You, the grant partners, keep contributing to the ITP community and carry the dividends back to your own communities. These are just some of your inspiring tales.

Gary Nabhan, a research social scientist at the University of Arizona’s Southwest Center, has been named the Sustainable Food Systems Endowed Chair following a nearly $1.6 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Please click here to read the announcement.

This year marks the exciting emergence of ITP Collaborative projects between two cultural creatives, inspired and ignited from the 2010 Convening.

As Lisa Schubert of Cathedral of St. John the Divine describes, “When the Council of Pronghorn installation arrives in the nave of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, it will bear witness to our humanity and our changing world– all conversations which were sparked by Maggie Kaplan and the Invoking the Pause Project.”

Stephen Antupit and Chris Saleeba, of CityLab7 and the Fertile Grounds project, were brimming with enthusiasm and creativity after their recent trip to the 2011 BALLE Conference in Bellingham, WA.

“What’s in it for WE vs. what’s in it for ME?,” “Locavesting,” “The age of Pro-creativity,” and gaining new skills to navigate the Donor – NonProfit relationship were the key themes of the conference.

A Catalog of Extinct Experience collaborator Chris Desser has recently designed and fabricated an “asana”, which means “seat” in Sanskrit.  Asana also translates as the position one sits in.  Chris was asked to contribute her asana to a yearlong outdoor exhibition called “Seat,” at Fort Mason in San Francisco.  It has been well received and is enjoying much use.

The author visits the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster

As we near the one year anniversary of the July 15, 2010 capping of the gushing wellhead of the BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill, acclaimed author Terry Tempest Williams reflected on her visit to the disaster last year.  She came home with a nearly 15,000 word account of her oil odyssey, “The Gulf Between Us.“

Some of the best known symbols of climate change are belching smokestacks and polar bears adrift on ice floes. A lesser known symbol is the chili pepper. Gary Paul Nabhan set out to change that.

Please click here to read the full article in the Boston Globe

Libby Modern is one of the three musketeers leading project Super Power Magic Motion Machine (SPM3), and we caught up with her in a candid interview to hear more about their inspiring project.

We were most struck by her vivid account of life in the vibrant town of Lancaster, PA and how the project has cross-pollinated within their community.

by Maggie Kaplan

I would like to share a very personal commitment with you. I have been stepping into my “wise eldership” in the past few months, as I turned 60. I decided to create 60 adventures in this 60th year to celebrate this passage!

The Invoking the Pause Convening was one of the KEYSTONE adventures–as I step into my own “Maggieness” and the woman I want to be in the world. One might expect that this would be a relatively simple task, but opening myself up to expansion at this time in my life has its own set of challenges.