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All species of animals dream in one form or another. These dreams have more than one purpose, as do many things in the natural world. One reason is partially understood by today’s researchers and psychologists. The second bigger reason is unknown in the modern world. Read on to learn this secret information. Dreams Provide Therapy The first purpose dreams [...]

Sometimes new ideas are old ideas. From Janine Benyus and Ideas from nature: Opening her talk, Janine introduced Biomimicry, a term she coined. It begins with learning about Nature, but then takes the second step of learning FROM nature. This knowledge of natural processes then inspires a completely different approach to technology, materials and production processes. [...]

From Clock Running Out II. The reality is that the financial markets never fix recurrent failures. The market did not fix apartheid, fascism or World War II. Politics did. Governance did. The yield of good politics is another kind of ROI, the Return on Insight. We own the necessary insight into the acute and massive [...]

We all can appreciate the beautiful healing energy of spending time in nature, away from civilization. But eventually we have to come home. When we compare the sense of peace and connectedness we feel in nature and to the stress and noise and bustle of city, we know internally that there is a difference. Part [...]

Al Gore from the movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” quoting Winston Churchill from 1926, “The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place, we are entering a period of consequences.” An John F. Kennedy, “Some men see things as they are and say why. [...]

New Models for the Future There seems to be a theme developing in my posts in the Misc category: Non-profits and pro-bono work… see Nicholas Negroponte Open source models of development… wikipedia, skype, apache, the open directory project… or open source Architecture… Continuing on that theme is Robin Chase on Zipcar and ad hoc peer-to-peer [...]

In the book “Tales From Q School” author John Feinstein tells the story of disabled pro golfer Casey Martin. Casey filed a lawsuit against the PGA Tour in order to allow him to use a golf cart during golf tournaments under the Americans With Disabilities Act. Casey has a degenerative disease in his leg called [...]

The Open Source Architecture Innovation Cameron Sinclair talks about his innovation design solutions to housing problems at Cameron Sinclair on Open Source Architecture He is a co-founder of Architecture for Humanity and editor of the book “Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises.” Here are some of the quotes from his [...]

The Man in the Arena It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] FIGHTER By: Christina Aguilera After all you put me through You’d think I’d despise you But in the end I wanna thank you Cause you made me that much stronger Well I Thought I knew you Thinkin That you were true Guess I I couldn’t trust called your [...]

Affecting One Billion People Here is an idea that could potentially affect 1 billon people; a sustainable fridge. Just heat it up on a cooking fire for 30 minutes, let it cool for 1 hour, finally place it inside the container to cool. No electricity required. It will cool a 15 litter vessel down to [...]