Marshmellow Lesson on Creativity Design and Collaboration

We can learn a lot from kindergarten kids who show us how to design for success without getting fixed on getting the one right answer!

Life Is....

I moved house recently and sorting through papers I found a couple of verses I had penned about LIFE!

Life is....
A small plant
two tiny unfurling blades.
Is it unaware of its abode
washed by stearic acid and
sodium laurel sulphate
as it valiantly clings to the
frame of the plug hole?



And on the meaning of life....

I always suspected that life has no meaning
Meaning, after all is to satisfy the mind
How's that for a dose of responsibility
And Lord how we take on making it mean this and that

I always suspected that life has no meaning
Quite liberating really when you think about it
'Why' being the booby prize question that sets you off
meandering or urgently lurching from one drama to another

I always suspected that life has no meaning
The ultimate ego trip to self important city
My life has a purpose
I'm here for a reason
This little sunbeam smiling in God's eye.

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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

Here is another example of how we limit our creativity. In the hierarchy of education of maths and language at the top, humanities next and the arts last the skill that we need the most for the current age is creativity. We usually educate it out of kids and move whole body education up to the left side of the brain.

300 Years of FOSSIL FUELS in 300 Seconds

I first saw this informative clip on Patrick Jones' blog http://permapoesis.blogspot.com/
Filtering the volume of information we have at our finger tips can be overwhelming. This clip is one of the simplest potted history I have seen and is a great introduction to the new book by Richard Heinberg and William E Rees, Thinking Resilience, Ch.3, The Post Carbon Reader, Edited by Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 2010

Changing Behaviour Is As Important As Changing Technology

Compared to what is put into technological research behavior change is a neglected area of climate change education. Yet unless we can do something different things wont change. I think this is a brilliant article on how to get more savvy with behaviour change. Using behavioral science to make smarter energy policy | Energy Bulletin

Here is a small excerpt from the article:

"How much does it cost for a given climate solution to eliminate (abate) a metric ton of CO2 emissions? With plug-in hybrid vehicles, that ton costs around $12. With wind power, it's $20. With carbon capture and storage at coal-fired power plants, it's $44.

How much does that same ton of CO2 abatement cost using these behavioral programs? -$165. No, that's not a typo. It's a negative sign. As in: $165 worth of profit per ton of carbon pollution reduced. If similar programs were expanded nationwide, Allcott and Mullainathan estimate a net value -- savings minus costs -- of $2,220,000,000 a year. Of course much research and testing remains to be done before it's clear whether these programs perform equally well at scale, but as a first approximation, that's not too shabby."

metro regrets.... as sung by men in suits