June 19, 2015 by Christine Horner via Collective Evolution Blog There’s a new kind of leadership emerging that’s gaining momentum, and it may very well change the world. In less than a decade, it has the power to do what took multiple generations centuries...
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The Shift from CONsumers to PROsumers
Source Susan Gunelius , Contributor via Forbes blog As the social web has grown and tools like Twitter, blogs, Facebook and YouTube have allowed communications to flow faster and farther than ever before — inevitably causing the world to shrink and real-time...
Read moreYou think you know someone, and then he gets on a stage and blows your mind
Credits: Voices of a People’s History “The problem in this world is not civil disobedience…the problem in this world is civil obedience.” -Howard Zinn, being read by Matt Damon
Read moreDr. Paul Ray talks about the Cultural Creatives
Dr. Paul Ray discusses the Cultural Creatives - their values, communicating with them, and why they are an essential constituency for funders and nonprofits. The Cultural Creatives are the carrier population for the emerging wisdom culture. Paul Ray has...
Read moreThe challenge of leading in the 21st century | Andrew White | TEDxFindhorn
Andrew turns our normal understanding of leadership on its head. We are often told that to be successful we need to stand for qualities such as belief (so that we can convince others), growth and making things come to life. However, in order to be truly...
Read moreWorker-owned firm turns trash to cash
via The Bay Sate BANNER Martin Desmarais With its recycling and composting business, Cooperative Energy, Recycling and Organics, known as CERO Cooperative, has dedicated its efforts to creating green jobs in the local food economy. The effort is something...
Read moreFrom the desk of Hans-Peter
Some days ago I got a cartoon: This funny cartoon leaves me with a shallow taste, since we all have experienced it…either in us or for sure we saw it in others. You know the One´s outside of the room How many projects and good ideas weren´t translated...
Read moreThe BLOOM- A Journey through transformational festivals
The Bloom explores how Transformational Festivals have become incubators and spaces for “Practicing The New World”, where the festivals are produced using a model of CO-CREATION, utilizing an ethos of PARTICIPATION to create these remarkable realities...
Read moreSomething to think about: "Do What You Love, Because Society Is A Trap And Work Is Meaningless"
Comedian Joe Rogan talks about work and meaning in his own unique style... "We got sidetracked and diverted into these boxes, these cubicles in offices,” he says. “So instead of investing your time in a passion, you’ve sold your life to work for an uncaring...
Read moreNew ways of education for new ways of doing economy. What and for what are we learning, today and in the future?
Even if the conference took already place, it is always good to hear about the Cultural Creatives transforming the existing paradigms. The #dclass conference brings together the most inspiring people of the new economy with the greatest innovators in...
Read morePionier Project: WELL stands for "Women’s Empowerment through Local Livelihood
Initiated in 2005, in Auroville Tamil Nadu, as a tsunami rehabilitation program, Wellpaper has grown into a social enterprise model that touches the lives of over 100 women across many villages in the area. The primary goal of WELL is to empower local...
Read moreA new kind of kindergarten design encourages kids to be their silly selves
Thinking about what young students really need caused a major do-over for what a kindergarten could look like. At this school in Tokyo, five-year-olds cause traffic jams and windows are for Santa to climb into. Meet: the world's cutest kindergarten, designed...
Read moreA Higher Conscious Conversation
The “Real” Matrix Is Unveiled In This Enlightening Conversation A video segment released from the film “My Dinner With Andre” in 1981, shows a conversation with an incredible amount of foresight and parallels to what we are experiencing in current day...
Read moreOpen Source ‘Solar Pocket Factory’ Can 3D Print A Solar Panel Every 15 Seconds
Shawn Frayne and Alex Hornstein, two young inventors based in the Philippines, are taking their passion for clean free energy and developing a way to make it accessible and cheap for everyone. These guys are working tirelessly to provide a product that...
Read moreThe Zero Marginal Cost Society
by Jeremy Rifkin on 25 April 2014 In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin describes how the emerging Internet of Things is speeding us to an era of nearly free goods and services, precipitating the meteoric rise...
Read moreJärna/Sweden Culture Centre_ a centre for culture, education and inspiration
Kulturcentrum Järna is situated 55 km south of Stockholm, by the Baltic Sea. With its numerous initiatives, it forms an inspiring landscape of people’s visions being put into practice. Here you will come upon Waldorf schools, biodynamic farms, shops and...
Read moreA Community Supported Invention Center_INGENUTY
Ingenuty: We are a community-supported innovation center that is focused on building sustainable solutions using an open-source platform. We are about connection, creation and collaboration. We believe that together we can solve our world’s most challenging...
Read moreSustainable Solutions for an Urban Future_World Congress 2015
The #ICLEI World Congress, which takes place once every three years, is the flagship assembly for ICLEI Members and the extended ICLEI community and partners worldwide. This year’s World Congress is particularly significant, as it marks ICLEI’s 25th anniversary...
Read moreCultural Creatives 1.0 – The (R)Evolution
Cultural Creatives 1.0 – THE REVOLUTION is a documentary made by Frygis Fogel, an Hungarian independent filmmaker, on the topic of the Cultural Creatives, people who are taking an interest in improving the quality of life and making it sustainable for...
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