Archive for the ‘Ethics’ Category

Patrick Holden discusses food security @ Do Lectures

Thursday, January 7th, 2010 Patrick Holden was brought up in London. He visited a dairy farm near Epping aged five and decided he wanted to milk cows. He studied biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College in 1972 and started a community farm in West Wales ...

David Rosenberg on building a sustainable world

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 David has emerged as a world leader in sustainable construction innovation and has lead Hycrete admixture through the very first Cradle to Cradle certification. He has participated in numerous conferences around the US and the world, including a closed panel ...

What we call things is important

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 Having a mooch around with some ideas I am playing with I stumbled upon this book Metaphors We Live By A quick check on the reviews was interesting Starting with the (deceptively) simple premise that the way we talk about certain things ...

Alice Taylor a Doer speaks @ Do

Sunday, December 20th, 2009 Alice Taylor commissions cross-platform educational content for 14-19 year olds, aiming to get useful, life-helpful information to teens via their most favoured platforms and formats. She specializes in videogames and virtual worlds, and Channel 4 Education’s 2009 slate includes Routes, ...

Old world new world the journey to enterprise 2.0

Thursday, December 10th, 2009 Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business at MIT and recently wrote an article in the Financial Times, I would like to quote Andrew from the article but I can't, Copyright The Financial Times Limited ...

Straight line thinking stops here @ INSEAD

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 Its planes, trains and automobiles as I travel to day to speak at the Web 2.0 symposium which takes place at INSEAD as from tomorrow. The topic: Inter-Organizational Learning and Competence Development: Web 2.0 Experiences and Trends From e-Learning to Web 2.0 ...

Humanity does not follow the straight line rule

Sunday, December 6th, 2009 Jane Young has put together a very easy to understand set of thoughts that go to the very heart of of my current work. The communications revolution driven by a fundamental human need to connect and collaborate, and what that ...

The Do Lectures, the Achuar speak truth to power

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 Gregor made a powerful presentation at the Do Lectures his topic the  threat to the Amazon rain forest. Harnessing the collective intelligence of the tribe, he showcases The Atwa, who embrace the state, pens and paper, GPS mapping technology, YouTube, ...

Gabriel Branby speaking @ the Do Lectures

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 I loved Gabriel's presentation @ the Do Lectures. This is what Do say about Gabriel Gränsfors make one the finest forged axes in the world. It has become more than just an axe. It is an icon for quality and a ...

Local Motors: a business model of our times

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4729" align="aligncenter" width="423" caption="Local Motors: the car the people built Online and Offline"][/caption] Recently I wrote a series of posts called Commonwealth in the Networked Society. There was one on Big Pharma and open source, one on open source mobility ...