Women Inventors and Innovators Virtual Exhibit and Mural: NextNow Collab Project Visualizes Complex History to Illuminate the Contributions of Women

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…

The Unstoppable Momentum of Natural Forces

Institute of Noetic Sciences blog post by Claudia Welss on COP21 and Subtle Activism: The Unstoppable Momentum of Natural Forces 9 December 2015 By: Claudia Welss, IONS board of directors, Global Coherence Initiative Steering Committee, Gaiafield Project Council   Twenty years ago I was distributing research by the Union of Concerned Scientists to global executives of major corporations as director of executive education at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, trying to get their attention and hoping to influence their policies. The research concluded we had twenty years before Earth and humanity reached a climate tipping point, beyond which there was no…

The New Science of Remote Causation

NNC is one of the original supporters of this continuing campaign/experiment at Burning Man to determine if something real is being measured…. I Controlled a Huge Freakin’ Laser With My Mind!  The New Science of Remote Causation by Tam Hunt, UC Santa Barbara Reprinted from the Santa Barbara Independent Journal, Wednesday, March 27, 201 I contrive no hypotheses. ~ Isaac Newton, discussing gravity in Principia Mathematica Isaac Newton, perhaps the greatest scientist who ever lived, did of course make many hypotheses about gravity. In fact, he developed an incredibly profound general theory of gravity that united such seemingly different phenomena as a falling apple and the circling of the…

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.”

Happy Earth Day. Now Text TREE.

From NextNowCollab partner Marc Ian Barasch and Green World Campaign.  Text TREE and show your support for the planet. On Friday, April 22, from the heart of Times Square, the Green World Campaign will launch a year-long initiative to “ReGreen the World.”  Supported by Earth Day New York, the GWC’s dazzling animated graphics will swirl across jumbo screens day and night, inviting spectators—and people across the country– to Text TREE to 85944 and ReGreen the World. It will be spectacular, with more than 10 jumbo screens involved—including the building-sized NASDAQ and American Eagle—turning Times Square into a virtual forest at…

New Evidence Confirms Land Warming Record

State of the World Forum’s Paul Ray forwards this piece and reminds us of this a key social-political point: The anti-science climate denial campaign is being coordinated by the same PR firms that coordinated the cancer-denial campaign for the tobacco companies. This time they’re doing it for the oil and coal companies. And for the Saudi Arabian government. For those of us with long memories, that’s why there’s a sort of familiar ring to their attempt to create confusion about what the science says, and to employ anti-science ideologues. Joe Romm ClimateProgress.org Everybody but the anti-science disinformers has known for…

The Emotional Power of Visualization: Bella Gaia

“The first day or so, we all pointed to our countries.  The third or fourth day, we were pointing to our continents.  By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.” Astronaut Bin Salman Al-Saud, Saudi Arabia, Reflections from Space, The Foundation for Global Community (2008) The vision of BELLA GAIA is to bring the power of art, technology, space science, and real scientific data visualizations together, into a context that is both entertaining and educational, fused with a common goal of raising the awareness and appreciation of our home planet. BELLA GAIA can actually visually display how…

The Known Universe: Carter Emmart and the American Museum of Natural History’s “Digital Universe Atlas”

I first met Carter Emmart, Director of Astrovisualization at the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History at NextNow Collab project ISDE5, where Carter presented the Uniview, powerfully demonstrating how it could be used within the Digital Earth community.  (Carter was also at ISDE6 in Beijing, presenting “The Global Eye:  Simultaneous Earth system“).  About the Uniview, from their site: Uniview is a computer graphics platform bringing information data- bases to life in a 3D environment much like an immersive computer game.  Loaded with scientific content, Uniview brings your audience to the science and makes…

Community Remote Sensing and Remote Sensing Capacity Building and the United Nations (Updated)

Thanks to NextNower Myrna Yoo, Publisher of Imaging Notes, for sharing these articles that are of particular relevance to many of us–the first on global vision for local action, and the second on the peaceful uses of outer space.  Both articles are by Ray A. Williamson, PhD, editor of Imaging Notes and Executive Director of the Secure World Foundation, an organization devoted to the promotion of cooperative approaches to space security.  From the most recent issue: For nearly the first three decades of satellite remote sensing, the utility of the data was limited by the expert knowledge of complex software…

Google Earth Visualizes Climate Change Scenarios for COP15

Google Earth has released this Climate Change Intro Tour, ahead of the United Nations‘s climate conference in Copenhagen in December (COP15) as part of the Google Earth Outreach program. Below is the 5 minute intro video; you can view these tours on YouTube, or visit http://www.google.com/landing/cop15 to see scenarios including Climate Projections under a High Emission Scenario Climate Projections under a Low Emission Scenario