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View Context | Flag comment for removal bedy 29 days ago
I'm driving from San Francisco to Sausalito for the Editors Meetup. Send me a note if you want a ride. Looking forward to seeing some of you!
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I saw most of the plenaries and attended the sessions: - Resilience Thinking: Adapting to System-Shifting Social and Ecological Change - It's all connected: nurturing networks & redistribution of power - North, South, East to West - Global Eco-Power Politics.
I also connected with many of you on the WiserEarth demonstration room. I am looking forward to continue the conversation here. I would love to further discuss resilience, efficiency, adapting to system, network, women, and global perspective.
The take away for me was really to think with a mindset of abundance than scarcity and looking things with different glasses (mushrooms, indigenous, business and so on). The 19th year of Bioneers just show how important it is to keep the vision, stay on it, work through the bumps, and collecting the beautiful results. |
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Hi Bowo, Greetings and I am so excited that you became the Chief Editor! Keep up with the amazing work
Bedy |
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Hi Kendra,
I do agree with you that we can't all be perfect. I do have my list of things that I do to cause less impact to the environment, but I thought to bring the question because often people put things in extreme definition, good or bad, evil or heroe.... and we are all just human?! |
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I suffer over a week to finally decide not to buy an iphone for me. A week later, I bought an ipod for one of my best friend because it was in his wishing list.
At the same time, I try to catch train to commute, walk as much as I can and cycle, still I don't own a hybrid. I volunteer and I am trying to make a socially responsible company succeed, but I often see myself failing to take short showers. How should we handle our own hypocrasy? |
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Hi Bowo,
Thanks for the message! I agree with you that there are some really interesting people in WiserEarth who I also envy :-D! I feel lucky to be able to promote Brazilian communities work through fair trade! |
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Camilla, thanks for the survey results. I think they are great guidelines for how to increase WE 'stickiness'.
Can we brainstorm a little?!? Apparently a very important feature is to find best practices and success stories (I guess this fall in the same category- correct me if I am wrong) 2. Best Practices 85% 4. NGO/nonprofit success stories & narratives 67% To reinforce this same point, I noticed that people send me message on Wiser for exactly the same reason: asking for best practices and success stories in Brazil: - Promethee-Environment Action for Development ask me to find organizations related to energy to report - http://wiserearth.org/user/Darroch ask me about solutions he could use on his documentary. So the question is HOW can we address this need on Wiser in a more evident way so that people find what they are looking for and keep on coming back? |
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I think there are 5 types of turtle that nest in Brazil - Hawksbill, Olive Ridley, Giant, Loggerhead and Green turtles. http://www.projetotamar.org.br/ingles/ta_brasil.asp
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When I send emails out about WE, I have friends who always ask me how they can help. Should we do a link on the homepage - "I want to help" where we can combine outreach, volunteer and investing in WE?
Potential topics: - sign-up and create a user that represents you well, - invite your network and frieds to join, - be a moderator for a group and discussion forum, - host a talk among your community to talk about WiserEarth, - sponsor an intern, - invest in WE, |
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Hi,great initiative and group!
Brazil has an active project conserving sea turtles called "projeto Tamar" http://wiserearth.org/organization/view/3b0b3c790ba59303e495edc190103648. This month (September) starts the reproduction month of the sea turtles at the Brazilian coast. It's quite amazing to see the turtle to come to the beach to burry the eggs. |
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My business is now member of Fair Trade Federation and I have exchanged some email with the Executive Director (http://wiserearth.org/user/ckiezzi) about using WE. She already created job posting and updated the information on the organization profile.
Currently, members of FTF use Yahoo groups, but it hasn't been really active yet. Should I ask her to migrate to WE groups? What is the best way to engage FTF? |
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People... this is Bedy, working on the outreach team for Brazil and Portuguese speaking community. On 09.15.07 I was on a seminar promoted by Brazilian consulate at Berkeley. (http://www.brazilsf.org/englishposter.pdf). We had many Brazilian representatives from Brasilia, SF and LA, several active members of the Brazilian community, journalists and the chief of Latin American Studies from Berkeley speaking at the event. One of the section was "community organization". The common feeling during the seminar was that we Brazilians "are passive and lack the culture to create community and social organization compare to other cultures" (feel free to comment and critic on this statement). Whether it is because we wait from the government or we are just too young of a democracy or whatever reason one can find, I deeply hope that we, who want to volunteer can find our space and overcome the difficulties and we who want to create an NGO will find its way through the different resources and benchmark available in the world. For this matter, I have to say WiserEarth is a great resource for networking, research and eventually project management (nothing too biased here... ;-D) !! The consulate event was really positive. I distributed several WE postcards and will highly recommend you do similar type of connection if you can in/with your country. The event was quite inspiring and great networking- chatted with the consul, vice-consul, representative from the Brazilian Foreign Ministry. |
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This comment was removed by the owner of the page Just want to say hi and thanks for adding me to your network. It is very exciting to see very interesting people joining WISER and wanting to become part of the solution to a better world
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Camila,
Queria só te mandar um oi! É muito gostoso ver pessoas que tem paixões e interesses semelhantes. Estou atualmente ajudando aqui no Wiser para research em português e provavelmente vou me envolver com o outreach. Estou super animada com o trabalho vonluntário e especialmente a equipe. Bjos, |
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