Leading global engineering and technology services company Siemens has developed a new game called Power Matrix, aimed at raising awareness and teaching people about new forms of energy. The free game is not only for experts or gamers but targets anyone who is interested in energy and sustainable resources. Starting with a rural territory where your future city is about to develop, the goal is to provide it with a sustainable power supply through … [Read more...]
Today, June 5, is World Environment Day. Hooray!
It is an annual event that is aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. The World Environment Day celebration began in 1972 and has grown to become one of the main vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and encourages political attention and action. Through World Environment Day, the United Nations Environment Program is able to … [Read more...]
Quote of the Day: 5/28/13 – Gil Scott-Heron
"Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people." - Gil Scott-Heron … [Read more...]
Quote of the Day: 5/17/13 – George Santayana
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." "Only the dead have seen the end of war." "A child educated only at school is an uneducated child." "A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world." - George Santayana … [Read more...]
Global Zero: Imagine a World Without Nuclear Weapons
There are currently 17,000 nuclear weapons on Earth. How can we ever live peacefully and sanely on this planet with such a persistent and pervasive threat hovering over us? Twenty years after the Cold War, maintaining vast arsenals of mass destruction – at a staggering cost of $1 trillion per decade globally – makes no sense, strategically or financially. Nuclear weapons undermine global stability. We need to reset our priorities, abandon … [Read more...]
The Obesity Apocalypse is Coming
To create a positive change in the U.S. and world towards a more holistic, sustainable and enlightened society - in other words, a Quantum Revolution - one of the areas that has to be addressed is health and getting people healthier and wellness oriented. Health and wellness is an area that, for all the wonders that modern medicine has to offer, isn't a strong suit of modern medicine. Sick care is modern medicine's strength, but helping people … [Read more...]
Quote of the Day: 4/23/13 – Peter Drucker
"Every few hundred years in western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its arts, its key institutions - rearranges itself... We are currently living through such a time." - Peter Drucker … [Read more...]
12 Trends – Now and Future – of an Open World
In my previous article, Towards an Open Future, I discussed the two type of systems that operate in the world: Open systems and closed systems. The hope for the future lies in open systems, and that is where the potential for the success of the brewing Quantum Revolution also lies. In that article, I said how closed systems are rigid and mechanistic, and continue doing the same thing and operating in the same way, even if the approach has proven … [Read more...]
We Don’t Need No Education
To have a Quantum Revolution occur - essentially a revolution in consciousness, in thinking capabilities - what is required is more enlightened thinking by as many people as many. Yet, our education system, which is where the great majority of all of us develop our thinking and learning capabilities, is not creating or cultivating enlightened thinking. Instead the education system is developing a nation of people with the skills to work at … [Read more...]
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