The focus of the Women Inventors and Innovators Mural is subtle, powerful and essential for our evolutionary times. Through illuminating the drivers of success and resilience that have enabled women to help change the world over the last 100-plus years–often against great odds–our goal is to help accelerate the necessary shift to a more balanced and equitable world, furthering innovation important for meaningful societal advancement and planetary wellness. This project of the NextNow Collaboratory leverages our hallmark approach to complex problems: Making the Invisible Visible™ through the visualization of complex information via large murals that show events and ideas in a single big picture, enabling us to perceive key…
Category: Democracy
Welcome 2012: Occupy Love
Our wish for 2102 is that this year we will recognize the value of our hearts in true connective intelligence, and we will finally, collectively, Occupy Love. Consider that the heart has its own intrinsic nervous system, a bundle of neurons in the heart that actually qualifies as a brain. Our heart brains communicate information to the brains in our heads—in fact, more information travels from the heart to the head than the other way around, the only organ for which this is true. But we have to be receptive, in a psychophysiological way, to receive its subtle signals. I’ve…
THRIVE Movie Premiers 11.11.11
Thanks to NextNowers Vic Desotelle and Bill Daul for circulating to our NextNowNetwork community. The website is interesting. “My name is Foster Gamble and I’ve spent nearly a lifetime trying to figure out what happened that could account for the staggering agony and deprivation on this planet. I set out on a journey seeking to answer questions like, is it even possible for humans to thrive? I found a code, a pattern in nature, that’s been embedded in arts and icons throughout the centuries. Truth hidden.”
Cultural Creatives 1.0 – The (R)Evolution
This is a rendering of what 80 million points of light on a map of the United States might look like. Those Points of Light are the Cultural Creatives. From the website and other sources: Cultural Creatives 1.0 – THE REVOLUTION is a documentary made by Frygis Fogel, an Hungarian independent filmmaker, on the topic of the Cultural Creatives, people who are taking an interest in improving the quality of life and making it sustainable for future generations. It is NOT a global organization or any kind of political movement, yet there are an increasing number of people showing an…
Community Leaders Convene: Join us at theCoreConference Sept. 23-25 2010
NextNowCollaboratory is a Community Partner of theCoreConference The strong resonance between the goals of the two organizations is obvious in this description from their website: ‘One of the themes of theCOREconference is “collective intent”. How can we come together to create something bigger than ourselves that benefits everyone in greater proportion to what we can do for ourselves. This is inherent in any successful collaboration, and we are manifesting it in every way possible in our creation and execution of the conference.” theCoreConference has created a discount code for NextNowers. PLEASE CHECK THE NEXTNOWNetwork HUB NEWSLETTER FOR THE DISCOUNT CODE….
Great Coverage from Partners 1Sky
NextNow Collaboratory is a 1Sky Ally (under Media, although we perhaps belong under Civil Society). 1Sky Policy Update 2/15/10 – Extreme Weather Shuts Down Capitol Hill Everything in the nation’s capitol took a backseat to two major snowstorms that dumped over 32 inches of snow on DC last week. Congress fell behind and climate deniers took advantage of the storm to stir up baseless controversy. Momentum is still building behind a much-anticipated senate jobs bill, but members of Congress are home this week for the President’s Day Recess, and won’t take it up until February 22. Throughout this week 1Sky…
COP15: Accepting Responsibility (Huffington Post)
Forwarded by Jim Garrison, State of the World Forum, NextNow Collab collaboration, as, in his view, “an excellent perspective on the reason for the breakdown in Copenhagen today.” William S. Becker, Executive Director, Presidential Climate Action Project HuffingtonPost: December 14, 2009 COP 15: Accepting Responsibility Imagine you’re a well-to-do person attending a dinner of your peers. The food is top-rate and there’s plenty of it. Course after course is laid upon the table. A group of less-advantaged people has been watching from the sidelines. When the dinner is done, you invite them to join you at the table. After the…
State of the World Forum Launches in Brazil: 2020 By 2050
SEE END OF POST FOR EVENT LIVE BROADCAST LINKS NextNow Collaboratory is an organizational partner of State of the World Forum, launching the global 2020 Climate Leadership Campaign today in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. This Forum marks the first time people will be coming together from around the world at this scale to strategize plans of action to reduce carbon emissions globally by 80% by 2020 (instead of 2050, widely accepted by governments but acknowledged by scientists as “too late”) not just through a change in behavior (which can be difficult to sustain) but by re-aligning our relationship to ourselves and…
Ecological Creditor Nation Brazil Mobilizes: State of the World Forum moves to February 2010 (Washington, D.C.) and August 2010 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
In February, NextNow Collab helped launch the Ecological Creditor Nation Summit initiated by the Global Footprint Network. Brazil is one of the approximately 20% of nations studied that maintains Ecological Creditor status. Now NextNow Collab partner State of the World Forum is moving its Washington D.C. conference from November 2009 to February, 2010, largely due to the extensive involvement of Brazil, which is launching a Brazil 2020 campaign in partnership with the Forum in August 2009–the developments of which will go far in informing the subsequent Forum in Washington, D.C.– and which we plan to attend. All of these efforts…
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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