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When it fell over, this pecan tree was 115 years old at 85 + feet. Hurricane Beryl brought her down. I really loved this tree. Countless nights watching it dance with the clouds in the wind.
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Check Out: Columbia Tap Housing and Economic Opportunity Workshop hosted by the Bullard Center for Climate Justice at TSU and the UH Community Design Resource Center.
RSVP at https://lnkd.in/ghQzFN2p.
Date: Saturday, April 27th
Time: 9 am - 2 pm
Address: Room 114, Barbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs,
Texas Southern University (First Floor), 3401 Cleburne Ave, Houston, TX 77004
Enjoy FREE parking in the East Garage Surface Lot!
#HousingPreservation #EconomicOpportunity #AffordableHousing #ColumbiaTap
Pipa and Orrell will be “on the front porch” with Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, whose recent book “The Overlooked Americans: The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What It Means for Our Country,” reveals that rural America is more successful than outsiders often presume. Drawing on deep research, including data and in-depth interviews, she traces how small towns are doing as well as—or better than—cities on many measures, including homeownership, income, and employment. She also shows how rural and urban Americans share core values—even on hot button issues such as racism and environmental sustainability—revealing that the nation is less fractured by geography than we might believe.
Read MoreCEER is a member of ISC's Dismantling Energy Inequity in Communities of Color (DEICC) project, which is supporting community resilience and dismantling energy insecurity in ten communities of color across the United States through the development of solar community resilience hubs.
Read MoreThis week, I took part in Tracie Jae's "This Old House" Conversation Series, which included a segment from the Equal Justice Initiative on America's dark history of terror lynching. The group of around ten people, diverse in race, religion, experience, and culture, engaged deeply with this topic.
Read MoreA book steeped in empathy and insight, Caste explores, through layered analysis and stories of real people, the structure of an unspoken system of human ranking and reveals how our lives are still restricted by what divided us centuries ago.
“Modern-day caste protocols,” Wilkerson writes, “are often less about overt attacks or conscious hostility. They are like the wind, powerful enough to knock you down but invisible as they go about their work.”
Read MoreWe have so much food in this world. Everyone could have access to healthy nutritious meals. It seems the system is what is broken. Food insecurity is not about food.
Read MoreFreaked out by police? Pissed about ICE? Outraged at gentrification? What should we do? People are overwhelmed, pissed, and scared right now. This video is about how mutual aid projects are a way to plug into helping people and mobilizing for change. Check out the mutual aid toolkit at BigDoorBrigade.com for more inspiration and information about starting mutual aid projects where you live!
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Leadership Skills
Teambuilding
Board Connection
Alumni Network
Expanded opportunities for professional growth and community involvement
Connecting Project Blueprint graduates with nonprofit board opportunities
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UpSkill Houston and Red & Black have partnered to highlight many of the soft skills that are key to career success, all of which are transferable between industries, as well as in your personal life. Learn what these skills are, how you can develop them, and how to apply them in career settings.
Read MoreLet's be the change we want to see. What small changes can we ignite this week to be more open, more kind, and more collaborative? Whatever our role is, large or small, we play a part in the trophic cascade happening all around us. Small changes can generate impacts far beyond the initial effort.
Read MoreResource Generation is a multiracial membership community of young people (18-35) with wealth and/or class privilege committed to the equitable distribution of wealth, land, and power.
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I have been exploring the Super Neighborhood program in Houston to learn more granular information about the Department of Neighborhoods. They host this Neighborhood Toolbox page that is literally - Super helpful to access municipal resources and culture.
Neighborhood Tools
Resident Utilities
Culture and Recreation
Education and Employment
Civic Participation and Taxes
Public Safety and Health
Transportation and accessibility
Across the U.S., the ALICE Essentials Index has increased at a higher rate than the CPI for more than fifteen years. From 2007 to 2023, the average annual rate of increase for the ALICE Essentials Index was 3.3%, while the CPI increased by 2.5% on average. For context, the median wage for the most common occupation in the U.S., a retail salesperson, increased 2.8% annually from 2007 to 2022 (the latest data available). The sustained lag behind the actual cost of basic goods equates to a loss of more than $26,000 over the past 15 years for a retail salesperson — more than a full year’s earnings.
Read MoreRetouched this photo for a client who was really happy with the outcome. Reach out to me if you need personalized care with retouching your treasured images.
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So vision is not effortless. Nor is it faithful: if you ever believed that your brain gives an accurate representation of what is “out there” in the same way that a movie camera would, then David Brown’s untouched photographs should quickly disabuse you of that notion. Instead, your attentional machinery slowly crawls the scene, analyzing interesting landmarks until it detects what is useful for the next step. In the case of one of Brown’s visual moments in time, you might be in the middle of looking for the door to the shop, or where to step, or whether the traffic light is ready to let you cross. All the other details are unconsciously and nimbly filtered out. – Dr. David Eagleman
Meaningful Quotes
“You can’t navigate well in an interconnected, feedback-dominated world unless you take your eyes off short-term events and look for long-term behavior and structure; unless you are aware of false boundaries and bounded rationality; unless you take into account limiting factors, nonlinearities, and delays.”-Donella H. Meadows
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“You can’t navigate well in an interconnected, feedback-dominated world unless you take your eyes off short-term events and look for long-term behavior and structure; unless you are aware of false boundaries and bounded rationality; unless you take into account limiting factors, nonlinearities, and delays.”- Donella H. Meadows
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“No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren’t designed to produce them if we don’t speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.”― Meadows. Donella
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Micki Fine is a mentor, friend and inspiration to my heart. I remember the first time participating in her body scan mediation. It was mind blowing. She also helped me get over the idea that rasin’s were messed up grapes. More on that if you ask. LOL Her company Mindful Living hosts several free guided meditations for you to enjoy. Please explore.
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