Carbon Karma

At the one life live show in March (where just a year ago I met lovely Katie Keegan, with whom we cofounded Green sisters) I spoke with the psychologies's editor in chief - Maureen Rice. She advised that I get in touch with Catherine Jones, who runs Psychologies' eco blog - Carbon Karma.

So in the last Carbon Karma blog post you can read about an eco warrior, who happens to be me... and I am very proud:

Let's hope this will be just a beginning of a successful and effective media journey!

Best Kate
Eco warrior and cleaning specialist!

shrewd meanings

I just came across of a description of yahoo's new CEO - Carol Bartz (January 2009): "Carol Bartz is shrewd, strong-minded, blunt, and disciplined".

I first discovered the word shrew when I translated from bulgarian the title - Taming of the shrew (Укротяване на опърничавата)... The Taming of Katherinе (I'm Ekaterina, some personal cross referencing here)....


— shrewd·ly adverb
— shrewd·ness noun:
marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen b: given to wily and artful ways or dealing (a shrewd operator)

synonyms shrewd, sagacious, perspicacious, astute mean acute in perception and sound in judgment.
#shrewd stresses practical, hardheaded cleverness and judgment
(a shrewd judge of character).
#sagacious suggests wisdom, penetration, and farsightedness .
#perspicacious implies unusual power to see through and understand what is puzzling or hidden (a perspicacious counselor saw through the child's facade).
#astute suggests shrewdness, perspicacity, and diplomatic skill (an astute player of party politics).

Words can have a very powerful meaning, not always just definition-wise but often, what understanding they can bring to the person reading it. That's why I got so excited just by reading what shrewd means. Then learning about who Carol Bartz brought even more meaning to the definitions above...

Such description can never be inborn - you have to earn them!

I am starting to scare myself... you make it all go away!

I just want something I can never have...

dissidents in the city

G20 in London. Lying in the middle of bishopsgate, among tents, freegans giving food away, among hundreds and thousands of people, there is music, helicopters; meditating people, dancing people,bankers going home after a day of work; many cameras, bicycles, posters, and more free food is given away a bit further up the road.

There were workshops, some crushed windows of RBS bank, which I totally disapprove of, oh yes and a lot of police officers!

Climate Camping in the city, and some really powerful people, shaking hands, doing small talk, meeting for a first time, talking big stuff, doing politics?!
But are they really doing the one most important thing- making wise decisions. Not wise as well calculated, politically relevant, financially calculated ... You know what I Jean!

I will post some pics later...