Gisteren tijdens de bijeenkomst van [http://www.ecoduso.org/ EcoDuSo] danwel de Happy Planet Group werdt ik voor het eerst geconfronteerd met de [http://www.sdnl.nl/ Sociale Databank Nederland]. Interessante bronnen en groepen mensen. Veel inspiratie voor [http://aardsource.org Aarde]. M.n. zaken zoals een Algemeen Basis Inkomen en [http://www.sdnl.nl/gv-1k03b.htm Belasting Ontrokken Waarde]. Ik herinner me dat Eckart Wintzen daar een keer …
Category Archives: whole world
A Simpler Way
A few quotes from Myron Kellner-Rogers that Liza Sitton-Taylor captured during her conversation with Myron: *The only thing keeping us stuck is what we resist. *We become what we ignore. *Let go of defending against your neuroses. *The cure for burnout is not rest but wholeheartedness. *There’s no such thing as information overload, there’s just …
Time & the Technosphere
13 maart 2007 had ik een afspraak met Martijn Arnoldus van [http://creativecommons.nl/ Creative Commons Nederland] over het uitbrengen van het [http://aloha.aardrock.com Aloha-boek] onder een Creative Commons licentie. Ik was heerlijk op tijd en het weer was ook prachtig. Dus kon ik heerlijk even snuffelen bij de [http://www.fsf.nl/ Frontier Bookshop] aan de Leliegracht in Amsterdam. Precies …
De eenheid van leven
Vandaag aangeschaft in [http://www.mystiek.nl/ Mystiek]: [http://www.nl.bol.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/nl/-/EUR/BOL_DisplayProductInformation-Start?BOL_OWNER_ID=1001004001712389&Section=BOOK De eenheid van leven] van Fritjof Capra. €22.99.
Hoe wij God kunnen ervaren
Vanochtend bij [http://www.mystiek.nl/ Mystiek] in Rotterdam een paar boeken gekocht. O.a. [http://www.nl.bol.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/nl/-/EUR/BOL_DisplayProductInformation-Start?BOL_OWNER_ID=1001004004717918&Section=BOOK Hoe wij God kunnen ervaren] van Deepak Chopra. €19.95. Benieuwd hoe dat uit gaat pakken tijdens onze vakantie volgende week…
Coming Up – World’s First ‘Zero-Carbon’ City
A city free of cars, pedestrian-friendly, powered by renewable energy and surrounded by wind and photovoltaic farms—all in the middle of a petroleum-rich desert. This five billion US dollar plan, which might do credit to a sci-fi film set, is envisaged for Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). When complete, in …
Continue reading “Coming Up – World’s First ‘Zero-Carbon’ City”
Freeman Dyson On Open Source Biology
Freeman Dyson, I love you! :…the rules of ”’Open Source sharing”’ will be extended from the exchange of software to the exchange of genes. Then the evolution of life will once again be communal, as it was in the good old days before separate species and intellectual property were invented. [http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/30/1927205&from=rss Read more of this …
Conscious Computing
Now that the world is heating up, so are the discussions and debates on reducing resources required for computing. Reduced power, reduced heating, sleeping and suspending processors and processes. Effective and efficient handling of our computing needs at minimal resource consumption in the complete life cycle of a network of computers has become the focus …
Aarde tag cloud
Using [[ScriptCloud for your tag cloud|ScriptCloud]]’s output, I created a tag cloud for the text in the [http://wiki.aardsource.org/Bus_Tour/Vision/Central_Station Aarde Vision Bus Tour]. Had to fiddle around with the style sheet a bit. The links do nothing, though. Here it is… aims architects architecture billions blogs blossoms broadcasted buzzing challenges collaborate combining cooperate ecology economic economy …
Evolvability
For extremely profitable price/quality ratios, aim to ”’maximize evolvability”’ for all stakeholders by: minimizing the efforts to develop, release and maintain your product; maximizing scalability; maximizing innovation to happen elsewhere—make it open source and use Crowdsourcing Directory; maximizing adopting & setting open standards for quality, processes and technology. using a tolerant development process; being open …