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Event: 7-30 Sept 2010, San Diego CA, World Resources Simulation Center Demo

The philosophical foundation for The WRSC is in its founding premise stated as a question posed in R. Buckminster Fuller’s World Game™ simulation: “How do we make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone?” The World Resources Simulation Center (WRSC) …

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Worth a Look: Books on China in Africa

Africa and China are now immersed in their third and most transformative era of heavy engagement, one that promises to do more for economic growth and poverty alleviation than anything attempted by Western colonialism or international aid programs.Robert Rotberg and his Chinese, African, and other colleagues discuss this important trend and specify its likely implications. …

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Event: 11-12 Dec 09 Berkeley Springs WV Change Workshop with Don Beck and John Petersen

Explore the landscape of large-scale change and map the pathways to a future new world in an intense, hands-on, unprecedented workshop with Don Beck and John Petersen. Humanity is seeing the growing stress fractures of a global system undergoing extraordinary, historic change. Social systems are surfacing extreme responses to unprecedented threats to the status quo. …

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The Contested Commons

Michele Flournoy and Shawn Brimley U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings July 2009 Vol. 135/7/1,277 Two officials from the Office of the Secretary of Defense look at a changing and challenging world and what it means for the future of American power. The world is undergoing a profound and lasting shift in the relative balance of power …

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