NextNow Collab is exploring collaboration with Summer of Peace, a 501(c)3 project of the Tides Foundation. (I’m leading the collaboration with sponsor organization Global Coherence Initiative and part of the science team). This is a comprehensive initiative that will start in San Francisco as the first city/first summer of peace in 2010, and Cities of Peace is the first event of several leading up to that summer. It’s a free event with opportunity to make a voluntary contribution. From the website: Imagine… gathering the most inspirational peacemakers and the most effective peace-building programs from around the world to light up…
Month: May 2009
Brower Center Community Event: The Economics of Happiness
In an earlier post we announced that NextNow Collab is part of the Sustainable Enterprise Cluster at the new David Brower Center in Berkeley. Part of the Brower Center’s mission is to foster community and collaboration including through the offering of informative and inspiring events on site. On June 3 Helena Nordberg-Hodge will be presenting a free talk, screening and reception based on her new documentary film, “The Economics of Happiness.” I know some of our NextNowers support the Dalai Lama Foundation’s Project Happiness (including Jim Schuyler, who is the their CTO–his latest blog post features the Study Guide for…
NextNow’s Zann Gill on Evolution, Sustainability, and Collaboration
Our own Zann Gill recently recorded this video preview of her book, What Daedalus Told Darwin: Darwin’s Dilemma and Designing Intelligence. Zann was exploring evolution as a way to help understand the creative process, and ultimately was led to flip her inquiry: might an understanding of design help shed light on the process of evolution? Asking this question instead eventually helped her build on the case that Darwinism may have misrepresented Darwin (by attributing to him an extreme view–that all evolutionary change was a product of “survival of the fittest,”–which he apparently never held), that socioeconomic paradigms can and sometimes…
NextNow Collab Visualization Expert Bonnie DeVarco at Stanford Media X May 18, 2009
Bonnie DeVarco, co-founder of NextNowNetwork and the collaboratory’s visualization technology guru has worked with Dr. Katy Börner, Elisha F. Hardy and others to co-create an experience at Stanford that inspires cross-disciplinary discussion on how best to track and communicate human activity and scientific progress on a global scale. The exhibit tour and discussion will be at Stanford’s Media X on May 18; the exhibit remains until December 31, 2009. The Stanford Press Release and a description of Bonnie’s discussion follows. Also see Bonnie’s blog, Scale Independent Thought, for her deep reflections on the topic. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 8, 2009…
NextNow Collab Joins Sustainability Cluster in the New David Brower Center
NextNow Collaboratory adds a second office by joining the Sustainable Enterprise Cluster at the new David Brower Center, one of the Bay Area’s most advanced green buildings. The building developers, Equity Community Builders, also developed San Francisco’s Thoreau Center for Sustainability. Situated right across the street from the University of California, Berkeley, the DBC considers itself the region’s hub for environmental and social action. It was conceived as a physical space that will foster collaboration among tenants and with the larger community, help catalyze a broader population in advocacy, and facilitate cross-sector communication and solutions. We’re thrilled to be part…
Update and Save the Date: State of the World Forum in Washington D.C.
NextNow Collab is joined by Club of Budapest, CSR Wire, Earth Policy Institute, EnlightenNext, EthicalMarkets, Friends of the Earth, GaiaSoft, Integral Institute, New York Open Center, Ode Magazine, Pachamama Alliance, Presidential Climate Action Project, Resilient Cities Initiative and a growing host of others in partnering to convene the 2009 State of the World Forum. This is the launch of a 10-year plan of committed action to transform our economy, our world, and ourselves in relation to each other and the natural world. To register, visit the website; to explore collaboration, please contact me at cwelssatnextnowdotnet. Watch for our announcement in…
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