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Complete Website View Useful For Determining

  • Lists all webpages on my site.
  • Describes each page briefly.
  • Provides a link to each webpage.
What all is here, and where it's at
It's never easy to determine all the pages on a site via reading, scrolling, and following links on each page.
Which pages you've already browsed
The page names/links will be purple to show that you've been to that page. (Your browser's settings control how many days it will stay maroon.)
How I think & approach life, building, coaching/counseling, etc.
This will help if you want to learn about me as a life-coach
or green-building collaborator, for example.

Note About
Website Design

Please forgive me for the text-centric design. I know better—I really do. But don't have the time or the tools to incorporate more graphics and implement a more usable layout. Content is more important to me right now than presentation.

The Four Groups of Webpages on My Site

There are four different groups of webpages on my site,
separated by the blue lines below.


1st Group of Webpages: "My Current Work"

Web Page Contents

I'm Designing & Building
a Custom Solar Home


I have a mountain property in northern Colorado. I'm designing an eco-friendly house: solar, earth-bermed, natural lighting, low resource usage (water & electric, as well as building materials). I want to break ground this spring (2005). My long-term plan is to keep building homes, living in them for at least two years—to get the big tax break—and teaching others to do the same along the way. This is likely the biggest contribution to sustainability I'll make.

I'm Dabbling
in Custom Cycles

Bikes: fun, highly efficient, health-promoting, and affordable. I believe they'll be a big key to sustainability. How are you going to afford to drive your 3000-pound car when gasoline is $10-20 per gallon?

I have a long history with wheeled vehicles, and I'm still continually thinking up fun & useful leg-and-electric-powered vehicles to build. It's a fun hobby, which may someday turn into more of a vocation:
  • Electric/pedaled cruiser bicycle.
  • Suspension go-kart.
  • Electric/pedaled three-wheel recumbent.
  • Electric/pedaled chopper-bike.

I'm Searching
for Sustainability

When I'm taking breaks from building the solar-house and bikes, I meet people and we chat. I have found that most are very interested in my project(s). And not too surprisingly, most don't know a lot about solar homes, eco-friendliness, and the larger topic of "sustainability"—there's that word again.

I'm Still Writing—
and Always Will Be

I have fun documenting what I'm doing (on this website, and in other writings).

As a background task—currently way, way in the background—I'm still slowly fleshing out articles on sustaining Planet Earth as a healthy place for animals—including humans—and plants to live. (Insects and other quickly mutating life forms can fend for themselves.)
  • A More Deliberate Way of Living.
  • Daily Eco-Friendly Living Choices.
  • The Parenting License.

I'm also finishing a book, but that's a longer-term project. It started out as supporting materials for my life-coaching practice, but seemed to naturally expand in to a more complete work.
  • The Pyramid Process.
I'll finish it after the house-building and my two custom cycles are completed.

Upcoming Events

  • (Don't bother browsing this page.)
  • (I'll update the two-year-old links later this spring/summer.)

2nd Group of Webpages: "The Pyramid Process"

Web Page Contents

The Pyramid Process: Introduction.

  • Why a Life Re-Design Process Is Needed.
  • Framework for Managing the Complexity.
  • Why a Pyramid?
  • Applying the Pyramid Process: Four Examples.
    -- Understanding one's background / history.
    -- Assessment of present situation (summer 2003).
    -- Resultant life re-design (timeframe is about one year).
    -- Long-term re-design (life mission).
  • Can You Do the Next Steps By Yourself?

The 'Personal' Life-Component.

  • Self-definition: beliefs, goals, values, etc.
  • Self-empowerment: how to prepare to live your beliefs and reach your goals.
  • Self-esteem: the direct result of knowing yourself and doing what you believe in.

The 'Household' Life-Component.

  • Interacting with household members.
  • Managing resources (like finances, clothing, vehicles).
  • Maintaining health (sleeping, eating, recreating, hygiene).

The 'Community' Life-Component.

  • Shared resources, beliefs, and visions.
  • Contributions to groups.

Experiments.

  • What Is an Experiment?
  • Experiment 1: Big Picture and Meaning
  • Experiment 2: What Do I Want?
  • Experiment 3: Can I Survive Without a Full-time Job?

How I Life-Coach My Clients.

  • Brief Sketch of My Coaching Process:
      -- Assessment, Vision-building, Goal- & criteria-setting, Recognition & support, Repetition.
  • An Agreement for Our Mutual Success:
      -- Free initial consultation.
      -- The next step (if we both decide to proceed).
  • Want More Info Before Making an Appointment?
  • Life Coaching vs. Counseling

3rd Group of Webpages: "Fave People & Info Sources"

Web Page Contents

Favorite Sources of Information—and Inspiration

  • Favorite Books.
  • Favorite Websites.
  • Favorite Role Models.
  • Favorite Family & Friends.

Constructivism

A belief system which holds that we all create our own reality by: how we interpret events, and by how we build our lives. Also a "teaching" approach that helps learners look at big-picture perspectives, issues of emerging relevance, and meaning in their lives.

Comprehensivism

A strategy, proposed by Buckminster Fuller, which seeks for the individual to gain a wide and deep understanding of what's happening in the world (rather than a specialist viewpoint), and thus the individual can make the most valuable contributions to the sustainability of humanity.

More notes from R. Buckminster Fuller books:

 Critical Path notes.
Humans in the Universe notes.
Intuition notes.
Spaceship Earth notes.

4th Group of Webpages: "About Me"

Web Page Contents

About Mark

I started this portion of the website as somewhat of a "resume" for prospective employers and clients/consultees. It has evolved into a brief summary of my life, organized around: work experiences; creative projects; peak experiences; and favorite people and info sources. I've organized it around my Pyramid Process, and also from a high-level/work to low-level/personal flow:

Memorable Moments in My Life

I began listing peak experiences in my life, roughly in chronological order. After I had several, I thought of how I could increase the number and frequency of them in my life in the future. That's partly where I came up with the idea of a "pyramid" and its components.

Some of My Creative Projects

  • Housing--Remodels of 8 houses I've owned, and designs for the 9th .
  • Vehicles--Quirky vehicles I've built, bought, and conceptualized.
  • Writing--How writing has helped me create and process.

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