Visit the Kickstarter website to read the final project update on the successful Windowfarms campaign.

"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."  ― Henry Miller


Rio de Janeiro's massive favela, "Rocinha" cascades over the "Two Brothers" mountain.  Image credit: Joshua Fouts

Six months after my transformative Invoking the Pause experience in the heart of the Amazon, I have returned to Brazil for the first time. The purpose of this brief journey is an invitation speak to two of Brazil's largest universities, Rio de Janeiro's UFRJ and São Paulo's Universidade de São Paulo (USP).  USP is widely recognized both globally and nationally as one the top universities in the world.  Both universities are keenly interested in promoting and empowering science education among youth. » Read More

Investigative journalist Mark Schapiro spoke with us last month about his ITP project and upcoming book.  Schapiro, a longtime correspondent with the Center for Investigative Reporting, has been writing environmental stories in the United States and abroad for more than twenty years. 
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Former ITP Grant Partner Britta Riley is featured in The Wall Street Journal.  Need the perfect Christmas gift for the urban farmer?  Look no further than Windowfarms!
Read the full WSJ article here.

In September, a group of us got together for a 'pause' to brainstorm about experimental research on climate change communications, see here.   Below, I have included some of the pictures from this retreat to share a bit more. What is on my mind though is Hurricane Sandy.  It's been mind blowing to see the images of the storm and hear about the tragic deaths and damages.  But the silver lining, if we can look for one, may be the shift the storm has produced in the conversation on climate change.  Amazingly, the topic did not enter the presidential debate.  But it has inserted itself now in the form of a giant, late season hurricane. » Read More

ITP Founder and Executive Director, Maggie Kaplan was interviewed recently for a feature in the Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) newsletter.  E2 is the independent business voice for the environment.  E2 is a national community of individual business leaders who advocate for good environmental policy while building economic prosperity. Working with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), E2 takes a reasoned, economically sound approach to environmental issues by relying on fact-based policy expertise.  Read the interview here.

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Maggie Kaplan, Founder and Executive Director of Invoking the Pause (ITP), recently was interviewed for the new Fall 2012 Issue Feature Section of ARCADE Magazine, exploring the theme of Global More=Global Less. "Having time for mulling and incubation is essential to finding truly integrated, innovative strategies". 

Maggie "has committed to supporting exploration through small grants that give recipients the freedom of time to explore intellectual and meaningful connections.  This generosity is essential in shifting profoundly embedded values and patterns."    » Read More

Last week members of Daily Acts Organization (DAO), Ecology of Leadership (EOL), Transition US (TUS) and an independent filmmaker took a pause from busy lives. In a beautiful setting in rural California we reviewed our programs, skills, audiences and interests in the light of synergies, leverage and potential. We surprised ourselves with the richness of the possibilities and the natural fit of many seemingly different pieces. Ordering and reordering, prioritizing and rolling out timelines - in effect, we sizzled. Excitement grew, respect landed and new programs came to light.  

In five days we were able to achieve a year's worth of meetings. » Read More