James Samuel

After watching this video, I followed the link to the Natural Homes site, and discovered this beautiful gallery of photos (below), which led me in turn to the Facebook gallery with explanations of each photo according to that most inspiring book “A Pattern Language“. I was given this book by my wife when I was [...]

Listening and research is an ongoing process in any endeavor, and with these free tools and simple processes you will find the best information coming to you.

If you’d read the last post, you may have been left wondering how long I might be down for, but I’m back and the reason for this post is that I wanted to record a process I’ve been going through that some of you might relate to and have some insights into. For the last [...]

How do you find ideas that are going to support your work, your passion, when you don’t know what you don’t know? You’re looking for inspiration that will help grow your capacity to do what you do, yet we live in a time when it’s we might reasonably wonder if we’re about to drown, not from rising sea levels, but from an over abundance of information.

As well as highlighting sustainability initiatives that business and community are involved in around the country, Steve and Tom from Otago Polytechnic’s Centre for Sustainable Practice (CSP) are letting people know about the new Graduate Diploma course. Based in the beautiful mountain lifestyle community of Wanaka, the course will begin in February 2011.