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Journalism and crisis
Hello all,
Today, I'd like to blog about the role played by journalists during a crisis. This subject is very interesting as we come to globalization.
First of all, let's see an exemple: Greece. It was a "small" crisis until the media jumped into the story and started to write articles every hour or so about how bad the situation is. The result was the unjustified crash down of the stock markets around the world. On the other hand, as soon as the…
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Added by Mathieu Savage on May 7, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments
The EVOKE network improves
Hello all!
I strongly believe that the EVOKE initiative is a good one and that it has a lot of potential to change the face of our world. On the other hand, in its actual form, not much will be accomplished. We write blog posts that are barely read and whenever someone has a solid project, it has no visibility.
The solution that seems to make the most sense is to have a website and a community revolving around PROJECTS instead of people. We…
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Added by Mathieu Savage on May 6, 2010 at 8:13pm — No Comments
Green floating cities
Hello all!
I've made a lot of ressearch in the last few days to find something really interresting to talk about. Really, it's been hard, but I found something incredible.
Most scientists agree that the sea level will rise constantly for the next decades. Many islands will disappear and many shores will be flooded. This raise the following issue: Were will we go?
One of the many solutions is to buy floatting cities!…
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Added by Mathieu Savage on April 26, 2010 at 2:19am — No Comments
Excessive logging in the Pacific
For this week, I decided to talk about a region I know well for I've visitied it few times: Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
In those small countries, locals have taken care of the land forever, but then the chineese arrived, bought the land from the locals for a ridiculously low price, and started massive logging. China being the biggest wood importer for the next 20 years at least, it seems logical to invest in other countries. That way, they go to other countries, then send…
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Added by Mathieu Savage on April 22, 2010 at 2:36am — No Comments
There is a right answer to moral questions (and women's rights)
Hello everyone!
For milleniums, the question of equality of men and women has tore the humanity. Going back as far as the Bible's Genesis, the woman is said to be inferior (she's the one who picked the apple). Pretty much all religions state that men are superior to women.
Last week, I watch this awsome video from TED:…
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Added by Mathieu Savage on April 7, 2010 at 11:51pm — No Comments
Improve the way you express yourself
Hello everyone,
I've realised that many people all around the world have great projects, from saving the world to the creation of super multinationals. Unfortunatly, most of the people won't ever materialize those projects for many reasons. The main reason is a communication issue.
If you are alone and have a great project, it's hard to make it come true. But if you can express yourself properly to share the idea, to promote it and to sell it to…
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Added by Mathieu Savage on April 7, 2010 at 8:30pm — 3 Comments
Learn5 -> The more people, the more power to shape the future
Hello everyone,
Today, I'd like you to ask yourself: What is the greatest threat to the planet at the moment? I think it is consumption. If everyone in the developped countries would cut by half their consumption, the huge population of the planet could still be sustained.
At a micro scale, what you can do is saving money instead of spending it. But even more, we could get together to do it. Let's illustrate my idea with an exemple. Suppose that…
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Added by Mathieu Savage on April 5, 2010 at 12:30am — No Comments
Learn5 -> Tomorrow's bank
Today, a new type of bank appears and it is meant to change the way we live. The credit card is outdated, as well as most of the other ways to proceed a payment used in the 20th century.
We have created a watch that, on one hand, recognizes the DNA of the wrist, making it virtually impossible to steal or copy. On the other hand, everything will now be paid in a simple click. Every time you have…
Added by Mathieu Savage on April 4, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments
Learn5 -> Back to no money
Hello everyone,
For many years, I followed many projects that different people had to go and live in isolated places, alone or in in a new small community. I finally never got into any of those projects, but the issues were always the same: What about health care? Accross all the projects, this was the major issue.
But then I spent a week on Malakula, an island belonging to Vanuatu, and in several isolated villages, the local did not use money.…
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Added by Mathieu Savage on April 1, 2010 at 1:58am — No Comments
The promised land (Slam)
I believe that one of the things that have the most powerful impact is a song, a poem or a speech. Here's something between all that. It's a draft, I might have some inspiration tomorrow to add some details or events. EvokingWater.mp3
Please leave a comment. Unfortunatly, my camera is not working at the moment, so I can't post a vidéo.
Added by Mathieu Savage on March 25, 2010 at 2:36am — 1 Comment
Pure water everywhere
Hello again everyone!
Water! What an interesting subject! In fact, I spent 10 months living in the Pacific (Vanuatu 7 months and Solomon Islands 3 months) and I've faced that problem.
When I arrived in Port-Vila (capital city), it was not a problem because they had appropriate installations, but as soon as I left (after half a day), I did not have access to clean water. As it was my first time in such country, I did not have any purification…
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Added by Mathieu Savage on March 25, 2010 at 1:24am — 1 Comment
LEARN3 - Energy out of everything
Hello everyone,
I’d like to add a couple of ideas on the cleaner production of energy. I’ve been particularly interested in the creation of biofuel from the dumps. I’ve been surprised by the case of Sweden where a major portion of
the natural gas that powers the 23 000 gas powered cars is made of the
methane released by dumps.
Basically, the natural gas is less polluting…
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LEARN2
First of all, I believe that food shortage is one of the greatest issues of this century, if not the greatest.
We are almost 7 billion people on Earth and it should go up to 9 billions around 2050. Already today, we are over exploiting the soil, leaving the layer of good soil thinner every year. On top of that, a growing part of the harvestable soil is used to create Ethanol, leaving less place to harvest food to feed the populations.
But there's…
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Added by Mathieu Savage on March 22, 2010 at 12:51am — No Comments
LEARN1
Hello everyone,
While browsing the list of secrets, I came across one particularly interesting point: Sharing.
I gave a conference recently that was about how to give. Have you ever heard the old chineese proverb: Give a man a fish and he will eat for one day; teach that man how to fish and he will eat forever?
That proverb strongly relate to our modern society where we tend to give such fishes. But there's one moment…
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Added by Mathieu Savage on March 21, 2010 at 11:41pm — No Comments
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