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Archive for “Education for Sustainability” category
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9 Jun 2006
For a long time I have had the idea of a restaurant which is landscaped in such a way that the food that people eat is grown around them. It would be a kind of more ethical version of “I’ll have the third lobster on the left please, could you boil it alive for me”, being more of a “can I have the third Lollo Rosso on the left and some of that rocket over there…”. It has long been a dream, but until last week I had never actually seen it in reality.
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8 Jun 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.
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6 Jun 2006
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;
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6 Jun 2006
**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.
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5 Jun 2006
Last weekend I took my two eldest boys on a River Safari, organised by Chris Salisbury of WildWise. It was billed a *”a gentle adventure on the tidal river Dart watching wildlife, and enjoying the beauty and tranquility. Canoeing, camping, storytelling and bushcraft”*. I have to say, it was wonderful. Utterly exhausting, yet wonderful.
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For a long time I have had the idea of a restaurant which is landscaped in such a way that the food that people eat is grown around them. It would be a kind of more ethical version of “I’ll have the third lobster on the left please, could you boil it alive for me”, being more of a “can I have the third Lollo Rosso on the left and some of that rocket over there…”. It has long been a dream, but until last week I had never actually seen it in reality.
