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This video an example of how art (here, music and dance) can be used for social movements
With respect to the art shown here, it's an example of how traditional art forms like karnatic music and bharathanatyam, which traditionally are performed in unique venues with exclusive access, can be democratized.
It illustrates how words that are used in a derogatory way (Poramboke in this case) can be reclaimed by a community.
It's an example of how change can happen from a grassroots level with messaging about how It's all of our responsibility, versus large organizations coming down to "save" communities
It addresses how we tend to value certain types of landscapes over others
It directly illustrates how poor communities are at the front lines of environmental degradation.
From the creators: "Poromboke is an old Tamil word meaning shared-use community resources like water bodies, seashore and grazing lands that are not assessed for tax purposes. Today, it has become a bad word used to describe worthless people or places. Chennai Poromboke Paadal is part of a campaign to reclaim the word and restore its worth."
Deepa Iyer demonstrates the ecosystem of social change, i.e. how we all show up in different yet essential ways to make positive social change and provides guiding questions for us as individuals and organizations to identify our role in this collective work. See her Medium post here.
Here is a PDF of an equity v. equality v. justice image series for you to use. Check out our blog for more information on why we created yet another image series.
This chart, created by Tobin Miller Shearer, provides a context for how to respond to questions often asked by white liberal communities regarding system-wide white supremacy: http://tobinmillershearer.blogspot.com/2017/11/charting-responses-to-white-supremacy.html
Vu Le, of Nonprofit AF, addresses the reality of anti-Blackness in non-Black communities of color and why dismantling it is necessary for true racial justice: https://nonprofitaf.com/2019/03/%EF%BB%BFpeople-of-color-we-need-to-address-our-own-anti-blackness-and-how-we-may-be-perpetuating-injustice/?fbclid=IwAR0UUawsE07SXcIBR3x8CdP9ebde111UE38grLxffYyuMaEKaaLJi1KqAMY
This blog series by Justice Funders examines problematic aspects of philanthropy and discusses practices to better serve movements we support: http://justicefunders.org/category/breaking-bad-philanthropic-habits/
This article by Ryan Honeyman identifies some steps for white people to disrupt white supremacy.
Territorial acknowledgments have become fairly common in urban, progressive spaces in Canada. This article is about fully recognizing Indigenous homelands and is from the blog âpihtawikosisân.com – Law, language, life: A Plains Cree speaking Metis woman in Montreal.
From the Invisibilia podcast, on June 15, 2017: "Scientific research has shown that even well meaning people operate with implicit bias – stereotypes and attitudes we are not fully aware of that nonetheless shape our behavior towards people of color. We examine the Implicit Association Test, a widely available psychological test that popularized the notion of implicit bias. And we talk to people who are tackling the question, critical to so much of our behavior: what does it take to change these deeply embedded concepts? Can it even be done?"
This Hidden Brian podcast, from June 5, 2017, explores research on the impact of implicit bias and racism.
In this report, Jorge Madrid of the Center for American Progress refutes false claims about the detrimental role of immigrants on the environment.
This is a brief paper by independent scholar Cole Perry which examines how summer camp workers discuss racism and racial justice.
The paper can be viewed here: http://www.academia.edu/31306865/Race-Evasiveness_Among_Camp_Workers
This book documents the history of Japanese Americans' relationship with the environment before, during, and after incarceration in the internment camps.
This document, presented by the Indian Land Tenure Foundation, outlines a historical timeline of events, laws, legislation and policies affecting American Indians.
"Elise Lemire brings to life the former slaves of Walden Woods and the men and women who held them in bondage during the eighteenth century…Today Walden Woods is preserved as a place for visitors to commune with nature. Lemire, who grew up two miles from Walden Pond, reminds us that this was a black space before it was an internationally known green space. Black Walden preserves the legacy of the people who strove against all odds to overcome slavery and segregation."
The book can be purchased here.
This article describes the Native occupation of Alcatraz in 1969, a place that was once a military base and now managed by the National Park System.
This article articulates why single identity spaces, specifically for people of color, are not only useful, but sorely needed.
In this With Friends Like These podcast, host Ana Marie Cox interviews Robin DiAngelo about the concept of white fragility, how it shows up in our everyday lives, and how to work through it all.
In this podcast, Rachel Cargle and Robin DiAngelo discuss the impact of and social impetus behind white fragility.
In an activity offered by Training for Change, participants are guided through an activity that opens up a discussion about institutional barriers and how individual may interact with those barriers. Click here for facilitation notes.
From the website: "Created in partnership with Native allies and organizations, the Guide offers context about the practice of acknowledgment, gives step-by-step instructions for how to begin wherever you are, and provides tips for moving beyond acknowledgment into action." Visit the US Department of Arts and Culture's website to download the guide and take steps towards equitable reconciliation.
From the website: "Bias interrupters are tweaks to basic business systems (hiring, performance evaluations, assignments, promotions, and compensation) that interrupt implicit bias in the workplace, often without ever talking about bias. We offer menus of bias interrupters that organizations can implement into their business systems, as well as steps that individuals can take to help level the playing field in their workplace." Check out the toolkits here.
An article in the journal, Conservation Letters, outlines the issues and possible solutions to diversifying the conservation movement.
This video collection by the Center for Humans and Nature captures moving and thoughtful reflections from the biennial Geography of Hope gathering in Point Reyes Station, California. Meeting themes range from "Ancestors and The Land: Our Past, Present and Future" to "Mapping a New Geography of Hope: Women and the Land." This series is a collaboration with Black Mountain Circle, US Forest Service, and Point Reyes Books. Watch the videos here.
Wildness, an anthology of essays edited by Gavin Van Horn and John Hausdoerffer, explores the different relationships between people and the concept of "wildness." We like this book because it has stories by people with marginalized identities about their community's relationships with wildness. These types of stories often aren't told in the dominant narrative. We also like this book because it distinguishes "wildness" from "wilderness," which is a political construct. If you're looking for stories of how people connect to land beyond hiking, biking, and climbing, this is the book for you. Buy the book here.
This book by Sue Fawn Chung explores the relationships between East Asians in the U.S. and their environment from the perspective of Chinese who lumbered and logged the West. Often dominant environmental history doesn't address the presence or participation of people of color, and it is especially hard to find resources about East Asians. We'd recommend this books for conservation organizations interested in understanding the myriad ways in which Americans of different races connect with nature. Buy the book here.
"One hundred years ago, a crisis in urban masculinity created the lumberjack aesthetic. Now it's making a comeback." In this Atlantic essay, Willa Brown addresses class as it relates to the "lumbersexual" aesthetic that is prevalent in the outdoor industry. This is a great think piece that prompts questions such as: (1) was outdoor recreation always aimed at the middle and upper classes?; (2) does the industry's "lumberjack" aesthetic constitute cultural appropriation of a particular class of people? Complicated, but a great read if you're interested in how class has played into the aesthetics of outdoor recreation. Read the article here.
This toolkit, developed by Learning for Action, is useful for any environmental, outdoor, or place-based education organization seeking to evaluate its programs and build tools to measure impact. Though the toolkit doesn't have a DEI lens, coupled with DEI practices such as our 3R framework for building culturally relevant, responsible, and responsive curriculum, this toolkit can really support showing positive impacts of DEI work in program/curriculum design.
This book, written and published by the Navajo people, provides history and context on the people and lands of the Diné Bikéyah. This is useful for any organization interested in more meaningfully engaging indigenous peoples of the 4 Corners (e.g., in connection with the Bears Ears National Monument).
This website has multiple toolkits, codeveloped by the Advancement Project and Healthy City, on topics such as Community Research, Participatory Asset Mapping, and a Short Guide to CBPAR.
Cultural mapping is a valuable tool for identifying a community's strengths and its resources. This toolkit was developed by the Province of British Columbia in 2010.
This paper, coauthored by Avarna Group facilitator and founder of Latino Outdoors José Gonzålez, works to complicate the stereotypes organizations have in working with the Latinx community and provides useful guidelines for doing equitable community engagement work. This will be useful for any organization engaging in stakeholder and community engagement, generally, and in particular for organizations working to better engage the "Latinx" or "Hispanic" communities.
