The Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) is the world’s tallest example of living architecture, with two towers lifting hundreds of trees above Milan’s streets. One of the architects Stefano Boeri describes the two buildings, due to be opened this year, as a ‘model of vertical densification of nature within the city’. Measuring at 110 and 76 meters high respectively, the two structures will hold 900 trees between them. That is equivalent to 10,000 … [Read more...]
Quote of the Day: 6/19/13
“No matter how good or bad you think life is, wake up each day and be thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.”
… [Read more...]Quote of the Day: 6/7/13 – Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind!" - Henri-Frédéric Amiel … [Read more...]
The Word, and Signs: Words From the Poet Laureate
Today we have two poems from David Tucker, the Poet Laureate of the Quantum Revolution. A Vermont-based poet, David is an insightful commentator on our internal and external cultural, spiritual and political milieu. Today's poems are The Word, God and I Thought There'd Be Signs. As an added bonus at the end, there is an excerpt from Chapter 37 of David's upcoming novel. First, the poems:
The Word, God
Why would I … [Read more...]Quote of the Day: 5/10/13 – Plato
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."- Plato
… [Read more...]Quote of the Day: 4/9/13 – Jiddu Krishnamurti
"All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man." - Jiddu Krishnamurti … [Read more...]
The Beauty of Not Knowing
Video from KarmaTube In the short video above, we hear from the brilliant sage/physicist Richard Feynman on the beauty of uncertainty and not knowing. Can we live without knowing answers, and with having more questions than answers? We want to know, want to know what's next. But in actuality, most of life is unknowable and unpredictable. To realize the fullness of life, we have to accept this fact. When we … [Read more...]
Amanda Palmer and an Open World
When I interviewed Charles Eisenstein, author of the book "Sacred Economics," for the Interviews with the Leading Edge series, one of the things Charles discussed is what he calls the gift economy. A gift economy is one in which people act in a way without profit motive as their primary reason for doing something. Instead, they perform their service or sell their wares, and let others decide a dollar value for that service. Radiohead used this … [Read more...]
The Evolution of Culture
This guest post is written by Gerard Senehi, who was recently interviewed on the Quantum Revolution site as part of the Interviews with the Leading Edge series. This article originally appeared in the Huffington Post. Gerard Senehi is the founder of Open Future Institute, … [Read more...]
Quote of the Day: 3/8/13 – Milton Glaser
"If you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be...I always thought that there was enough of everything to go around - that there are enough ideas in the universe and enough nourishment." - Milton Glaser … [Read more...]