Return of The light

To my readers:
a blessed return of the light and happy new year! As we enter into the new year there is so much possibility for positive change amidst the craziness of economic downturn and awakening of peoples spirits to something better.

Some updates from the Gaia Emerging Blog:

• I have just updated the font color to help with readers with less than 20-20 eye sight.
• What to expect for the first few weeks of the new year. I am planing stories on:

1. The steps and to become a permaculture designer and teacher
   
2. Web 2.0 participatory learning tools
3. Beyond Fair Trade: regenerative exchange
4. Carbon Farming: Carbon Negative, Food Positive solutions for climate change and food scarcity
5. The connection between business and civil society in the global sustainability movement
6. Men's work: deconstructing the patrix.

These are all stories that have been on the back burner while I hibernate for the winter in preparation for a busy and vibrant 2009.
My plans include trialing a new Fair Trade Business; organizing the tenth Bioregional Congress;
Teaching and working in Mexico, Chile and Nicaragua; organizing and helping to facilitate the 09 Financial Permaculture Course, and teaching in several other events during the year.
And in the midst of all of that I am going to breath...and help other people with thier projects.

What makes it possible for me to do all of that? Stubborn hard work? maybe...but the most important thing that enables me to work on so many different exciting projects is deffintaly team work. Working with groups like Living Mandala, The Financial Permaculture Steering Comittee, and Gaia University allows me to collaborate on different aspects of projects, and play a similar role to help coordinate things as we bring together diverse groups to work on complex and exciting projects.
Being so integrated into the world changing field is what give me access to such interesting insights, people and events...and I feel grateful to have the chance to share that with people over the web.
I hope the folks reading this are gaining from my action learning. Let me know if there are aspects of permaculture, regenerative design, community organizing, transition culture, or regenerative economics that you would like me to focus more on, and I will do my best to glean insight from my personal experience and share it.