Drafted in 1991, the Principles of Environmental Justice establish guidance for all what environmental justice truly means. Read the preamble and principles here.
Drafted in 1996 during a meeting hosted by Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (SNEEJ), Jemez, New Mexico, Dec. 1996, the Jemez Principles provide 6 guiding principles for democratic organizing. Read more here.
The Ways is an online collection of videos, stories, maps and information about the Great Lakes Native communities. The creators help us learn and explore concepts of connection to land, animals, and language in the Great Lakes Native communities. Check out more here.
This checklist is great for outdoor, experiential, and environmental educators (as well as traditional educators) to assess how bias might be manifesting in their teaching and to mitigate bias in any classroom, indoor and outside.
There are two great resources that are constantly updated and both worth keeping up with.
1. This interactive map built by Claudio Saunt shows the dispossession of indigenous land from the late 1700's to the late 1800's. If you click on different parts of the map, a pop up will give you information and links to relevant treaties, laws, and executive orders that legalized the dispossession. Explore more here.
2. Another interactive map that shows relevant treaties, languages spoken, and territories. Explore more of this map here.
Brentin Mock connects the dots between the history of environmentalism and its legacy of racism by discussing some lesser known history. Read here.
In this essay, Rahawa Haile, describes her journey along the Appalachian Trail as a black Eritrean-American woman. She discusses the important role that books by black authors played along her journey, as well as her complex feelings about being in such a white space. Read more here.
18 JanToolkit on Implementing the President's Memo on Diversity & Inclusion in Public Lands & Waters
We built this toolkit to help you implement the Presidential Memorandum issued on January 12th, 2017. The memo is available online here. The toolkit is attached.
20 DecEnvironmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement
This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between environmentalism and environmental justice. The contributors approach how the goals of both environmentalism and environmental justice can be achieved. Among the fields represented are anthropology, environmental studies, natural resource sciences, philosophy, public policy, rhetoric, and sociology. Read here.
This is collection of perspectives on diversity and the environmental movement by various leaders in the movement (edited by Emily Enderle). The entire book is available free online here and is attached.
This FAQ posted by the City of Seattle and the Seattle Office for Civil Rights clearly articulates some reasons why organizations and agencies like theirs prioritize dismantling racism (over other forms of oppression). If your organization is struggling to articulate why you should or do lead with race, use this for your messaging.
This Everyday Feminism post gets to the heart of one of the things we find most challenging about cultural appropriation: engaging in productive dialogue to give people feedback without them shutting down or getting over defensive. If you're having a hard time talking to someone about this topic, or if you yourself are wondering why cultural appropriation is a big deal, please read the post here.
In this seminal work, the authors of the Implicit Association Test discuss the impetus for their research on implicit biases. The book is peppered with fascinating activities and stories. Because implicit bias is what fundamentally gets in the way of our doing good diversity, equity, and inclusion work, we recommend everybody read this book. For those who are more audiovisual, listen to the podcast we've posted with Mazarin Banaji. If you have some time to read, order the book online here.
20 DecCrimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the newly created parks. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes" and provides a rich portrait of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book is available for purchase online here.
20 DecThe Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection
This book by Dorceta Taylor reveals the untold stories of the American conservation movement as they relate to race, indigeneity, gender, and other historically marginalized ideas and perspectives. Highly recommended for outdoor education and recreation folks. A must-read for anyone in the conservation or environmental sector (including advocacy, conservation, preservation, land, water, and wildlife management, and environmental education). The book is available for purchase online here.
This book explores the complex history and relationship of African Americans with the outdoors. A must read for folks in the camp, outdoor education, and outdoor recreation space. The book is available to order online here.
This book by Abigail A. Van Slyck examines the unique history and legacy of summer camps in the U.S. For those who don't want to read the entire book, in our work with camps and outdoor recreation, we found following chapters particularly enlightening:
- the Introduction
- Chapter 3 (titled "Housing the Healthy Camper: Tents, Cabins, and Attitudes towards Health."
- Chapter 5 (titled "Good and Dirty? Girls, Boys, and Camp Cleanliness")
- Chapter 6 (titled "Living Like Savages. Tipis, Council Rings, and Playing Indian")
The book is available on Amazon here.
This article describes a recent paper by U.C. Davis that "that the Black Lives Matter movement addresses racism in the U.S. as an embodied experience of structural, environmental insecurity." This is one many useful articles in connecting the dots between the environmental movement and Black Lives Matter.
This Everyday Feminism article explores the growing use of the gender neutral and intersectional identifier "Latinx" instead of "Latino" or "Latina." Read the article here.
In this study of perceptions among voters of color (sponsored by New America Media and the Next100 Coalition) researches found that—contrary to some stereotypes and perceptions—voters of color care about public lands, participate in outdoor activities on public lands, and support increased access to public lands.
This Atlantic essay examines the pervasive use of "grit" (and "resilience") in the American education system, and why the use of these words is "irresponsible and unfair" because students who have been exposed to trauma (a) already possess grit and resilience; and (b) cannot change their mindsets without changing the situation around them. For outdoor education organizations that have "grit" and "resilience" as outcomes, read this for a new perspective. Read the article here.
16 DecThink before you appropriate: Things to know and questions to ask in order to avoid appropriating indigenous cultures.
For those looking for a toolkit or checklist on indigenous appropriation, this guide published by Creative Commons will be useful. This is particularly useful for camps and outdoor education organizations who have historically or contemporarily utilized indigenous culture, iconography, rituals, costumes, and other cultural resources.
MTV's Francesca Ramsey provides a succinct explanation of what constitutes cultural appropriation, when it is harmful, and why it is harmful. This video is great for folks who don't have time or bandwidth to dig into reading on the subject, and simply want a short explanation. That said, this video should be the beginning of your journey (not the end). Watch it here.
In this video, Professor Adrienne Keene explains the impact of the appropriation of native iconography and cultural resources on indigenous people. This video is useful for outdoor organizations and camps who historically or contemporarily practice indigenous rituals, utilize indigenous costumes or customs, or utilize indigenous iconography. Watch the video here.
16 DecOpportunities for white people in the fight for racial justice-moving from actor–>ally–>accomplice
This is one of many comprehensive toolkits that lays out concrete actions white folks can take in the fight for racial justice. We like it because it makes a great distinction between actor, ally, and accomplice, which is increasingly important in an era where the word "ally" seems to be overused and diluted. It also has 12 categories that folks can focus on in their journey from actor to ally to accomplice. Easy to navigate and very useful. Read more here.
In its most recent report (October 2016), Green 2.0 researches executive search firms and their approach to supporting the green sector with hiring. The upshot is that search firms—upon whom big green organizations are increasingly relying to fill leadership positions—have neither valued nor integrated diversity into their hiring priorities. Though this study is on search firms, the full report and the checklist contain some useful recruiting and hiring tips for all organizations in the conservation and environmental sector. Read more here.
This Atlantic piece investigates environmental and social justice history in the United States to argue that environmental and social justice are inextricably intertwined and have always been. In this essay Jedediah Purdy claims that the heroes of environmentalism actually place human interests at the core of their movements. Read more here.
The concept of cluster hiring originates in academia, where increasingly, universities hire multiple scholars into one or more departments based on shared, interdisciplinary research interests. Cluster hiring since been interpreted to mean hiring multiple people from a specific identity (women, people of color) at a time. This has been shown to increase gender and ethnic diversity. This article discusses the benefits of cluster hiring in academia. Read more here.
This article describes how "transgendered" is inaccurate language – gender identity is not something that happens to a person, but instead central to their identity. Read more here.
john a. powell describes the relationship between racism and implicit bias. He describes that, "What's critical in the conversation around policing and implicit bias, as well as all Americans and implicit bias, is to understand that while implicit bias is not the same as racism, the results of implicit bias can still produce deeply racialized outcomes. Even if the conscious mind rejects racism, the unconscious may still hold biases. And these biases are even stronger when we are under stress." Read more here.
