Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

The no straight lines of city innovation

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Shareable cities - what is a shareable cityCities are shared spaces. That’s why we gather, in part, to share basic infrastructure, to socialize, to satisfy our human instinct to congregate, to make culture together. The call for a Shareable City simultaneously ...

The economics of happiness

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Does identikit suburban life leave you cold? Do you long for your children to grow up as part of a bigger community, where there's always help close at hand? Perhaps you are just looking to live a simpler, low-carbon existence, complete ...

Commonwealth in the networked society [3] Big pharma

Sunday, October 11th, 2009Big banks, big pharma, big problems, writes John Martin,MONEY has thrown society out of kilter. Banks that once appeared to have mountains of cash have collapsed. As a consequence of the global recession, governments now recognise that banking is too ...

Modern life is rubbish

Sunday, October 11th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4526" align="aligncenter" width="344" caption="Modern life is rubbish"][/caption]On September 11, 2009, a French woman who worked for France Telecom sent an email to her father, in that email she wrote,I can’t take the new reorganization. I prefer to die.Then she ...

Noisy ghosts rattling the cages in the communications revolution

Friday, September 11th, 2009Underpinning our passionate embrace of ‘social communication’ is the central issue of identity. Let me explain, in pre-industrial eras our identities were shaped by external forces, for example I live in an old agricultural village outside of Cambridge. 250 years ...

Turn off your TV and Do something more interesting instead

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009I met a lovely lady at the Do Lectures - Leonora Oppenheim from Treehugger.She has written some great posts on the Do LecturesHere and here

Becoming the change you want to see in the world

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009Was what I suggested was "my little Do" after I presented at the Do lectures @ Fforest in Cilgarren on Saturday. "My big Do" was asking people to take the language I had presented and use that to challenge what ...

Don’t just stand there Do something!!!

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009Last week I was in Wales and met up with my old friend Dave Hieatt the co-founder of the extraordinary company HowiesI say extraordinary, as David and is wife Claire built the company with a belief and point of view ...

shopping sets you free?

Saturday, August 15th, 2009Neal Lawson, wrote a powerful piece on what I describe as the toxic tail end of the mass consumer society. Zygmunt Bauman said that, "you judge a modern society not by what it consumes, but by what it throws away."He ...

Mobile engagement for local authorities

Thursday, August 6th, 2009I picked this up from the Linkedin Group on mobile content:How can local government make savings and improve services? The answer, is mobile communications.If “Quantitative Easing” is out of the question, how can local councils cope with a burden of ...

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