The Abundance League Blog
[ July 16, 2009; 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Money they say is the root of all evil. But does it have to be? This is what we'll explore in our July meeting with guest host Ken Lynch. Here's what Ken told me about what he'll share:
"If you were to redesign money, what would you do? Ken Lynch of SCCBank.com, a [...]
Abundance League ally Cathy Georz made this documentary short with her friends about how the economic crisis offers us an opportunity to reinvent ourselves. Emily Shurr sent me this link because it’s similar in spirit to the Abundance League “Thriving in Chaos” brainstorm she participated in last week. We should not underestimate the power of [...]
Last week 20 people gathered to brainstorm about how to thrive in chaos. While there’s much in this world that is out of our control, we learned as a group that there’s also a lot we can do right now to thrive no matter what.
The ideas we generated about how to save money, have [...]
We had a great time last night with Jessica Bergthold of the Mile High Photographers. While her group is all about professional photography in the greater Denver area, it follows the same principles of any other collaboration network. And as Miyamoto Musashi said, “From one thing, know ten thousand things.” So what I take away from [...]
Hey y’all, I’m guest bartending to support Indy Arts in a couple weeks. Indy Arts is a convener of the DIY arts and media community in San Francisco. It does cool stuff like hosting DIY media workshops and putting on the long running Expo for Independent Arts. It’s a volunteer driven nonprofit that helps foster [...]
[ June 24, 2009; 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] How to have fun, save money, and make a difference in a punk economy.
We live in uncertain times. "Civilization" seems to be falling apart. What to do? Like always, nature has an answer. Insects, mammals, birds, and fish often "swarm" to find food, built shelter, or evade predators. We're going to model nature for our [...]
We had a great showing for the discussion about Eric Poettschacher’s Shapeshifters.net, a global network of creatives. Thanks to everyone that attended and to those that brought food for the potluck. We had a truly abundant potluck including some wonderful home-cooked Japanese food. Below are Eric’s top five lessons from his work [...]
[ June 9, 2009; 12:30 am to 9:30 pm. ] Wedding Photographers: hopefully they don't get a lot of repeat business.
I kid ... but seriously, when your livelihood is built on referrals & "hittin' the bricks"—and in a time when the economy has people looking at spending less—you might think photography is a cutthroat profession, but not so in Colorado. The Mile High Photographers have [...]
Life Inc. Dispatch 01: Crisis as Opportunity from Douglas Rushkoff on Vimeo.
Seriously though, it’s nice confirmation of our little community where we have been practicing and celebrating “engaging one another in small ways” for four years as a way of opening a new life affirming cultural space that gives our humanity some oxygen amidst a [...]
Just a quick reminder about our meeting with Eric Poettschacher who is coming to Abundance League San Francisco from Vienna, Austria to share his learnings from a two-year odyssey through the global creative community to found Shapeshifters.net.
Learn more about the Thursday, May 21st meeting at the original invite here.
I hear tell from our friends at Roots for Change, who are working towards a sustainable food system in California by 2030, that there’s a free screening at the Landmark Embarcadero in San Francisco of the documentary, Food, Inc., about the negative health and environmental health impacts of industrial agriculture. I’m going to check it out and [...]
By Todd Siler, PhD: Founder of Think Like A Genius
A Denver tALer presents her ME Model
Here are some essential questions for further exploring the meanings of your ME Models models you created in the Think Like a Genius Workshop. These questions will help you get the most out of your symbolic models and apply them in [...]