Throughout history men and women have tried to create an ideal world made up of justice, peace, wealth, health, equality and dignity - free from suffering and fear and charged with a new meaning of coexistence, be it spiritual, philosophical and/or political....
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We can all make a difference | Jane Goodall
“When nature suffers, we suffer. And when nature flourishes, we all flourish. I do believe in the possibility of a world where we can live in harmony with nature, but only if every one of us does our part to make that world a reality. So that when you...
Read moreExcerpts from Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence
Image by John Hain from Pixabay. What follows is an excerpt by EE Magazine from a longer article originally published as Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence, by Daniel Christian Wahl. In Reflections on Evolutionary...
Read moreExploring the Future Beyond Cyberpunk’s Neon and Noir
From Afrofuturism to the New Weird, nine sci-fi subgenres for understanding what’s to come Source: Medium Daily Digest by Jay Owens “Cyberpunk” has been the go-to imagery of the future for a startlingly long time — Bruce Bethke’s short story of that name...
Read moreThe Highway or The Higherway / Documentary About Proposed Highway around Auroville
A highway is proposed to go though the intentional township of auroville.... This short documentary explores what this would mean.... https://www.auroville.o...
Read moreClean Up Drive at the Pondicherry Rock Beach_How personal initiatives changes a paradigma and creates mindfullness.
See how a casual morning walk of Lt. Governor Dr. Kiran Bedi on the Rock Beach of Puducherry turned into a cleanup drive giving rise to new strict guidelines to maintain beaches. See how a casual morning walk of Lt. Governor Dr. Kiran Bedi on the Rock...
Read moreYour environment could be changing your IQ on a genetic level, study finds
This is a hugely important link. The nature-versus-nurture argument of intelligence just got a lot more complicated with the discovery that the environment can modify the expression of a key gene in the brain, affecting intelligence far more than we previously...
Read moreThe Stages of Business Disruption’: Our new video on digital transformation
Deloitte Digital has released the video "The Stages of Business Disruption," which tells a story of business and digital transformation, providing insight as well as a laugh. Learn more: http://bit.ly/2aDo5qF
Read moreCoconat - a woraktion retreat
Coconat just turned 1, and wow, we have done a lot in that time. Here is a bit about what we are up to and what we are about. Written and narrated by Julianne Becker Coconat - Space for anyone to be inspired, concentrate, work, and play in the countr...
Read moreJacque Fresco - Values & Visions in the New Society
Full lecture: https://www.thevenusproject.com/product/jacque-fresco-values-visions-in-the-new-society/ Jacque Fresco speaks about the physical factors responsible for the way we react to the world around us. These determinants of our behavior are always...
Read morePlastic litter is prevented from entering the Sea. Floating parks realized by recycling the plastics to platforms.
Recycled park is the proposal to retrieve plastic waste from the river the Nieuwe Maas just before it reaches the North Sea. The plastics are recycled to give new value to the river. From the plastics we will construct floating platforms for a new green...
Read moreLow-rise planet. Measure in urban geography
We are deeply convinced that the best stimulus for work is a personal example. That's why we took paper and pencils and started creating sketches and notes that have later become the model of landscape-estate urbanization introduced in this video. We...
Read moreFloating University Berlin
From May to September 2018 raumlaborberlin will create a visionary inner city offshore laboratory for collective, experimental learning. With numerous partners we will experiment with knowledge transfers and the formation of transdisciplinary networks...
Read moreOur Responsibility in the Anthropocene
We live in a new epoch called the “Anthropocene”, in which human activity is the primary determinant for biosphere health. “There’s never been more reason to be nervous. There’s never been more reason to be hopeful.” ~ Johan Rockström, founding director...
Read more17 Organizations Promoting Regenerative Agriculture Around the Globe
Transitioning to more sustainable forms of agriculture remains critical, as many current agriculture practices have serious consequences including deforestation and soil degradation. But despite agriculture’s enormous potential to hurt the environment,...
Read moreMiracle moss removes arsenic from drinking water
The aquatic moss clears 80 percent of arsenic from a container of water in less than an hour. While it's not the responsibility of plants to clean up the mess we humans seem to make of the planet, it is certainly kind of them to show us how it's done....
Read moreUrban tiny house's versatile lounge comes with an elevator bed
Copyright TruForm Tiny The constraints of living in a small space mean finding inventive solutions to make the most of the space that is available. Some of these creative ideas include hiding storage in the stairs, under the sofa, or hiding the stairs...
Read moreWhat futures do we want to remember by 2025?
Learn more at: www.iam-weekend.com The complexity, lack of logic and apparent overwhelming nature of ‘current events’ (a.k.a. Trump, Brexit, Climate change, refugee crisis, nuclear vibes, etc) is derivating in a threatening hypernormalisation, full of...
Read moreArchitect Trupti Doshi speaking at IAD 2018
How Findhorn Eco-Village Serves Planet with Whole-Hearted Principles, Essence & Guidelines
In 2017’s newsletter with a Planet focus , I explored 2 prototypes for an Integral City – one was Durant, Oklahoma, and the other Findhorn Eco-Village, Scotland. A year later I find myself and Integral City endeavours relocated to Findhorn Eco-Village...
Read moreA wonderfully GOOD story from rural New Zealand_The Living in Peace Project
From our friend Brigitte right now on the road in New Zealand: Karamea. A community of 650 people in rural New Zealand. A small community with a big vision. Imagine if every traveller and every business took responsibility for their carbon footprint....
Read moreCELEBRATE WHAT’S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD! TEDtalk by Dewitt Jones
Are you discouraged by what's happening in the world today? THEN WATCH THIS! In minutes, you'll rediscover the wonders and possibilities that surround us everyday just waiting to be noticed and celebrated. Find out for yourself why former National Geographic...
Read moreIntegral City Prototypes for a Planet in Transition
People often ask what is an Integral City or which cities are Integral Cities? The answer often seems to disappoint them, in that you can say “Integral” is not an ideal for a city, but rather a framework for understanding the city as a human system in...
Read moreRethinking the domestic space with New York founder of TRNK, Tariq Dixon
As a design-conscious generation begins to domesticate, this online marketplace brings a professional’s mindset to our most personal spaces, New York City There are few cities where space is as precious as in New York. On the most literal level, this...
Read moreMinim now offers a tiny office on wheels
After visiting IIDEX, the big commercial interior show in Toronto, I noted, with tongue in cheek, that the office of the future was looking more and more like a collection of tiny homes. Lo and behold, the very next day I learn that Minim, who makes a...
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