5:59 am
A vegetarian diet reduces the incredible pollution caused by meat producers, not to mention that I don’t harm the animals.
Carpooling a little bit, and using trains and buses more. More walking and bike riding too.
Using energy efficient appliances. I live in Japan. My washing maching weighs the load and then uses the amount of water needed and tells me how much soap to put in. My dryer dries them half way and I hang them for the rest of the time.
No impulse buying. I only buy what I’ve made a decision to buy after giving it thought.
posted August 3, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Being vegetarian saves as much in CO2 emissions as not driving a car. I wash most clothes in cold water to save energy. Whenever possible I dry clothes on a wooden rack on my back deck (condo association doesn’t allow drying lines). I time my laundry with what are forecast to be good drying days. I compost every scrap of vegetable waste and recycle it into my little garden — I just use an ordinary trash can with holes drilled in the sides and bottom. So far this summer we’ve avoided using the A/C.