If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.I’ve got some really encouraging and exciting news… last Thursday, we got our Planning Commission approval for our B Street West project!!
The hearing went shockingly fast, which was actually kind-of affirming in a strange way. You know you are doing something right [...]

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“Changing the world is a team sport, and there’s a spot on that team for every person on the planet, though finding our spot can be damn hard. Learning what we can do is not easy in itself, but discovering what each of us feels called to do, in a way that only we can [...]

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Saw this in the BBC…
The richest person in China is now a woman who made her fortune in recycled paper- buying scrap paper from the US to use in China…
Vanessa

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The other night, a new friend directed me to the TEDTalks page on the TED website which has downloadable videos of speakers from the last few years’ conferences in Monterey (which bring together “more than 1000 thought-leaders, movers, and shakers). I could have spent all day watching them.
So far my favorites include…
Most Beautifully Presented: Jacqueline [...]

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Community Meetings are the part of my job that simultaneously get me the most excited and the most nervous. I go in with all sorts of competing flutterings in my tummy. I have this strong background in community work and this major desire to work with and for and in the community around me so [...]

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