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I found this interesting article where my hero John Robb talks
about my hero Jane McGonigal.
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Here's a video of Jane McGonigal at the 2010 TED (the conference for tech, entertainment, and Wall Street elites to rub elbows) conference.
In it she talks about the power of online games.…
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Another of my social innovation heroes: Commander Hugo Chavez
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías is the President of Venezuela. As the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Chávez promotes a political doctrine of participatory democracy, socialism and Latin American and Caribbean cooperation. He is also a critic of neoliberalism, globalization, and United States foreign policy.…
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Energy-generating treadmills for humans? William Taylor,
a farmer in Northern Ireland, has decided to put idle cows
on treadmills to produce power for his farm,
according to Popular Science.
The inclined belt causes cows to slide off unless they continue to move forward.
The…
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"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass
The Red Queen hypothesis (the name was taken from Carroll's book) is a simple concept from evolutionary biology that describes the evolutionary arms race between competitive species -- predator/prey and parasite/host. It was found by the evolutionary biologist Leigh Van Valen via…
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Researchers have argued that to grow some of his own food is the most effective action an…
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One of the best ways you can prepare for the future is to train yourself to become an entrepreneur -- essentially a person that makes their own economic opportunities. It's going to become a major
differentiator between those that succeed and those that fail in a
harsh global system (this expertise has been deprecated by a system
that prides itself on manufacturing salaried consumption bots). So, as
your salary melts away, your pension evaporates, or your job…
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I think the resilience capabilities will be decentralized, mostly in homes, not in massive plants, buildings, spaces or neighborhoods,
resilience is inherently associated with…
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