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Dieter Ram’s 10 Principles for Good Design
These have appeared in a lot of places, including Wikipedia, fluidui.com, and this rather nice version using a design of Rams’ to illustrate each point. I include them here for your reference and mine. Good design: Is innovative – Rams states that possibilities for innovation in design are unlikely to be exhausted since technological development…
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Living Carbon Innovates with Charles Buchwald & Friends
We’re proud to announce the debut of another new site developed with assistance from CB&F. Living Carbon is a 100% non-profit owned carbon offset development company, specializing in conservation offsets—the ’100 mile offset.’ Living Carbon’s Briony Penn worked with lead developer and designer Charles Buchwald and others to create the design and site architecture. With…
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Salt Spring Digital
Salt Spring Digital is a networking and professional group on Facebook and Ning, which meets as part of Green Drinks… and is now also on LinkedIn. It looks like social media has finally caught up… it would have been great to have this level of awareness years ago for the Gulf Islands Information Technology Group…
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Salt Spring Farm to Table Catering: Live!
Saltspring local, chef and sommelier, Janelle Langford has been working with Charles Buchwald & Friends to develop a site that captures the flavour of her outstanding hospitality business. Salt Spring Farm to Table Catering is the product of 25 years of “effortless entertaining”, sommelier training, and “a touch of risk taking tempered by a poetic…
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Our Goal: Your Meaningful Growth
Here at Charles Buchwald & Friends we keep focused on one goal: your meaningful growth. We’ll help you and your business, organization or community achieve that through bigger margins, a better triple bottom line, or renewed clarity and focus… however you define meaning and success. Whether yours is a small solopreneurship, a charity, or an established…
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Wild-Being.com Live with CB&F!
Frank Burnaby’s Wild-Being.com blog is now live, courtesy of development assistance from Charles Buchwald & Friends. Frank has a unique take on some deep ideas, including insights into education, health, and our relationship with our environment. He’s sure to make you think. Check out the new posts and leave a comment if you find something…
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Greenway Partners
Sometimes Facebook can actually be useful and productive. A case in point: I recently reconnected with a friend from Northfield High School. David Narum is a partner with Greenway Partners in Arcata, California, promoting and using regenerative design to go “beyond sustainability”. It’s great to find like-minded people working to reconnect people and the planet.
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ChildHonouring.org Goes Live!
Our latest, greatest project went live recently! ChildHonouring.org is up and ready for you. Please visit and check out all the wonderful information on Raffi’s transformative philosophy, including free book downloads, free songs, and lots more. CB&F has been thrilled to be a part of this effort, even so far as to donate 10 percent of…
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Climate Action Day
Saturday, 24 October 2009, is the Global Day of Action for Climate Change. If you haven’t heard about it yet, please visit 350.org for just a few minutes, and read about the thousands of events around the world organized to bring attention to the threat of climate change, and to ask our leaders to carry…
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Car Free for Five Days
I saw this in the paper, but forgot about the online version. I went “car free” for five days a while ago, and earned $50 for my trouble. The current thought is to use this as seed money for a “yellow bike” sharing program for Ganges, here on Salt spring Island. Recent work has put…