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Why cook? Holistic approaches to living, part 1.

Chris Sequeira — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 03:39:00 +0000

I attended the Just Food Conference 2013 in March, where chef Tamar Adler give a talk entitled, “Cooking: The Missing Piece in the Sustainability Puzzle.” She talked about how she struggled to convince her friend to buy fresh food and cook. “Convenience” was the undertone: all sorts of sources in our culture echo the assumption [...]

“Let us be aware of our power to create a dream of heaven where everything is possible.” — don Miguel Ruiz

Chris Sequeira — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:58:13 +0000

"Let us be aware of our power to create a dream of heaven where everything is possible." -- don Miguel Ruiz, via +Anandi Premlall

Give up the notion of control in urban planning.

Chris Sequeira — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:42:10 +0000

Give up the notion of control in urban planning. Cities are dynamic, emergent systems; thus we have to view them through the lens of systems thinking. Let's instead adopt the notions of leverage points (Donella Meadows) and trim tabs (R. Buckminster Fuller).http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2013/03/embracing-autocatalytic-city/4909/

How bottom-up growth, driven by citizens, trumps central command.

The “third framework” of citizenship is place governance: citizens as co-creators of democracy.

Chris Sequeira — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:43:51 +0000

The "third framework" of citizenship is place governance: citizens as co-creators of democracy. We must create ecosystems of civic engagement, where interaction between citizens and government is fluid rather than event-based.http://www.pps.org/blog/stronger-citizens-stronger-cities-changing-governance-through-a-focus-on-place/

Revitalizing citizenship through Place Governance: Why we need a Copernican revolution. As the link between bustling public spaces and economic development has grown stronger, some government official...

“There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.” — The Dalai Lama

Chris Sequeira — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:22:46 +0000

"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."—The Dalai Lama

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” — Walt Whitman

Chris Sequeira — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 03:20:09 +0000

"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." —Walt Whitman

“Love comes from the inside. It lives inside us and is always there, but with that wall of fog, we don’t feel it.” — don Miguel Ruiz

Chris Sequeira — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:29:41 +0000

"Love comes from the inside. It lives inside us and is always there, but with that wall of fog, we don't feel it." -- don Miguel Ruiz

Biodegradable computing in cities.

Chris Sequeira — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:33:05 +0000

Last year I came upon an article announcing work by a Stanford team on the first fully biodegradable semiconductor circuits. The article focused on applications to medical devices, but then I thought: what scale of biodegradable computing could we go to? Could we have biodegradable laptop computers and phones? I’m not the first to ask [...]

“If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.” — Simon Sinek

Chris Sequeira — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:07:41 +0000

"If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important." -- Simon Sinek, via +Anandi Premlall

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” — Richard Bach

Chris Sequeira — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 02:31:15 +0000

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” -- Richard Bach