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• Consciousness -- the final frontier | Dada Gunamuktananda | TEDx

  27 October 2015 ( #Consciousness, #Awarness, #Wisdom, #innermanagement, #LiveWork )

  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...

• Meet Rufus Pollock, Founder of Open Knowledge

  21 October 2015 ( #Paradigm Shift, #Pionier, #Social Enterprise, #Cultural Creatives, #Consciousness )

  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...

• Everyday Heroes: Forest Man

  12 October 2015 ( #Environment, #Nature, #Pionier, #Awarness, #Consciousness )

  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....

• Architecture Workshop CREATIVE COMMUNITIES building.future.cities

  26 November 2019 ( #Architecture-Cityplaning, #Art, #Change, #Community, #Culture, #Design, #Environment, #Future, #History, #Ideas, #Paradigm Shift, #Sustainability, #Technic, #Urbanism )

  - creative-communities-invitation-lettre_20191107.pdf „Man is the measure of all things.“ Protagoras If there are no reliable constants and truths, if the individual is the point of all reference, scale, and orientation, how can architecture, with its...

• Revolutionary “Superman” Memory Crystals Can Store Data Virtually Forever

  02 February 2016 ( #Science, #Paradigm Shift, #Innovation )

  via inhabitat by Beth Buczynskl While most of us are just getting used to the idea of 3D printing, scientists are already working on technological marvels that operate two dimensions deeper. Researchers at the University of Southampton have succeeded...

• This physicist says consciousness could be a new state of matter

  11 October 2016 ( #Consciousness, #Science, #Ideas, #Paradigm Shift, #Change )

  Consciousness isn’t something scientists like to talk about much. You can’t see it, you can’t touch it, and despite the best efforts of certain researchers, you can’t quantify it. And in science, if you can’t measure something, you’re going to have a...

• How Hyperconnected Cities Are Taking Over the World

  20 September 2016 ( #Science, #Architecture-Cityplaning, #Paradigm Shift )

  via CITYLAB by Tanvi Misra In the medieval period, empires battled and colluded with each other in the quest for land. The resulting system, in which nations became the main actors on the global stage, is perhaps the one most of us know best. But it’s...

• Is It Too Late to Unf**k the Climate?

  16 December 2015 ( #Nature, #Ecology, #Sustainability, #Science, #Paradigm Shift )

  via GEN Global Ecovillage Network Important video about what we need to do now. What will be your catalyst for change, where will you draw the line? "The real problem is our modern industrial way of live depends on an abusive relationship to the earth....

• The Fourth Phase of Water: Dr. Gerald Pollack at TEDxGuelphU

  16 May 2017 ( #Science, #Pionier, #Nature )

  Does water have a fourth phase, beyond solid, liquid and vapor? University of Washington Bioengineering Professor Gerald Pollack answers this question, and intrigues us to consider the implications of this finding. Not all water is H2O, a radical departure...

• Vo Trong Nghia Unveils Towering Bamboo Lotus Pavilion for the World Expo 2015

  30 April 2015 ( #Architecture-Cityplaning, #Technic, #Culture, #Future, #Economy )

  Vo Trong Nghia‘s lotus pavilion was inspired by local flora, but it holds a universal message. “Growing from the muddy ponds it rises above the surface to bloom with remarkable beauty. The flower is proof that patience can turn difficulties into advantages,”...

• Dark Matter and the Astounding Interconnectedness of Everything

  15 November 2015 ( #Science, #Nature, #Consciousness )

  Lisa Randall via onbeing “Our world is rich,” Lisa Randall has written, “so rich that two of the most important questions particle physicists ask are: Why this richness? How is all the matter that I see related?” As one of the most influential theoretical...

• Seeing Beauty: a Necessary Skill for the Future

  13 November 2015 ( #Future, #Awarness, #Community, #Cultural Creatives, #Civilization )

  By Eleanor Young via overgrowthesystem And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to everything? And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for? And have you changed your life? One only needs to watch the evening news or scroll the...

• Happiness as a competitive advantage

  05 November 2015 ( #Consciousness, #innermanagement, #LeadershipCulture, #Entrepreneur, #Education )

  by Ken Norton Happiness and positive psychology expert Shawn Achor talked about his research of (mostly unhappy) Harvard students. Achor’s research indicates that only ten percent of our happiness is shaped by our external world; ninety percent is influenced...

