The Agricultural Battleground
Our age demands a paradigm shift, which can be characterized in a number of different ways – sustainability, green, the 99%, #occupy, human rights, human inequality, social innovation (…and the list goes on). These social expressions, in turn, create battlegrounds for the “future” in the form of industries, systems, and paradigms that must be altered...
Occupy My Soul
Occupy My Soul The only way to describe what has happened to myself and a number of Occupy Vancouver organizers (and I suspect many other occupy organizers across the world) is to realize that we have been occupied by occupy! We have been captured and consumed by something that we don’t understand but that...
Amending “People, Planet, Profit”
The phrase “People, Planet, Profit” - coined by author John Elkington – promotes the idea for businesses to succeed in a number of different ways, rather than the traditional ‘bottom line’. Elkington’s Triple Bottom Line brought on a reluctant swell of Corporate Social Responsibility – the idea that corporations should embrace the TBL to benefit...
What’s up with the (in)human universe?
When we are born our mental activity consist mainly in perceiving the different aspects of our new reality. Based on these perceptions we start forming models to represent it. Our base modeling framework becomes a 3 dimensional space that varies with the evolution of time. This ends up being the stepping stone of our cognition....
Why the Filter Bubble is So Pernicious
Recently there has been much buzz around “The Filter Bubble,” the idea proposed by Eli Pariser in a book of the same name, that in an effort to tailor our experiences on the web to suit us, Google and Facebook, and all the sites that define our experience with the web, are hiding things from...
