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User profileLVHelpGro Namerick passoJoinedApril 20, 2012http://www.lasvegassun.com/users/LVHelpGro/
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Posted on: Offshoot of popular South By Southwest conference heading to Las Vegas in 2013
Gabriel Shepherd’s vision, heart, creativity, drive and passion continues to inspire and to validate his dream. Everyone here in Las Vegas, indeed everywhere, owes him a HUGE debt of gratitude.
We all need to support his SxVegas effort … because this announcement truly is only the beginning of what will come from his advocacy and his love for the Las Vegas community.
10/24/12 at 4:41 a.m.
Posted on: Office complex offers bike-share program for its downtown workers
Great related story on KNPR’s State of Nevada today:
http://www.knpr.org/son/archive/detail2….
Much related discussion has been occurring @VegasGreenJelly & Public Pedal too.
https://www.facebook.com/Fremont.Bike.Cl...
Would love to have this discussed at upcoming Vegas Green Jelly meetings:
https://www.facebook.com/events/11851952...
9/26/12 at 10:21 a.m.
Posted on: Makeshift mini-park highlights desire for more green space downtown
Amy and COLABlv are doing incredibly inspiring and impactful projects all around town. I admire her vision, her energy, her creativity and her social spirit greatly.
(Suggest removal) 9/26/12 at 5:23 a.m.
Posted on: How about delivering them from unfairness?
This is what should have been obvious to Mr. Coolican: the fact that community activism comes in many forms, some more inclusive and non-threatening and uplifting than others. Yes, not only is there room for both types of activism but the cross-pollination of both forms of progressive change and empowerment should be engendered and encouraged. And, the scientific basis for promoting Happiness and Delivering effectiveness at work of the type that is being encouraged and supported by the Delivering Happiness pioneers needs to be examined and disseminated as well.
Delivering Happiness is much more than a feel good random acts of happiness “producer.” While it may appear to be warm and fuzzy and fluffy on the outside, it is really a hard-edged, reason driven, results oriented, bottom line management consultancy as well. There are great reasons why Delivering Happiness the book became a best seller, formed an international bus tour and has fostered a global movement. I invite Mr. Coolican to learn more about it. He may just be enlightened.
4/30/12 at 2:54 a.m.
Posted on: How about delivering them from unfairness?
Mr. Coolican, while I appreciate your desire to make a journalistic contrast, your trashing of the Delivering Happiness movement was both inaccurate and disingenuous. The reverse picketers were almost exclusively from Las Vegas and I myself would have been there if my schedule had permitted.
One can support the intentions and positions of the Culinary Movement without bashing Delivering Happiness. Since you obviously made no real attempt either to be balanced or informed about Delivering Happiness and its impact on the Las Vegas downtown scene, here is a link that hopefully you will find helpful, which will provide you with some background on Delivering Happiness Inspire!: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/28094722….
If, for example, you had attended this month’s Inspire! event, you would have seen a packed crowd being informed and inspired about the Zappos Downtown Project, the innovative Las Vegas StartUp Tracky [which just received its first $1 million round of funding] and the Build A Greener Block promoters, www.greenerblocks.com, among other amazing Las Vegas presentations.
As a longtime Las Vegas resident, former disability, immigration and civil rights attorney, I see harmony and great insight coming from the Delivering Happiness movement and also great support for the emergent Vegas Tech and Vegas Jelly sectors as well.
If you have bothered to interview any of the reverse picketers who did attend you would have found a number of the leaders of the emergent downtown tech and creative commons community, entitled Shift Vegas. Please refer to https://www.facebook.com/shiftvegas for more related information.
I am especially disappointed in this hatchet job on Delivering Happiness, Mr. Coolican, because I generally agree with your political positions and find many of your columns to be thoughtful and insightful.
This column, unfortunately, is not representative of the quality reporting that I have come to expect from you.
4/30/12 at 2:52 a.m
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