another milestone. This marks the beginning of posted observations, thoughts, pictures and videos from the upcoming ellison family global sojourn. Today, I'm just back from a one day pilgamage to the center of world retail, Bentonville, AR, where I shared the contours of the sojourn with the CEO. Excited and amused, he invited me to join upcoming sustainability milestone meetings where hundreds of Wal-Mart executives, suppliers and environmental NGO's by video from the field - perhaps a Millenium Village in Malawi? A Cheetah orphanage in Namibia? from the banks of the Drangme Chhu river in Bhutan? from the TED India conference? From an illegal hardwood forest clear cut in Suluwasi? from Pumalin, the largest private park in South America? all remains to be discovered. Besides the goal of simply learning and witnessing the world today in all its different guises together with Marci and Skye, the task is simple: find and share examples of positive deviance - life reinforcing behaviors in complex human economic, social and environmental systems - throughout the world. We'll see how it goes!