The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
1. Simpol – John Bunzl – Interview Part One (April 15, 2009)
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See Simpol's Founder, John Bunzl, explain Simpol on Youtube, Part 1. (about 5 minutes) |
2. Simpol – John Bunzl – Interview Part Two (April 15, 2009)
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See Simpol's Founder, John Bunzl, explain Simpol on Youtube, Part 2. (about 5 minutes) |
Digging Deeper, Seeing Farther: Supercomputers Alter Science
By JOHN MARKOFF
New York Times, April 25, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO — Inside a darkened theater a viewer floats in a redwood forest displayed with Imax-like clarity on a cavernous overhead screen.
The hovering sensation gives way to vertigo as the camera dives deeper into the forest, approaches a branch of a giant redwood tree, and then plunges first into a single leaf and then into an individual cell. Inside the cell the scene is evocative of the 1966 science fiction movie “Fantastic Voyage,” in which Lilliputian humans in a minuscule capsule take a medical journey through a human body.
There is an important difference — “Life: A Cosmic Journey,” a multimedia presentation now showing at the new Morrison Planetarium here at the California Academy of Sciences, relies not just on computer animation techniques, but on a wealth of digitized scientific data as well.
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Call for mandatory sustainable reporting
By Ruth Sullivan
Financial Times, April 24 2011
Sustainability experts have called on global regulators to ask companies to report on their sustainable policy and performance, disclosing results in a similar way to financial reporting.
“A ‘report or explain’ approach could persuade more companies to report rather than explain why they don’t,” said Teresa Fogelberg, deputy chief executive of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
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About 4,000 global companies report their sustainability performance, using reporting guidelines recently updated by the GRI.
These focus on 79 issues including consulting stakeholders on important topics, human rights, the impact on local communities and gender matters.
whether talking about a intelligent knowledge infrastructure, robert's global brain, or suresh's project matching for climate change initiatives, this article seemed useful.
Noah Raford
Large-scale participatory futures systems
Futurescaper is an online tool for making sense of the drivers, trends and forces that will shape the future. As a user interface system, it is horrible. As a tool for analyzing and understanding complex systems, it works pretty well. Several people asked me about this after my last post, so here is some more detail.
Following the logic of collective intelligence (as part of my my PhD), I broke up the the scenario thinking process into discrete chunks, came up with a system for analyzing and relating them together, and then distilled them into key outputs for helping the scenario development process: 1) Emergent Thematic Maps 2) Revealing Hidden Connections 3) Drilling Down
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The Three Systems, an Overview
The first system is called “Futurescaper” and was developed in partnership with the International Futures Forum (IFF), Tony Hodgson and my friend Nathan Koren. This was piloted on a project for the UK Government, exploring secondary and tertiary impacts of climate change.
The second system is called “SenseMaker Scenarios.” This uses a customized version of Cognitive Edge’s SenseMaker Suite to aggregate micro-stories about the future into themes and patterns for scenario generation. This was done with Dave Snowden and Wendy Schultz, and was unveiled at the 2010 RAHS conference in Singapore.
The third system is called “FogCatcher”, and was developed with Anab Jain and Jon Ardern from Superflux. This was based on a modified version of Jerome C. Glenn’s futures wheel, combined with a “hot or not” style cross-impact analysis engine. As before, this approach benefited greatly from previous conversations with my colleagues above, but also from others such as Andrew Curry of the Futures Company, Emile Hooge of Nova7, Indy Johar of 00:/research, Vinay Gupta and others.
All three projects are still in continuous development and available for experimental project use.
Utah State University. Professor in the Department of Environment & Society, (Social conflict in environmental issues, human responses to climate change and environmental degradation, human uses of energy and resources).
“We Need An Adult Conversation–Our Political System is Dysfunctional”
Review: The Collapse of Complex Societies
Worth a Look: Book Review Lists (Positive)
Worth a Look: Book Review Lists (Negative)
FEATURED (2010):
Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter (1 of 7)
Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter (2 of 7)
Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter (3 of 7)
Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter (4 of 7)
Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter (5 of 7) (Conclusions)
Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter (6 of 7) (Q&A)
Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter (7 of 7) (Q&A)
Tip of the Hat to newculture at YouTube for gifted uploads.
Found and recommended by Contributing Editor Lucius.
Phi Beta Iota: There are no challenges that cannot be addressed with a combination of collective intelligence and individual integrity. Infinite free energy, and the eradication of waste across all industries, are immediately achievable if (big if) the public will reengage in its own governance.
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In Oakland, A Creative Strategy for Financing the City's Solar Roofs
Using a new “crowdfunding” program called Solar Mosaic, the city is selling solar tiles to locals for $100 a pop and installing them on public buildings
By Maria Gallucci, SolveClimate News
Apr 22, 2011
The city of Oakland, Calif., is getting its residents to help build out a clean energy economy, one solar tile at a time.
By selling 5,000 tiles at $100 each to locals, the city is aiming to piece together entire rooftop solar arrays at seven budget-strapped schools, youth centers and houses of worship. A team of Oaklanders will be trained and hired to install the panels by as early as July.
The city's efforts are part of a pilot program called Solar Mosaic, a web-based marketplace for community solar initiatives that launched on April 15.
Using the “crowdfunding” model, residents can help generate energy savings and scale back greenhouse gas emissions without having to shell out tens of thousands of dollars for a solar installation at home.
Phi Beta Iota: The existing tax system in the USA is so corrupt it must be abolished. The public is now ready for line-item crowd-sourcing and the fully-transparent Automated Payments/Transaction Tax.
