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'embrace change, it happens anyway'

I'm here because, 'I heard the mountain stream' 17 hours ago

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Home town

TORONTO

Profession

Director, Change Collective

Business Development, Marketing, Sales dedicated to unique modular, systemized prefab Design solutions aimed at affordable, sustainable housing and scale prefab production of a furnished state of art micro house model.

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About me

Passions are all the creative arts with experience in music, poetry, apparel design, furniture and interior design, small space solutions and residential building/renovation. Currently, all my spare time involves solutions to our global housing/environmental crisis, learning about sustainable materials and alternative energies and 'spaceprojekt' a concept for systemized design of the mass produced, furnished prefab world micro house.
Uncomfortable with mainstream, interested in ideas on the fringe, music as motivation and all the spectacular possibilities on the horizon.

Website

http://ca.linkedin.com/in/greenmax

Books

Design Like You Give A Damn...the Deviants Advantage...A New Earth.

So many books, so many authors, so little time ... Steinbeck, Updike, Roth, Kerouac and the fabulously funny Paul St.Pierre come immediately to mind..and Billy Collins is my favorite poet...he is simply brilliant.
For quick and easy inspiration ... Julia Cameron, Eckhart Tolle, Seth Godin.

Movies

Again too many...Platimum Blonde, the thirties original is one of the best ever, and many of my favorites are from that era...
For funny... A Fish called Wanda and Moonstruck...
These days I watch documentaries and Indie films...on The Passionate Eye, CBC, The Fifth Estate, PBS etc.

Music

Everything...if you really want to know just google spaceprojekt and go to my page on myspace.
I'm really amazed at the vituosity of John Mayer, fantastic vocals and performances of Michael Bubble and the out of sight octave range of Mariah Carey.

School attended

I have a business degree I've never used...all of my best knowledge comes from hands on experience and an unquenchable curiosity...I listen to the lessons of life and I've learned about a lot of things by failing at almost everything.

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Professional, Other

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Time to Disappear...

Like a seasonal alarm clock...the static buzz of Cicada in their mating serenade, somewhere out there in the trees beyond my open city window...remind me that the 'dog days of August' are here...and its time to disappear. As we say in Ontario, "I'm goin up north".
To the land of Algonquin on the edge of the Precambrian...where 3 billion years ago, continents collided with such force that mountains melted and mile high glaziers gouged and shaped the rivers, valleys and lakes we now enjoy...
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Posted on August 22, 2009 at 6:51pm —

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At 4:51pm on November 25, 2009, vimal jain said…: hi michael!
thanx

At 7:53pm on September 15, 2009, Saurabh Bhagra said…: Thanks Michael !! I trying to understand the the purpose of the website, which I think is of utmost importance...hope you would help me get along

At 11:30pm on August 22, 2009, Simi Sreedharan said…: Thank you for the warm welcome, Michael! It feels great to be here!

At 1:45am on August 17, 2009, Ismael Aboli said…: Thank you and pleased to meet you as well,
I will write back as soon as possible,
have a nice day

At 2:26am on August 10, 2009, Eunice Irizarry said…: Thank you Michael!

At 1:45am on August 7, 2009, satendra jain said…: Thanks Micheal..but i still have to find out what to start with here!

At 3:29pm on July 15, 2009, Mansi Saxena said…: hello Michael! thank you for welcoming me here. A complete network dedicated to architecture for humanity. i hope to learn and be aware of the issues the world is dealing with . M as for now doing my thesis , so i hope to incorporate eco friendly design to the maximum possible.

At 10:49am on July 11, 2009, Shailesh Naveen said…: hello Michael... i am glad to be a part of this forum and i hope this will expose me to the current issues and competetions in the world. And as a result of this forum everyone here has the oppurtunity to become a Global Thinker. I am happy to share activities here.

At 10:45pm on July 5, 2009, Nehashish said…: yes , i am interested for shelter design and i am working on it.

At 11:34am on June 30, 2009, kanaka raghavan said…: hello Michael..i hope to join one of the chapters of afh and contribute in every way i can...am actually currently keen on joining as design fellow in any of the current projects.plz keep me posted. thnk u

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