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By Brian Skeele, on May 10th, 2011 Here’s another amazing TED presentation. “We have serious problems with boys, their culture isn’t working in schools”, Ali Carr-Chellman so states.  Her opening summation of the 100 Girls Project statistics are remarkable. As you may know, I am petitioning the Gods to send us the tools to assist us in re-inventing our world …

By Brian Skeele, on March 7th, 2011 To me, waiting our car-dependent, sprawl suburbia economy to rebound is like waiting for the Easter Bunny to show up. Wisely renovating,  retrofitting,  redeveloping our neighborhoods and communities is the base of our future prosperous economy. Easter Bunny Waiting for the Suburbia Economy to Recover In other words, we are going to be …

By Brian Skeele, on April 7th, 2011 How do I feel about the A-F grading of New Mexico Schools? Well, thank you for asking! The challenges of our times are so extraordinary, they call for a different approach to life. Working collaboratively on real world problems, creating living sustainability, with a community wide range of stakeholders is the school of …

By Brian Skeele, on June 2nd, 2011 How do you capture lightning in a bottle?  Human ingenuity is the greatest asset we have, and since the times call for innovation on all levels, I’m saying it’s time to tap the lightning. tapping into the power…human ingenuity This Sustainable Urban Village I am proposing, needs a governance system that’s built on human ingenuity …

By Brian Skeele, on April 12th, 2011 How can we have more time?? How are we going to live lighter on the Planet??!! Significantly lighter??  SHARE YOUR IDEAS! (comment below, or go to Share Your Vision!) Creating More Time-It Takes a Sustainable Village! Here’s my take.  If we were to create a great neighborhood, a convenient, mixed use, inspiring, supportive atmosphere, we …

By Brian Skeele, on March 16th, 2011 Sustainable Urban Village is an odd phrase. Sustainable Urban Village is a mash up of opposites. “Village” is pastoral, dreamy, idealistic, old fashioned, small and intimate. “Urban” conjures up pretty much the opposite-gritty, concrete and asphalt, contemporary, hip, huge and cold. Add “sustainable” to the mix, and it becomes ….an odd phrase. Where …

By Brian Skeele, on June 7th, 2011 New Mexico Business Weekly Date: Thursday, June 2, 2011, 1:21pm MDT Why wait for the burbs to come back??!! Go Sustainable Urban Village! IMHO the housing construction industry isn’t coming back, until we invent deeply sustainable lifestyles in “Mixed use, mixed income neighborhoods, with convenient lifelong learning and open space”…and that is going …

By Brian Skeele, on March 2nd, 2011 As I was leaving Trader Joe’s parking lot today, I glanced at the homeless guy as he raised his cardboard sign.  I only caught the first word on his sign “hardtimes….”. For several blocks I mulled over going back and giving him some money.  I was also thinking of my friend, a metal …

The images are heart-rending, farmers kneeling over the cracked earth that looks to be straight out of a post-apocalyptic movie, the dust swirling in the wind. But what underlies China’s worst drought in nearly a century is a matter of great debate. Is it Mother Nature or human failure? Beyond the official explanation of “abnormal weather,” Chinese environmentalists are pointing …

By Brian Skeele, on May 26th, 2011 In times of great change, the opportunities are endless. Maybe Confucius said it hundreds of years ago.  Definitely, I said it 20 seconds ago. My friend Margo was telling me about her experience hanging out with a friend of hers.  Through the course of the conversation, seemingly ever half an hour, her friend would remark. …