Month: February 2008
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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…