Learn. Envision. Create. Observe. Grow.
Kelowna, Canada
Joined November 2006
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Reading David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” & found this provocative—“great embarrassing fact…haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft” okcolab.co/3kcNb5c
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Co-creating opportunities for transformation. Conversations for a Flourishing Okanagan on November 3rd.
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Read reflections on the first Community Conversation linkedin.com/posts/activity-…
Curious about how to create meaning rich conversations? I'm inspired to design better conversation spaces after reading ‘Better Conversations: A Starter Guide’ (PDF): lnkd.in/gbBipSgk #communication #mentalhealth #conversation #dialogue
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Join Okanagan Circular Society in community dialogue as we explore the questions on everyones’ minds & co-create next steps needed to advance social and economic transformation in the Okanagan region.
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#WCEF2021 is LIVE until the 15th, with several world renown speakers in systems change, biodiversity, fashion, technology, design and more.
This year’s Forum is focused on the system-level changes needed to accelerate the move to #CircularEconomy.
wcef2021.com/2021/07/15/regi…
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3 days packed with information, ideas and examples of the circular economy!
WCEF2021 will focus on the system level changes, or “game changers,” needed to accelerate the transition to a circular economy.
wcef2021.com/
I'm an organizer of two large Meetup groups with over 3000 members, but both have surprisingly low activity despite regular posted events.
Curious to know, who uses Meetup? What was your initial interest in joining? Are you still active? Why or why not?
By taking a deeper look at nature — how plants and animals adapt to circumstances, and the elements of the bodies that allow them to thrive — we can be inspired to design and organize our worlds to emulate what makes them successful. boardofinnovation.com/blog/f…
Questions on my mind:
What does this mean for designers of these systems, experiences, and products?
How can we use biomimicry to future-proof our innovations?
“Intelligence can be seen as a multi-dimensional web of cognitions [...] an “ecosystem of thinking”. This counters a human-centric way of understanding of intelligence and human supremacy – the flawed idea that we are earth’s superior species.
densediscovery.com/issues/15…
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
— Roald Dahl
What are the core questions that will help us navigate the landscape of #circulardesign?
I'm honoured to be hosting this conversation with the Okanagan #Circular community.
#CircularDesignOK - Episode #1 Getting Started
In our first session, we'll learn about circularity, systems, design, mindsets, and areas of practice.
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#circulareconomy #systemsdesign #sustainability #OKGNtech
To me resiliency isn’t a state, it’s a practice. To know you are whole and enough—yet still observing, aware of, and responsive to your environment.
The complexity of both #mentalhealth and #climatechange means that tackling the two together requires a “systems thinking” approach. [...] taking in complex set of interacting factors – geopolitical, socio-economic, ecological and environmental [...]
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“A city is a machine, a city is an animal, a city is an ecosystem.” But the really dangerous one [...] is to equate cities with computers. “A lot of more computational and data-driven ways of thinking about cities give a false sense of omniscience,”
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I'm looking forward to hosting the 2nd episode of Brave Era Creator's Journey, with my guest Rebecca who is a cofounder of You Are Collective, a social enterprise that empowers community, to keep the conversation going around mental health and illness. watch.unicorns.live/programs…
