Know How He Feels, originally uploaded by bpotter1942.
So there I was, walking over the veldt, minding my own business when they shot me in the fanny with this dart, threw me in a box, shipped me halfway around the world, and then locked me in a cell about half the size it should be . . .
Now what??
Now THIS!
[Guess it would be just tooo pollyannish to say it’s proof that key environmental messages are now being “mainstreamed.”]To: <info@irf.org>Subject: Carbon Credit (CDM&JI)Sender: “Carbon Credits” <kind405@gmail.com>Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:16:39 +0530Carbon credit ˜ thrust for cleaner technologiesLearn about Carbon credit-CDM & JIWhat is Carbon Credit?How can I benefit from Carbon Credit?Double-edged benefit in carbon campaign … How?Learn in our E-Book”Carbon Credits for Landowners” highlights the fact that the United States forests sequester … how it works and if they might benefit from carbon credits. …Learn in our E-BookThe CDM allows the creation of new Carbon Credits by developing emission …..How?Learn in our E-BookHOW CAN AN INDIVIDUAL (NOT AN INDUSTRIALIST) BENEFIT FROM CARBON CREDITS??A buyer can bid for as low as 1000 carbon credits while a seller can submit a minimum of 5000 credits for sale…..Learn more in our E-Book
Check this out — I was about to delete this SPAM, and then I discovered it’s a message from a major program manager at CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL — guess the old categories don’t hold up any more. . . . I’m getting a headache thinking about it . . . . I don’t think my management manual [DILBERT] has anything about “How to use your spouse’s corporate Xmas card list to market your new on-line distance learning course.”I can hardly wait for next year’s edition, when I’m sure I will have the opportunity to sign up for ice-skating lessons from the darling Ariana.——————Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:02:50 -0500 (EST)From: Neel Inamdar <inamdar1@gmail.com> To: bshrodinger@irf.org Subject: Have a Great 2008 !You’re receiving this email because of your relationship with Neel Inamdar. lease confirm your continued interest in receiving email from us.You may unsubscribe if you no longer wish to receive our emails.Neel Inamdar and Anne LoehrDear Bruce,Who would have thought 2007 would have passed so quickly? It was great to hear from all of you and/or see you in 2007. We’re hoping to be better about staying in touch in 2008, so please send us your news whenever you get a chance. We promise we’ll do the same!Something to Think About for 2008For a little perspective about the choices you want to make for 2008, we invite you to visit the Story of Stuff. It’s a powerful piece on the challenges we face in this new age. The video is very thought-provoking!An Update from NeelI’m still enjoying mywork as the Senior Advisor for Ecotourism with Conservation International (CI) in Washington, DC. My main role is identifying and working with hospitality companies interested in supporting conservation initiatives for a win-win solution. Madagascar is our current focus, but CI has active programs around the world.As many of you know, I like doing many things at once, so I recently became involved with a small startup company that advises hotels and resorts on how to improve their sustainability, save money and be more green. Feel free to visit www.sustainability-dna.com for more information.I’m still involved in various investment projects, most recently in New Hampshire, where we are building unique ski-on/ski-off condo’s next to the Mt. Sunappee Resort at Mountain Reach Who knows? Maybe I’ll even learn to ski someday and enjoy this resort!An Update from AnneMy first business book, “A Manager’s Guide to Coaching: Simple and Effective Ways to Get the Best Out of Your Employees” will be published in March 2008, which is also very exciting. Co-authored with Brian Emerson, this book will help managers and entrepreneurs successfully coach themselves and others to success. We’ve already received some great endorsements and I’m lining up book signing events for the spring, so feel free to contact me if you’d like a book signing in your area.Since so many people have asked me how we managed to get a book from idea to publisher in just six months, I decided to start a 10-week book publishing course, helping new and aspiring authors save time and money in their own publishing quest. If you know anyone who wants to be published, feel free to send them this newsletter. I’d be happy to help them in any way I can!An Update from ArianaAriana will be celebrating her 3rd birthday in January! Hard to believe! She loves ice skating, is learning to scooter on her new Christmas present, has a steel trap mind and does not hesitate to voice her opinion! She keeps us on our toes!If you no longer want to receive our news, please just select the appropriate “unsubscribe” mechanism below.We will be sorry to see you go, but totally understand your decision!All the best for 2008!Neel Inamdar & Anne LoehrThis email was sent to bpotter@irf.org, by inamdar1@gmail.comNeel Inamdar & Anne Loehr | 11654 Plaza America Drive | Suite 354 | Reston | VA | 20190
This message started as an e-mail to Twine.com, a (still-in-restricted-beta Web 3.0 application) about a personal wish list for improved management of web information resources.
