The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Forget the ‘sharing economy': technology is about to usher in the ‘circular' economy
A ‘circular supply chain’ using technology can achieve sustainable production and business growth
An open, networked business-to-business platform that connects entire supply chains can serve as the enabler for progressive enterprises with the foresight to seize the opportunity.
Continue reading “Jean Lievens: Forget Sharing — Go Circular Economy”
Imagining how the world could be … a project for living in harmony with nature and ourselves.
The Alternative – Rainbow Crystal Land
EXTRACT
We are searching for an alternative way of doing things, free from the violence, corruption, fear, oppression, injustice, poverty, consumerism, the abuse of power and the destruction of nature of “the mainstream”. Weare seeking an alternative system of true freedom, dignity and equality and a life in peace with ourselves, in peace with each other and in peace with Mother Earth. We are creating an alternative way for our big family of human beings to organise ourselves, to live in oneness with nature and to fulfil the basic needs of everyone.
Is Urban Farming taking off? Here's a documentary about the Urban Farming Guys in Kansas City…
Check Out What the Urban Farming Guys Have Been Doing the Last 3 Years. You're Gonna Be Amazed.
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Continue reading “Sepp Hasslberger: Urban Farming in Kansas”
GEN International Newsletter January 2015
Ecovillage Transition Strategies for Whole Systems Change
This book shows us once again why Patrick Meier is a thought leader in leveraging emerging technologies for social impact. His book captures the enormous possibilities and avoidable pitfalls of big data, social media and artificial intelligence in crisis contexts. Digital humanitarians can be powerful agents for social change but ground-truthing what we see and hear digitally is more important than ever.
—Aleem Walji, Chief Innovation Advisor, Leadership, Learning, and Innovation, World Bank Group
Phi Beta Iota: The book title and description from the publisher are misleading. This is not a book about Big Data. It is a book about distributed human networks using open source information technologies to achieve situational awareness with a speed and precision that the entire US secret intelligence community (which costs $100 billion a year) cannot match.
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Beautiful Woven Refugee Tents Get Their Power from the Sun
Designer Abeer Seikaly has developed a practical yet elegant solution to the need for lightweight, mobile, and structurally sound shelters for disaster zones.
The Canadian-Jordanian's Weaving a Home project not only provides flexible, transportable shelter, but also incorporates water collection, solar power generation and solar water heating into the design.
Each tent has its own water collection system, utilizing the natural channels formed by the skin to direct water to the storage point. By using a fabric with strong thermal properties, the tents can alsoconvert solar radiation into power and heat collected water for showering.
