Category: Worth A Look

There is a craft to uprising—and this craft can change the world

From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and #BlackLivesMatter, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. When mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media consistently portrays them as being spontaneous and unpredictable. Yet, in this book, Mark and Paul Engler look at the hidden art behind such outbursts of protest, examining core principles that have been used to spark and guide moments of transformative unrest.

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This is a ‘Whole Earth Catalog' for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what's wrong with our societies, organizations, ideologies, worldviews and cultures – and how to put them right. The book covers the finance system, agriculture, design, ecology, economy, sustainability, organizations and society at large. In this remarkable book, Daniel Wahl explores ways in which we can reframe and understand the crises that we currently face, and he explores how we can live our way into the future. Moving from patterns of thinking and believing to our practice of education, design and community living, he systematically shows how we can stop chasing the mirage of certainty and control in a complex and unpredictable world.

Financial Tribune

First Iranian English Economics Daily

Includes International, National, Economy, Energy, World Economy, People, Art & Culture

To make it attractive, engaging, transparent, effective and trustworthy

No one body is responsible for managing our world. No body at all has the responsibility for designing a better system for managing our world. There are no global leaders with a duty to look after the common interests of all the people on Planet Earth.

Our world is being run by a bickering group of national governments and others pursuing their own local, personal, business and resource interests. These interests often do not accord with the values or desires of their populations and almost never accord with the values and desires of the populations outside their areas.

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Killing the Caterpillar: Competing Worldviews at the Chrysalis Stage of Humanity

Phi Beta Iota: Excellent essay well worth reading.  Read essay.

The Collapse of Western Civilization, Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, Columbia University Press, 2014

Terra Nova: Global Revolution and the Healing of Love, Dieter Duhm, Verlag Meiga Press, 2015

Nodesphere is an ambitious project designed to connect the data sources that we care most about into a single unified dashboard:

• Our social networks
• Our curated collections
• Our sensemaking information

Nodesphere is a collection of isomorphic visualization-style interfaces. Each interface has particular strengths, so the user can switch between interfaces depending upon the data set and the desired interaction style.