The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Coordination Our economy is almost entirely based on a Darwinian competition–many products and services fighting for shelf space and market share and profits. It’s a wasteful process, because success is unpredictable and unevenly distributed. The internet has largely mirrored (and amplified) this competition. eBay, for example, not only pits sellers against one another, it also …
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Source Phi Beta Iota: The “true cost” footprint of any product or service is comprised of a combination of water, energy, toxins, climate change emissions, child labor, tax avoidance, and any other “costs” to be measured.
Phi Beta Iota: The videos are vastly better than the book at cutting to the chase. In our view his subtitle was poorly chosen–this is not about love, it is about trust and emotional or spiritual intuition. On that point, as a supporting note, see our review of The Hidden Wealth of Nations as well …
Is there an App for that? Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility as Virtual Currency Venessa Miemis | April 18, 2011 at 8:10 pm | Tags: corporate social responsibility, currency, sustainability | Categories: future of the web, projects | URL: http://wp.me/pswMe-ss I came across a few cool projects today that made me wonder when we’ll have …
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Trust and Networks Trust makes networks work. When trust is high among members of a network, there’s a wonderful cohesiveness and capacity to get work done. When trust is low and relationships are plagued by suspicion, networks collapse into brittle organizational structures that rarely offset their operational costs in real world outcomes. Trust builds living networks that …
Although making no reference to Buckminster Fuller and Medard Gabel that we could find, the International Futures Forum offers a useful series of pages on elements of the World Game that they work with. Here we publish the Twelve Factors and the underlying elements for each.
An astonishingly provocative potpourri of offerings, with no discernible low notes. A few samples: Happiness, Freedom, Equality, Rudeness: Welcome to Denmark! Key Trends of the Next 25 Years Why an Intelligence Explosion is Probable Which Ethical Theory Will Prevail in a Posthuman World? Francis Heylighen on the Emerging Global Brain
