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Muggeridge J. 2007. Census shows co-ops count. The Coop Advantage (Jul).
Tremonti AM. 2008. Diet For A Hungry Planet – Urban Agriculture. The Current. 12 Feb. CBC Radio One. <http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2008/200802/20080212.html>
Pritchett J. 2007. The urban gardener. The Kingston Whig Standard 05 Nov: 1
Lukits A. The homegrown advantage. Kingston Whig-Standard 2 Sep 2006: 2
Perrara J. Kingston Food Miles. Kingston CHUM-radio Sep 2006
Cook G. An Asian celebration on Somerset Street. The Ottawa Citizen 06 Sep 2006: E3
An Asian celebration on Somerset Street
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The ones linking volunteer recruitment, retention and growth look good to post. Will try to do as soon as possible.
another great idea is tabletop fountains. Some of them have lights so they act not only as a soothing instrument, but also sets the mood. Relaxes any home office.
Thanks for putting this up. And yes, Canada does have a Federal Law with a minimum of two weeks paid vacation. Most provinces raise that to three weeks after five years. Saskatchewan actually starts at three weeks. So you’re definitely ahead of the US on this–as with most things.
best,
John de Graaf
Here’s the Live Green Toronto’s Web site release:
http://www.toronto.ca/livegreen/inspired_grantsrecipients.html
If you’d like a tool for managing your time and projects, you can use this application inspired by David Allen’s GTD:
http://www.Gtdagenda.com
You can use it to manage and prioritize your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, schedules and a calendar.
Dan,
Thanks for suggesting the tool. I’m pretty knowledgeable about GTD as it is. Personally I’m an Omnifocus – it’s a fantastic application for really switching between the projects and the contexts. Still working on that blog post. I took a look at GTD agenda – seems to be a purely online tool.
I wonder if there are any other online GTD focused tools. The few things I’ve seen that can do that are TiddlyWiki and a whole bunch of tools here http://gtd.jeffsandquist.com/Default.aspx?Page=GTDTools&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1#_jmp0_
I’d love to hear more about GTD Agenda Dan!
Fair winds,
Sunny Lam
Management Consultant || Sunny Lam & Associates (MES)
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Smart!!
Would have been perfect for my parisian apartment!
About.com reported that employers and recruiters use these 3 job sites most to find quality candidates.
http://www.linkedin.com (professional networking)
http://www.indeed.com (aggregated listings)
http://www.realmatch.com (matches you to jobs)
If you are looking for a new job, good luck to you.
Thanks for the post. “What’s a reasonable salary [for Mr. Pallotta]?” You see, the point is, that’s really up to Mr. Pallotta. If the salary you think is reasonable is one that I am unwilling to accept, I don’t have to accept the work, or produce the $305 million net dollars we raised. And the real point is, that this happens all of the time. The average Stanford Business School grad, ten years out of B-school earns $400,000 annually in the for-profit sector, selling beer and golf balls and cosmetics, instead of helping the poor. Why? because of society’s outrage when someone makes $400,000 in charity. And guess who pays the price? The poor, who may have been delivered from their plight by the talents these people could bring to bear on the problem.
So the critical question, my friends, is not, “What’s a reasonable salary?” The critical question is, “What salaries will it take to attract the people who can most quickly eradicate the social problems that cause suffering in this world?” Any question with a different objective forfeits the real moral high ground.
Curious to me that people will write blogs about this issue, and get incensed about it (not you) but never say a word about the fact that David Beckham makes $50 million a year for kicking a soccer ball around.
Kind regards,
Dan Pallotta
“…David Beckham makes $50 million a year for kicking a soccer ball around.” + the hockey players and other people who serve only as modern day gladiators
Quite true Dan. And I’m not incensed because you’re right. We’re not investing in the people who do enough good. While most people are more than happy to invest in diverting entertainment.
I think it has a lot to do with the disconnections between people in society. We value entertainment by people more than people, just as it seems we value attempts to do selfless good more than the people who make those attempts.
Gods, Dan, I know what you’re feeling. People in the social economy/non profit field are incensed because they realize that they’re busting their asses and getting nothing for it.
If anything, every person in the field (hell everyone really) should be reading your book and saying, “Where are we spending our money? Why aren’t we investing in good people – giving them the value of what they’re really worth (in their own eyes)?”
Much to think about.
Thanks for the refreshing comment shadowphenyx. Now to get the rest of the world to realize the same.
Kind regards,
Dan Pallotta
i like your post very much thank you, very interesting
you have a point. great job.You can share your good deeds to A Global Tribe. Check it out if you have time, it is a great site.
I would prefer to mail my resume and information,
could that be possible?
Yes mailing it would be possible.
2 of 3 – one more, one more – FoodCycles (http://foodcycles.wordpress.com/) is looking for some interns with a keen desire to spear head the urban agriculture movement in Toronto. Driven fundraising, communications (especially blogs and Facebook), writers and community outreach volunteers are definitely welcome (especially if they’re looking to help make history and gain some invaluable experience).
Nowadays I use Tweetdeck (http://www.tweetdeck.com/) which utilizes Adobe Air (http://www.adobe.com/products/air/). It’s facing some serious competition from Seesmic Desktop as the Twitter computer client of choice (http://desktop.seesmic.com/). I’m tempted to see what Seesmic is all about.
Oh and I’m still working on inputting all the links from Echo of a Candle Flame (http://sunnylam.wordpress.com/) into the new site. If you have any links that should be on here drop me a line!
Trust me, if you have over 1000 feeds like me, Google Reader is your best bet.
Was just at the conference – here are some of the Tweets I managed to put in here at Twitter Search:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ontestkitchen
Was using the #ontestkitchen tag.
Working away on #video summary of #ontestkitchen 1st day, 2 panels – #low #income and #local #sustainable food supply – woohoo – comin’ soon
Too bad I didn’t give enough time to Chris Lowry. So here’s an interesting fact from him: when Green Enterprise Toronto (http://greenenterprise.net/) did their feasibility study they found that 1 in 4 of entrepreneurs were in the food field.
Oh and feel free to leave comments on how I can improve the stories and the delivery to make things more lively for everyone involved!
Thanks, Sunny, for referencing my two blogs on the shrinking resume and Maya Angelou. She has the wonderful capacity to capture the essence of a thought as well as anybody I’ve read. Those are only a few of her gems.
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