Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Claire Fauset: Make your mark and ground the growth of aviation

  Published: July 25, 2007, 6:06 am

  Tags: Activists, Society, Comment, Environment, Travel, Travel And Transport, Green Travel, Climate Change

  Claire Fauset: Next month's Camp for Climate Action will put Heathrow airport at the frontline of direct action on climate change. Hundreds of people, including many from the local community, will be camping there.

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• National Trust puts 3.5m members in front line against climate change

  Published: July 25, 2007, 5:59 am

  Tags: Environment, Rural Affairs, Voluntary Sector, Society, Climate Change, Travel, Travel News, Heritage, Uk News

  It controls 900-square miles of land and 710 miles of coastline and has far moremembers than the armed services, the teaching profession, the prison population, environmental groups and political parties combined.

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• Selling indulgences for environmental sin [Effect Measure]

  Published: July 27, 2007, 8:36 am

  Tags: Climate Change

  a new idea to sell climate change indulgences to a public increasingly worried about how today's sins will punish their grandchildren. This latest Bush administration proposal for offsetting the build-up of greenhouse gases characteristically (for them) doesn't operate on the source side -- the production of these gases -- but on the sink side,

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• Getting to BlogHer conference sans car

  Published: July 26, 2007, 12:56 pm

  Tags: Blogher Conferences, Green Amp Amp Eco Conscious, Social Change Non Profits Amp Amp Ngos, Bigbluebus, Bus, Chicago, Cta, Flyaway, Losangeles, Santamonica, Subway

  Two buses, a plane ride, and two trains later, I've gotten from Los Angeles to Chicago, ready for the BlogHer conference :) read more

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• What is Agile?

  Published: July 8, 2007, 3:36 pm

  Tags: Customer Collaboration, Responding To Change

  There’s a thread on the Extremeprogramming yahoogroup attempting to define Agile. John Roth started this thread with a trial balloon of ways to recognize an Agile project from easily observed practices. I have a bit of difficulty with this definition; I think that it’s too prescriptive and, while it could be a useful [...]

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• If you want it you have to go and get it.

  Published: July 28, 2007, 10:12 am

  Tags: Change, Networking, Beliefs, The Business Of Art, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Graphic Design, Illustration, Marketing, Creativity, Philosophy, Business Development, Life

  on a tangent and completely change directions. I am learning to really visualize success in my mind. What does it look like, how does it feel? How will I achieve it? By staying in focus and using the tools I have learned and being open to the possibilities that come to me everyday. It is also important to get out there. Success will not come to

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• Patience… That Again?

  Published: July 23, 2007, 9:21 pm

  Tags: Absurdity, Beliefs, The Business Of Art, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Change, Peace, Life, Health, Creativity, Philosophy, Religion

  Patience This is beginning to feel like a dirty word to me. It seems to be the lesson that comes to me every day in every aspect of my life. The same or similar people, the same situations, the same lessons. Just when I think I am making progress on the patience front I realize I still have a long way to go. I have tried meditating on patience-

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• Living in Love and Staying Tuned In.

  Published: July 21, 2007, 11:16 am

  Tags: Change, Networking, Beliefs, The Business Of Art, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Graphic Design, Illustration, Health, Marketing, Creativity, Philosophy, Business Development, Life

  Well it is the end of week one. It has definitely been a very good start for getting back into the Art & Design world. I made progress on all fronts including keeping the fear monsters away. They love to come out in the middle of the night and inject insecurity and doubt into my brain. They did visit a couple of nights this week but I managed

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• What are you going to do today that moves you further along with your dream?

  Published: July 20, 2007, 11:06 am

  Tags: Networking, Change, The Business Of Art, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Graphic Design, Illustration, Marketing, Creativity, Philosophy, Business Development, Life

  Finally made it to a couple of art gallery openings last night. There are so many galleries in this city. Why am I not in one of them yet? I have to get out more. I think I need to set a gallery day or 2 every week. Get out and see art and find a home for my work besides my studio. It really is time. It was good to get out and see art, talk to

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• The Business of Building a Business- It takes Passion and Intuition

  Published: July 18, 2007, 9:48 am

  Tags: Change, Beliefs, The Business Of Art, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Networking, Graphic Design, Creativity, Philosophy, Business Development, Illustration, Marketing

  So now that I am in business for myself again, I am busier than ever. I finished rebuilding my website. Made it much cleaner and simpler than the previous edition. Much easier to look at, no scrolling, a little bit of Flash but nothing that gets in your way. Have been working on other marketing tools as well. An alternative brochure and I think I

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• When you love what you do, you don’t need time off.

  Published: July 16, 2007, 10:09 am

  Tags: Networking, Change, The Business Of Art, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Graphic Design, Illustration, Marketing, Creativity, Philosophy, Business Development, Life

  Now I know this is not true. It is good to give yourself down time to regenerate and renew. But it is different when you are happy with your work. When work is not drudgery your energy flows easily and you are excited to be there. Vacations are more enjoyable because you know that when they are over, you are still going back to something you love

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• First day on the job, or First Day of the Rest of My Life!

  Published: July 15, 2007, 10:11 am

  Tags: Change, Beliefs, The Business Of Art, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Graphic Design, Illustration, Marketing, Creativity, Philosophy, Life

  So yesterday I spent the day getting organized. Getting my office back in shape, re-designing my business cards and re-building my website. I have decided it is time to learn Cascading Style Sheets and get more familiar with html and xhtml and whatever else in happening in web stuff these days. I have done a little with Flash but really very

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• “Off to the Next Big Adventure!”

  Published: July 14, 2007, 11:21 am

  Tags: Absurdity, Beliefs, The Business Of Art, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Change, Illustration, Health, Creativity, Philosophy, Peace, Life

  saying things about making changes and moving on to new adventures. Well yesterday it became a reality. I got laid off. Normally this is not a good thing, however in this instance I think it was. For the last few weeks I have been thinking about re-generating my free-lance design business, because being an office assistant was just not

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• Funny, You don’t look like and Angel!

  Published: July 8, 2007, 9:53 am

  Tags: Change, Beliefs, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Peace, Philosophy, Life, Health, Religion

  Yesterday, while walking downtown, I was stopped by a woman who was looking for sponsors for the Aids walk that is happening here next week. I don’t usually stop when asked for money, there are so many people here begging, if I gave them all a dollar, I would soon have to start begging. Some of them have their pitch down so well, you know

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• What do I know today? What I believe is up to me.

  Published: July 4, 2007, 9:59 am

  Tags: Absurdity, Beliefs, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Change, Peace, Life, Creativity, Philosophy, Religion

  I was just reading some of the other blogs on this site, and I came upon one by an overzealous Atheist. His or her need to prove the absence and nonexistence of God was just as strong and just as annoying as that of many of the overzealous Christians I have met in my life. Both are coming from a position of absolute belief in only their own

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