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From: Lavinia Weissman (subscriptionsworkecology.com) | |
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:59:37 -0700 (PDT) |
Hi all, Since the event is in JP - my old hometown community--- You might want to leverage a partnership with the JP neighborhood group that was organizing to do something thoughtful to build an sustainable education center at JP Pond and the Old Mansion. Before I left Boston, I had talked to Michael Jones, a concert pianist, about doing a fundraiser ---www.pianoscapes.com --- and www.workecology.com/thoughtleadership.html Michael has historically gathered people together for a Commons of Imagination for numerous events, e.g. the City Managers National Conference and entertained them to explore sustainable dialogue of imagination to build a Commons, which is a very Boston type of thought. You might be able to do the concert at the JP Pond or the Curley Mansion as a back up for rain? and raise some money and easily open an event to Metro Boston that can raise your group money and pay Michael's fees. I never had a chance to talk to Spontaneous Celebrations of the other JP non profit groups to see how we could use this to launch a community foundation through the cohousing community that supports Boston wide sustainability. He had promised me modest fees as possible. If you want to do that, please call me at 617.461.0500 so I can tell you the ground work that I laid to do this and how it might be organized to everyone's benefit. Michael is a remarkable pianist on the www.narado.com record label and now his own distributor and presentor. He is also associated with WorkEcology and a Boston Consulting firm, so a visit to Boston might provide him multiple reasons for which expenses can be shared. Bill McKibben is great and you might ask Dave Wann to do a keynote, since he will be there. I read his reader's proof for his new book and will be featuring it in my journalism activity. The book is light fun and right on about sustainable community. Best, Lavinia -- Lavinia Weissman Managing Director http://www.workecology.com 617.461.0500 Read my latest article http://www.strategy-business.com/li/leadingideas/li00004 Sign up for my latest update http://www.workecology.com On Fri, June 8, 2007 6:50 am, Judith Bush wrote: > You might consider asking Bill McKibben. A strong theme of creating a > community centered society - for food, for social strength, for reducing > energy needs - is at the core of his latest book: Deep Economy. You may > have joined his Step It Up efforts already I've heard Bill speak several > times, always find him relevant and moving. > His home base is Middlebury, Vermont. > Judith Bush, at Cobb Hill - Hartland, VT > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ > > >
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Re: National Conference Looking for a Keynote Judith Bush, June 8 2007
- Re: National Conference Looking for a Keynote (a fundraising suggestion) Lavinia Weissman, June 8 2007
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