ALERT TO ALL SOCIAL CAPITAL NING MEMBERS,

I came across this article while putting together the Assist Social Capital e-bulletin (http://www.social-capital.net/signup.php).



The story highlights to me the benefits of social capital as a valuable resource locally and regionally, as well as over time. It also reinforces the value of difuse reciprocity, in other words, what goes around comes around and vice versa!…





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Thought you might be interested in the text from a really interesting speech that I was sent...



The unforgettable Commencement Address by Paul Hawken to the Class of 2009, University of Portland, May 3, 2009



When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a simple short talk that was "direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling, and graceful." Boy, no pressure there.



But let's begin with the startling part. Hey, Class… Continue

There is a showcase on International Education at Hampden Park in Glasgow tomorrow. How did we end up exhibiting at it?

The International Education Officer in North Lanarkshire is Robert Dalzell. I considered his a distant role, mostly concerned with modern languages and mainstream European secondary education links. But our project led Karen and I to start seriously considering the possibility of taking pupils over to Georgia, so we thought we’d better talk to someone with experience of… Continue

I'm thinking of starting a blog on the ning website. It's short-term focus will end after the conference. Our work on Georgia has led us to three presentations coming up, which are all quite different--on international education at Hampden tomorrow, at Findhorn next weekend, and at New Lanark in June. These all involve children to some degree. They are benefits and new challenges, not planned for initially in the work, but welcome. In fact they might demonstrate or illustrate the generation of… Continue