Toponomic Urbanism | Bumbogo, Designing A Uniquely Rwandan Urban Morphology
The global South and particularly the African continent, is facing an incredible challenge in the form of urban growth. As much as this presents its own slew of challenges, therein also lies...
View ArticleThese Tomatoes Are Helping to Improve the Environment
California tomato grower Casey Houweling is the first American to install a combined heat and power generation plant that will make his 150-acre greenhouse almost completely energy-efficient. The plant...
View ArticleGamification, civic rewards and crowd sourcing strategies for connected and...
Cities are the ground zero for digital innovation. The urbanization of the world now takes place in the digital era, where connectivity is a core feature of urban functions. Smart Cities are supposed...
View ArticleKARE Givers: We lose our dreams, and that’s a bad thing…
What are the circumstances that create the child’s dream state of mind? I think it’s actually the child’s state of mind that creates the circumstances. Children live in a visceral and fascinating world...
View ArticleCan we bypass global gridlock?
Forget jet-packs experts say that car-share schemes and electronically governed ‘smart autos’ are the answers to ever-increasing city congestion… In an effort to map out the implications of such...
View ArticleAn economy that serves people and nature, not the other way around
Snippets from Christine Milne’s speech at the National Press Club in Canberra. 26 Sep 2012 “The economy is a tool; a tool we humans invented – like democracy and politics – to help govern our...
View ArticleThe Dropout Economy – TIME
Snippets: “Many economists attribute the sluggish wage growth in the U.S. to educational stagnation, which is one reason politicians of every stripe call for doubling or tripling the number of college...
View ArticleFree State Project
“Are you frustrated at the loss of freedom and responsibility in America, while the growth of government and taxes continues unabated? Do you want to live in strong communities where your rights are...
View ArticleThe Problem of Growth
“Stuart Staniford proposed a “way forward” for humanity in his article Powering Civilization to 2050. This article proposes an alternative vision: instead of trying to create continual, technological...
View ArticleCreatures of habit: lost grey matter
Citation: The MRI scans showed that obese subjects with binge eating disorder have lower grey matter volumes — a measure of the number of neurons — in the orbitofrontal cortex and striatum of the brain...
View ArticleU.S. Intelligence Agencies See a Different World in 2030
By Nicole Gaouette – 11 Dec 2012 www.bloomberg.com US Population Cities Networks The 140-page report released today by the National Intelligence Council lays out dangers and opportunities for nations,...
View ArticleDoes government always betray the future?
“Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for...
View ArticleThe dawn of a new epoch? “The Age of Aquarius”? Not exactly.
This could be serious. Do you think the so-called Anthropocene Epoch will catch on? Clipped from www.eurekalert.org Geologists from the University of Leicester are among four scientists- including a...
View ArticleEnterprise Lifts Off – Analysts tout social software as the next big thing
The demand and growth of these collaboration tools are notable. Amplify’d from www.computing.co.uk A report issued in April 2010 entitled Enterprise Social Networking 2010 Market Overview contains...
View ArticleToil and trouble – Another bubble? Some tech start-ups look over-valued...
Amplify’d from www.economist.com For the first time since 2000, internet and technology entrepreneurs can raise seed capital with little more than a half-formed idea and a dozen PowerPoint slides....
View ArticleGartner’s vision of the future of work: Less routine, more spontaneous — Tech...
BY Jessica Stillman - Feb 16, 2012 http://gigaom.com/2012/02/16/gartners-vision-of-the-future-of-work-less-routine-more-spontaneous/ Annotations: Gartner’s vision of the futur...
View ArticleManifesto for the Noosphere – P2P Foundation
From the introduction, by Jose Arguelles' book Manifesto for the Noosphere: The Next Stage in the Evolution of Human Consciousness. Evolver Editions/North Atlantic Books, 2011. Annotations: ...
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