Creating a resilient & sustainable community
Sustainability Education Forum Editor-Publisher
Dr. Clifton Ware is an international figure in the world of voice pedagogy. During the the past fifty years of teaching students how to sing -- both nationally and internationally -- Clif developed his signature "Efficient and Authentic Voice Technique". What distinguishes his method is its holistic approach, simplicity, and effectiveness. Siingers find that they are able to ensure their vocal health while cultivating their own unique, expressive sound. This approach stands in sharp contrast to faddish techniques that encourage mimicking the vocalism, style, and qualities of other singers, possibly limiting their own vocal imprint and even harming their vocal instrument. The "Efficient and Authentic Voice Technique" produces singers that enjoy vocal power, range, ease, individuality, and a liberating learning process.
SEF News-Views Digest No. 147 (10-5-16)
Clifton Ware, Editor-Publisher
Depending largely on one’s political views, one may consider film-producer and activist Michael Moore as either as an American patriot (left-wing) or a traitor (right-wing). His progressive views and causes are well known, as is his passionately aggressive approach in projecting his socio-political-economic views in films he creates and produces. – SEF News-Views Digest by CFS member Clif Ware.
SEF News-Views Digest No. 146 (9-28-16)
Clifton Ware, Editor-Publisher
If you’ve missed receiving the SEF e-newsletter for the past month, it’s because Bettye and I decided to revisit some favorite western national parks and monuments. Although our trip was primarily for pleasure, we could not avoid viewing everything experienced through sustainability lenses. It would be more pleasurable to ignore discomforting observations, but given our sustainability orientation, that’s not an option.
SEF News-Views Digest No. 145 (8-24-16)
Clifton Ware, Editor-Publisher
An effective way of clarifying and promoting worthy causes is to use metaphors. Everybody understands the concept of making war, which is typically associated with physical violence in fighting an enemy. But the war metaphor has also been used in promoting non-violent causes. Three popular examples in modern times are the “War on Poverty”, “The War on Drugs”, and, most recently, “The War on Terrorism”.
SEF News-Views Digest No. 143 (8-10-16)
Clifton Ware, Editor-Publisher
There are a several articles herein that deserve highlighting, but I’ll limit my choices to three that relate to a recently addressed common theme: How and what we think. What this has to do with creating long-term sustainability is obvious to me, but perhaps not to everyone.
SEF News-Views Digest No. 142
Clifton Ware, Editor-Publisher
> Citizens for Sustainability: St. Anthony Village Fest, Sat., Aug. 6, 10am-4pm, SAV Central Park, Silver Lake Rd. CFS Sustainability Booth (handouts, activities, pollinator pathway project). Lots to see and do!
> Citizens for Sustainability: Sustainability Walkabout, Sun., 11am,Guided tour begins at St. Anthony Village High School Cafeteria. Self-guided tour includes a solar home site, a rain garden, 2 pollinator gardens, the city’s LED technologies and Water ReUse Tank, and low-energy vehicles. Info: http://citizensforsustainability.org
As we agonize over the presidential race’s ongoing shenanigans, the impassioned cries of “Let’s take our country back” or “Make our country great again” are omnipresent in the media. Conservatives may be the loudest and most prolific “take backers”, but there are also plenty of disgruntled progressives and independents.