a) When I set up a simple e-mail group, between 10% and 20% of those who promise to participate will actually accept an invitation to subscribe. This is too low a rate for groups which need to reach most of the key opinion leaders in a subject matter area, so the lists are usually populated by “forcibly” subscribing people into Yahoogroups (a pain, since they limit such a process to 10 additions per day).
b) For three months I have been trying to get colleagues to sign up on Twitter because I see it as a neat tool to facilitate team efforts (see Adam Engst’s article on Twitter in Tidbits, “Confessions of a Twitter Convert“) on a major publication that we will be collaborating on for the UN Environment Programme by the end of 2008. There are about a dozen “core” members and another 100 or so less critical members, all of whom I have solicited to join Twitter two or more times. So far only my sister and brother have signed on (and they don’t work on the UNEP project!).
So, in light of these experiences I think the kinds of “Web 3.0” (or whatever) tools that would be most useful to me would be those that would provide a lot of the mapping and cross-indexing information described in the video interview by Robert Scobel of Radar Networks’s CEO Nova Spivack, including some sort of version control for multiple editors and reviewers of written or graphic materials, without requiring the active engagement or positive participation by the bulk of the users.I don’t know if this makes sense to the designers and architects of the new types of web tools, but I thought it might be interesting for some to think about.
[Stimulated by a holiday card from the Center for American Progress. . . ]Every once in a while you realize how contaminated the “L” word really is.Scratch a so-called “Progressive” deeply enough (you’ll have to ask MuKacy exactly how deeply, but I’m sure it’s not torture, exactly, as defined by US law and international treaty that we recognize, this week) and I’ll bet you find a — shudder — Liberal. . .
For the three years past, my widely dispersed siblings and I have taken our respective families, and their families, etc., to Niagara-on-the-Lake for a family Christmas weekend. The tradition of a family get-together before Christmas goes back over twenty years, and has become an important part of the holiday celebrations for all of us.We have held these family sessions in a variety of sites, trying to find a place mutually accessible to all but not necessarily so close to anyone that they feel the need to serve as host to all of the relatives right in the middle of the hectic holiday seasons, especially after the passing of our parents in the 1990’s.We had settled on the village of Niagara-on-the-Lake (population about 15,000), just across the Niagara River from Western New York where we grew up in because of:o Its location;o The availability of affordable lodging for the multiple families involved;o The charm of this well preserved lakeside Victorian resort (summer home of a well-known George Bernard Shaw Festival);o Because of the large and somewhat quirky Christmas parade that coincided with our reunions; ando Don’t forget the ice wine, endemic to this part of southern Ontario.Well, this year we gave up on Niagara on the Lake and have gone someplace else, because crossing the Niagara River, from the USA to Canada (!) and return, has become so uncertain and so anxiety-provoking (members of the family have missed planes and other important appointments) because of delays of up to three hours at the Peace Bridge, or the other bridges in the area.We can live with Buffalo’s blizzards, but the Grinch has won this round, especially with passports being required after January 1st. We’re now meeting in a different, undisclosed site inside the continental boundaries of the United States of America.… and Canada even has a Conservative Government. Hey, Mikie, you’re doing a heck of a job, too. I know I sure feel a lot more secure.
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Stack of green wine bottles outside of a beach bar just south of town on the small Western Caribbean island (belongs to Colombia, but about 500 miles from Cartagena) of San Andres.
Check the FLICKR site at http://tinyurl.com/2foj3e for other pictures of Xmas 2007 decorations on San Andres . . .
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