Toponymns, or the story behind naming peaks, rivers, and parks, is one way to understand the history of place. Julian Brave Noisecat discusses 6 landmarks whose names should be changed back to their indigenous name. Read here.
Brad Hall, an interpreter at Glacier National Park and member of the Blackfeet Tribe, discusses his complicated relationship to the park, as well as the ways that Blackfeet were and continue to be excluded from the park.
The Green Leadership Trust is a network of people of color and indigenous people who serve on environmental boards. We work to build the environmental movement's power by diversifying its leadership through promotion of best practices and other resources and by driving the leadership pipeline. In December of 2014, the Green Leadership Trust launched the "Board-Led Best Practices on Diversity, Inclusion and Equity." Find their resources here.
On this episode of NPR's On Being podcast, Krista Tippett interviews Dr. Mazarin Banaji, who coined "implicit bias" and is the co-creator of the Implicit Association Test. For those interested in how Dr. Banaji came to develop this test and her views on implicit bias, this is a great podcast. Listen here.
This piece will be useful for environmental and outdoor educators who work with participants who live in urban areas. It explores how everyone connects with nature differently and how educators can cultivate a sense of place even in an urban environment. Read here.
This Washington Post article provides a useful and succinct description of the neuroscience behind implicit bias. Read more here.
Adele Thomas explores the complexities and nuances of what it means to engage in black liberation in the US, where settler colonialism persists, and how to imagine liberation in the context of multiple traumas. Read here.
This article urges us to embrace the paradox of gender by explaining why we need to continue to talk about masculinity and femininity even though gender is a social construct that we need to "blow up." Read more here.
The folks over at Raising Race Conscious Children put together a list of 100 examples of how to engage children in conversation around racial justice (and some ideas around sex and gender). A great resource for parents as well as educators. Read more here.
john a. powell discusses the role of implicit bias in philanthropy and grant-making, and how implicit bias can negatively impact the equity efforts behind philanthropy. Read more here.
This article in Everyday Feminism is for anyone who holds one or more dominant identities who is interested exploring how to approach allyship. Read more here.
This article is for conservation and environmental organizations and agencies who use "conservation science" to support their initiatives. This article in Bioscience journal urges the Western scientific community to broaden what is viewed as "science" to cover Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). As explained in the article, TEK can add great value, particularly to environmental and conservation issues affecting all peoples. Read more here.
This article outlines Edward Abbey's stance on immigration and how it is directly related to an exclusionary conservation ethic. The article reminds us to think critically about the legacy of conservation and environmentalism, the stories that get told, and in particular, the stories that remain untold. Read here.
Catherine Buni gives an overview of how environmental literature has historically been dominated by whiteness, and then advocates for a broader understanding of environmental literature by introducing the voices of several authors and thinkers of color from the past and present. Read here.
Chandra Smith, Marcelo Bonta, and Tony DeFalco compiled a comprehensive report on the conservation movement in respect to diversity and inclusion. They provide an overview of the challenges, suggest best practices, and provide case studies for successful efforts. Read here.
The people at the Icarus Project put together this mapping tool for anyone to map out how oppression impacts their health.
In the words of the authors, "Mad Maps are documents that we create for ourselves as reminders of our goals, what is important to us, our personal signs of struggle, and our strategies for self-determined well-being."
You an access the book for free here or, please consider, paying $8 for this resource here.
We have compiled this vocabulary sheet to provide you with some basic definitions of key words and phrases in the equity, inclusion, and diversity world.
This article from Everyday Feminism outlines the basics of privilege and how it manifests. Read online here.
After 18 months of research, La Tierra Madre reports out on some common themes in the Latino conservation community and provides insights on successful Latino engagement in conservation, either within Latino communities or between mainstream conservation efforts and Latino communities. Access here.
Black Girl Dangerous contributor, Jasmine Kumalah, succinctly and precisely discusses her own path to environmentalism, which includes understanding the complexity of human relationships to the environment and social hierarchies. Read here.
CivilSchools is another organization we are really excited about; they offer comprehensive bullying prevention curriculum through the lens of anti-oppression work. You can get a free toolkit from them here and purchase the rest of the curriculum, if you're so inclined. Access here.
A look at how men have dominated the rating system in climbing and how the impacts women or more accurately, people who do not have a "typical" male body (if there even is such a thing). Read here.
Robin DiAngelo discusses the concept white fragility, which refers to, "a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves." DiAngelo's work is often cited when explaining white reactions to issues surrounding race.
A short cartoon strip that describes the relationship between black-white relations in the US and how oppression is normalized. View here.
In the wake of racial violence in 2015, activists call for white co-conspirators, not allies. Allyship implies a mutually beneficial benefit and support one another; however, one protestor argues that the black community is not obligated to support the white community. Instead, they urge both black and white communities to work towards a common goal: racial justice. Read here.
The National Association of Diversity Officers in High Education has created this useful guide that covers everything from the need for a Chief Diversity Officer position to the scope of that person's responsibilities and areas of competency. Though geared toward institutions of higher education, this guide is useful for any organization seeking to hire a Chief Diversity Officer. Read more here.
We could try to describe this podcast, but their own description says it best: "New Republic editor Jamil Smith explores how race, gender, and all the ways we identify ourselves and one another intersect. He brings in journalists, activists, politicians, and everyday folks like you to fuel the conversation."
Listen here.
Richard White explores the tension between people who identify as environmentalists and outdoor recreationists with those who work in the same places (namely, loggers and miners). In this exploration, he unveils contradictions that lie within the American environmental consciousness. Read here.
Ramachandra Guha provides important perspectives on the concept of the Wilderness and deep ecology through what he calls a Third World critique. He argues that American environmentalism contributes to environmental degradation and social injustices.
Read here.
Test your own hidden bias with this free online test sponsored by Harvard University and taken by millions of people in the past 15 years. The Implicit Association Test is a time-tested method for testing hidden bias. Enter with an open mind. Access here.
This video documents the unconscious bias training run by Google Ventures for Google's employees. Though the training is in the context of gender and race bias in the high tech sector, much of the research and findings are relevant to the environmental and outdoor education sector. Watch here.
Published in the wake of the Rachel Dolezal scandal, this piece discusses the difference between cultural appropriation, assimilation, and cultural exchange, and how cultural appropriation can harm nondominant groups. This article is useful for outdoor experiential education organizations that utilize icons, language, or traditions of specific cultures in their programming. It's also useful for outdoor educators who like to teach using costumes and accents. Read more here.
In one of several though-provoking blog posts on National Public Radio's Code Switch blog, Gene Demby lambasts those who seek specific rules surrounding what they can or cannot say. Bottom line: there are no rules around this stuff, just consequences. So do your research. Read more here.
By surveying the archetypal Hollywood teachers in both urban and suburban settings, this article debunks common myths regarding the characteristics of a "good teacher" and urges educators to do their research on what constitutes multicultural education. This article is useful for outdoor educators who want to broaden their perspectives on the paradigm of a good teacher.
In this article, Bob Bullard & Robert Garcia challenge environmental organizations to think bigger than just diversifying their own ranks, and to actually provide resources to the grassroots organizations who are bringing environmentalism to local communities of color. Some refer to Bullard's work as "Green 3.0." Read here.
This article discusses research that confirms that the traditional lecture method of teaching is not culturally responsive and will only exacerbate the growing achievement gaps between dominant and nondominant groups. Read more here.
This article discusses the growing wave of institutions of higher education who are providing students with the choice of self-identifying their own gender. Read more here.
Gloria Ladson-Billings is a notable academic in the field of multicultural education. In this article she describes what culturally relevant pedagogy looks like in a traditional classroom. These teachings are equally relevant to nontraditional classrooms, such as those in which outdoor experiential educators operate.
This activity explores the meaning and implications of diversity, including visible and invisible facets of diversity and how we make assumptions about people based on what we see.
Through a simple game, you can introduce the concept of inclusion and how microaggressions manifest in groups.
This activity is useful for building empathy within participants who do not often find themselves in situations where they are an outsider. By getting participants to reflect on situations in which they were an outsider, they can better relate to others who might feel this way because of exclusive cultures and behaviors within your organization.
