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Judith and Christopher Plant have grown their dedication to making the world a better place into a successful publishing company – New Society Publishers. Years of walking their talk and publishing practical guides for positive social and environmental change has brought them resounding respect from the sustainability and publishing communities.
New Society is the first North American publishing company to become carbon neutral:
“In summer of 2001, New Society committed to publishing all of its forthcoming regular books on acid-free paper that is 100% old growth forest-free (100% post-consumer recycled), processed chlorine free, and printed with vegetable based, low VOC inks.”
~ New Society website – About New Society / Walking the Talk
Their catalogue – searchable online by title, author, or topic – is filled with encouraging wisdom on a wide rage of topics, from gardening, building, cooking, and sustainable energy to transportation, childrearing, and intentional communities. New Society’s books can be found in bookstores all over the world or may be ordered via their website.
“Ecological sustainability and social justice remain the deep fabric of human habitation on this planet.”
~ Christopher and Judith Plant, in a Future Perfect Publishing interview
New Society’s book list
New Society’s blog
New Society’s page of resource links
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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius.
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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius.
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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius.
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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius.
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Creative Architect
As a Creative Architect, Dolly Hopkins “changes the landscape through celebration.” She consults with and advises people and organizations all over the world. Since she’s based in Vancouver, where I live, I’ve participated in many of the awe-inspiring community events she’s helped to create.
Long before I met Dolly in person, I was a huge fan of the events put on by Public Dreams Society, which Dolly co-founded. The photos on their website give a small sense of the utter magic that captivates our community during two long-standing celebrations Public Dreams coordinates: the Illuminares Lantern Festival, to celebrate the summer solstice, and the Parade of the Lost Souls at Halloween.
Each time I’ve attended these night-time events I’ve marvelled at the atmosphere of hundreds and hundreds of people gathered peacefully in wonder. Public Dreams events invite – even require – participation, so it’s almost impossible to attend as an observer. Instead, I feel and sense in others a heart-thumping pride and a deep connection with the members of my community as we laugh and gawk and ooh and ahh together.
Dolly and Public Dreams are experts at collecting pure joy and sharing it with everyone in sight. If you discover that Dolly’s involved in an event that’s near enough to you to attend, consider it worth your while to do so. And please check back in late July when Dolly’s new website will be up and ready.
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In what way are you most successfully sensitive?
Through my emotional intelligence – my creative self.
What or who has inspired you to embrace your sensitivity?
Being sensitive was not a conscious decision. The best part of me chose this way of being. My sensitivity is who I am and nothing can pry me from it. It’s in my DNA and it drives my daily decisions because it’s always close to the surface of my life.
What are your eternal fascinations?
How to be at peace with myself and others around me. Knowing there’s an end while remembering to live consciously in the present. Living in the moment, remembering the past, and building a future with what I know, through what I am presently discovering and what I hope to achieve and evolve into.
What quest currently captivates you?
How to meet face-to-face with people from around the world and share and explore our humanness through the power of creative engagement. Awakening in others the ability to see themselves as creative living beings.
What is your favourite kind of help to give?
I see myself as a catalyst who pokes, looking to see if others will see – if they will reach for the insight – of what’s possible when you give your self permission to be greater then you think you are. I recognize the power of the creative.
Photo from Dolly Hopkins’ website
Related reading: Successfully Sensitive | Denise Smith, The High Demand for Sensitivity
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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius.
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There, now. You’ve poked the thing with a stick and its haunches are bunching to prepare for a pounce in your direction. You opened your mouth before your brain had a chance to calm down and everyone at the table is staring at you with open mouths, shocked at your immature outburst.
Now’s the time to back away slowly, hands in the air.
Back away from a blunder. Try a rewind.
Repeat after me: “I’m so sorry. That was uncalled for. What I meant to say was….”
You may be surprised at how long the opportunity to retract and re-state lingers. The rush of sickening horror after a nasty flub-up can mask the fact that there’s still time for a softening of the blow.
Backing away opens the view, corrects perspective.
If you’ve messed up, you can still offer a amendment to what you said or did. You can retreat – even for a moment – to consider the situation and the repair, then add – or amend – a mitigating message. In other words, you can make amends.
Regret. Consider. Amend.
{ PEP TALKS deliver a bracing blast of Grace }
Flickr photo: The Wait, by Stephen Brace
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Surroundings and atmosphere play a big role in the lives of sensitive people. Small factors make big differences. Christopher Alexander and his co-authors created a book I consider to be a bible for the sensitive soul in search of peaceful, nourishing surroundings.
A Pattern Language
“Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice.”
~ Christopher Alexander, et al, A Pattern Language
I find it impossible to resist a book which devotes entire chapters to such topics as “Child Caves,” “Filtered Light,” “Paving with Cracks Between the Stones,” “Teenager’s Cottage,” and “Courtyards which Live.” There are hand-drawn diagrams and timeless old black-and-white photographs throughout. The book is beefy, heavy, with delicate pages – all contributing to its ageless appeal.
“The Timeless Way of Building [volume one in the series] says that every society which is alive and whole, will have its own unique and distinct pattern language; and further, that every individual in such a society will have a unique language, shared in part, but which as a totality is unique to the mind of the person who has it. In this sense, in a healthy society there will be as many pattern languages as there are people – even though these languages are shared and similar.”
~ Christopher Alexander, et al, A Pattern Language
There’s a website for A Pattern Language with additional information.
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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius.
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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius.
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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius.
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