The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

January 12, 2009

A new posting at the TED Blog announces Sir Ken Robinson’s new book titled The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything and provides a link to a video of his TED presentation on creativity in 2006. I continue to listen to what has been Robinson’s clear voice on creativity and human being. Awakening students’ passions of mind and heart in learning is as revolutionary and fundamental an aim as I can imagine for constructing an educational agenda.


Best Green Blogs

January 11, 2009

This link to Best Green Blogs came to me in a tweet from humanvillage on Twitter this morning. Few who declare themselves to be “green” these days, especially many of the money-rich, large corporate advertisers, are ready to communicate how difficult it is (will be) for most folks to change their habitual economic behaviors to collectively create more environmentally sustainable local communities embedded in “green” societies globally. Here are some blogs communicating the challenges and opportunities.