This activity uses a reading to explore how dominant perceptions of wilderness can lead to exclusion. Though it is structured for facilitation during an outdoor experiential education trip, you can adapt it for use in any context in which your organization is grappling with wilderness and its various constructs.
This activity helps guide you in drawing the line between behavior and needs that your organization and its leaders should honor, and behavior and needs that participants will need to modify to adapt to your organizational culture. The take-home is that inclusion doesn't mean welcoming everything. There will be pinch points when you will need to decide what to include and when to ask participants/staff to adapt.
This is a relatively safe approach to exploring privilege and power structures in a way that minimizes feelings of resentment and empowering participants to be allies. Use this as an alternative to the Privilege Walk if you want to lower risk. But realize that this activity is too safe in that it doesn't require that participants talk about their lived experiences of privilege.
Participants will recognize the beliefs and stereotypes they were taught about their own and other racial and ethnic groups. They will also recognize that stereotypes are learned behaviors, something we are socialized to believe, and can therefore be unlearned by openly discussing and purposefully combating them. This activity helps to move participants from feelings of denial, shame or blame, to taking responsibility for unconscious behaviors.
This seminal work by feminist Peggy McIntosh continues to be the source for the "go to" activity on privilege-the "Privilege Walk." Social justice facilitators typically ask participants to line up, then ask each of the questions in the series posed by McIntosh, with participants stepping forward if their answer to the question is yes and backward if their answer to the question is no. The activity can be high-risk, so don't facilitate it unless you are with a group that has established mutual trust and rapport, and unless you can frame it up in a way that inspires learning and behavior change, and not shame and resentment. For more information about the activity along with a customized list of questions geared toward participants in the outdoor and environmental space, please search our list of activities.
This activity is an effective introduction to how hidden biases impact our perceptions of people who are different from us, how our knee-jerk reactions can lead us to making the wrong conclusions about people, and how often we stereotype people even when we don't intend to.
Teaching Tolerance
We have compiled some tips and helpful phrases that can help you have that difficult conversation with someone, regardless of your relationship to them.
This document is for outdoor, environmental, or experiential educators and conservation program staff. This every-evolving tips sheet provides strategies for fostering a more inclusive environment for any program participant.
We have compiled a list of some of the most current and salient ideas for ensuring your hiring practices are as equitable and inclusive as possible. This toolkit takes you through the entire hiring process, giving suggestions for each step. (Updated March 2018)
This activity is designed to get participants thinking about their own identities in relation to systems of power and privilege, as well as understand how others' identities are influenced by power and privilege.
This is an activity that allows students to discuss how society assumes different qualities regarding different identities and then how they or other people they know transcend those imposed qualities.
José Gonzalez outlines important concepts and histories regarding Chicanos' involvement in the environmental justice movement. He discusses environmental issues that have disproportionately impacted the Latino community and how the Chicano community has responded. Read here.
Authors Brian Wattchow and Mike Brown provide an alternative vision for outdoor education by first calling into question the assumptions that are made in outdoor education and then calling for practices that highlight the intersection of place and culture. They have provided the entire book for free!
Jeff Rose and Karen Paisley outline how white privilege is embedded in experiential education (and specifically outdoor education) through assumptions about how students should experience experiential education and the environment. In academic terms, Rose and Paisely argue that experiential education is a privileged pedagogy.
Fair warning: this is actually not free, but a great resource if you have the capacity to buy it. Ariel Luckey, a performance artist, puts on a one person show that describes his very personal journey to understanding how colonialism shaped the West and impacted his life as a white man. He investigates both historical land politics and current land politics in his home, the Bay Area. You can purchase the DVD of the performance and the curriculum guide.
Access here.
This film tells three stories about land disputes between indigenous communities and outdoor reactionists and/or mining companies. It highlights how different groups and cultures understand and experience land. The film is available for purchase or available to rent on Netflix. The film also comes with a lesson plan, available here.
Read the summary here.
Colors of Nature is an anthology of writing that links place and culture together, from a diverse group of writers and thinkers. The book is accompanied by a robust teaching guide. Access here.
A review of Mark David Spence's, "Dispossessing the Wilderness," which provides a history of how Yosemite, Glacier, and Yellowstone National Parks were predicated upon the forcible removal of indigenous people from their land through physical violence, broken treaties, and unequal partnerships. Spence's work is recommended reading for anyone who wants to understand the American wilderness through an important lens.
Read here.
Jay Smooth instructs on how to have a productive conversation with someone who just may have said something racist. While he focuses on race here, his tactics apply to addressing any difficult or sticky conversation, especially around identity, power, and oppression.
Watch here.
Jackson Katz discusses how violence against women gets labeled as a 'women's issue,' but it is in fact a men's issue.
Watch here.
Mia McKenzie of Black Girl Dangerous invites various guests to talk about current events, pop culture, politics, and much more from a radical feminist of color perspective.
Listen here.
In a case study of outdoor adventure athletes, this dissertation finds that women athletes navigate fear, lack of confidence, and gender relations issues using social support, resiliency strategies, and focusing on their unwavering passion for the outdoors. If you don't want to read the entire 200+ pages, focus on the takeaways. The author recommends outdoor programs focus on specific skill-building among women participants surrounding confidence, self-awareness, and fear/risk management, providing social networking opportunities for women with like-minded colleagues, providing more exposure to the outdoors beyond just technical skill building, and to consider single-gender environments (which can be more supportive for some women).
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Yet another blog post analogizing white privilege to something more accessible in order to drive home the concept. Though we are not fans of glossing over White Privilege with superficial analogies and metaphors, we realize there is real value for some folks in reading articles that talk about this challenging concept in a way that resonates with them. For some, this could be the aha! piece.
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Miraim Dobson's comic provides an explanation of intersectionality through a comic.
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A growing body of research shows that women are less "confident" than men: they are less likely to apply for jobs for which they are qualified, they are less likely to negotiate salaries, and they are less likely to seek promotions (among other things). The article concludes with some recommendations to close what the authors have coined "the confidence gap."
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Breeze discusses the racialization of the wilderness and its impact on perceptions of wilderness within black communities through the term and "racialized ecological identity." The article also challenges the concept of colorblindness and ultimately, how to transform environmental education to be more culturally responsive to different ecological identities.
Read here. (July 17, 2009)
This issue of Pathways, the Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, contains five articles that cover the range from cultural appropriation of indigenous artifacts by summer camps (i.e., the totem pole phenomenon), to designing adventure for the differently abled, to the myth of an untouched and pristine "wilderness." Every article is short, interesting, and non-academic, and would be great field reads during a trip.
This 2014 report has been the impetus for the nationwide effort in the environmental sector to dedicate resources to diversity and inclusion. In this report, Dr. Dorceta Taylor studied 191 conservation and preservation organizations, 74 government environmental agencies, 28 environmental grant-making foundations, and 21 environmental professionals. The report concludes that there is a significant gender and ethnic gap in the ranks of environmental organizations, a gap that needs to be addressed if the movement is to remain relevant in a nation with rapidly shifting demographics.
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This executive summary on the findings of Green 2.0, Dorceta Taylor's initial report on the lack of diversity in the environmental movement and recommendations for making change, recommends that organizations focus on tracking and transparency, accountability, and allocating more resources. The report finds that foundations and the Obama administration are leading the way on diversity efforts, but that the nonprofit sector is lagging behind. Among the problems are unconscious bias, discrimination, and insular recruiting.
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Crosley-Corcoran starts to untangle racial and class privilege; while they are related, Crosley-Corcoran states that one does not negate the other. This essay is a helpful read for folks who are grappling with the concept of White privilege, especially those who come from economic disadvantage who experience shame, anger, or guilt or resentment when faced with the concept.
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Written by a white-identified professor of critical multicultural and social justice education, this essay describes the challenges to talking about racism with white people. DiAngelo describes the patterns that make it difficult for people to come to grips with being part of a system of oppression that has historically privileged them. Written honestly and from personal experience, this article validates white peoples' discomfort and urges them to sit with the discomfort to learn.
