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I no longer blog on this site. You can now find me, my general blogs, and the work I am doing researching my forthcoming book on imagination, on my new blog.
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Showing results 21 - 25 of 31 for the month of June, 2006.
Last week I took my family to the Eden Project in Cornwall. I went fully expecting to be underwhelmed, and I have to say it completely blew me away. What a stunning thing. From the first sight of the place, everything was done so well and so thoughtfully, and was of such a scale, that it couldn’t fail to take away even the most cynical skeptic’s breath.
The Barn Cinema have kindly offered 2 tickets to see the great Margaret Wheatley at the Barn Cinema, Dartington on Wednesday 14th June at 6:00pm. Clearly this is a pretty local kind of a competition, not much use to our US readers, but if you live near enough to get to Dartington then email the correct answer to the following question to **robjhopkins (at) gmail.com** by the evening of Sunday 18th.
Part of the paper I am writing at the moment looks at the metaphor of addiction in relation to oil/energy dependency, which then leads on to what we can learn from innovative approaches to addiction that might prove to be useful tools for weaning communities off oil. As part of this, in one section I have used the World Health Organisation’s ICD-10 Criteria, which define what constitutes a dependency. I would really appreciate any feedback on this. What do you think?
Over the next couple of months I am doing a few talks in various places, which you might be interested to know about. Do come along if you can. I keep trying to record any talks that I do but I haven’t yet worked out how to edit sound files in such a way as to be able to put them on the Net. The schedule at the moment is as follows;
**Margaret (or Meg) Wheatley** is a consultant and speaker, who has worked on management issues with a wide range of companies, governments and agencies in all continents. She is author of, among others, Leadership and the New Science, A Simpler Way and most recently Finding our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time. She is one of the leading thinkers on how complexity theory and new insights from science can relate to change, both at the organisational level and the societal level. Her insights and writings have much to contribute to Energy Descent Planning and to relocalisation initiatives, and I am fortunate enough that she is at Schumacher College next week, and will be giving a public talk and has also agreed to meet me for an interview.
