Acorn Landscaping - Andy Packer
and Acorn Landscaping did an awesome job on my garden. Highly recommended.
Acorn Landscaping - Andy Packer
and Acorn Landscaping did an awesome job on my garden. Highly recommended.
The Hillside
Gardeners of Montclair - The Hillside Gardeners of Montclair is a gardening
group in the Montclair district of Oakland, California. I created their web
site, and my garden is featured on the tour in May 2011.
UC Berkeley
Botanic Gardens - I love our local botanic gardens. It really is
impressive.
Charity Navigator
- Learn about the non-profits you give to. CharityNavigator is a super resource to find out about the charities
that you donate to (you do donate to charities, dont you?) Go here to learn that the
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society uses an astonishing 98% of its
revenue to actually protect wildlife! Another similar site is the
GuideStar.
This site used to be good, but now everything one really wants to see requires a very expensive subscription.
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The Excellence Series and
21st Century Leadership were designed
to help people produce excellence in their lives. These series of courses have been the most important thing
I have done in my life (strong words, I know.) Their history and who is now offering them is a bit complex. Originally a man named Randy Revell,
possesing of an amazing insight into human behavior, created
The Excellence Series. This set of courses was offered for many years,
but in the late '90's Randy decided stop presenting these classes. Instead, he created
21st Century Leadership, a
class which combined and revamped the ideas from the
Excellence Series.
A group of graduates from Excellence Series decided that they wanted to see the earlier courses continue, so they incorporated The Excellence Foundation, purchased the material from Context Associated, and resumed the teaching of the original Excellence Series. Sadly, in 2004, Randy Revell died. After Randy's death, Phil Holcomb, co-creater of 21st Century Leadership continued the teaching of the course through a new group: Extraordinary Learning. Though the web site for Context Associated still exists, 21st Century Leadership is now offered by Extraordinary Learning. Having attended both Excellence Series and 21st Century Leadership, I can say with all honesty that they are extraordinary programs which can produce incredible value in people's lives, regardless of what entity is offering the classes. |
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
- The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been called the
"Earth
First of the oceans." Sea Shepherd actively defends the defenseless
creatures of the sea. Their activities are not for the faint of
heart, but are an important step in saving what is left.
My
friend who likes to be known as "Jake Von Slatt" has been doing some truly
amazing projects in his garage. Everything from attaching an old AT&T Bell
Telephone handset to a cell phone, to creating a wild looking "steampunk"
keyboard for his computer, to building his own steam powered car. He has
two sites to tickle your curiosity:
www.VonSlatt.com and
www.SteamPunkWorkshop.com.
Albert
Kaufman
and AlbertIdeation
- Musician, Extrovert, Statesman, Activist, Albert does it all. One of the
nicest guys in Portland has catalogued his life on the web.
AlbertIdeation is his Idea Creation
venture.
David "ZipCodeMan" Rosdeitcher
- Genuinely mind boggling. David is a performer in Boulder, Colorado, who has memorized every zip code in the United
States, and many foreign countries. He's also memorized the Zagat restaurant guides for the US, and has
basically traveled everywhere. He does an astounding show in which he asks people their ZIP code and then
tells them where they live, what restaurants are near their home, and on and on, frequently with
astounding details. For foreigners, he has learned a plethora of languages and based on their postal code
converses with them in their native language. It is an amazing demonstration of human potential. Lately
I have been helping him develop his web site.
KMO
- KMO (aka my friend Kevin) is an artist, thinker, and finder of great quotes. His Quote Of The Day mailing list
has kept me fascinated for years. Be sure to check out his long running comic strip, which is nothing less
than thought-provoking.
Linus Gelber's "Home Office Records"
- Linus and I went to that wacky "H" college together years and years ago. Once upon a time we were the voices of
"The deGelb and Mr. Andrew show" on WHRB. Unfortunately, Home Office
Records is no longer an ongoing concern, but the site is still there to document
the artists they promoted.
Solutek Corporation
- My father's photographic chemical company finally goes online.
My other web sites: FoodPool.org,
The Uncarved Block,
TripTalk.com,
OSADiary.com, FarawayBeach.com.