The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Weave: Participatory Process Design Guide What would the ideal strategic planning engagement look like? The Weave provides guidance for sustainability practitioners wishing to more deeply engage people in creating their sustainable future Via ddrrnt, David Hodgson Read full post, free download.
What is specific about the positioning of the P2P Foundation? “Like Oekonux, the P2P Foundation is a collective marked by diversity, but it also has dominant personalities and themes, with a substantial influence of the author of this article, who is also the initiator and founder of the initiative. So, when I make claims here …
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Freeters and their political impact “A Freeter (“a Japanese expression for people between the age of 15 and 34 who lack full time employment or are unemployed, excluding homemakers and students” – Wikipedia). Although the Japanese have coined a term for the group, they exist all over the world, and are a social force of …
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Gineagrotis: innovative farm+food renting connects citydwellers and farmers in Greece ‘The idea behind www.gineagrotis.gr (the name means ‘Become a farmer’) is straightforward: citydwellers rent a patch of land from a farmer, tell him what they would like grown on it, and get their own fresh vegetables delivered to them weekly. And unlike some services elsewhere, …
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Reciprocity, Not Reward, Drives Decision to Cooperate A new study suggests the decision to cooperate with others comes from someone’s mood and his or her history of cooperation. Via Nicholas Ripley Read full article. Phi Beta Iota: Cultural context, not organizational design, is the key factor.
Richly deserving of careful attention. The Emerging Fourth Sector The Three Traditional Sectors Businesses create and distribute goods and services that enhance our quality of life, promote growth, and generate prosperity. They spur innovation, reward entrepreneurial effort, provide a return on investment and constantly improve their performance responding to market feedbacks. They draw on the …
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We could build an open Twitter, but would anyone use it? Mathew Ingram GigaOm, Jul. 4, 2012 Amid the recent brouhaha over Twitter’s future — which some say is aimed at restricting what developers can do with the real-time information network, in an attempt to monetize it more easily — a number of critics have proposed …
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