• Startup Lab workshop:Meetings that don’t suck

  05 November 2015 ( #LeadershipCulture, #LiveWork, #innermanagement, #Paradigm Shift, #Awarness )

  by Ken Norton This article was originally published at TechCrunch. For most of us, and certainly for most of your team, meetings are the least productive part of our day. Yet too many brilliant people are stuck in too many meetings. Meeting cultures begat...

• What causes wellness | Sir Harry Burns | TEDxGlasgow

  11 November 2016 ( #Economy, #Awarness, #Social Enterprise, #Change, #Culture )

  This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. How can meaning and purpose contribute to one's wellbeing? Sir Harry Burns explores the concept of salutogenesis and the impact it has on the most disadvantaged...

• From ‘smart cities’ to ‘smart citizens’: when technology meets activism

  20 April 2017 ( #Architecture-Cityplaning, #Paradigm Shift, #Science, #Future, #Technic, #LiveWork, #Change, #Sustainability, #Ecology, #Environment, #Civilization, #Community, #Share Economy, #Urbanism, #Design )

  The emergence of ‘smart cities’ came as a step forward in the deployment of technology to improve our cities, and therefore our lives. It didn’t take us long to realise the dangers of allowing private companies to get access to one of our most precious...

• This Incubator Is Creating The Next Generation Of Farmers

  22 April 2017 ( #Pionier, #Future, #Paradigm Shift, #Sustainability, #Ecology, #Education, #Environment, #Nature, #Community, #Share Economy, #Integral, #Ethic, #Cooperative-Manufactory, #Indigenous, #History )

  By providing free training and support to socially disadvantaged, aspiring agricultural entrepreneurs, FARMroots is diversifying the (very old, very white) industry. via FC Newsletter By Eillie Anzilotti (photo Chris Wayne) As a child, Chris Wayne grew...

• Why are there USB drives sticking out of the walls of New York buildings?_Dead Drops!

  19 June 2015 ( #Cultural Creatives, #Change, #Technic )

  'Dead Drops' is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug...

• The Shift from CONsumers to PROsumers

  18 June 2015 ( #Paradigm Shift, #Economy, #Entrepreneur, #LeadershipCulture, #Cultural Creatives )

  Source Susan Gunelius , Contributor via Forbes blog As the social web has grown and tools like Twitter, blogs, Facebook and YouTube have allowed communications to flow faster and farther than ever before — inevitably causing the world to shrink and real-time...

• German Company Offers Free Hot Water and Heating from the Cloud

  29 May 2015 ( #Technic, #Ecology, #Sustainability )

  by Timon Singh, While data centers are useful, Cloud&Heat’s heating angle has raised some eyebrows. On the surface, it looks like a slam-dunk for businesses, but there are hidden costs. Interested companies first have to pay up for a fire-proof cabinet,...

• Robert Reich: In our horrifying future, very few people will have work or make money

  21 May 2015 ( #Future, #Economy, #Paradigm Shift )

  Robert Reich At its prime in 1988, Kodak, the iconic American photography company, had 145,000 employees. In 2012, Kodak filed for bankruptcy. The same year Kodak went under, Instagram, the world’s newest photo company, had 13 employees serving 30 million...

• Indigenous Wisdom and Healing with Evon Peter

  18 May 2015 ( #Indigenous, #Wisdom, #Civilization, #Change, #Culture )

  We invite you to explore some of THRIVE pioneer Evon Peter’s work and wisdom. And we invite you to consider how can we heal with indigenous and other persecuted people around the earth? Evon Peter is the executive director of the Indigenous Leadership...

• You Can Turn A $2000 Shipping Container Into An Epic Off-Grid Home

  15 October 2014 ( #Ideas )

  October 14, 2014 by Joe Martino. What if you could spend a fraction of what it would cost to buy or build your own house and instead build a unique home that you could make completely off grid? It can be done and there’s a bunch of people who’ve done...

• World’s First Airborne Wind Turbine to Bring Renewable Energy and WiFi to Alaska

  08 July 2015 ( #Technic, #Ecology, #Sustainability )

  via inhabitat Wind turbines have become airborne! An enormous helium-filled wind turbine will soon float over the city of Fairbanks, Alaska to produce enough electricity for more than a dozen families living off the grid. Designed and built by MIT startup...

• Architect Trupti Doshi speaking at IAD 2018

  10 April 2018 ( #Architecture-Cityplaning, #Science, #Consciousness, #Future, #Technic, #Ecology, #Sustainability, #Spirituality, #Environment, #Entrepreneur, #Design )

  Trupti Doshi at IAD 2018 Architect Trupti Doshi speaking at IAD 2018