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Circle of Life (and Geeks)

Posted on Fri, 2006-05-26 00:25 by sarahfelicity
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I landed in San Francisco this morning, and it's been a pretty packed 12 hours so far. My visits to California are always characterized by crazy experiences of synchronicity and random moments of loveliness, and today was no exception.

Eddie met me off the Muni, and we went to Atlas in the Misson for lunch, since I was totally ravenous. Atlas turned out to be a crazy convergence of the internet famous, as we ran into Lane Becker of Adaptive Path and Jason Schultz of EFF on our way in, and then some of the NetSquared team and Zacker of CivicSpace on our way out. I had a weird moment when Jason said he recognized me from GETV – my 15 minutes of internet fame??

Eddie and I then booted it over the Bay Bridge to Berkeley, to the sweet little office from which Circle of Life operates. Circle of Life is the organization started by Julia Butterfly Hill of tree-sitting fame, and Eddie was booked to do an interview with their associate director, Amira, for NetSquared. More worlds collided as it turned out that she is the housemate of a former WOC alumni – and a total candidate for WOC 2006 herself, I might add. So I put in my plug and showed off our site and she got really stoked about it all.
Circle of Life Values, part 2
So I totally dug Circle of Life. To the right there you can see half of their Values Board – talk about my kind of people. Also, you should check out their blog and read about Julia's current action – she's up a tree on South Central Farm in Los Angeles, advocating for the rights of the 350 working class families who run this community farm together and grow much of their food on it and are being threatened with eviction. It's a pretty powerful story. Amira was just editing a phone interview with Julia which she'll be posting as a podcast soon. Oh, the internet! That's the kind of stuff that really makes podcasting meaningful, to me.

The coincidences just kept coming after we left, and it turned out that Eddie and my friend Jason knew each other from Burning Man camp. Small world... But you know what, i'll let Flickr tell the rest of the story. Suffice to say that I love California and my trip is off to a great start...

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A hodge-podge of random thoughts, musings, and links – sometimes about social change, sometimes about technology and the web, sometimes about yoga, and occasionally about knitting. Sometimes (because I'm a Canadian girl with deep roots in the British Isles) I even write about the weather.

I'm a yoga teacher, founder of Yoga for Geeks, and a freelance web writer, strategist, and project manager. I also help to co-create the amazing Web of Change Conference, every September in beautiful British Columbia.

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