About a year ago, Gwen Gordon and I were playing together, exploring cosmologist Brian Swimme’s Powers of the Universe: Seamlessness – the source of all powers, the ground of being, pure generativity; Centration – the power of concentration and exhilaration, how the Universe centers on itself; Allurement – the power of attraction, how things hold together; Emergence – the power of creativity, how the Universe transcends itself; Homeostasis – the power of maintaining achievement, what the Universe values; Cataclysm – the power of destruction, living in a Universe where things break down; Synergy – the power of working together, mutually enhancing relationships; Transmutation – the power to…
Beyond Charity
Our breakdowns are too systemic to be solved by “charity” but the idea of these new millionaires embracing real social entrepreneurship is a good one. From Open Forum–On Facebook IPO Facebook is going public on Friday. The company’s market valuation at the end of its first day of trading could top $100 billion. Instantly, scores of Facebook employees will become millionaires. But what happens the following day? These newly wealthy folks will eventually have to ask themselves an important question: What should I do with this money? As a couple who was fortunate enough to face that question when we…
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.”
Gone in 60 Nanoseconds (Repost)
All I can say is *Just In Time* (and I have a new favorite joke). By Charles Krauthammer, Published: October 6 “We don’t allow faster-than-light neutrinos in here,” says the bartender.A neutrino walks into a bar. — Joke circulating on the Internet The world as we know it is on the brink of disintegration, on the verge of dissolution. No, I’m not talking about the collapse of the euro, of international finance, of the Western economies, of the democratic future, of the unipolar moment, of the American dream, of French banks, of Greece as a going concern, of Europe as an idea, of Pax…
Inaugural BlueMind Summit
(Dr.Wallace J. Nicols graces the cover of OUTSIDE magazine Breakthrough Science 2016 issue: This is Your Brain on Nature.) From NextNower Manuel Maqueda of Trash Island and Plastic Pollution Coalition, and whose organization BlooSee is a sponsor of the BlueMind Summit: How does the ocean affect our brain? Why does the sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste of the ocean set our souls at ease? How does our “brain on ocean” behave? These questions and much more are the subject of the BlueMind Summit, an unprecedented gathering that will bring together neuroscientists, ocean scientists, experts in technology forecasting, photographers, explorers, yogis, writers, artists, ocean…
U.S. Peace Index makes TIME, USA Today
NextNow Collab met Steve Killelea in 2007 while preparing the Fifth International Symposium for Digital Earth. Steve couldn’t make it to present at the conference but thanks to our ISDE5 team member Tim Foreman we caught up with him between flights at the San Francisco International Airport where he introduced The Peace Index. We’ve been waiting all these years and it’s amazing to see the Peace Index of the United States completed and launched earlier this month. Now, it’s making the news. From their website and other sources: Just two weeks ago, the Institute for Economics and Peace launched the first-ever United…
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…
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…
100-Year Starship Study Blasts Off 1/11/11
NextNower Claudia Welss attended the inaugural meeting of the DARPA/NASA 100-Year Starship Study held January 11th and 12th at Cavallo Point in Sausalito, CA. She joined a fascinating mixture of space-savvy individuals grappling with the technological and socio-political Whys, Whats and Hows of an ambitious yet achievable goal: developing the business case for an enduring organization designed to incentivize breakthrough technologies over generations, enabling long-distance manned spaceflight within 100 years. Follow early developments at http://100yearstarshipstudy.com/ DARPA/NASA SEEK TO INSPIRE MULTIGENERATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT October 28, 2010 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Throughout history technical challenges have inspired…
N e x t N o w Collaboratory 