View User: sicjedi - WiserEarth

Created: Apr 17, 2009
Updated: Sep 19, 2009
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Bret Alan Hughes

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Address:	84 La Cumbre Circle Santa Barbara, California 93105 United States

I Speak:	English

I Am:	Activist, Community Organizer, Engineer, Social Entrepreneur, Technologist, Writer

Member Since:	April 17, 2009

Local Time:	Fri Nov 20 22:04:34

My Groups:

Culture of Peace Initiative | The Santa Barbara People's Coalition | WiserEarth Suggestions

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Keep WE header and search bar at the top of every WE page	Add ability to undo a "Flag comment for removal"
Distinction Between WiserEarth Organizations and Groups	[OBSOLETE] Improve organization of WiserEarth Help Desk, clearly include suggestions/feedback forum
[RETIRED] Change "Solution" to "Practice"

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Human Rights and Civil Liberties (2048 people) | Social Justice Education (1717 people) | Democratic Participation (1435 people) | Sustainable Communities (4066 people) | Distributive and Economic Justice (1018 people)

About

For about six years, I worked in the computer-graphics film industry improving workflow efficiencies for ramping-up companies planning large-scale, cutting-edge films. After writing 100,000+ lines of code and creating hundreds of software tools and systems, I completed this work as pipeline engineering supervisor on The Lord of the Rings films, which won three Academy Awards for visual effects. I then changed my focus to philosophy, government, and politics. This quickly landed me on a path towards activism—to seek social and political justice for those without.

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jimenagb 2 months ago

ill reed that book... it looks like good stuff!

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Janine 6 months ago

EXCELLENT! Thanks for your excellent contributions to WE, Bret!

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MichaelK 7 months ago

Hahaha I remember that, the clown costumes are a creative touch. I think "rebel clowns" are a great peacebuilding solution... Yea I know Darwin :) I knew him from nuclear disarmament work we did.

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sicjedi 7 months ago

UCSB SAW (Students Against War) is awesome! I still can't believe they ran CIA recruiters off their campus, literally. I've been to one of SAWs meetings before, I remember talking with Darwin, you might know him.

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MichaelK 7 months ago

I see you're part of the Santa Barbara People`s Coalition, good stuff! When I was studying at Santa Cruz I was an organizer with Students Against War. You might know someone I know...

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bowo 7 months ago

Fantastic!

To a wiser earth,

Bowo

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sicjedi 7 months ago

Hi Bowo,

Yep, just click on the above book cover image, and you can read the whole thing online for free. :)

To a wiser earth,

Bret

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bowo 7 months ago

Hi Bret,

Very excited to see you so active in improving WiserEarth on your first week here. Looking forward to to see more of you around and to work together toward that end.

Btw, that book of yours looks like a good read. Is it readable in it's entirety via the Google Books interface? If so, how wise of you!

Cheers,

Bowo

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sicjedi 7 months ago

Hi Bowo,

No problem. I see a lot of importance and potential in WiserEarth.org, so I definitely want to help improve it.

And to reply to your question in a previous message, calling me Bret is fine by me. It is my name after all. :)

Cheerios,

Bret

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bowo 7 months ago

Hi Bret,

Thanks for that good catch of the bad links!

Cheers,

Bowo

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