Conversations

Making customers happy

June 10, 2015 · Leave a comment

The science and mysteries behind meeting customer’s needs . The customer rarely knows what they really are looking for. Helping them find this is the art or science of sales. Here a single mom and talented daughter are stretched as

Insights

Annie Radford Violin

June 10, 2015 · Leave a comment

A $10 000 violin sold quickly in large part to the fabulously well documented story the family had kept about it.

Conversations

Preserving a fine violin: sharing the stories

June 10, 2015 · Leave a comment

The responsibility of subsequent owners of fine instruments is reinforced to the current young owner of a $10 000 violin

Conferences, Green Drinks Victoria

UN Climate Conference delegate

June 10, 2015 · Leave a comment

Beth is the editor of an international journal, Sustaining All Life, is giving workshops at this conference in Paris. Sustaining All Life (SAL) is an international organization dedicated to ending the destruction of the environment throughout the world. Sustaining All

Traveler in Your Own Town

Traveling light – Transit Operator

June 8, 2015 · Leave a comment

A Victoria transit operator talks about his love of driving a bus and helping people, giving back.

Classroom moments

School principal at age 20…

May 31, 2015 · Leave a comment

Back in the 1956 Rod, aged 20, with just a year of post secondary teacher training, was asked by a supervisor at Normal School to be a principal for a company school at logging camp at Sarita River on the

What's Gone Well Today

Excitement for UVic campus sustainability

May 31, 2015 · Leave a comment

One goal for UVic sustainability is to shift the transportation modal split of persons travelling to and from campus to 70% sustainable transportation (cycling, walking, transit, carpool/rideshare, etc.) and 30% single occupancy vehicles”

Fernwood

Benefits of public gardening

May 31, 2015 · 2 Comments

Wide ranging benefits of gardening in a public space expand into social and spiritual rewards.

What's Gone Well Today

You are what you believe you can do

May 29, 2015 · Leave a comment

What have you done with what you’ve been given? This retired engineer has always had an eye on new uses of ‘junk’.. What can we do with what we have is a philosophy of life.

Fernwood, What's Gone Well Today

Managing a public -private garden

May 25, 2015 · Leave a comment

The 4th generation of managing a garden space in Fernwood/ North Park. Looking at increasing the space and the productivity this year.