by mvboronowski | Oct 24, 2010 | 100 Community Builders
Who are you? Who am I? Ian Ashley Abbott. I’m a believer in the value of alternative health care and how it can build community. Physical health care comes down to lifestyle and diet and mental health comes down to support from family and friends....
by mvboronowski | Oct 22, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
Community is living and breathing all around us. We walk though them, work in them, compete as them. Together we are community. If our external community is a living, breathing organism are we not our own living community, and I’m not just talking about eyelash mites....
by mvboronowski | Oct 21, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
In a recent study by the Sloot Institute (and by institute I mean me and some friends…and by that I mean me and John) a potential correlation between passion and social change was discovered. But it’s not what you think. Most of us, especially those at the Sloot...
by mvboronowski | Oct 19, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories, Aboard the Editor's Pirate Ship, Business & Entrepreneurship
[Editor’s Note: readers, from October 12 until November 9 I will be taking a UBC Continuing Studies course called Sustainability Leadership: From Strategy to Transformation. My first assignment is to outline how this transformational shift is (or could be) helpful to...
by mvboronowski | Oct 18, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
In an ideal world, citizens´ desire to participate would create and build communities. In our less than perfect world, communities often get strengthened when facing an external threat. Because they tend to affect everybody, environmental hazards frequently play that...