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In a study of 248 performance reviews from 28 companies from large technology corporations to small startups, a researcher found that only 58.9% of men's reviews contained critical feedback, while an overwhelming 87.9% of the reviews received by women did. "Abrasive" alone was used 17 times to describe 13 different women, but the word never appeared in men's reviews. This article is a useful way to interrupt our gender biases in evaluating our peers, supervisors, and employees.
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This article discusses the results of Benjamin Schmidt's online tool to expose gender bias in reviews of academics. Schmidt's tool revealed that reviews of male professors are more likely to include the words positive words. Meanwhile, women are more likely to be described in negative terms. These and other disturbing patterns are relevant considerations in evaluating female staff in environmental and outdoor organizations, particularly female faculty.
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This article describes a successful case study of conservation efforts in Gabon. To do right by the thousands of tribal people living inside the boundaries of Gabon's planned national parks, the country collaborated with them and enlisted their direct participation in the stewardship and management of the new parks. They would then not be passive "stakeholders" relocated to the margins of the park (as has been the case in the U.S.) or specimens in a "living history museum" (as was the case in U.S.), but but equal players in the complex and challenging process of defending biological diversity.
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These "best practices" were developed by the Consortium of Higher Education's Trans* Policy Working Group, in consultation with various relevant national student affairs associations, to assist colleges and universities in providing services and support to trans* students. Though they are aimed at institutions of higher education, the records and housing policies are a particularly useful guideline for experiential education institutions.
William Cronon gives a brief overview of the idea of the wilderness and then discusses some of the inherent contradictions that lie within the concept. He notes that the concept of the wilderness is imbued with cultural values, which have resulted in the exclusion of indigenous peoples' voices in environmentalism.
21 NovDramatizing the "death" of environmentalism doesn't help urban people of color, or anyone else
A summary of research on the racialization of wilderness and how it impacts perceptions of nature among communities of color, and specifically the black community. Outdoor and environmental organizations seeking to be more "culturally relevant" often do not think that the very premises of their existence–wilderness and conservation–are words steeped in White privilege and a racialized history.
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In 2014 MTV (yes, MTV) polled millennials on their understanding of racism, and the results were astounding. Compared with previous generations, they're more tolerant and diverse and profess a deeper commitment to equality and fairness. At the same time, however, they're committed to an ideal of colorblindness that leaves them uncomfortable with race, opposed to measures to reduce racial inequality, and a bit confused about what racism is.
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This report outlines the basic principles of multicultural education, i.e., setting students up for success and achievement regardless of their identity and background.
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The idea of two sexes is simplistic: Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that. This article is useful in establishing that gender is not binary, not even biologically assigned gender (i.e., sex).
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Here's an unexpected piece of news: Thom Yorke is set to collaborate with Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The two may appear to operate at polar opposite ends of the musical spectrum, but Yorke has recruited the bass player to appear in his band for a couple of shows in Los Angeles in October.
Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich will also join the group, which is filled out with roles for REM collaborator Joey Waronker and multi-talented Brazilian musician Mauro Refosco. The shows take place at the Orpheum Theatre on October 4 and 5.
"In the past couple of weeks I've been getting a band together for fun to play The Eraser stuff live and the new songs etc, to see if it could work!" he said on Dead Air Space. "We don't really have a name and the set will not be very long cuz… well… we haven't got that much material yet! But come and check it out if you are in the area."

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Yto Barrada at The Curve, Barbican Centre, London
By Izabella Scott
The city of Agadir was destroyed in 1960, by an earthquake that lasted 15 seconds. Brittle stone buildings collapsed, burying 15,000 people alive, just before midnight, in their beds.
In the Barbican's Curve gallery, Moroccan artist Yto Barrada has etched the white outlines of 11 buildings into its long wall, which appears like a giant, curved blackboard. The mural, documents the reconstruction of the city by a group of French-Moroccan architects – notably, Jean-François Zevaco and Elie Azagury – in Le Corbusier's Brutalist style.
Twelve wicker seats, fabricated by weavers in Tangier, are laid out along the gallery's promenade. Some look like kissing chairs, others like simple benches. Voices emanating from hidden loudspeakers read from the Berber Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine's experimental fiction Agadir (1967). The voices describe thousands of bodies putrefying in the heat, corpses cleared away by soldiers, bulldozers and rats. Khaïr-Eddine referred to his writing as 'guerrilla linguistics' – a collision of reportage, confession and poetry, splicing French with Arabic – and his cast (which includes a Berber queen, a fortune-teller and a pirate, among others) debates the reform of the city's buildings and political structures. At intervals across the exhibition, actors appear in pyjamas, roaming the corridor like patients in a ward.
Barrada is an artist-hoarder, visiting flea markets and municipal archives, filling her studio with fieldwork. An interest in fossils, museology and urban planning led to fictional guidebooks – first, A Guide to Trees (2011) (advice on how to groom a city for visiting dignitaries), and later, A Guide to Fossils (2015). As a trained anthropologist, Barrada's penchant for systemfinding shows. A mobile made of baskets, hanging at the end of the promenade, is an archive of wicker forms.
On an adjacent wall, a film plays footage of rescue missions harvested from newsreels, and panoramas of the devastated city, showing the spectacle of its destruction. Dazed citizens describe the sound of the quake. One sequence, in which Le Corbusier himself visits the remains, verges on ruin-lust.
A critique of colonial modernism twists through Barrada's work, but softly. More palpable is the task of playful abstraction: in a series of paper collages opposite the mural, international press materials from the days following the earthquake are cut up, reassembled and made into jagged forms. Like Khaïr- Eddine's 'guerrilla linguistics', these reimaginings of the disaster take refuge in abstraction and experiment, and refrain from explicit context – a strategy of resistance, perhaps. Only on later reading do I fully apprehend the irony of the international rescue missions: it was the Agadir Crisis of 1911 that sparked four decades of French colonial rule. In 1960, just four years after the country regained its independence, foreign troops aid the relief efforts, nurses to Agadir's wound. Today, Agadir is a city of white boulevards, European-style cafés and hotels along the beachfront. The Berber city has all but vanished.
Yto Barrada: Agadir, The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, 7 February – 20 May 2018
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Beirut, The embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in Lebanon, launched here today the 6th edition of Oumniyah initiative, in continuation of humanitarian program to consolidate planting hope culture.
The award of this edition has won by a Syrian child Maha Al-Rufaei, who is suffering of Paralysis. The awarding ceremony was held, at the embassy premises, in the presence of the supervising medical team attending the case of Al-Rufaei, an inmate in the American University's Hospital, in addition to the Director of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), in Lebanon, Fahd bin Saleh Al-Qannas.
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Sunday, July 30, 2017
6 Things You Should Know about Millennials and Your Visual Branding
Millennials have turned the tables on traditional branding. Brands used to attract consumers like a gravitational pull based on affinity. By comparison, each millennial is their own brand, and they see it as their gravitational pull that attracts brands to them.
Millennials are too media savvy to be blitzed or brainwashed. They, instead, demand brands meet them on their own terms. They research everything first, trusting online recommendations from their social network "friends" and reviews from total strangers above all else. Then, after they've decided they're ready to interact with your brand and consider becoming your friend, they'll meet you "face to face."
In the recent Yahoo/DigitalLBi/Razorfish/Tumblr study, they determined the number one creative-related tactic for reaching millennials is to set the mood by capturing a mood moment.(1) Although the study was structured in terms of content marketing, the thought extends naturally to visual identity—the most expeditious means of delivering a brand's story.
Here are six things to keep in mind when dealing with millennials and your visual branding:
1. Good visual branding used to be a differentiator for many companies. With millennials, it is a cost of entry!
The abstract expressionist Syd Solomon was once asked, "How do you tell the difference between a good painting and a bad painting," to which he replied, "...look at a million paintings, and then you can never be mistaken." Consider the amount of time in their lives that millennials have spent online looking at visuals, then compare that to the unconnected generations before them. Millennials have learned the difference between good and bad design through simple exposure, and they will judge your brand on its design merits.
