Aug 2008
100 months to save the planet ...and counting
One of a number of similar projects which are great too look at, what is the barrier to signing up though. Real action needs personal motivation, which of these projects can hope to achieve that result? Not to diss the motivation of those who have developed the project, but when thinking about issues like ‘credit crunch’ we know that people don’t necessarily respond to logic until it’s too late. Particularly when they have the feeling that there is safety in numbers (if we’re all doing it one way, it must surely be right...?) Making the issue of climate change personal is perhaps the key, how does it affect YOU, not your neighbour. The Internet is becoming a great social network, but can it develop as a space to create personal motivation to make change on the ground....
Check out the site at onehundredmonths.org
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Inspiration on TED.com
I cannot enthuse highly enough about the TED conference, and I’ve never even been; each year a broad selection of thinkers and doers are brought together to share knowledge and insights, these include designers, technologists, futurologists, cultural seers, bio-memeticists, explorers, etc., etc. The list keeps getting broader and longer, but always fascinating.
How is it possible to rave about such a wellspring of innovative thought and action without having been to a single event? Every last talk can be found online of course, at TED.com.
Have a good poke around the site. There are a few duds in any conference, however you’ll be hard pressed to find that here (one or two perhaps), mostly the content will fire up anyone’s hunger for knowledge, exploring the unknown, making the all important link between learning and creativity.