Dada Gunamuktananda: Yogi and Meditation Teacher Bio: Dada Gunamuktananda has trained in meditation, yoga and natural health sciences in Australia, the Philippines and India. He has been a meditation teacher of Ananda Marga since 1995 and has taught and...
Read moreGERMAN NIGHT_#tomaketheworldabetterplate
via Über den Tellerrand kochen GERMAN NIGHT A few days ago, we had our first community meeting in our almost finished #KitchenHub, learned about different culinary areas and traditions in Germany and prepared and tasted together delicious "Grießklösschensuppe"...
Read moreWhat is Consciousness?
via uplift By Sadhguru on Sunday October 18th, 2015 Original posted by ISHA A Mystic's Perspective “Consciousness” is a highly abused word, used in many different ways. First of all, let me define what we refer to as consciousness. You are a combination...
Read more550 Sq. Ft. Prefab Timber Cabin
via goodshomedesign Are you looking for a tiny cabin that doesn’t require a lot of time and effort to be ready? The people from FabCab already thought about a nice option for you. The tiny house is called TimberCab 550 and it is a prefab timber cabin...
Read moreAn old coal mine was turned into a vast universe made out of plants and stones
via inhabitat by Michelle Kennedy Hogan That better use for an old coal mine than a whole new universe? This is just what the Duke of Buccleuch and architect Charles Jencks did with an open cast coal mine located within Scotland’s Lowther Hills. The 22-hectare...
Read moreMeet Rufus Pollock, Founder of Open Knowledge
Open Knowledge Founder Rufus Pollock was recently recognized as Ashoka UK’s fellow of the month. This brief video highlights his thoughts on open knowledge, and his vision for an information age grounded in openness, collaboration, sharing, and distributed...
Read moreHolacracy: Disrupting Management Hierarchy
Originally written by Brian Robertson, HolacracyOne, partner & co-founder via enliving edge If you’re old enough to remember the days when most PCs ran MS-DOS, consider the leap in capabilities that came with a new operating system like Windows. Your...
Read moreNSFAQ* from Muna Wagner: "What’s (your) work worth?"
Column from Muna Wagner *NSFAQ "Not So Frequently Asked Qiestions" „What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn’t know the market price...
Read moreMovie: Summer in UTOPIA_Freetown Christiania
Summer in Utopia is the story of a hippie anarchist community founded in 1971 in downtown Copenhagen, where more than 900 inhabitants currently live an alternative, communal lifestyle without private property. In recent years, they have been fighting...
Read moreMovie: Within the Flow of Life
Director: Margit Atzler | Producer: Margit Atzler, Roman Sorger Genre: Documentary | Produced In: 2012 | Story Teller's Country: Austria Synopsis: Within the flow of life is a film about the equilibrium on earth, between nature, mankind, politics and...
Read moreDesign driven Innovation! Changing the rules by design innovation!
by Hans-Peter Kraus The first insight and perhaps the most important is that the new innovation does not come from the market, even if it can create huge markets (ipad, Smartphone, TESLA…). It looks to me that the new way of innovation is driven by a...
Read moreTeam Up_Dolphins Help Fishermen Catch Fish
By Rebecca Endicott via Littlethings.com This Incredible Video Proves That Dolphins Are The Sheepdogs Of The Ocean We humans have been pretty much the top of the heap, species-wise, for the past 200,000 years or so. However, while humankind might be the...
Read moreWant to innovate? Become a "now-ist"
via TED Joi Ito is the director of the MIT Media Lab. “Remember before the internet?” asks Joi Ito. “Remember when people used to try to predict the future?” In this engaging talk, the head of the MIT Media Lab skips the future predictions and instead...
Read moreHistory:May 1968 events in France_ just a revolution?
via Blog Martin Armstrong That year was a tremendously volatile period of civil unrest in France. May 1968 was highlighted by demonstrations and massive general strikes. Students, not the elderly, staged occupations of universities and factories across...
Read moreGaiaeducation:Design for Sustainability E-learning Programmes
Our dynamic online study programme is our flagship offering. It encapsulates all the essential knowledge and experience found in the most successful sustainable community projects and transitions globally. It is a more comprehensive journey than the one...
Read moreHundreds of Thousands March in Berlin Against TTIP Trade Deal
via Common Dreams staff Hundreds of thousands of people rallied on Saturday afternoon in the German capital against the massive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) accord being negotiated by the European Union and the United States....
Read moreEveryday Heroes: Forest Man
Since the 1970's Majuli islander Jadav Payeng has been planting trees in order to save his island. To date he has single handedly planted a forest larger than Central Park NYC. His forest has transformed what was once a barren wasteland, into a lush oasis....
Read moreUnconditional Basic Income – an Economic Model for a New Renaissance
By Elizabeth Edgett via wake up world How can we solve poverty and boost the economy without causing massive environmental damage? Here’s how. It’s called a Unconditional Basic Income (UBI). The fundamental challenge today is that we need redefine the...
Read moreWe eliminated Management ...see what happens
by Edwin Jansen fiitzi Blog Why We Got Rid of Management It all started when we came across an amazing book called Reinventing Organizations, by Frederic Laloux, which details the practices of 12 thriving organizations who replaced traditional hierarchical...
Read moreNew Solar Wind Downdraft Tower Could Revolutionize Wind Power Technology
via inhabitat A revolutionary new clean energy technology is getting set to change the way we think about wind power. The Solar Wind Downdraft Tower, created by Maryland-based Solar Wind Energy Inc. turns the traditional wind turbine design on its head...
Read moreChildren of the Fifth World by P. M. H. Atwater
A Guide to the Coming Changes in Human Consciousness The past 30 years have seen a quantum leap in the intuitive, creative, and abstract thinking abilities of children as well as an unprecedented rise in incidences of ADHD, dyslexia, and autism spectrum...
Read moreTED_Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids
via TED Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs "childish" thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to learn from children as much...
Read moreSweden is shifting to a 6-hour work day
via sciencealert Despite research telling us it’s a really bad idea, many of us end up working 50-hour weeks or more because we think we’ll get more done and reap the benefits later. And according to a study published last month involving 600,000 people,...
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