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Development Impact and the PhD Scholarship - Tool Kit training held at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor from 30 July - 1 August 2014
between development and the land.
all my life i've been seeking grass. i grew up in a green world, with tons of grass to roll around in, and trees to climb, and flowers that grew at different times of the year, and a sense of seasonal foods, and disciplined parents who ate as vegetarian as they could and tried to create vegetarians out of me and my brother (I think they were a little more successful with me, an open-minded eater, versus my brother, who would literally only eat meat or cheese for many years).
i try and sit down on the grass every day. you can do that all year long in durham. that's why i live here.
i'm drawn to natural beauty, to earthiness and foods that have color, to light, to water, to soil, to the strength of people who work on the land, whose hands and skin show the wear and tear of a life lived outdoors.
lately i've been thinking more about what this means for me spiritually. at a certain point in my christian life, i might have accepted that "green" thinking was important for christians to learn about and be involved in because it was better for our bodies and for our neighbors, socially speaking; hence, it was the right thing to do for the world. i still feel this way. nowadays, however, having recently been reading/listening to Ellen Davis's thoughts (piggybacking very much off of the ideas of Wendell Berry and other land-focused thinkers), i'm beginning to think there are even deeper implications than even just the social costs. there are questions that Davis brings up in "Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture" that are causing me to re-think the perspective i have (which essentially makes it a moral issue), and re-shape it into something that relates to God's promises and covenant with this world. this relates to agriculture being something that God made for us to do, not just eat well and reap the bounty of others' hard work - the "blind" habit we have of eating what is sold to us in grocery stores. but to actually be in touch with the earth, and to develop our own relationship to sewing, to harvesting, and to eating from the seasons He created.
my thoughts are not nearly as focused as Mrs. Davis's and will need time (and action too) to iron out what i hope i will find as solutions to these questions.
one thing i've noticed since childhood and that i've always viewed as a huge problem humanity has today is that we isolate ourselves from the earth. this is easy to do because wealthy folks can pay as much money as they need to in order to keep themselves comfortable and separated. from weather, from dirt, from what lies beyond the doors, insulation, carpeting of their own home. the outside.
not everyone, mind you. there are people living in the "biotic" community for sure. but not that many. a lot of people choose to live in what i've sometimes referred to as "the padded universe." this is where you can pay for peace and security in favor for any kind of world that could be broken in on by the earth around it, by the people around it, or anything else that could disturb a synthetic perpetual harmony that we're all used to. and feel entitled to.
in a way we don't realize, this is just another way in which we isolate ourselves from each other, and from the needs of the community we live in, and let's not forget God. The Great Big God who made everything and loves it. and hopes and gives always for its best.
"Reality will not betray you" - Apolonio said this to me today. i am glad he is home.
music for the day:
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Elliot Harris at Mobilizing Trillions for the SDGs at The World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2018 in New York, NY USA. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ben Hider
Development Impact and the PhD Scholarship - Tool Kit training held at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor from 30 July - 1 August 2014
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I took this at Cuyamaca College at their Child Development Center on campus. They have developed the center into a Reggio Emilio center. I loved it!
The Development Threat Index is part of the Land Use Land Cover collection. The cumulative development threat index is a terrestrial global, future development threat map based on combining these resources: agricultural expansion, urban expansion, conventional oil and gas, unconventional oil and gas, coal, mining, biofuels, solar, and wind. Each threat ranked potential development from 0–100 with 100 indicating the highest potential for future development of the resource and were produced at a 50 square kilometer (km2) grid cell resolution, excluding all cells overlapping Antarctica and those with >50% considered marine. This map displays the projected future development threat of utility-scale solar power. The area-ranked threat scores are based on a combined metric of solar resources in watts per square meter (W/m2), land suitability, and economic feasibility for solar power development.
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, President of the Republic of Mauritius, speaks at the press conference "Meet the Co-Chairs of the .Sustainable Development Impact Summit." The World Economic Forum holds the Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2017 in New York, NY USA. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ben Hider
About the JW Marriott Guanacaste Resort & Spa
** Hacienda Pinilla
In the 1950s, Hoover Gordon “Pat” Pattillo was a power player in the development of Atlanta, when the city was coming into its own. Pattillo Construction Inc. began as a family-owned design/build general contractor serving Atlanta and the state of Georgia. The business built over 1,000 industrial buildings accounting for more than 80 million square feet. Pattillo was a
prominent entrepreneur and philanthropist in Georgia. He served as chairman (1975) of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and president of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
In 1974 H.G. Pattillo bought a cattle ranch in Costa Rica, locally known as Hacienda Pinilla. He would come down once a year and stay in the old farmhouse. He had no long range ideas
for what to do with the land. But following his retirement in the mid 1990's Pattillo begin developing the ranch land with a few home sites. Eventually the ranch, located just south of Tamarindo and Langosta and North of Playa Avellanas, became a 5,000 acre development featuring a JW Marriott hotel (opened in 2008), golf course, tennis courts, residential housing, condos, restaurants, beach club, equestrian center and a working cattle ranch and one of the ten best beaches in all of Central America.
After 40 years of directing and overseeing Hacienda Pinilla, Pat Pattillo, the majority shareholder of Agroganadera Pinilla, S.A, determined auctioning off the property (estimated proceeds were $2 billion) would allow for the acceleration of the vision for the project. Agroganadera Pinilla has invested more than $178 million in the ranch development, which includes the infrastructure for water, electricity and fiber optics. Also, proceeds form the auction would permanently fund the charitable work of Guanacaste Ventures U.S. Inc and its Costa Rican counterpart - Fundación Progreso Guanacast.
