- WorldChanging: Resilience TV
an excellent conference in Stockholm on Resilience, Adaptation, and Turbulent Times. To a certain extent, this conference marks a new stage in resilience science—the study of dynamic social-ecological systems—as it expands from academics into policy. - WorldChanging: Highlights from the 7th EcoCity World Summit
An incredible assemblage of the world’s brightest minds that are working to build greener cities and towns gathered for three and a half days of presentations - WorldChanging: Measuring Genuine Progress
GDP is peculiarly still the measurement system of choice for economic performance, measuring crime, environmental destruction and catastrophes at the same value as activity that leads to genuine growth. - WorldChanging: How the West was warmed
researchers produced a carbon emissions map of the US. Using direct CO2 emissions - WorldChanging: The City is the Solution: The EcoCity World Summit
"urban acupuncture" – creating focal points like parks, street markets, cultural facilities, and other great urban spaces, that produce immediate and tangible results. - WorldChanging: Cities of the Future, Today
if we want to really push the environmental performance of urban areas down to zero-impact levels, we need to think in terms of districts; we need to look at settings where a number of buildings can be built afresh or creatively re-used, - WorldChanging: MicroEnergy Credits Corporation: Greening the Base of the Pyramid
BoP consumers "cannot afford to pay extra for environmental or even social benefits, and therefore adopt traditional energy." - WorldChanging: International Agricultural Assessment: We Need a Paradigm Shift
A commission of international agriculture experts unveiled a series of reports on Wednesday calling for an end to "business-as-usual" farming practices to avoid widespread environmental degradation and increasing food scarcity. - WorldChanging: James Hansen on Peak CO2 and Big Carbon
peak CO2 can be kept to about 425 ppm, with large estimates for oil and gas reserves, if coal use is phased out by 2030 (except where CO2 is captured and sequestered) and unconventional fossil fuels are not tapped substantially. - A Global View of Peopled Nature
anthropogenic biomes, or anthromes for short. Anthromes are a play on biomes, the large-scale vegetation patterns ecologists use to map the planet. - YouTube - Twitter in Plain English
- WorldChanging: Microfinance: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
round table organized by the Council on Foreign Relations entitled The Commercialization of Microfinance: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. - WorldChanging: The Worldchanging Interview: Clay Shirky
There is not recipe for the successful use of social tools. Instead, every working system is a mix of social and technological factors. - WorldChanging: Vehicle-to-Grid Plug-In Hybrids, for Free
analysis of the potential impacts of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles projected for 2020 and 2030 - The State of the Facebook Platform | 20bits
Something is wrong in the Facebook developer community. Starting in March I began noticing that the level of activity in the Facebook developers forum was dropping sharply. - The Future Of Online Advertising: Entertainment vs. Information - Publishing 2.0
advertising as entertainment on the web. - WorldChanging: Smart grid, meet the product-service model
cities could act as distributed power plants, channeling energy from hundreds of thousands, even millions of individual rooftops - Keynote Roundtable: The Art of Conversation - Building Great Brands in the Digital Age
- How I tried (and failed at) legally buying music in Germany
So let me try to briefly describe my journey - trying to buy a normal, major-label pop album. - louisgray.com: Should Fractured Feed Reader Comments Raise Blog Owners' Ire?
AssetBar, Social|Median and Shyftr have been among the first to add comments in their site. Fav.or.it, via Disqus, offers the ability to post comments to the originating blogs. FriendFeed, RSSMeme and many, many others offer links to the content but conte - Yochai Benkler: Open-Source Economics — keimform.de
how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. - Overjustification effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The overjustification effect (also called the undermining effect or Oversufficient Justification) is the effect whereby giving someone an incentive (monetary or otherwise) to do something that they already enjoy doing decreases their intrinsic motivation - Steven Clift’s Notes - Democracies Online » Blog Archive » Event - Connecting Neighbors, Strengthening Neighborhoods Online - Washington DC 7 May 2008
to discuss ways to strengthen neighborhoods using the Internet when I am in Washington DC on Wednesday, May 7 from 9-11 a.m. - WorldChanging: Boulder: The U.S.'s First Smart Grid?
Xcel Energy has announced that it's going to turn Boulder, Colorado, into the United States' first smart grid community: - EDemocracy Conferenz 2008 (EDem2008) - Centre for E-Government - Danube University Krems
There are a number of E-Democracy applications, ranging from providing information to discussion, deliberation, decision-making and voting, thus encompassing the entire democratic process. - Shyftr
Shyftr stands for Share Your Feeds Together. - Economy of communion
progressive catholic economics by L. Bruni - Bruni_Sugden_Fraternity
why the market need not be a morally free zone: comparing market and other forms of sociality - Bruni_Charismatic_economics
the history of civil and economic life can be interpreted as a dynamics between charism and institution. - bruni: the economy of communion
the experience so far - The governance of communion
what kinds of governance are emerging in economy of communion enterprises?