The Cultural Solution to Global Climate Change Starting around 400 years ago, those educated in the Occident were trained to think of themselves as separate from nature. This flawed epistemology or way of knowing nature led to an inherently irrational and intrinsically futile attempt to control and dominate the greater environment of which humankind was merely a dependent part. The necessary shift in thinking to "humans = humans + environment" is simple yet powerful. Tuesday, September 11, 2007 01:44 AM
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The Sustainability App: Ecological thinking and Web 2.0 Not only is Web 2.0 centered on ecological thinking, the fate of life on earth may just lay in the hands of the self-organizing or emergent innovations that Web 2.0 can facilitate. Friday, April 17, 2009 03:20 AM
Living systems insights, the crucial Why of Web 2.0 Living systems understandings provides the crucial why to Web 2.0. Knowing why something works adds the essential component of depth, it guides decisions about what patterns, or sets of relationships to look for and what paths of exploration to follow. Tuesday, December 11, 2007 04:26 PM
Move over Gutenburg, here comes YouTube Google bought YouTtube for $billions because they understood that video is transforming the Web. Wiki software has now been developed that allows video to be put up on a site