Awe Expansion

This little light of mine...

My sense of awe is expanding. 

Travel, the interweb, social networking sites, and the recognition that a lot of inspired people are sharing, and acting upon, a lot of great ideas are all contributing to the exponential growth of my awe.  It's like a garden of mind and spirit. "Food for Thought" security and sovereignty.
This is a compilation of some of my recent sources of inspiration  in diverse topic areas categorized broadly within:
  • outside the box lifestyle,  
  • sustainable living and farming, 
  • growing kids  
  • personal growth.   

Updated as of January 4, 2012.



Outside the Box Lifestyle


 The Betterness Manifesto- "Real change doesn't begin with governments, presidents, or prime ministers. It begins with each of us. In the 20th century, never-ending mass-marketing, monopoly, and mega-politics came together to convince us, each and every one, that we're not really free: just free enough to choose between different flavors of the same old toxic junk. It was a trick, a ploy, a television hallucination. We're the freest people in history. It's time to use it like we meant it. "


 Puttylike.com - Embrace and carve a living out of your multiple talents and interests!  What do you want to be when you grow up? Refuse to choose!

The Crisis of Credit, Visualized - an interesting, animated, explanatory 11 minute video.

Four Hour Work Week Blog  - so much out-of-the-box, pragmatic, querky, wonderment inducing information.  Love it!

Marketing for Hippies - Newsflash, capitalism can help instead of hinder! Lots of innovative ways to help conscious, green, local businesses grow. 

Shareable - sharing resources to create community, build local economies, and live better.  Check out the ''Little Free Library'' idea!  So cool!!!



Sustainable Living and Farming

Element Eco-Design- Naramata, BC.

vergepermaculture.capermaculture in Calgary. Neato resource!


 Treehugger.com - a discovery company.  Transportation, design, energy, business, living.

 NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Project A wealth of information on multiple aspects of sustainable farming!

 Reinvent Everything - thought provoking blog about how we can reorganize our lives, our cities, our government for greater benefits to everyone. A blog by my good friend Jamey Coughlin, a great innovator and Nova Scotia farmer/father/civil servant!

How to Feed the World?  - Such a great, simple, enlightening video! For all those who have been asking me about food security and food sovereignty...here it is, explained simply and thoroughly. 

Let me Enlighten You  - Nothing but sun, 2 teaspoons of bleach, a 2 L pop bottle filled with water, and a film canister on top to protect the lid from the sun...and voila...the equivalent of a 50W lightbulb, no electricity required.

Hesperian Foundation- free PDF resources providing tools for community empowerment and development on health, environmental health, dentistry and many more.  Translated in English, French and Spanish.

Yurts and Tiny Houses!-  www.yurts.com , www.yurtco.com , http://tinyhouseblog.com


Growing (Healthy, Happy) Kids

Homeschooling Blog- Penelope Trunk's outspoken,  practical, sometimes conterversial point of view is both entertaining and thought-provoking.

The Innovative Educator-  really outside the box thinking on education.  Among other interesting resources, there's a downloadable book for guiding teenagers how to "opt out" (vs. drop out), of traditional, ineffective, highschool and succeed in life.


Free Range Kidscounteracting the destructive coddling so pervasive in our society.  Maybe this site can convince, and help, overprotective caretakers to loosen their grasp and get a grip!



Personal Growth

Ted Talks Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability  for awhile I self-identified as a researcher, I still identify with the banana nut muffin part, and this talk spoke to me in all kinds of other intangible ways. Powerful. video.


Ted Talks Tim Ferriss: Smash Fear, Learn Anything - a logical, effective approach to learning practically anything.  What's the worst that could happen? video.

Martha Beck, Life Coach-  Wow.  I just bought her new book, "Finding yo ur way in a wild new world" and it is knocking my knickers off.  I'm going to save up the $7000 and take her coaching course. Yes I am.







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