The possibilities of this world may seem to be shrinking Minds becoming ever narrower Career and opportunities further away and harder to reach Conflict and tension dangerously greater Collaboration more closed The future less bright…………….. But my heart grows bigger, my arms more open and my resolve for a sustainable and just society ever stronger – […]
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Winter inspiration – Loch Callater “The future lies before you, like a field of fallen snow; Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.” – Unknown Winter Song The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed Each dawn and set of sun till
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I just wrote a quick email to someone that I’d meaning to do for a while but hadn’t had time……..(sorry). It made me reflect and appreciate the number of amazing projects, initiatives and organisations working on really important and meaningful “stuff”. Thought I’d share as a reminder….. and this was just a quick list…. and yes, sorry, fairly
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Before you know it a month or two have passed in a whirlwind and it can take some time (and you need to give yourself this space) to step-back and take it all in. I’m not going to go into any depth at the moment on some of the activities, projects, family meet-ups, weddings and holidays,
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This week I’ve been reminded on thoughts around transparency and building action, the need for more explicit storytelling, connecting and consideration of design consequences. This has been instigated by both managing to visit the Scarcity Waste Exhibition at Somerset house ( well covered in this People Tree blog ) and the photo compilation in the Guardian on
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After a couple of busy weeks filled with conferences, workshops, launches and talks – C2C Bizz district and Living Labs launch, Circular Economy trade opportunities between the Netherlands and the UK and the Resource Event at the excel – the friday and weekend sunshine was a welcome reminder that after all the learning, connecting and
Well It’s a month into 2015 and things may have seemed to have been a bit quiet on the TechnicalNature front…..but…. I’ve had my head down, focusing on lots of exciting upcoming developments (that I’ll share in more detail soon). Including: The London Circular Jam – #JAMbition talks and drinks at The Proud Archivist Open Source Circular
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this website. It will be interesting to see how this will develop over the next year and i can translate numbers into environmental and social impact! Happy New Year all. Here’s a wee excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog
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This year London exceeded safe legal air limits, in fact for the past 4 years they have been missing EU targets on air quality and are currently beginning to face up to the prospect of fines for this as the legal proceedings get underway. They have already been given an extra 5 years to comply, but
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So it’s almost that time of year again. The time when London will unveil their latest………. drum roll ……chair! Well actually joking aside there will no doubt be some amazing chairs on show at London Design Festival 2014. But what I’m interested in is how the design on show round London can inspire and contribute
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