Category Archives: Community
Grow from challenges
Every challenge has a hidden blessing. Life is to be lived, new experiences, new challenges that keeps old age from the door of both body and mind. Perhaps for me life has become too challenging. I feel I am in a maze with many doors, behind each door is a chocolate cookie (good experience) or …
The oak that fell to entropy
Being sustainable now will be the difference of who survives and dies in future. Besieged by snow and wind for weeks, a great storm sent a 1,200-year-old oak tree crashing to the ground. The Pontfadog Oak growing in Wrexham in Wales was one of the oldest trees in Britain, a meeting point of the ancient …
Bridges to prosperity
I review the purpose of this blog. (Warning potentially deep philosophy ahead!) In my town of Colchester the Celtic leader Cunobelin, the Romans considered the first king of Britain, struck an estimated one million gold coins. Upon some of these coins was the image of an ear of corn, a Celtic symbol of prosperity. In …
The storyteller
You can change the world through storytelling. In ancient times the storyteller was a highly valued member of society, on dark winter nights they entertained, but in ancient society they were a walking library of the history, laws, customs and spiritual philosophy of those people. The storyteller was the bard, poet or musician, protected by …
Scientific hubris is dangerous
The belief that DNA and evil are associated is an example of a dangerously ignorant hubristic belief. The Telegraph newspaper has an interesting article asking if evil is due to DNA. This is the sort of question people waste life over, abstracting complex problems down to simple questions that crime is due to defective DNA …
New design for a new era
Smartphones and tablets will transform the internet. The transformation of a well designed community website I visit to cope with smartphones and tablets hit home to me the coming revolution that these new gadgets will have on the internet. In 2012 about 20% of US internet traffic was said to be via smartphone or tablet, …
My relationship with social media
Use social media intelligently rather than be its slave. Yesterday I congratulated two bloggers who declared to the world they had quit Facebook by deleting their accounts. Today I had to advise an individual I had no LinkedIn account. I have no Facebook account. I attempt to keep Google and Yahoo at arms length. With …
The joy of feedback
All feedback is good, both positive and negative. I sent an e-mail to the director of the Essex Sustainability Institute giving positive feedback how their lectures had influenced me in introducing sustainability to my business and life; they fed back to me how happy they were to hear this and wanted to use my quote …
If life throws you lemons make lemonade
Find the positive in negative situations. New day, leaping out of bed, throwing open the curtains – snow. My first word of the new weekend was a rude word. Lets think positive over this I thought, snow means opportunity for great photographs contrasting spring against winter. Childish enthusiasm sets in as I wait for the …
Being a good steward
Stewards look after their stakeholders. In my business I am steward, in that I protect, guide and feed that business by managing all its resources in an efficient way. Good stewardship is the difference between the success or failure of a business, which includes the efficient management of limited resources of time, energy and money. …
