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The Magnetic Fields
Hope Of The States
Architecture In Helsinki
The Mahavishnu Orchestra

Baby I love your beard.

GOOD NEW GOOD NEWS

BEIRUT
July 9th
Phoenix, Toronto, Ontario

ROBOTS

I need love too, and I want to be loved by YOU Dan Mangan.

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Sustainable homes made out of trees

AMAZING

Whole tree buildings can compete favorably with conventional construction while offering a more durable and fireproof structure and a higher level of craftsmanship. From the perspective of the community – whole tree construction invests a greater proportion of its costs into local jobs and materials than conventional construction and also promotes healthy forest management for local timber resources.

Love or Life?

This man, please, can I marry him?
This video, can I be in it, please?

Live off the Grid:

Step 1:

• Find a remote location
• Moderate climate conditions all year
• Natural resources (fresh water, vegetation for food and shelter, livestock)

Step 2:

• Build a shelter
• Gather materials
• Power sources (solar power, wind power, water energy, none)
• Handmade furnishing

Step 3:

• Recruit a team of like minded people
• Adapt harmonious responsibilities (agriculture, structure deveopment, resource management)
• Create music, love and magic

The idea of "Living off the Grid" is not to form a secret society or cult with a mission to shut out the rest of the world, but rather to create a balanced community with a sustainable way of life that does not include industrial goods and international trade. The environment chosen will provide the resources used for survival.

So who's with me?

Embrace Me

I have come to realize that I now feel much to old to be in my highschool, even though I am only doing a semester victory lap. It's not as if I'm literally that much older then the majority of the students, besides having the ability to be served at the bar before them all. But I'm really feeling that the time has come to end these "special" highschool memories. The rest of the world is finally beckoning me inside. Some of it is so welcoming; the culture, opportunity, the people.. But I also don’t want to become immune to the sound that is created to covered up natures truth. I wonder how many people travel into the world feeling lost, mindlessly being sucked into the sound, no second thoughts, just lost. 

Mother Nature, please embrace me.

Hillside Inside Performers

Ani DiFranco (only Southern Ontario appearance)

Hawksley Workman

Martin Sexton (only Ontario appearance)

Final Fantasy

Basia Bulat

Woodhands

Bahamas

Delhi 2 Dublin

Elisapie Isaac

Socalled

If I wasn't afraid I would:

• wink at all sexy men
• be free of insecurites
• fly in my dreams every night
• substitute walking with bellydancing
• have no worry all my life

tell me what you would do

new music new music new music

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Rainy Hillside Festival

Final Fantasy


Lightening

Our Own Insight

Jill Bolte Taylor was a 37-year-old Harvard-trained and published brain scientist when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. Through the eyes of a curious neuroanatomist, she watched her mind completely deteriorate whereby she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. Because of her understanding of how the brain works, her respect for the cells composing her human form, and an amazing mother, Jill completely recovered her mind, brain and body. In My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, Jill shares with us her recommendations for recovery and the insight she gained into the unique functions of the right and left halves of her brain. Having lost the categorizing, organizing, describing, judging and critically analyzing skills of her left brain, along with its language centers and thus ego center, Jill’s consciousness shifted away from normal reality. In the absence of her left brain’s neural circuitry, her consciousness shifted into present moment thinking whereby she experienced herself “at one with the universe.”

Based upon her academic training and personal experience, Jill helps others not only rebuild their brains from trauma, but helps those of us with normal brains better understand how we can ‘tend the garden of our minds’ to maximize our quality of life. Jill pushes the envelope in our understanding about how we can consciously influence the neural circuitry underlying what we think, how we feel, and how we react to life’s circumstances. Jill teaches us through her own example how we might more readily exercise our own right hemispheric circuitry with the intention of helping all human beings become more humane. “I believe the more time we spend running our deep inner peace circuitry, then the more peace we will project into the world, and ultimately the more peace we will have on the planet.”

This incredible story played a part in my personal when my mother read the book while recovering from a severe Brain Aneurysm. She was deeply inspired by Jill's experience, and it helped her refill her life with hope, happieness and meaning. My mother being a musician decided it was time to bring the creation of music back into her life. She wrote a heart felt song about her own enlighting journey through pain and strenght.

Almost a year later, my mother has been recovering miraculously, performing her music, including exercise in her everyday life, and living life to its fullest. She also found an amazing amount of ambition and decided to email the women who helped her fight through her near death expereince.

Recently in late October my mother performed her song, Colours of Me www.myspace.com/noniecrete , at a conference that Jill invited her too and made her wildest dream come true.

COMMING SOON!

Baby I Love Your Beard

Sustainable Bamboo

Bamboo is the stuff of green dreams these days. Not only is it a winning combination of strong, lightweight and flexible; it also scores highly in the sustainable stakes, being super fast growing and easy to harvest locally in many parts of the world.

GREEN BUSINESS

Small Green Business Ideas
By robertludvig on Aug 19, 2009 In Getting Started, Jobs

So you want to start your own green business but you don’t have the necessary capital to get something off the ground. You don’t need to be rich to start your own green business, just make it a small green business. Ideas can be hard to come by at times, so the focus of this article is to offer a few ideas to budding green entrepreneurs. My last post about SPIN farming got me thinking about what people can do on a smaller scale to make extra income.

Clothing made from organic material is becoming very popular. I often visit local farmers’ markets in my city, and the amount of booths dedicated to selling clothes made from environmentally friendly materials has at least doubled in the past year, in my estimation. One such business that I stumbled across at a farmers’ market is Monkey 100. Their t-shirts are made from 70% bamboo and from 30% cotton. All of the t-shirts come with an environmentally conscious message. Environmentally friendly gift-baskets are also exploding. Fill them with organic and ethical facial creams, soaps made from goat’s milk, or flowers and organic fruits - just use your imagination. After coming up with the perfect idea for a small green business it could be challenging to find a place where to sell. The key is a farmers’ market.


http://www.futureofbusiness.info/