2. You only have 8 seconds to effectively tell your brand's story to millennials.
According to a 2015 report by the Consumers Insights Team of Microsoft, the attention span of the average person is now 8 seconds—that's 1 second less than a goldfish! Of the three basic types of communication (verbal, gestural, and graphic), the quickest is graphic. It has never been more imperative that to communicate efficaciously your brand has to do so quickly! While this is true of audiences in general, it is particularly trued of millennials who lean toward the shyer side of 8 seconds.
3. If your visual branding doesn't reinforce a millennial's personal beliefs and personal brand, then it risks contradicting them.
With more and more being communicated visually, assumptions and beliefs about your company (though driven by the recommendation of friends and strangers) will be confirmed or contradicted by your company's visual branding. Here's the kind of question that might go through a millennial's head when they first interact with your online presence, "I've heard from others that this company is very environmentally friendly. Does it look environmentally friendly?" This kind of question works to confirm the millennial's ultimate affinity-related question, "Does this brand fit seamlessly with my personal brand?" Visual brand alignment helps to move millennials from consideration to conviction, while visual disalignment might push them altogether toward abandonment, or at least cause them to question continuing the path to purchase.
4. Millennials demand that your branding be consistent at all touchpoints and all platforms.
Where the millennial interacts with your brand is irrelevant, regardless of the touchpoint: in-store, out-of-home, somewhere else offline, or somewhere online, regardless of device or platform. What they do expect, however, regardless of touchpoint, is a consistent brand experience!(3)
5. If your visual branding is becoming stale, then the perception is your brand, your company, its products, and its people are becoming stale too.
While this is true of branding in general, it's particularly true for millennial audiences. The millennial's personal brand is fresh and of-the-moment, and they expect the very same thing of you. For a visually-outdated brand, there is an inherent risk that a millennial visually meeting your brand for the first time may feel like they've been catfished—metaphorically confronted with a pudgy 42-year-old male video gamer instead of the 21-year-old female goth they were expecting to see.
6. Millennials take pride and pleasure in sharing the brands they love with others. They want a brand they can wear on their sleeve as a badge of association.
If affinity is the thing that makes a brand "work," advocacy is the thing that makes a brand thrive. It's brand physics, plain and simple—fans of your brand will fuel your trajectory in a forward, positive direction. As Google/TSN/Ogilvy has so eloquently pointed out, the millennial's path to purchase is actually their "path to purpose"—they want to share your brand. In fact, three-in-four Generation C consumers (those people who care deeply about creation, curation, connection, and community) consistently share the brands they love.(4)
Is your visual branding millennial ready?
If your visual branding doesn't live up to the expectations of millennials, its not too late to do something about it. And if you get started now, you'll also be getting a jump on the centennials!
(1) Yahoo/DigitasLBi/Razorfish/Tumblr, "Content Marketing Best Practices Among Millienials," 2014
(2) Smart Insights, "Global Social Media Research Summary," 2017
(3) SDL, "Channels are Irrelevant," 2014
(4) Google/Ipsos MediaCT, YouTube Audience Study, August 2013
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Are you genuinely evaluating ideas? Or just judging them?
In the early nineties, I was working as an art director for a mid-sized agency with a quick-service restaurant client who, during creative presentations, was notorious for saying things like, "I don't like that typeface," or, "I don't like that color." Rarely, if ever, did he say, "I don't think that typeface works," or, "I don't think that color works." As a creative team, we were choosing our colors and typefaces to appeal to the young demographic at whom the designs were aimed (not the older demographic client). The client, however, would scrap those choices immediately, not because they didn't work, but because he just didn't like them.
It wasn't long before, when doing layouts for this client, I started choosing "safe" colors and typefaces—things I believe were generally less interesting and potentially bland to the intended target audience—for the sake of not having the agency look like they didn't understand "what the client wanted." For the following two years, unbeknownst to our client (or even to my creative superiors at the agency), every color combination I picked mimicked one NFL team or another. These colors were familiar to the client, they were safe, but they would not have been my first choices for the intended audience. However, after I adopted this methodology, never again did my color choices get refused (or even questioned) by the client—ever!
Although the example I give above is specific to design and advertising creative, I'm sure everyone, regardless of industry, can relate. In my experience, those people who let their internal beliefs suppress their capacity to truly assess something's merits don't even realize they're doing it. There is a very fine line between evaluation and judgment, and while "evaluation" and "judgment" are technically synonyms for one another, in the world of decision-making they could not be more different.
4 Tips for Differentiating Between Evaluation and Judgment
- Evaluation is a very empathetic process; it requires understanding—understanding of the goal, the strategy, and the suggested tactics. Judgment is detached; it requires no interaction with the facts, and it relies on nothing more than the internal dialogue of the fault-finder.
- Evaluation is a positive process; it assumes one is searching for the best way to accomplish something. Judgment is a negative process; it relies on naysaying and abnegation to eliminate options.
- Evaluation measures relative worth; it gauges each option on its individual virtues and ranks them on those merits. Judgment tends toward a "yes" or "no" approach; it discounts options regardless of individual merit.
- Evaluation looks to the future; it considers all options in the context of "what could be." Judgment looks to the past; it regurgitates "what was."
3 Ways to Make Sure You're Evaluating Rather Than Judging
- Ask, "Why?" Quite simply, if you are asking this question, then you are evaluating rather than judging. Asking "why" supports every one of the conditions listed above (it requires empathy, it keeps the process positive, it measures relative worth, it looks to the future).
- Be wary of expressing personal opinions. It doesn't mean your opinion should be discounted, but it should be considered in context. For example, if you can truthfully say you share the same experience with those for whom the idea is meant, then there is some validity to your opinion. Just be careful of opinions that are detached from the circumstances of the idea.
- Don't assume that "then" is "now." If you find yourself saying things like, "That's never worked for us before," or, "We've already tried something similar and it failed," ask yourself what conditions were different then, and for what reasons might a similar idea work now.
It really comes down to being aware of how you approach decision-making. Know the difference between evaluation and judgment and put these tips into practice—you'll be supporting a more fertile environment for idea generation.
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Does your brand speak all the brand languages?
The visual language of those brands consisted of consistent application of the mark, attention to proportions and position in layout, and attention to the details of typographic and color choices. And as the corporate and competitive landscapes evolved, so did the visual languages spoken by brands.
Strong verbal components followed suitin the form of taglines, turns of phrase, etc. A brand's communications began to reflect its tone of voice.
Now we find ourselves here, a little over a century after Peter Behrens realized the first complex corporate identity for AEG, and just fifty or sixty years after the grandfathers of the discipline (Rand, Bass, Vignelli and the like) did their groundbreaking work in the field.
Today, we find ourselves fully engulfed by an age of media and technology. In addition to a visual language, brands must also speak in an audial language as well. From the earliest days of radio, through the golden era of the jingle, and continuing today, sound has been a vital component of advertising and marketing campaigns. But advertising and marketing campaigns are only temporary. (As a side note, the origin of the term "slogan" is from the Scottish-Gaelic word for "battle cry.")
As consumers interact with brands on a continuing basis, they are expecting sound, and those brands that provide it are at an advantage over those who don't. As new brand touchpoints are emerging, many are audio-enabled. Having a signature sound in addition to a signature color, typeface or phrase allows brands to reinforce their connections with consumers, creating more passionate brand advocates.
Finally, don't underestimate the power of touch and smell in the brand experience. During the Wilsons Leather re-branding, we understood the power of both the feel of quality leather and the smell of a retail interior infused with its smell. That smell alone was enough to get many shoppers in the door... so powerful, in fact, that there was talk of releasing it as a fragrance.
Being aware of these opportunities will aid you in seizing opportunities to exploit them when they become available to your brand.
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In the Shadeworld books, Aeron is a major player. And by that I mean main character not, you know, an actual player.
He's a Dragon. He's the crown Prince of the entire Shadeworld and all of the magical beings who live there. He's also one of the most popular guys on campus at Tybolt Hall, a highschool in Wisconsin, USA- so he goes to human school instead of dragon school. which is pretty weird, yeah.
