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class=239313610-09032006>Thanks, Harrison & others, for the welcome when I
posted a few weeks ago. It's lovely to be remembered after a couple of
years off-list, & delightful to see the online community thriving away
in its inimitable way.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=239313610-09032006>A
couple current highlights & interests:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=239313610-09032006>I
continue to work with youth, particularly teenagers. I'm working with some
wonderful folks to develop a new form of "community-based indigenous
education." I promote a return to the ancient idea that the initiation
from childhood to young-adulthood is a key moment for the vast living
intelligence of nature to re-enter the consciousness of the human village.
Our youth can do this and are doing this for those who notice. Open space
is a really good tool for intergenerational, inclusive "culture creation," so
that the youth can be widely and deeply honored and supported in their
role, and welcomed back properly by the Elders and the village. (Our
project weblog will soon be up ~ I'll let y'all
know.)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=239313610-09032006>Last
week (thanks to Patricia Haines & the list) I attended the open
space convocation of the US Partnership for the UN Decade for Education for
Sustainable Development at the EPA campus near Raleigh, North
Carolina. All I can say is that Steve Cochran has done something
extraordinary, the unfolding of which will make itself known on this list and
far beyond in the weeks & months to come. Harrison's post about the
new climate change research brings the opportunities around open space
and the Partnership into an even sharper focus.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=239313610-09032006>I am
championing one initiative that came out of the convocation, which I am excited
to mention, although it's in early development. Inspired by my sketchy
recollection of Michael Herman's "Giving Conference" in Chicago a couple years
back, I'm working with Maureen and Zelle, Patricia, & others on a new
way to bring potential donors together with grassroots sustainability project
leaders, using open space, and resulting in State of Grace Documents as
relationship-based alternatives to grants & other traditional funding
mechanisms. If all goes well we'll pilot this in North Carolina (probably
here in Asheville) by summer.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=239313610-09032006>That's
my news from the Northamerican southeast highlands, as the birds call in the
dawn from the Atlantic. Enjoy your day, everyone.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=239313610-09032006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=239313610-09032006>Chris
Weaver</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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