Mangrove Work in Philippines

Here's a quick slideshow of our 2003 work in the Philippines. We are hoping to do another similar atelier Costa Rica in 2008.

Even cowgirls get the blues

This coming Sunday My friend Gwen Hallsmith has invited us for dinner at her place with Hunter Lovins. I saw this black hat cowgirl a while back here in Burlington. I recall her passion and vision made a great impression as the crowd laughed, cheered and went home inspired. I have to admit that I have never read anything of Ms. Lovins and am now scrambling to read on the web about her life and vision. So here are some interesting videos and links that I felt worth posting. Here goes:

Video 1: Hunter talks to Source code: Natural Capitalism - nice question towards the end that deals with happiness.



Video 2: Interview with Patagonia - presents simple solution to carbon footprint



Video 3: Teaching Sustainable Business



Interview with Grist Magazine: she tears her ex-husband appart and describes how RMI treated her like shit. Check it out:

Q: What has been the worst moment in your professional life to date?

She says: When the chair of the board of RMI walked into my office with no warning and told me that I was terminated, effective immediately, leave the building and speak to no one, and I realized that Amory had gone into hiding and hadn't the guts to tell me that 30 years of a partnership had died.

Another was learning, after I went into the home that I built with my own hands, and still owned, to get some photos that had belonged to my mother, before leaving Old Snowmass for Boulder, that RMI had called the sheriff on me, trying to get me arrested for theft. Given that I had for the past 15 years been a member of the local fire department and had spent a whole lot of winter nights working wrecks in the canyon with the sheriff's boys, they just grinned and wished me a great drive to my new home. I crossed the continental divide laughing the whole way. And I guess RMI is still mad about it. But it's really not that funny ...

Holly fuck there goes chivarly - what a bad breakup. Go figure, the environmental movement is sometimes its worst enemy.

Read the entire interview