Wrangl is a way to argue in a civilized fashion.

Posted by tinynow on March 28, 2012. No comments.

I discovered Wrangl through a Google search about something completely unrelated. It is a visually pleasing way to present, and have debates about issues.

There are lines connecting the arguments and counter arguments, and the sides of the argument are presented as sides of the screen.

This is the argument that I found via Google.

It was posted by the principal founder of a plugin that adds content management functionality to WordPress in an interesting way.

Should Pods be used instead of coding Custom Post Types in WordPress? – Arguments for and against | a debate visualisation on Wrangl.

Transition Town: What’s it all about?

Posted by tinynow on March 21, 2012. No comments.

Transition Town: What’s it all about? – YouTube.

Shiny Objects Are Still Shiny

Posted by tinynow on March 21, 2012. No comments.

our attraction to a world of infinite possibility, information and complexity is here to stay. The challenge is how to participate productively in this new and turbulent world, and not be paralyzed by it.

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ONE possible path to that feeling of control is to return to a make-it-or-move-it existence. Find work that requires little if any thinking, but merely reacts and responds to what presents itself. That’s a real option: I once met a senior vice president in a global pharmaceutical company who, after taking an early retirement package, became a duck at Disney World.

David Allen - When Office Technology Overwhelms, Get Organized – NYTimes.com.

Are you ready to do something about it?

Posted by tinynow on March 1, 2012. One comment.

Whether you are secretly pleased, in denial, scared s#*tless, or mad as hell – you want your friends and neighbors to be on the same page as our resources run dry, economic growth ceases, and the planet starts to get hot.

Despite it’s very boring name – The Sustainability Summit is a place to make that happen.

If you are in the Olympia area, put this day on your calendar:

Sustainability Summit: Unleashing our Creative Genius

Saturday April 14, 9am-4pm, South Puget Sound Community College

If you are a designer, marketer, connector, or catalyst please help support your own local Transition Movement – or whatever it is calling itself. The energy is already there, we just need to make it as thrilling and important as life or death, because it is actually about life and death.

Like Paul Gilding says in a recent TED talk, “It takes a good crisis to get us going.”

This is why I’ve begun redesigning posters from the previous great crisis of American culture – WWII. This is an example of the source material.

No changes needed.

This one is already perfect. Canning prolongs local harvest, which we will need as our oil powered food system breaks down.

Here is the original I decided to adapt.

Poster - WE ARE NOW IN THIS WAR - We are in it all the way...

Can we be this sincere. I say yes.

Our town is the best town for us. We should get our food here, find our friends here, ply our trade here. Localizing is a salve for so many of our current ills – environmental, economic, and spiritual. We all need to realize we are home.

So, the poster…