Happy Planet Index
nef’s Happy Planet Index is an innovative measure that shows the ecological efficiency with which human well-being is created around the world. It is the first ever index to combine environmental...
View Articlehow to hack your culture | networks
Ideas, information, trust, influence, opportunity and other resources move through networks of relationships without necessarily adhering to what the org chart says. Social network analysis tools now...
View ArticleGenerations and Justice
There is in the U.S. and most other countries one other increasingly significant marginalized population who I think are worthy of our attention. This group is widely recognized but seldom spoken of in...
View ArticleFuture Money: Breakdown or Breakthrough?
James Robertson has been described as the ‘grandfather of green economics’; he might equally be called the father of Renegade Economics: over the last three decades nobody has been more eloquent or...
View ArticleThe Real Revolution Is Openness, Clay Shirky Tells Tech Leadersl
Mr. Shirky took that message to a group of higher-education-technology leaders who have been buffeted by a rapidly evolving ed-tech landscape. Mr. Shirky, in a keynote speech kicking off this year’s...
View ArticleThe debt strike is the key weapon to restore popular power | via P2P Foundation
For every creditor there must be a debtor and both are necessary. While the creditors – the banks – have realised their power, the debtors – everyone else – haven’t. A glance at the level of private...
View ArticleThe Industrial Age is Dead – Time is the New Money
The Industrial Age taught us to value money above time. Giant Corporation, Inc. wanted you to focus on making money, not on having time to do anything with it. They needed all your time to run the...
View ArticleRadical Simplicity and the Middle-Class – Exploring the Lifestyle...
“How would the ordinary middle-class consumer – I should say middle-class citizen – deal with a lifestyle of radical simplicity? By radical simplicity I essentially mean a very low but biophysically...
View ArticleThe Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western...
Why is the brain divided? Despite much research and speculation, neurologists have struggled to make sense of hemisphere differences, or of their impact on human thought and experience. In this...
View ArticleImmigration Reform: Stop Ejecting the Brightest Minds From America
The xenophobia underlying current immigration policy has three consequences for the U.S. technology industry. First, the know-how for all sorts of new companies is being expelled from America. Second,...
View ArticlePopulation of world ‘could grow to 15bn by 2100′
Nearly 7 billion people now inhabit planet but projections that number will double this century have shocked academics… See on www.guardian.co.uk
View ArticleEdge Perspectives with John Hagel: The Big Shift: Challenge and Opportunity...
How are women affected by the longer-term changes that are transforming our business environment? This issue is rarely explored. Since I am on the edge anyway, I thought I would venture into this...
View ArticleARCHITECTING THE FUTURE-Hardin Tibbs, Keynote
Hardin Tibbs reflects on his influence from Buckminster Fuller, saying that he gave people the license to think “Big” and how he started his own journey along such lines. shared by David McConville...
View ArticleWhat if things would never be the same again …
“Now I’m not predicting Armageddon, but it’s obvious that we’re staring right in the face of change – not just here, but worldwide. The things you hold near and dear, may soon be gone. That security...
View ArticleAll in the Family: How family dynamics play out in the OWS movement
The current debate about the Occupy Wall Street movement and its foibles–its vague demands, “communist” leanings or “rag tag” participants–reminds me eerily of family dynamics that I have seen play out...
View ArticleYour New American Dream
”The looming fear whose name political leaders dare not speak is global depression, but that is not what we’re in for. The term suggests a temporary sidetrack from the smooth operation of integrated...
View ArticleCan Hydras Eat Unknown-Unknowns for Lunch?
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/03/22/can-hydras-eat-unknown-unknowns-for-lunch/ Venkat Rao 22 Mar 2012 Annotations: The general idea behind the Hydra narrative in a broad sense (not just what Taleb has...
View ArticleThe Absurd Creator
"Camus writes in The Myth of Sisiphus that 'the absurd joy par excellence is creation' (568). Having previously glorified the lives of action, conquerors, and lovers in the essay, it seems that all...
View ArticleToward a sane society
"Through the last century, observers such as John Maynard Keynes, Julien Huxley, Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Eric Sevareid regularly predicted that soon America would enter an age of leisure in which...
View ArticleThis video of Roberto Unger on Big Think is smart stuff
My takeaway on Unger’s view is that we’re too hung up on binary conceptions of change in society due to politics as usual and we fail to grasp the reality of our place in the situation (myself...
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