Katrina Shield’s In The Tiger’s mouth is a book I had been waiting for an opportunity to read. That opportunity came one Friday when I lunched with Holly Hammond, facilitator and director of Plan to Win (and the recently-launched blog ‘Plan to Thrive’). Appropriately, she had two copies and was able to lend (understandably, she […]
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“The 5 Love Languages”, Gary Chapman: Making Love Felt
February 12, 2013 
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The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts is a book by Gary Chapman with an invaluable message: that humans communicate love using five distinct “languages”. We each have a different primary love language, and we feel most loved when love is expressed to us in that language. Conversely, relationships falter not necessarily […]
Read more “Language Intelligence”, Joe Romm: Rhetoric
December 14, 2012 4 Comments
Language Intelligence is the latest book by climate blogger Joe Romm. It is a guide to rhetoric, “the art of persuasion through the systematic use of the figures of speech.” To be more precise, it is a powerfully written and invaluable guide to rhetoric. Whether you cross swords on Q&A with Nick Minchin, speak to […]
Read more Chris Rose’s “How to Win Campaigns”: Motivational Values
November 20, 2012 0 Comments
Chris Rose’s How to Win Campaigns is an asset for campaigners, particularly its chapter on Motivational Values. The chapter explains how society is composed of three distinct values-based groupings of citizens, and how messages and actions can be tailored to fit the values of each group. I explore motivational values and their implications below. I’ve […]
Read more Why is the Climate Movement Celebrating Obama’s Re-election?
November 7, 2012 2 Comments
Today Barack Obama was elected to a second term as President of the United States. Also today, as a consequence of global warming, our climate system gained an amount of energy equivalent to exploding 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs. In the giddy celebrations following Obama’s success, climate activists jostled over a cursory mention given in his […]
Read moreOn Symbolic Communication amidst Romance
July 4, 2012 1 Comment
Communication is at the core of human relationships and symbolism is at the core of communication. However, while symbolism is crucial to communicating abstract concepts, symbolic communication is more likely than ‘literal’ communication that is free of symbolism to result in misunderstanding. The significance of symbolism as a factor in miscommunication in relationships cannot be […]
Read more “The Ethical Slut”, Dossie Easton & Janet W. Hardy: Polyamory and Polyamorous Relationships
May 23, 2012 1 Comment
Dossie Easton’s and Janet Hardy’s The Ethical Slut: A practical guide to polyamory, open relationships, and other adventures is a book I read when I was too young for it. As I recall, at the time the person I borrowed it from was living in a small place in Seaview, so I can date the […]
Read more Lessons for Live Below the Line
May 19, 2012 3 Comments
Recently I’ve had the pleasure of working on the hugely successful campaign Live Below the Line (LBL). This campaign asks individuals to live on $2 a day for five days (henceforth known as “the challenge”) to have an eye-opening experience about what it’s like to live in extreme poverty. Participants receive sponsorship to take the challenge; […]
Read more Anna Rose Above It
April 27, 2012 3 Comments
So last night (April 26th) I had the pleasure of watching the ABC’s climate special. This involved their documentary, “I Can Change Your Mind…On Climate”, in which delayer Nick Minchin and advocate Anna Rose flit about the world talking to climate scientists who accept the climate science, and recreational bloggers or political pundits, who dispute […]
Read more Book 4: “The Thank You Economy”, Gary Vaynerchuk
April 21, 2012 0 Comments
For all their worth, self-help books, and books about business, both tend to exhibit sickening quantities of saccharine motivational fluff. This book falls in to the same trap but is still a worthwhile read, and it has a lot to say of interest. In “The Thank You Economy”, Vaynerchuk argues that social media is bringing […]
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