Posted by Michael Skye on Feb 28, 2007
Recently through Zaadz, we’ve raised nearly $3,400 for Clovis, our young Ugandan visionary friend. He’s using the funding to install high-speed internet access at his Vision Cafe, where he’s connecting his fellow Ugandan’s to the world wide web, and teaching them what’ he’s learned from Vision Force about being a visionary, a leader and an entrepreneur. There...
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Posted by Michael Skye on Feb 24, 2007
I’ve been interviewed several times over the past few weeks by Philip Gatlin of the Business Building Network. Will provide more info and links very soon…
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Posted by Michael Skye on Feb 21, 2007
30 impassioned individuals have been selected to attend the March 2007 Vision Force Boot Camp, an event designed for those who are so committed to creating a world that works for everyone that they are ready and willing to facing whatever there is to face along the way–and evolving whatever they must about themselves in order to create such a world. The search for the next 30 will begin...
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Posted by Michael Skye on Feb 12, 2007
I’m writing this post as I’m on a 4 or 5-way conference call with visionaries in Austin and Kenya, who are collaborating to start technology training academies in Kenya. We met so many visionary Kenyans last summer, who are up to great things, but who are difficult to reach due to technological barriers. Tools such as Skype are empowering visionaries around the world to connect and...
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Posted by Michael Skye on Feb 7, 2007
All too often we find ourselves taking positions about the things we care about, concluding which strategy is right and which is wrong. Who doesn’t want peace and progress for example? While so many of us stand for such values, we become divided on how to attain them. One subject that divides so many of us is the issue of government’s role in binging about a better future. I find...
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Posted by Michael Skye on Feb 7, 2007
thinkArete Manifesto Here’s a video made by a Zaadzster (member of Zaadz.com, a social networking site for groovy, conscious change agents), based on a manifesto written by Zaadz co-founder, Brian Johnson.
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Posted by Michael Skye on Feb 6, 2007
When people think of visionaries, they think of people who seem to be able to see farther into the future than others, such as futurists, inventors, theoretical physicists, social revolutionaries, pioneering entrepreneurs, filmmakers, etc., many of whom seem to have the power to “make the impossible happen.” Yet there is a fundamental faculty of human consciousness that we could call...
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Posted by Michael Skye on Feb 4, 2007
Yesterday, I attended this event here in Austin, where we watched the widely acclaimed documentary, Favela Rising, about a young social revolutionary who responds to his brother’s murder, gang warfare and police corruption by starting a drum group, called AfroReggae, for the purpose of uniting everyone in his favela. FAVELA RISING documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela...
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