"I love that you've brought this to attention. An extensive database of uncommon but resistant and hardy plants/foods could be developed and organized by climate. Ease of growth and processing should also be taken in to account. I will try to…"
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Urgent Evoke - A Paradigm Shift in Economics
As I am gathering information to play this game, a nagging question persists. . . How can human suffering be alleviated (even with the best and brightest of technological and agricultural innovative ideas) unless our souless institutions: govenments, banks and corporations with their inherent insustainability, are transformed to support productivity & value for all entities, personal, corporate, community & world?
A concrete example regarding the food crisis in Japan:
"Shortages and skyrocketing prices for rice have caused riots and growing hunger in nations from the Philippines to haiti, and the crisis worsened recently with the destruction of most of Burma's rice crop by a tropical cyclone that left millions of people homeless and hungry. Japan needs U.S. permission to release what would be more than half its 2.4 million tonnes of stored rice because of WTO obligations that require it to use purchased U.S. rice imports for domestic consumption. The rice usually goes to waste and ends up being fed to farm animals."
I can't begin to unravel the Gordian Knot of world economics because I am whatever is below amateur as a economist and I really have very little academic experience compared to most of my collaborators on Evoke. Still, I began to shift my research away from project innovations and to step back and look at what's possible in using Evoke to collaborate to re-wire society by gathering and providing information that corporations will desperately require to halt and divert the burgeoning global crises. It seems like a golden opportunity to me. . .
I started to research "Innovation Economics", and "Business Models of Integrity", and "Social Innovation" and found a wealth of fresh and juicy knowlege to add to the Evoke conversation. Here are some links that are eye-opening and speak to this moment we have the possibilty to create:
From Umair Haque - The Wisdom Manifesto -
The scarcest, rarest, and most valuable resource in the world today is wisdom. The countries, companies, and people that possess it will prosper. In many ways, wisdom is the opposite of strategy — and today, it is strategy, bought by the dozen from legions of besuited, back-slapping consultants, that is cheap, abundant, and worth little. (Umair Haque is one of my new heros)
http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2010/02/the_wisdom_planifesto.html
From Noreena Hertz -
With inequality surging, resources diminishing rapidly, and the earth's very future in question, capitalism-at-all-costs is no longer an option, she insists: "I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences."
"I realized that how an economy functions is not just about a market anonymously distributing things but also the way people relate to each other, their beliefs, the way power is distributed. All of that was being ignored."
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/140/cassandras-revenge.html
So, as I see it, another Urgent Evoke is to create a knowlege bank that includes the tools to transform the way capitalism occurs.
Werner Erhard -
We can choose to be audacious enough to take responsibility for the entire human family. We can choose to make our love for the world what our lives are really about. Each of us has the opportunity, the privilege, to make a difference in creating a world that works for all of us. It will require courage, audacity and heart. It is much more radical than a revolution – it is the beginning of a transformation in the quality of life on our planet. What we create together is a relationship in which our work can show up as making a difference in people's lives. I welcome the unprecedented opportunity for us to work globally on that which concerns us all as human beings.
If not you, who?
If not now, when?
If not here, where?”
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Comment by Karen Reise on March 13, 2010 at 2:27am
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Really well written and articulate! Thank you. I noticed that you quoted Werner Erhard and thought you might be interested in seeing the work he is up to currently in terms of models of integrity and leadership for business. Integrity: WIthout It Nothing Works Also, here is Werner Erhard speaking at the Kennedy School of Public Leadership on Why we do what we do
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Comment by Linda Holt on March 13, 2010 at 3:39am
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Thanks, Karen - are you familiar, personally, with Werner's work? The last event I did with Landmark was a few years ago - "Causing the Miraculous". Thanks for the links!
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Comment by Neruii on March 13, 2010 at 5:38am
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Would be interesting to collaborate in some economical/bank evokation... skype: neruii
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Comment by Rahul Dewanjee on March 15, 2010 at 12:59pm
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Hi Linda. You should know that I am your fan obviously impressed by your ability to communicate in profound simplicity the truth about why traditional institutions have power more than ever before to create greater hurdles to all change emanating out of our wisdom, inspiration, courage and hope. The greatest mistake is to take these traditional institutions lightly if we ever intend to make change truly happen. The way we can create a pathway to execute innovative ideas will depend a lot on the enabling ecosystem that only traditional institutions can provide especially now that market liquidity is more than ever dependent on institutional contingencies, government spending and active participation of central banks and multilateral funding agencies like IMF, World Bank. European Central Bank, Asian Development Bank et cetera.
Umair Haque is one of my favourite columnists and I am glad to hear that you have found his ideas strike a chord with your belief systems. May I suggest we get in touch with each other soon (now that you have my contact details) and rise to the occasion to see if indeed our simpler humble efforts to collaborate beyond our six degrees of separation can create context sufficient to inspire others to join as well and evoke what you you have suggested: Conscious Capitalism
Keep inspiring us to Evoke. Thanks.
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Comment by Matthew Reinbold on March 16, 2010 at 4:22am
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Umair Haque, despite all the Twitter hate he's getting from his interview at SXSW, is a great thinker. He's got a number of posts extremely deep in vision for the new types of institutions that are required [it boils down to industrial-model businesses that seek endless growth to appease shareholders verses next-gen organizations laser-focused on producing goods and services].
If Umair has a flaw it is that he's highly academic and painfully short on specifics. Sure, everybody would love to see the emergence of new financial institutions; ones that are ethical, localized, and community building. But the how of such endeavors remain elusive, both to him and everybody else. It's a great place to get motivated but I wouldn't go to that well expecting to quench my thirst.
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Of the curious (or bored) I do have a partially curated collection of links to Umair's "best of" posts.
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Thanks for this, Matthew! I rejoice that voices like Umair are speaking the possibility of a future-future, not a past-future! I love this quote:
What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick — real, meaningful — value is created by people who love what they do, added to insanely great stuff, and multiplied by communities who are delighted and inspired because they are authentically better off. That's a better kind of innovation, built for 21st century economics
We should invite Umair to Envoke!
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+1 for Vision
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Comment by Samiran Roy on April 4, 2010 at 10:38pm
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Hunger, Thirst, Disease, we can cure, but there is no cure for stupidity....
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Comment by steve ward on April 5, 2010 at 8:29pm
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a good book i just read that deals with this in detail is the age of the unthinkable
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