Booming bamboo: The next super-material?
Bamboo is now used for construction, textiles and energy production – could this humble grass become a 21st Century super-material? See on www.bbc.co.uk
View ArticleHow solar power can help the billion people without electricity
One of the major opportunities lies in providing energy access for the more than 1.2 billion people who don’t have electricity, most of whom, in business-as-usual scenarios, still won’t have it in...
View ArticleRio Plus 20: What Prospects for the Next UN Mega-Conference?
There is growing global sentiment that the era of grand multilateral treaty-making is over. Recurrent disputes over burden-sharing, and the specter of national vetoes, tends to tie negotiators into...
View ArticleThe Shared Patterns of Indigenous Culture, Permaculture and Digital Commons
I love the idea of “catchment in webs of trust” – Blais’ idea that extended networks of trust can begin to harness flows of energy within a group of people. The community can then become a generative...
View ArticleOpportunities and challenges for a sustainable energy future
Access to clean, affordable and reliable energy has been a cornerstone of the world’s increasing prosperity and economic growth since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Our use of energy in...
View ArticleAnnouncing: Emerging Leader Labs: A Social Incubator Running on the Gift Economy
The premise is pretty straightforward: There are plenty of passionate, driven people who want to make cool ideas and projects happen. Access to resources (especially, money) is often a large barrier to...
View ArticleWe’re All Climate-Change Idiots
CLIMATE CHANGE is staring us in the face. The science is clear, and the need to reduce planet-warming emissions has grown urgent. So why, collectively, are we doing so little about it? Yes, there are...
View ArticleAn economy that serves people and nature, not the other way around
Snippets from Christine Milne’s speech at the National Press Club in Canberra. 26 Sep 2012 “The economy is a tool; a tool we humans invented – like democracy and politics – to help govern our...
View ArticleSustainable Energy Roadmaps | Worldwatch Institute
Transitioning from a carbon-intensive economy to a low-carbon future presents challenges and opportunities for developing countries. The Sustainable Energy Roadmaps help countries successfully navigate...
View ArticleLove and Creation
+George Pór I'm mulling your question concerning how love might show up in hosting of this community with an "energy and attitude of sustained dedication to the well-being and evolution of whatever...
View ArticleSlow into Flow : Clarity in Confusion
We value “doing” far more than achieving. In fact, we confuse “doing” with achieving.….As counter-intuitive as it sounds, sometimes we really do need to slow down, take time to clear our minds, feed...
View ArticleThe real breakthrough of Google Glass: controlling the internet of things
See on Scoop.it – Web of Things Many of the first apps for Google Glass will be about consuming and sharing content on the go. But what if Google Glass could unlock control over the world of the...
View ArticleCities Are the Future of Human Evolution
See on Scoop.it – Arrival Cities Humans began to live in urban settlements about 7 thousand years ago. As humans continued to evolve over the millennia, so too did our cities. Now that the majority...
View ArticleRethinking our country’s planning : A need for a new urban form
See on Scoop.it – Arrival Cities Mauritius is an island of promise and of prosperity, an island symbolising dreams of brighter tomorrows. … a new ordered urban form is strongly needed: one that...
View ArticleAn evolving ecological view: Order grows
“An evolving ecological view is very different. Order grows. To get new order you need three things: constraints, fluctuations, and energy. No fluctuations, no seeds for the next round of growth. No...
View ArticleBig Data will destroy you: Techno-jitters
Once self-copying memes had arisen, their own, much faster, kind of evolution took off. – Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene Dominic Basulto imagines that digital devices are a kind of primordial soup...
View ArticleTechnology and the Intelligence of Nature
See on Scoop.it – The Next Edge Charles Eisenstein shares his concerns about how pervasive the ‘technology will fix it’ mentality has become, and proposes an entirely different approach to healing our...
View ArticleFollowing Drucker : Adapting to the Big Shift
Hagel writes of Drucker, In the 1960s and 1970s, he was already anticipating some of the implications of the Big Shift just beginning to emerge: the transition to an information economy, the centrality...
View ArticleUrban resilience in a time of change – Colombes
See on Scoop.it – Arrival Cities Agrocité is an urban agriculture programme in the suburb of Colombes, which is an underprivileged town of 84,000 inhabitants near the city of Paris. The pilot programme...
View ArticleCooperatives as Business Models of the Future
See on Scoop.it – Arrival Cities Cooperatives as Business Models of the Future – When the International Year of Cooperatives (IYC) concluded last week, some of the overwhelming success stories...
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