via Medium Cooperation Blog by Beth Comstock Picture pixabay CC0 As we pass the tipping point toward a world fast enough and interconnected enough to be dominated by emergent systems, our methods of making decisions, and the tools available to help us...
Read moreOpen Enspiral: Lessons from a Participatory Network
Reflections about self-management, growing a network and scaling culture via Enliving Edge By Lisa Gill and originally published on medium.com Enspiral is a collective of people founded by a freelance developer called Joshua Vial in Wellington, New Zealand,...
Read moreAn Italian Coffee Giant On The Future Of Sustainability
via FastCompany by Cale Guthrie Weissman Picture pixabay Lizenz CC0 The chairman of the coffee roaster Illy talks about the future of business and why corporations need to care about sustainability. Illy is perhaps one of the most recognized coffee businesses...
Read moreThe Power of Thinking Big: IBM Research’s “5 in 5”
Source IBM THINK Blog Written by: Arvind Krishna, Ph.D. Great scientific leaps rarely happen incrementally. They come from setting big, ambitious goals that move discovery forward. Think of the Wright brothers’ determination to fly, President John F....
Read moreAuroville, The City The Earth Needs
Shot as an introduction to Auroville and produced for educational purpose, this film explores a unique adventure dedicated to human unity. After presenting a text of The Mother known "A Dream", it recalls the origins of Auroville. It then weaves together...
Read moreOslo, Norway, is giving residents $1200 toward purchasing an electric cargo bike
via treehugger by Derek Markham (@derekmarkham) One way to move toward a cleaner, greener city is through offering citizens financial incentives to get out of their cars and onto two wheels. Getting around on a bicycle can be an excellent way to clean...
Read moreSPACE10 open sources The Growroom
Source website space 10 The Growroom in all its glory. Photo by Alona Vibe The design for The Growroom, an urban farm pavilion that looks into how cities can feed themselves through food producing architecture, is now open source and available for anyone...
Read moreOrpheus Chamber Orchestra without a conductor _They call it: The Orpheus Process™:
Source Orpheus Chamber Orchester website Orpheus demonstrated its conductorless ability to render the complex scores with taut precision and feverish excitement. — The New York Times From the Stanford Live brochure, “Orpheus rotates musical leadership...
Read moreFour Myths About Conventional Leadership
By Susanna Carman originally published Meta Integral Academy Last week I sat in on a ‘culture session’ for a business made up of entrepreneurs facing constrained revenue growth. An external expert was brought in to facilitate communication amongst key...
Read moreHolding Space as An Essential Leadership Capacity
via Business Focalizing Blog by Barry Lipscomb Otto Scharmer, senior lecturer at MIT and founding chair of the Presencing Institute, has said that “holding space is the single most important leadership capacity going forward. Hearing this, I realized...
Read moreNew Greener Skylines: The Rise of Wooden Skyscrapers
These wooden skyscraper designs are more sustainable, less expensive, and consume less fossil fuel to build and maintain.
Read moreLiquid Organisation: People Driven Disruption
By Stelio Verzera originally published in youtube After a whole century of Tayloristic management of hierarchical and bureaucratic organisations, it’s time to evolve farther. Let’s learn how to have leadership and competences emerge, to let merit really...
Read moreThe MapMakersWorld blog Newsletter 02/17
The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman , who died in January of this year, described the novel flexibility and contingency of our living conditions 15 years ago as "liquid". According to Bauman, we are in ...
Read moreThe Top Three Nonprofit Jobs Of The Future
Quelle Fastcompany by Amy Sample Ward The nonprofit world kicked off 2017 with a bang and, in some cases, a much bigger budget. That's creating some job openings. For many in the nonprofit world, 2017 kicked off with a bang. The American Civil Liberties...
Read moreFrom Me to We
Source IONS Blog Author Millie Robertson Empathy is not a passive emotion. While we are born with the potential for empathy, it must also not only be learned, but actively practiced to maintain the ability to understand and appreciate things from someone...
Read moreBowl-shaped roofs harvest rainwater to naturally cool homes in arid environments
(Source: trueactivist.com; January 31, 2017;Grafic Credit: BMDesign Studios http://tinyurl.com/h7x8cvc) This intriguing concept collects rainwater and cools homes in desertic climates.Water scarcity is a conundrum that affects every continent. Approximately...
Read moreAsia's first vertical forest is being built in China and will produce 132 pounds of oxygen every day
(Source: collective-evolution.com; February 8, 2017; http://tinyurl.com/z7pgcy8) Every year, more and more people move out of the country and into cities, causing megacity air pollution to rapidly become hazardous to both the environment and public health....
Read moreEcovillages — A Leading Edge for Sustainability
via website New Story Hub “The web of life is sacred, and we’re part of that web. Since the prevailing story says humans are separate from the rest of life, how can we (re)find ourselves in that web? ~ Political Science Professor Karen Litfin, author...
Read moreMeeting Donald Trump_Richard Branson
source VIRGIN website by Richard Branson Some years ago, Mr Trump invited me to lunch for a one-to-one meeting at his apartment in Manhattan. We had not met before and I accepted. Even before the starters arrived he began telling me about how he had asked...
Read moreshared rides for Berlin_allygator shuttle
via allygator shuttle website Our mission We dream of a car free city where space is for people and not for parking. Our allygator shuttle is driving the way towards car-free cities. Attitudes within the mobility sector are changing, opening the way for...
Read moreIndia’s Auroville Shows the Way in Green Living
Johanna Treblin copyright Deutsche Welle Global Ideas (Photos by Maja Mueller + Hans-Peter Kraus) Summers on the eastern Indian coast are hot and dusty with temperatures often shooting up to 40 degrees Celsius. The red sand in this eastern part of the...
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