By Kimberly Carter Gamble Producer of the film THRIVE Recently I was invited to talk about anything I wanted at the Architects of the New Paradigm Conference in Marin. It was a welcome opportunity to consider just what I had to say now, four years after...
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Kind is the New Cool
by Charles Eisenstein via Blog A New and Ancienst Story When I was in high school, I remember social banter consisting of a lot of subtle put-downs and one-upsmanship. The popular kids were generally not very nice, certainly not to us unpopular kids but...
Read moreEvolution’s End | Peter Russell
There's no blame for the crisis we are in. Any intelligent technological species has the potential to become a magnificent flowering of consciousness, but the side effects of its rapid evolution mean that it only has a short window of time to complete...
Read moreKiller Mike Educates Stephen Colbert
When Colbert and a rap star decided to speak for their entire races, the talk got real. Rapper and activist Killer Mike of Run The Jewels stops by The Late Show to talk about racial justice, Bernie Sanders and formal sweats. see also upworthy link
Read moreIntegral Radio: Broadcasting 24 Hours a Day!
The Daily Evolver is now on Integral Radio! Join us every Tuesday evening at 7PM MST for a new live episode. Integral Radio is a 24-hour web-stream featuring various dialogues from our 12+ years of media archives, streamed every day. Feel free to listen...
Read moreSeeing Beauty: a Necessary Skill for the Future
By Eleanor Young via overgrowthesystem And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to everything? And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for? And have you changed your life? One only needs to watch the evening news or scroll the...
Read moreMeet Rufus Pollock, Founder of Open Knowledge
Open Knowledge Founder Rufus Pollock was recently recognized as Ashoka UK’s fellow of the month. This brief video highlights his thoughts on open knowledge, and his vision for an information age grounded in openness, collaboration, sharing, and distributed...
Read moreMovie: Summer in UTOPIA_Freetown Christiania
Summer in Utopia is the story of a hippie anarchist community founded in 1971 in downtown Copenhagen, where more than 900 inhabitants currently live an alternative, communal lifestyle without private property. In recent years, they have been fighting...
Read moreWant to innovate? Become a "now-ist"
via TED Joi Ito is the director of the MIT Media Lab. “Remember before the internet?” asks Joi Ito. “Remember when people used to try to predict the future?” In this engaging talk, the head of the MIT Media Lab skips the future predictions and instead...
Read moreHistory:May 1968 events in France_ just a revolution?
via Blog Martin Armstrong That year was a tremendously volatile period of civil unrest in France. May 1968 was highlighted by demonstrations and massive general strikes. Students, not the elderly, staged occupations of universities and factories across...
Read moreUnconditional Basic Income – an Economic Model for a New Renaissance
By Elizabeth Edgett via wake up world How can we solve poverty and boost the economy without causing massive environmental damage? Here’s how. It’s called a Unconditional Basic Income (UBI). The fundamental challenge today is that we need redefine the...
Read moreTED_Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids
via TED Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs "childish" thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to learn from children as much...
Read moreSweden is shifting to a 6-hour work day
via sciencealert Despite research telling us it’s a really bad idea, many of us end up working 50-hour weeks or more because we think we’ll get more done and reap the benefits later. And according to a study published last month involving 600,000 people,...
Read moreFrom Transactions to Relationships
via website RSF Social Finance website http://rsfsocialfinance.org/ Dear Friends, We see clear signs that more people want their values and money to be aligned. They are beginning to shift what they purchase, where they bank, and how they invest. They...
Read moreeco hacking the future_POC21 INNOVATION CAMP
via POC21 POC21 is an innovation camp to prototype the fossil free, zero waste society. 100+ makers, designers, engineers, scientists and geeks will join forces for five immersive weeks in a stunning french castle. Their ultimate goal: Overcome our destructive...
Read moresharehouse? An inspiring project in Berlin and...!!
How can we live heaven on earth? That was the question we faced in South Africa where we lived for 10 years. The Sharehouse was the answer, first an old fishermans house we renovated with friends and people we didn’t even know. We had little but we learned...
Read moreSay Yes To Greatness_Ken Wilber via SoundCloud
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Read moreHow the largest Movement came into Being_ Paul Hawken Author "Blessed Unrest"
A promo of Paul Hawken's book -- a speech he gave in April 2007 about the Biggest Movement in the World that No On Saw Coming -- the reason he we have hope for a meaningful transformation in the world.A leading environmentalist and social activist's examination...
Read morePaul Ray speaks about Damanhur
Damanhur and Wisdom University's partnership has begun! Paul Ray, eminent sociologist and author of a worldwide study on 'Cultural Creatives', a term he coined, led the first course in Damanhur in October 2008. see website Damanhur
Read moreMaking smart cities work for people. No 2. the social network building a sharing economy in Singapore
BlockPooling is a social network for neighbours in Singapore that is trying to create stronger communities and make the city-state more sustainable. Set up in 2013 with a grant from the government, BlockPooling builds on well-known European equivalents...
Read moreDr. John Hagelin - Hacking Consciousness at Stanford University
John Hagelin Phd (Harvard-trained, renowned quantum physicist) Hacking consciousness investigates the nature of consciousness as a field of all possibilities, as the source not only of the human mind and our ability to experience, know, innovate and create,...
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It’s Not Technology That Will Save Us: It’s The Consciousness That Operates It
By Christou (Source: Collective Evolution; June 19, 2015) via ANP The bard Robert Anton Wilson said, “Anybody who tells you that we’re running out of resources or that we’re in a terrible mess–they are idiots. We can’t run out of resources. Resources...
Read morePLENTITUDE: The Economy of True Wealth
This fun animation provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could look like, with people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale enterprises that can help reduce the overall size and impact of the consumer...
Read moreWhy are there USB drives sticking out of the walls of New York buildings?_Dead Drops!
'Dead Drops' is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug...
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