Yesterday’s G8 Dementia Summit made much of the fact that millions will now be spent in a race to identify a cure or a ‘disease-modifying therapy’ for dementia. The likely outcome will be the creation of a Dementia Industrial Complex – and the mass production of un-met expectations.A better way for nation states to spend money […]
Ecuador, Open Knowledge, and ‘Buen Vivir’: Interview With Michel Bauwens
“The global economy treats nature and material resources as if they were infinite, and knowledge as if it was scarce. We have to swap those two around”. (Michel Bauwens). Audio interview below the fold. Having enshrined the rights of nature in its constitution (*) Ecuador is now exploring how this principle, and the principle of open knowledge, […]
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20 Elements Of Green Infrastructure
What is a ‘living system’? Here are 20 elements of a green infrastructure.
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28 Ways In Which Food Systems Are a Design Opportunity
127 calories of energy are used to grow a lettuce for each calory we eat. One bottle of ketchup entails 52 transport and process stages. Does that sound sensible?
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Desert of the Real
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Ten answers from Brisbane
My hosts last week at the Asia Pacific Design Library in Brisbane (which, on reflection, is probably the finest new library I have been in) asked me a few questions before our xskool: Q: What does a typical day look like for you? A: When I’m on the road, which is nearly half the time, I […]
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The Ethics Of Innovation In 25 Common Sense Commandments
“We will deliver value to people — not deliver people to systems” – and 17 other easily followed rules
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Ways Of Knowing
[Photograph: Hans Sylvester] Interni and the Be Open Foundation are publishing a book, called Gallery Of The Senses, that explores the ways we experience the contemporary world through sight, hearing,smell, taste, and touch. It then asks: Are we missing a sixth sense? Here is my contribution. Humanity’s troubles did not begin with with the industrial age, […]
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12 Principles Guiding An Holistic, True Cost, Economy
When and how to choose between ownership, stewardship, and partnership.