I am willipaul.com - a retrospective. Presented by PlanetShifter.com Magazine

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Any succulent history of Willi’s creative journey must include his electronic paintings that bounce and glow off your monitor “pop eco weird.”

Mr. Paul was an early online community designer and program designer. In 1996-97, he invented and evaluated what he called “the electronic charrette.” This is the online version of the then state-of-the-art community analysis and goal setting process of the Minnesota and Design Team. Willi’s pioneering digital-face-to-face decision making system was presented and published widely in US and European books and web sites.

Never satisfied with the merit badges and sermons from the old school, a quest to understand and apply the work of Joseph Campbell lead Mr. Paul to interview rock musicians and publish on the role and alchemic dynamics of mythology in popular music. Delve in to the data base: the reservoir: rock music and mythology and see what you feel.

Later, while living in Berkeley, CA, Mr. Paul worked the new field of green business consulting, networking and creating many partnerships. See his sustainable business strategies web site, now archived for public study. Also check his site to shut-down a local East Bay polluter at clean air coalition and JOLTS! Public Participation on Steroids for alternative insight into the role of citizen in the community participation process.

Willi Paul has released words and poetry since he left for the dorm. He is hawking two long stories on PlanetShifter.com: Geo’s Vision Machine and LAO from GreenLoc, CA a post-oil world of net pirates and permaculture rings.

Launched as a community site for green creatives on Earth Day 2009, Mr. Paul’s PlanetShifter.com Magazine & Networks thrives today with the addition of the CoolTribe.com partnership and includes over 230 thought leader interviews and 1600 posts. The first traditional PlanetShifter.com Magazine, called the GreenCathcherUnion.com eMagazine, designed by Eric Needle, is gorgeous and well worth a download.

A must read, “The PlanetShifter.com Survival Guide to 2010: Curriculum Plans, Thought Leader Interviews and Big Green Ideas,” based on the Event Circle Interviews, by Willi Paul.

Looking west,

Robert Newridge III
San Francisco
06.13.10