Welcome to Occupy Sydney For the past week, Sydney residents gathered in Martin Place to participate in a 24/7 forum to discuss creating futures that are more inclusive, just and sustainable. In the heart of the city, Martin Place is wide enough to host hundreds of people while accommodating passers by. This patch of Sydney, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Our living planet'
Occupy Sydney: peaceful, democratic gathering erased by NSW Police in dawn raid
October 23rd, 2011 · 3 Comments
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Category: Change Agency · Communication and connection · From the frontlines of the future · Future · Guide to better living · Imagining Australia · Our living planet · Peace between people · The Explorer's Handbook · Things that make you go hmmm · Understanding people
Dancin’ honey bee using dance to communicate
August 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Did you know that honey bees are able to communicate with each other using dance? I’d never seen a bee dance, but I’ve found a cool video clip showing a dancin’ bee in action. If you can embrace the ‘education video’ aesthetic of this video below, you are in for a real treat. In just [...]
Tags: · bees, communication, dancing, nature, video
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Vintage mobile handsets ought to be a point of pride
July 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Futurist Mark Pesce sent out a tweet today: “ZOMG, mobile handset sales are falling in Australia!!! That’s unprecedented.”. My instant reaction was, “Good – so they should be falling. Doesn’t pretty much everyone in Australia have a phone by now?!”. Considering Annie Leonard’s Story of Stuff, we ought to be proud of ourselves for not [...]
Tags: · mobile handsets, project, story of stuff, sustainability
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John Doerr at TED – Seeking salvation & profit in greentech
May 19th, 2008 · No Comments
John Doerr’s presentation at TED highlighted several responses to climate change worth knowing about. He made it to the platform in part because he has been instrumental in his business investing $200 million in what he calls “greentech”. Before I go on to my notes, here are a few resources introducing Doerr (most noted for [...]
Tags: · energy, ethanol, greentech, innovation, john doerr, renewable, sustainability, venture capital, walmart
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Blog Action Day
October 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Brace yourselves, I’ve signed up to this… On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind – the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better [...]
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