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Designers often speak of design as a process. Typically, design thinking leads to design making, which leads to artifacts. Yet the design process also leads to something more-to new knowledge. Thus, we might characterize designing as a form of learning

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Sign up and get free access to many sustainable based learning modules at the Pod Knowledge exchange.

They have a six part video series on Place Making Through Food - http://thepod.cfccanada.ca/program-modules/placemaking-through-food - Check it!

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One of the best books i read this year. give look in the "look inside link" on amazon on the first pages of the book to get a sense . A must to people learning what we do

Looks fascinating and very good for reconfiguring our view of ourselves towards a better modesty - however on USA Amazon it is not available (paperback out of print and no Kindle edition) - would love to read it so I will tack it down elsewhere ... Thanks for posting it ..

Work abroad, integrate in local cultures, learn a language, acquire new skills, make new friends through......Workaway.info

This is similar to WWOOFing yet they have integrated some feedback loops, much like couchsurfing - So you can read peoples reviews of places they worked and you can build a reputation through getting reviews.

"The art of hosting is an approach to group leadership [which] creates spaces for us to be learning together... co-creating, teaching each other, offering our gifts." Rather than seeing groups as hierarchical and with fixed roles, Art of Hosting practitioner Chris Corrigan sees groups as living systems

"Lean Startup" is an approach for launching businesses and products, that relies on validated learning, scientific experimentation, and iterative product releases to shorten product development cycles, measure progress, and gain valuable customer feedback. In this way, companies, especially startups, can design their products or services to meet the demands of their customer base without requiring large amounts of initial funding or expensive product launches.

Hi, I'm taking a 10 week 'from idea to manifestation'-Eco-social entrepreneurship workshop to help me build our sustainability school. The basic model we use is of lean startup approach that is common now in silicon valley. for me it's seems like at home- remind me of the spiral way of planning and the permaculture principals.

and an easy to use online tool for lean start-up planning: http://leancanvas.com

From Barak

Beginning in 1948, a group of educators undertook the task of classifying education goals and objectives.  The intent was to develop a classification system for three domains: the cognitive, the affective, and the psychomotor.  Work on the cognitive domain was completed in the 1950s and is commonly referred to as Bloom's Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain