Category: Envisioning the sustainable future
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Second Life experiment kicks off for Max Wahlter
My sustainability blogger alter ego Max is now not just in the book “Inventing for the Sustainable Planet” but on SECOND LIFE, too. Here is his diary entry: I am so happy that my Second Life friends Cal and Mia have asked me join them on their experiment in Intentional Communities in Second Life. They…
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What can Second Life teach us about sustainability?
Like Dave Pollard, writer of the excellent blog ”How to Save the World”, I too believe the on-line 3D phenomenon ”Second Life” (www.secondlife.com) can make a significant contribution to sustainable development. Here are a few first thoughts: Simulation of technology. If you can think it you can make it Second life. And then walk around…
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The simple choices we face
One of the things you learn from working with innovation for the sustainable planet is to ask the right question from the outset. What is it we are trying to achieve? Well, no-one wants to work too much and everyone wants at least a simple standard of living. But what are our choices? The simple…
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Article from the future: Retford’s transition
Retford was slow in coming to the realization that ”business as usual” may not keep local citizens’ standard of living at an acceptable level. As they saw energy prices hike many were concerned the local economy was in danger of spiraling down out of control. Many others found it incomprehensible that energy security could be…
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Someone else visits PORENA
I would like to re-publish this post from Lal, who imagestreamed his own visit to the sustainable city of Porena. Cool so many thanks for this Lal. I made a visit to (Image-streamed) *Steve Hinton’s Porena* and here are someof the hilights of what I saw. I was most interested in how industrialproducts would interface…
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Article from the Future: New York uses gift currency "LETS".
As he swipes his LETS card at the candy store, English visitor John Oxley finds it hard to imagine his last visit to New York. Way back in 2007 the dollar was the only currency available. “People were spending most of their waking hours scrambling frantically for the Legal Tender,” he remembers. “It’s not the…
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From an engineer who wants to "get on with it"
World oil production per capita reached a peak in 1979. Net production is now plateau-ing, dashing all hopes of global economic expansion.We’ve been chewing on this mess for some years, but with everyone’s vested interest in “business as usual”, (I’m not even going to give the name of the engineer who gave me this –…
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Don’t look for leadership or management
Dave Pollard’s excellant post on “We don’t need leaders we need experimenters” got me thinking about my experiences from working as a management “cog” in the machinery of a rather large corporation. My role was to help the organisation with its new IT system and as such reported direct to the “leadership” – the management…
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Of whales and insects and Brave New World
Bit of a different post today. I’ve been on holiday and had a real serendipity experience with a couple of books. Part of the research for the blog involved looking at books which took a similar approach – that is to say envisioning a sustainable future in order to stimulate thought leadership. Imagine my surprise…
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Leonado daVinci imagestreamed!
I saw an exhibition of Leonardo daVinci’s notebooks. His sketches looked very much like he was imagestreaming. They seem to just come from nowhere. A program on TV shows how they tried to take his drawings and build full scale models. One comment was that he often got things “the wrong way round” or “purposely…