He's a very interesting character. He's not sweet, not at all, but he still cares about people. A lot. But he's also a jerk to people. for some reason he always tries to hide that he's a bit of a softy. Sure, he gets into fights and starts kingdom scale drama. But he also gives a lot of vacation time and really good pay to his employees at the palace and he's trying to reform his kingdom's laws to make life better for his subjects.
All his subjects seem to see, though, is that he fails academically over and over again due to problems humans on earth call learning disabilities. Much of his kingdom sees him as a dumb brute, and it feels like his brother sees him in the same way. His dad at least knows his true capabilities, though having the inheritance of the monarchy in his future doesn't heal the brotherly divide.


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"The warm heart of Africa": a nickname fitting for the friendly people and gorgeous landscapes of Malawi. From major cities to scattered villages of mud huts, the country is punctuated with mountain ranges, beautiful plains and the sparkle of Lake Malawi. It is also home to both people passionate about Christ and those who have yet to hear his good news.
Team's Vision
By faith we see:
- the unreached of Malawi responding to the gospel and established into churches
- a mature, dynamic, relevant church dependent on God and reaching others
- children and youth receiving Christ's forgiveness on the cross, growing in their faith, reflecting Jesus' character, and becoming committed disciples, active in church and society
- people living with HIV & AIDS understanding the love of Christ as they receive holistic care and hope. Lower HIV infection rates as Malawians practice, preach, and teach purity and faithfulness in marriage
- a team of missionaries enabled by the Holy Spirit, understanding the local language and culture, sharing the Gospel, and ready to disciple others through their Christ-like example.
Current SIM Ministry
We seek to reach the million-plus Muslim Yao people through the translation of the Yao Bible, skills training, ministry with children and youth, and partnering with other organizations working to evangelize this group. We train church leaders to reach Muslims through the ministry of Mthenga Wabwino (Good Messenger).
Mission and church are providing leadership training, both at the Evangelical Bible College of Malawi, and in Bible study groups. Our health ministries are relieving human suffering and opening doors for effective witness. At the African Bible College (ABC), we care for human need through the medical clinic and provide Christian education at the Academy. We minister in the context of HIV & AIDS through HOPE for AIDS. We work to assist the church in Malawi to cross cultural boundaries and develop a vision and means for sending Malawians as missionaries.
Partner Church
The Africa Evangelical Church (AEC) began through the work of the Africa Evangelical Fellowship (SIM) now includes 70 organized churches and 50 developing ones. Mission and church together share a vision for bringing the Gospel to yet unreached areas. We support the church through leadership training, Bible school, extension courses and Bible study groups.


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Eddie Frizell is a Veteran of the Minnesota Army National Guard who earned the Bronze Star during his service as commander of a Red Bull Cavalry Squadron. He currently serves as commander of the Domestic Violence Unit with the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). Eddie was awarded the Medal of Valor for his heroic efforts during the Minneapolis I-35W bridge collapse along with several citations for heroism and outstanding leadership during his years with the MPD. He is a 2015 Veterans' Voices Awardee.
Nearly three decades ago, I recited an oath that many before me had also taken. While raising my right hand, I stated proudly, "I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of United States and orders of the officers appointed over me; so help me God."
At the time, I had no idea that the path I had started upon would force me to mature and face the tremendous responsibility of leading and protecting the freedoms we all hold dear. As a young person, considerations of benefits, long-term sustainability, and financial stability, were just fleeting thoughts. I was going to be a soldier and preparing myself to defend my country was at the top of my list.
In these early years, it was hard to imagine that our country would be attacked on 9/11 and embroiled in persistent conflict for the 13+ years since. In 2011, I was the Commander of a Cavalry Squadron preparing to go to war in the Middle East. In this position, I was responsible for everything we did and or failed to do--the most important of which was the training and health/welfare of the men and women who made up the organization. This weighed heavily on me, as I knew that if I did not get this right, it could cost lives on the battlefield.
This became ever more apparent when, at a pre-deployment event, an elderly woman, a quarter of my size, grabbed my collar and pulled me down towards her. I saw her piercing blue eyes stare deeply into mine as she stated, "you're taking my grandson over there, and you better bring him back or you will answer to me!" Needless to say, I took her very seriously. She certainly outranked me that day! My mission was simple: take care of those that were ready, willing, and able to put their lives on the line for their families, country, and each other. The squadron covered over 1 million miles on hundreds of convoy escort missions throughout Iraq, but all of my Cavalry troopers returned home.
According to 2014 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' estimates, there were 22 million military Veterans in the U.S. population and 7.3% of all living Americans have served in the military at some point in their lives. These figures give you an idea of how many others among us swore to support and defend our way of life.
Upon the successful conclusion of their service obligations, these men and women earned the esteemed title of "Veteran," and deserve the rights and benefits promised to them for that service. With age, family, and health considerations, some older Vets view these promised benefits as not just "nice to have," but necessities. The delivery of these entitlements should be non-negotiable. It is every American's obligation to make sure that these warriors are taken care of, now and in the future.


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(...though it can lead to extraordinary results.)
The fact that you can get a group of professionals, like engineers, who stereotypically can have the tendency to be singularly, rationally focused, to start thinking in terms of personal experience, emotion, and storytelling as being of primary importance in creating human-centered products is amazing. But, it is less about the invention of a new profession or discipline and more about teaching these people (and I include myself) to think about the world the way most of humanity has thought throughout the arc of time.


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Steve took the kids to NAMM on Sunday. They loved it and even got their own badges.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Daddy's Little Prodigies
Posted by Dawn at 2:31 PM
2 comments:
- Rachel said...
That is a great picture of all three of them.
Miss you guys!
- June 26, 2008 at 12:44 PM
- Ruth said...
Just checking out your blog. Don't you love pictures of your husband with the girls. I take a million of Karl and the girls. If something happened to me they would not know what I looked like because there is never pictures of me. Same for you, I have not seen one picture of you yet.
- June 28, 2008 at 3:21 PM
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Instiki is a Ruby-based Wiki clone written by David Heinemeier Hansson. Until Version 0.11 it was maintained by Alexey Verkhovsky - currently it is maintained by Matthias Tarasiewicz. It is very easy to install and set up, and can be used under Linux, Mac OS X or Windows. It accomplishes its two-step install (install Ruby, run instiki.rb) by using WEBrick, a web server, and Active Record, a major component in the Ruby on Rails framework. Until Instiki 0.11.0, released March 19, 2006, Madeleine, a persistence layer that ships with the standard distribution of Ruby, was used. The Ruby on Rails Wiki (http://rubyonrails.org) runs a modified version of instiki, called i2.
Instiki also has the seldom-seen feature of offering a choice of markup languages: Textile, Markdown, and RDoc are supported. Instiki is full-featured, offering revision history, RSS feeds, and password protected webs.
Its persistence layer makes Instiki's install fast and easy (two steps). Yet it's very difficult to edit Instiki's persisted data compared to an SQL repository.
The latest Instiki version (Instiki 0.11) supports in full the Ruby on Rails structure, and also uses a RDBMS as backend data repository.
Instiki is written using a Model View Controller model and its platform is a subset of the Ruby on Rails framework.
Instiki is currently undergoing a rewrite, mostly focusing on the problem of Wiki spam.
See alsoEdit
- Pimki, a descendent of Instiki.


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VALLEJO — An untimely death, particularly one derived through senseless and avoidable circumstances like gun violence, can leave behind a sense of loss that can be difficult to manage.
There is the weight of the violent act, the void left behind by the victim's absence and the elimination of the potential that person's life carries.
Like so many before him and, unfortunately since him, Robby Poblete left such a void following a 2014 shooting that took the life of the 23-year-old. But out of that pain, his mother, Pati Navalta, helped start the Robby Poblete Foundation with the intent of preventing others from knowing the awful pain she knows.
The foundation hosted its second annual fundraiser Saturday at Mare Island Brewing Company in Vallejo and all indications are Pati and the Poblete Foundation are off to a good start in realizing that goal.
