Monthly Archives: September 2009

More Thoughts About Intentionality, Split and Otherwise

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG More About Intentionality In my post last week I described Gil Fronsdal’s meditation on intentionality, and the value of setting both long term (What do you intend to do with what’s left of your life?) and short term (What … Continue reading →

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Links and Tweets of the Week: September 26, 2009

Posted on September 26, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: September 26, 2009 fun with figures: the top chart shows historical levels of atmospheric CO2  (180 to 300 ppm) back through the last half million years until about 1850, and the current unprecedented … Continue reading →

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Leaning Towards Intention

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG Leaning Towards Intention My last few posts have been part of my process of deciding what I’m going to do next, as I prepare to move, to retire, and to become more active in living the ways I have … Continue reading →

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Making the Change: How to Dismantle Industrial Civilization

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG Making the Change: How to Dismantle Industrial Civilization Keith Farnish’s book Time’s Up (also available as a free e-book called A Matter of Scale) provides a valuable framework for Step 7 in the What You Can Do process (see … Continue reading →

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The Philosophy of Loren Eiseley, in Verse

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG The Philosophy of Loren Eiseley, in Verse I wrote this three years ago, and just rediscovered it. I thought it was worth reposting. The Star Thrower, by Loren Eiseley Once upon a time, there was a wise man who … Continue reading →

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Links and Tweets of the Week: September 20, 2009

Posted on September 20, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: September 19, 2009 photo by colourblind (Payam Rajabi), taken not far from where I live PREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION’S COLLAPSE Moving Beyond Hope: From Sharon Astyk, fine words of inspiration for those of us … Continue reading →

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My Journey

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG My Journey In my previous post I provided a framework for making the world a better place. Today I’m going to ‘score’ myself using that framework, and admit that despite all the work and energy I’ve put into learning … Continue reading →

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What You Can Do: A Framework for Personal Action (version 0.9)

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG What You Can Do: A Framework for Personal Action to print out this framework, right click and select “view image”, then save the resultant image as a jpg or pdf and print that It’s been a couple of years … Continue reading →

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Google Wave (continued): The Conversation Becomes the Process, and Even the Product

Posted on September 13, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG Google Wave (continued): The Conversation Becomes the Work-Product Back in June, I wrote about the new (it’s being rolled out, slowly, starting this fall) GWave product as representing “the wikification of conversation.” The more I think about it, and play … Continue reading →

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Links and Tweets of the Week: September 12, 2009

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: September 12, 2009 image from Does Congo Matter? by Emily Troutman PREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION’S COLLAPSE Not a Problem, a Predicament: Sharon Astyk introduces some complex adaptive systems thinking in her post on approaches … Continue reading →

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