Another great TEDcast! This time from Tim Brown of Ideo. You can watch the 25 minute presentation here … or here … Here’s my visual summary of the key messages. I find drawing pictures of the ‘key points’ a much more useful way of storing messages than by using words. Geoff

I have been ranting about the use of visual images to support a story, key messages or to communicate your ‘thing’ to others. Here is a 4 minute presentation by Andy Hobsbawm that has a number of great features: Great use of visual images to support his story – notice his slides contain no words (they don’t need to!) His presentation has 1 core premise and everything hangs if it … the use of creative stuff is needed to inspire people to act in certain ways He also uses a short video to reinforce his idea (that he sells very …

Here’s something a bit different for Yes!AndSpace … Local musician, Tim Wood, has written a beautiful song … in every sense of the word. We have played around some photos of local people and produced this video. Feel free to share it with anyone … pass it onto people you love. Enjoy. You can download (and purchase) the single from CD Baby here. Beautiful by Tim Wood from Geoff Brown on Vimeo. Cheers Geoff

A friend of mine just sent me this presentation … it is a great example of the ‘exponential change’ and the ‘revolution’ that is happening right now! Shift Happens View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: sociology future) Karl Fisch at the Fischbowl blog wrote this about this sliedshow and the remixed version that he created: “A while back Scott McLeod, Jeff Brenman (who did the Slideshare version) and I received an email from someone at Sony BMG Music Entertainment asking us if they could remix the various versions of Did You Know? for a meeting they had coming …

In the spirit of Improv and Complex change, I have started doing lots and lots of little things to help ‘enable change’ and ‘spark conversations’ about living sustainably at home. The first of these is Green Cow Solutions! A good chunk of my work is in the design and facilitation of projects that bring together people to learn from each other about tackling climate change and living sustainably. These projects have become more about community strengthening and resilience than about the ‘sustainability’ outcomes that flow from action (eg. insulating ceiling space) … I am very comfortable with that too! So …