"I never wanted the name Robby Poblete to be associated with something tragic," Navalta said. "Thanks to this event, every time his name is mentioned, it's always for something positive."
The foundation looks to address the problem of gun violence with three main objectives, Navalta said. The first is to buy back guns. The second is to support art projects to turn those instruments of violence into symbols of peace. The last is to support vocational training scholarships to give people a path to prosperity.
Two scholarships have already been awarded and the foundation has gotten more interest from both prospective students and interested union vocational schools. The foundation has also been aggressive in reaching its target audience, doing outreach for the scholarship programs in local schools as well as in the county jail and juvenile detention centers.
Although the fundraiser is just in its second year, the foundation's efforts have caught the attention of the community and elected officials. Last year, the event sold 320 tickets and this year nearly 450 people were in attendance, including Congressman Mike Thompson.
"There's a gun epidemic in the United States," Thompson said. "It's going to take people standing up and sounding off."
Thompson, the chair of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, said he believes events like this are key to preventing gun deaths.
"The American people want this," Thompson said. "It's strong community leaders who get the attention of their neighbors, and it's that community voice that moves policy."
Vallejo mayor Bob Sampayan, a former police officer, knows the toll gun deaths take both personally and within a community. An event aimed at reducing that toll while also highlighting Vallejo's burgeoning arts and industrial offerings is what Vallejo is pushing toward, he said.
The theme of the night was Phoenix Rising but Vallejo is in the midst of its own Phoenix Rising, he said.
"This event represents people who are distressed by gun violence," Sampayan said. "To see those firearms repurposed into pieces of art means a lot to me."
Supervisor Erin Hannigan, a former Vallejo city council member, echoed much of Sampayan's thoughts, crediting Poblete's efforts in making the event – and the work carried out by the foundation – what it is.
"In Vallejo, we've certainly had our share of gun violence . . . most families don't share that experience publicly, so I give Pati a lot of credit for not only raising that awareness but taking that next step and figuring out what can we do to prevent gun violence," Hannigan said.


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On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:28:58AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:53:44AM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > I found a bug in ybin. > > > I added a "default=<label>" statement at the top of my /etc/yaboot.conf. > > > > was the label a label for a linux kerenl entry? > > > > default=macos will not work. for that you need defaultos=macos > > But it would happily try to boot a label called 'macos' in that case (and > fail) instead of giving a config file error, wouldn't it? either a label or a kernel, in my experience you get a `file not found' error not a syntax error. > At least when I changed the names of my labels and forgot to adjust the > default, that's what it did. me too. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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Aloha commrades!
It may have been a week or two since I last posted.....
I'm happy to announce I'm back on the bandwagon. I heartily believe in the science of blogging and it's positive effects on the life of myself and the lives of those around me, so maybe I should, I don't know, do it.
The story of my absence is mostly a boring one filled with words like 'lazy,' 'detached,' and 'idealistic.' The latter may be slightly confusing, allow me to explain;
I have this vision of sharing all my health, exercise and wellness views with the world, or at least documenting them for myself and my posterity of cats later. So, I decided I would create an entirely separate blog full of beauty, wisdom, and blogging wit and magic. But, as luck or lack thereof would have it, it has taken more time and work than anticipated. This is still in the works and something I'm very excited about. But, for now, I realize it is time to document my life as it currently is and tell you it is good to be back:).
Me as of Today (Looks-Wise):
What I'm Up To:
I am a very lucky girl. I have about 4 different jobs and I love them all. I get to play a lot, all day, with cool peeps....it honestly is a dream come true. I know it's ever-changing, I'm not stuck in a career yet, but I kind of like it this way for now.
- Job #1 - USANA health sciences - corporate wellness facilitator - part-time
Job #2/3:
- I currently teach a buttload of fitness classes. Yes, a buttload, commonly known as a plethora, a lot, hefty amount, numerous, etc. I teach a spin class at the field house on campus twice a week, a spin class at a different location on campus twice a week, two bootcamp classes on campus, and then 4 yoga classes plus 3 bootcamp classes at Usana. I should be the picture of fitness. I'm not, but I should. That's the thing about teaching fitness, you learn to cheat so as to not give away the fact that you can't breathe and sprint straight up a hill while calmly counting down the seconds. It's an art I am perfecting, this one of cheating the look of ease while inside I think I might die. It's taken me some hard-earned hours of practice I tell you. Anyway, I am learning to cheat to survive, thus my fitness level is probably subpar. Oh well. Health is a feeling not a number, right?!
- My classes at the fieldhouse are about to end and I'm heartbroken, I always am. I get very attached to my students and my schedule.
- Next semester I am teaching: Mon - yoga and bootcamp, Tue - spin, Wed - total body fitness and bootcamp, Thurs - spin, Friday - yoga, Sat - spin
- Personal Training - I love personal training only because of how differently I do it. I only take on 3 or 4 clients and basically they become some of my best friends. Some of them I do more yoga and others we work out, but always, and I mean always, we learn a ton from each other and have a great time. I'm so grateful that I am trained in a vast array of things so I can mix it up to create something special and designed specifically for them that day. Love it. Ha, what an adorable, underhanded way of complimenting myself, forgive me. It can be draining, so I try not to take on too many clients. But if you are interested or know someone who is, don't be shy to give them my info. I'm more than willing to meet with peeps to see if we are a good fit for each other. Yes, it is much like online dating;).
T'was a true-to-life redneck Thanksgiving....just as the pilgrims would have wanted it.


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Kelsey Autin
Kelsey Autin is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology in the Counseling program. Kelsey Autin earned her B.S. in psychology and Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Florida. She completed her doctoral internship at The Ohio State University's Counseling and Consultation Service.
Research Interests and Current Projects
The general focus of my research is on how people find fulfillment in their occupations and how this relates to overall well-being. Within this, I focus on how people's identities (e.g., gender, racial, social class identities) along with their sociopolitical contexts (e.g., experiences of marginalization, economic circumstances) shape their beliefs about their freedom of work choice and barriers to obtaining decent work (i.e., work in which people are paid adequately and are safe from physical and psychological harm). In turn, I look at mechanisms through which decent work fulfills basic human needs (e.g., needs for financial security, connection with others, and a sense of autonomy) that ultimately lead to fulfillment, life satisfaction, and meaning.
My work is grounded in the Psychology of Working Theory (PWT; Duffy, Blustein, Diemer, & Autin, 2016), which places contextual factors as primary predictors of work outcomes. Core to my work is a value of social justice, and I am interested in populations who face significant barriers due to marginalization (e.g., women, people of color, LGB and trans individuals, undocumented immigrants, people from low social class backgrounds).
My current projects include: an exploration of how social class and access to basic survival needs influences a person's desire for and experience of meaning at work; development of a measurement tool to assess need fulfillment; guidelines for infusing findings from PWT research into clinical practice; exploration of moderators in the link from marginalization to work volition; and a longitudinal examination of PWT hypotheses among people of color.
- COUNS 815 Advanced Multicultural Counseling
Selected Publications
Autin, K. L., Duffy, R. D., Blustein, D. L., Gensmer, N. P., Douglass, R. P., England, J. W., Allan, B. A. (in press). The development and initial validation of the Work Needs Satisfaction Scale: Measuring basic needs within the Psychology of Working Theory. Journal of Counseling Psychology.
Autin, K.L., Duffy, R.D., Jacobson, C., Dosani, K., Barker, D., Bott, E.M. (2018). Career Development among Undocumented Immigrant Young Adults: A Psychology of Working Perspective. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 65(5),605-617.
Autin, K. L., Douglas, R. P., Duffy, R.D., England, J. W., Allan, B.A. (2017). Subjective social status, work volition, and career adaptability: A longitudinal study. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 99 (1-10).
Autin, K.L., Duffy, R.D., Allan, B.A. (2017). A focus on others and commitment to social justice: A social cognitive perspective. Journal of Career Assessment, 25(2), 238-253
Duffy, R.D., Blustein, D.L., Diemer, M.A., Autin, K.L. (2016) The Psychology of Working Theory. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 63(2), 127-148.