Tweet A recent discovery for me is McKinsey & Company’s new site What Matters. It is a thought provoking question and it is good to see it being tackled by McKinsey and their interesting array of authors. The things that matter change if we are considering big or small things. At this time in our [...]
Entries Tagged as 'sustainability'
I know it’s Caturday but this is serious …
May 29th, 2010 · Comments Off · ideas
Tweet As they note on the Say No To Animals In Pet Shops website: “Approximately 130,000 dogs and 60,000 cats are killed at pounds every year. Unbelievable, eh?” So why not do something about it? There’s a bunch of ways you can help listed here. You can also help by assisting places like Sydney’s no-kill [...]
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Libraries for the future
May 5th, 2010 · 6 Comments · ideas
Tweet I spent most of my youth and childhood hanging about in public libraries and reading their books. In fact I blame libraries for most of my quirks these days, since it was there that I was exposed to dangerous ideas from philosophers, historians and fiction authors. The local, school and state libraries provided a [...]
Tags: collaboration·community·education·future·hyperconnectivity·people·sustainability
Being real
March 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · community, ideas
Tweet As a child I read a story where the main character wanted to be a ‘real boy’ and not just a wooden puppet. And this choice between being a real person – who connects with other people and things in an open and organic way – and being a puppet – driven by fear [...]
Savings and managing credit – a hard lesson to learn #febusave
January 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments · frugal, ideas
Tweet We do not often share stories about our personal finances (except perhaps to boast of some great success?) but here are some hard won lessons I have learned. My parents were not great savers, subsisting from pay to pay in the way that many workers do. Thus I did not learn much about saving [...]
Theme for 2010: reinvention and reinvigoration
January 1st, 2010 · 6 Comments · ideas
Tweet Each year, instead of making new year resolutions, I pick a theme for the year. That way when I get sidetracked (as often happens) I can simply return to the theme. Also with a theme there are often many different things I can do to support it. For 2009 my theme was simplicity and [...]
Tags: #livelocal·future·sustainability
Blog action day 2009: What can one person do? #BAD09
October 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments · future, ideas
Tweet Today is Blog Action Day 2009 & the topic is climate change. “Climate change affects us all and it threatens more than the environment. It threatens to cause famine, flooding, war, and millions of refugees. Given the urgency of the issue of climate change and the upcoming international climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December, [...]
Blog action day 2009 is coming soon
September 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · community, ideas
Tweet Goodness me, how quickly time passes. It is Blog Action Day on 15 October 2009. This year it is about Climate Change. Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion [...]
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Why not support the Action Aid Project TOTO Challenge?
July 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · ideas
Tweet Support ActionAid Australia’s search for their next outreach blogger by adding one of these banners to your website or even sign yourself up here. Tweet
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Is social computing just increasing our anxiety?
June 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · ideas, social computing
Tweet Since the early days of the internet revolution and web 2.0 I’ve been watching & participating in various ways. And over the past few years I’ve seen its powerful properties of network amplification working in practice. My friend and colleague Mark Pesce has recently discussed these properties in his Big Ideas talk. But with [...]
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