Visualising Carbon Emissions

One way to overcome the invisibility of greenhouse gas emissions…

Detroit Learning Journey Video

Acorns Or Oak Trees?

I’ve just finished reading E.F. Schumacher’s ‘A Guide for the Perplexed‘, which systematically takes the reader through the different ways of knowing the world and is full of hidden treasures like this.

“Our ordinary mind tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is only of interest to pigs. Our spiritual mind gives us knowledge of something much bigger: that we can become oak trees.”

Link Loving 03.11.12

• The parallels between modern Greece and Weimar Germany. Paul Mason.
• How to design culture. Emergent By Design.
• The best way to get unstuck. Seth Godin.
• Towards a resilient economy. Joe Brewer.
• What The Bankers Did Next: Exploring how the financial system and the government are wedded together through lobbyists, relationships and collective interest.
• Occupy Economics Working Group’s Little Book of Ideas. Very good indeed.

The Balaton Group

I loved Donella Meadows’ ‘Thinking in Systems’ – and this video explaining how the network that grew around her is inspiring and thought-provoking. (Also note: hilarious sustainability-themed songs.)