• Video: Wikis in Plain English | Common Craft – Social Design for the Web
  A simple introduction to wikis, this nicely captures the essential process of working on a collaborative document.
  (tags: collaboration howto learning reference wiki training video tools social tutorial Web2.0 wikis Technology)
• YouTube – Women In Art
  From my friend notio comes a beautiful video of the changing face of women in western art
  (tags: art history video women)

• The Tank Man – Google Video
  A stunning video about the man who stood before the tanks in Tienanmen square
  (tags: democracy freedom courage)

• Casaubon’s Book: Food Preservation and Democracy
  A nice long blog post on what shifts might come if we ate locally, and grew our own food.
  (tags: food democracy)
• IFC Environment – Good Practice Documents
  A handbook on stakeholder engagment, primarily private sector
  (tags: consultation engagement)
• Anecdote: Sensemaking Archives
  A great set of musings on storytelling and sensemaking that relates closely to the work we are doing on the art of harvesting.
  (tags: stories artofharvesting)
• Book Excerpt: The Assault on Reason | TIME
  Al Gore answers Robert Byrd’s question: “Why do reason, logic and truth seem to play a sharply diminished role in the way America now makes important decisions?”
  (tags: democracy participation politics toread environment book history intelligence life coho)
• Wiki Clock
  Could a wiki be a clock and actually tell the right time? Go here to find out…
  (tags: wiki)
• The thorny path to enlightenment / Buddhists bringing ancient faith to U.S. at odds over role of martial arts in Shaolin — former allies deeply divided on physical, spiritual aspects of the misunderstood culture
  What is most interesting in this article is the connection between sitting meditation and martial arts. Nicely captured by a non-practitioner.
  (tags: practice meditation taekwondo kungfu shaolin)

A couple of mates of mine, Brenda Chaddock and Myriam LaBerge are hosting a practice retreat July 9-11, 2007 at Rivendell, here on Bowen Island called “Wise Action That Lasts: How to host, convene, design and facilitate meaningful conversations around complex issues.”   If you have been looking for great facilitation training, or an Art of Hosting type course around the west coast of North America, this one is for you.   Both Brenda and Myriam are smart and experienced women, great facilitators and fun teachers.   And Bowen in July is just pure heaven.

• Barry Lopez – “Eden Is a Conversation”
  Eden, we should be at pains to point out, is not a place. Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern o
  (tags: conversation dialogue)
• Toronto Arts Council – THe Creative City
  Every person in Toronto has the right to enjoy the rich cultural life that is the hallmark and pride of Toronto. Through partnerships and initiatives, TACF’s Block by Block program seeks to connect even the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods with the tra
  (tags: art community culture canada toronto)
• Being on the Land | Orion magazine
  An article and photos by my neighbour Robert Semeniuk. Some nice recollections of his time hunting and living with Inuit in Nunavut in the 1970s
  (tags: inuit)
• Housing, Sailing Vessels, Survival” | Orion magazine
  Scroll down…the future is in sail boats.