Graphic: Global Water Stress in 2050
03 Environmental Degradation, 12 Water, Earth Orientation, Policies-Harmonization, Strategy-Holistic CoherenceGraphic: Water Stress & Biodiversity Threat
03 Environmental Degradation, 12 Water, Earth Orientation, Policies-Harmonization, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
Graphic: Water Stress After Technology
03 Environmental Degradation, 12 Water, Earth Orientation, Policies-Harmonization, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
Google Owns You…What’s Your Problem?
Advanced Cyber/IO, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, IO MappingGoogle Memo Reveals Importance of Android Location Database
Just how important is location-based data to Google? Just how important is it for the sun to rise each morning? Same deal.
This question comes in the wake of eyes turning toward mobile handsetsāspecifically, Apple's iPhone and smartphones based on Google's Android OSāfor the information they collect about the various wireless access points and cell phone towers the devices connect to (or notice) throughout the course of a given day.
Australia Considers Switch to Danish Monarchy
Offbeat FunA Danish monarchy may suit our needs better
Sydney Morning Herald, May 2, 2011
With the royal wedding once again bringing the Australian republic debate to the surface, I've realised that another recent royal wedding brings an interesting third option to the table. Australia could stay as a monarchy but change its allegiance to the Danish crown. After all, the crown princess and likely future Queen of Denmark is Australian, and the future heirs to the Danish throne will all have Australian heritage. The same cannot be said for the House of Windsor.
There are other advantages too. Denmark has had a carbon tax since 1992, their economy has not gone broke, and instead they have grown to become a leader in renewable energy technologies. Perhaps they can help us with ours.
Copenhagen is a nicer city than London, and the Danes don't whinge as much. It would give us a reason to move our capital to Hobart, which is much nicer than Canberra.
For the foodies, Denmark has the world's best restaurant. Perhaps the only downside is that the Danes don't take cricket seriously enough.
Adam Micolich Redfern
Integrity, lacking in the White House…..
Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency, Media
The hip, transparent and social media-loving Obama administration is showing its analog roots. And maybe even some hypocrisy highlights.
White House officials have banished one of the best political reporters in the country from the approved pool of journalists covering presidential visits to the Bay Area for using now-standard multimedia tools to gather the news.
The Chronicle's Carla Marinucci – who, like many contemporary reporters, has a phone with video capabilities on her at all times –shot some protesters interrupting an Obama fundraiser at the St. Regis Hotel.
Update: In a pants-on-fire moment, the White House press office today denied anyone there had issued threats to remove Carla Marinucci and possibly other Hearst reporters from the press pool covering the President in the Bay Area.
Chronicle editor Ward Bushee called the press office on its fib:
Thereās Something Happening Hereā¦[or Not]
Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Thereās Something HappeningĀ Hereā¦
May 1, 2011
by Venessa Miemis
I came across this post from Dave Pollard via Twitter the other day, and found it so provocative that I am compelled to crosspost. (I emailed Dave and he gave me his permission.) After I retweeted it, a few people wrote back saying it was overly pessimistic and doom-and-gloomy, but after looking through some of Daveās other posts, he seems to actually be quite optimistic that the power of local community and resilience can āsave the world.ā Some other posts of his work checking out ā A Framework for Personal Action, How to Save the World Reading List, and a really neat list of 65 Essential Abilities for a Relocalized World. Anyway, the piece just made me go āhmmm,ā so I wanted to share. The original can be found here.
Phi Beta Iota: We agree with the deep dismay, we do not agree with the forecast.
The ONE THING that is agile and resilient in the face of catstrophic complexity is the human brain–all of them, all the time.
Industrial Era governments and corporations and non-governmental organizations are now pathologically inept, and must be replaced by hybrid networks that share information and achieve sustainable progress through trust and consensus.