The foundations were established in 2005 by Mr. H.G. (“Pat”) Pattillo, the majority shareholder of Agroganadera Pinilla, S.A. The original idea was to use profits garnered from the Hacienda Pinilla Beach Resort and Residential Community to improve the lives and offer educational opportunities of the citizens of the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica.
After consideration of all offers and options, Agroganadera Pinilla, S.A,. determined that retention of ownership control and an aggressive reinvestment in the project, along with improvements to resort operations, would result in the optimal outcomes for current ownership, property owners, partners, the foundations and staff. Moving forward Bree McClure Pattillo, Pat Patilla's granddaughter was named as its new president in 2012. Bree Pattillo is a director and officer of Pattillo Construction Corp. and several real estate holding companies in the United States, and received her MBA from The Citadel.
** JW Marriott Guanacaste Resort & Spa
From the open-air plazas to the chunky stone walls to the red roof tiles, this JW Marriott resort sits on the edge of the 4,500-acre Hacienda Pinilla and exudes the charm of an old hacienda by the sea. Designed by Costa Rican architect Ronald Zurcher, the architect for the Four Seasons Resort Costa Rica at Peninsula Papagayo, this 310-unit colonial compound was planned to preserve history and nature. The interiors were conceived by Dallas interior designer Paul Duesing. Duesing's résumé boasts 97 five-star hotels, including Capella Pedregal (Cabo San Lucas, Mexico) and Tucker’s Point Club (Bermuda) and most recently the Mukul Resort & Spa in Nicaragua.
The JW Marriott Guanacaste Resort is owned by Grupo Poma, a family-owned company headed by Ricardo Poma in El Salvador. The hotel opened in 2009 and is on land owned by
Agroganader Pinilla. Ricardo Poma, president of developer Grupo Poma, told the grand-opening crowd that the first time he came to Hacienda Pinilla Beach Resort and Residential
Community, he fell in love with its sprawling dry forest, temperate weather, gorgeous Pacific beaches and lovely people, and decided to build the five-star hotel at this location.
Ricardo Poma was an original investor in Mitt Romney's Bain Capital. Poma obtained an industrial engineering degree from Princeton University in 1967 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1970. Some of Grupo Poma’s business activities include automobile dealerships, real estate development and construction, industrial manufacturing and hotels.
Grupo Poma's Hotel division, Real Hotels and Resorts, whose CEO is Ricardo's son Fernando, owns twenty eight InterContinental, Marriott International and Choice Hotels in Central America, Colombia, the Caribbean and Miami, Florida.
Costa Rica’s president, Oscar Arias Sanchez, U.S.Ambassador Peter Cianchette and Mr. Pattillo, a founder of the Pattillo C onstruction Co. attended the Feb. 4, 2009 dedication of the
five-star J.W. Marriott Guanacaste Resort and Spa at Hacienda Pinilla, the 40th JW Marriott property worldwide.
Carlos Diago was the opening General Manager. He previously served as Rooms Director for the JW Marriott Mexico City. He currently is the GM at the Cali Marriott Hotel, a Real Hotel.
Jesus Gonzalez was named General Manager in March 2012 where he currently serves. Previously he was general manager at Hotel Real InterContinental San Pedro Sula for 4 years.
** The Golf Course at Hacienda Pinilla
Pat Pattillo conceived the course in the late 1990s as a centerpiece for Hacienda Pinilla and to lure resort development and homesite ownership. Created by Georgia golf architect Mike Young, the layout conforms gracefully to the natural flow of the land, weaving through the tropical forest along the shores of the Pacific to provide an unparalleled blue water backdrop.
Opened in 2000, the par 72 course, which can play up to 7,200 yards, was designed to enhance the natural landscape of Hacienda Pinilla. Young’s distinctive taste for details allowed him to design a course where each hole harmonizes with the slopes and the profile of the landscape. Tif Eagle bermuda grass greens, lush fairways and steep-faced bunkers are surrounded by trees and waste areas. An inventory for habitat purposes revealed 30 colonies of the howler monkeys - expect to see some climbing or howling through the trees on or near the course.
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In today’s day and age, many businesses are now creating their own Android app and in fact, there are lots of reasons why you should invest in this kind of app. However, if your business is not using any app it means you’re losing the majority of your customers.
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I thought you might like to see what North Hertfordshire District Council considers to be good planning and design.
Where once there were nine three-bedroomed family-sized homes with mature gardens, 30 garages available to rent (in an area where on-road parking is severely restricted) and the smallest builder's yard in the universe, there are now 78 apartments and houses. The houses in the photo above are some of the so-called "social housing". The rest of the development is behind these houses.
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This public fórum, held on 23 April 2018 in Maputo, shared the results of the report on the business landscape for Mozambican manufacturing firms.
The event shed light on the current challenges faced by micro-, small- and medium-sized firms in the country’s manufacturing sector — and how policy can tackle these issues to allow firms to thrive. Special attention was paid to the business environment in which these enterprises operate.
Uwe Krüger, Chief Executive Officer, WS Atkins, United Kingdom at the World Economic Forum - Special Meeting on Unlocking Resources for Regional Development 2014 / Benedikt von Loebell
Development Impact and the PhD scholarship - Road Map training, December 2013
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I thought you might like to see what North Hertfordshire District Council considers to be good planning and design.
Where once there were nine three-bedroomed family-sized homes with mature gardens, 30 garages available to rent (in an area where on-road parking is severely restricted) and the smallest builder's yard in the universe, there are now 78 apartments and houses. The houses in the photo above are some of the so-called "social housing". The rest of the development is behind these houses.