This weeks gems plucked from the vine of RSS. Eli Gerzon on worldschooling Shawn Callahan on the Cynefin framework Jordon Cooper‘s recession survival guide. Rob and Laurel Bailey, my neighbours on Bowen Island, have taken their family to India in search of real Indian food and has a BRILLIANT blog charting their journey. Food, meets travel, meets young family. A daily must read for me.
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Prince George, BC Spread this request out to your networks. I am involved with a fascinating three year project which is creating a network of learning circles across Canada to bring policy makers, practitioners and academics together around cracking the next level for urban Aboriginal economic development in Canada. We had a very successful kick off meeting in Ottawa in October and we now have some learning circles taking shape across the country. One of the circles is located in Prince George and it’s looking at models of urban Aboriginal governance. Tonight my friends Ray Gerow, Veronica Creyke …
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Watching the news tonight and both CBC and CTV are talking about “Anger in the West” with lots of video of conservative talk show hosts in Calgary and folks in diners in Lethbridge mad as hell and not willing to take it any more. So let me just say something, as a Westerner. The West is not a seething homogenous conservative backwater. It is not united on this issue and it not any more angry than it usually is. Callers to Dave Rutherford’s show in Calgary are always angry, because Dave Rutherford is always angry. People …
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This week in the feedreader: Alison on why the Canada-Colombia free trade agreement makes us complicit in human rights crimes. Lovely little non-verbal film on hope and traditional teachings. Doug Germann on why he is a lawyer. George Nemeth on doing small things Matthew Baldwin reviews great board games for 2008 Ravi Tangri’s blog, an Art of Hosting friend. Otto Scharmer on awakening the giant. Dave Pollard on what you can do to help Obama.
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Received an email through the NCDD list asking for help in Texas… Galveston is in trouble. That is almost as much as I can say about the community here. My name is Jimmy Mai and I’m a Member with Americorps’ National Civilian Community Corps. We’re stationed in Galveston, TX doing needs assessment post- Hurricane Ike. In doing this, we are walking door to door and stopping people on the streets to see what they may need. From that we are making notes on whatever support they require and enter it into a nation-wide database called the Coordinated …