by mvboronowski | Feb 8, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Accessing a community is much like hacking into a bank’s computer system. It either takes a code, mad esoteric nerd skills, or time. When you don’t know the computer’s language, just add one power of magnitude to the difficulty of access. As written in a previous...
by mvboronowski | Feb 7, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Aboard the Editor's Pirate Ship
Part 1 – Preamble As previously written on this superawesome blog, I’m taking a sustainability class at UBC – it’s offered by Continuing Studies and taught by the outstanding Sarah Northcott. Our final assignment is to create a map – using The Natural Step ‘ABCD...
by mvboronowski | Feb 4, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
No, I didn’t flinch or stutter as I wrote the title of this article. It should be noted and emphasized that Harvard is behaving a little like Bishop’s University. Let me explain. Last week, up-and-coming “newspaper” the The Globe and Mail...
by mvboronowski | Feb 3, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Dear Planets, This morning I arrived at work groggy. Sometimes that happens here on this planet when we Earthlings don’t get out caffeinated fix in the morning. As I propped open this morning’s newspaper, I saw a small blurb about your discovery. According...
by mvboronowski | Feb 2, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Natural Disasters and Building Community As I’m writing, communities in northern Queensland, Australia, are waiting for the onslaught of what is predicted to be Australia’s most severe cyclone. This afternoon, authorities upgraded the cyclone to a category five,...
by mvboronowski | Feb 1, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
It looks like Toronto is set for winter to end early. As this is being posted the worst snowstorm for a couple years has started and is expected to continue through to tomorrow bringing about a foot of snow. Any unfortunate groundhog that is dragged from hibernation...
