 A few sites with some interesting ideas worth thinking about:
Three Principles Behind All Creativity Tools: Directed Creativity suggests
that all creativity tools have three underlying concepts: (1) Attention
(focusing on things you normally take for granted, (2) Escape (get
outside normal thinking patterns or preconceptions, or just get
outside), and (3) Movement (explore, discover, connect, just follow
ideas where they lead you).
Standards for Social Justice: Two organizations, Social Accountability International (SA8000) and the Fair Labor Association (FLA)
each suggest guidelines for, and certify and monitor compliance with,
standards for acceptable organizational standards for working hours,
compensation and conditions, employment standards, forced and child
labor, health and safety, workplace punishment, and collective
bargaining rights.
Defining Tomorrow's Company: A British group sponsored by some of the UK's biggest companies is organizing
events and debate on how corporations can become responsible to
employees, the community and the environment as they are to
shareholders.
Debate vs. Conversation: Alan Stewart explains
why debate, the "clash of differing opinions", is a much less effective
means of sharing and transferring knowledge and ideas than intelligent
conversation. I can see Jeremy Heigh's brows furrowing.
Caretakers for Art: Amanda Koh has a brilliant moving-to-gift-economy idea for making art affordable to everyone. Where else could it be applied?
The Worst Places in the World: Jumping on the Google Maps bandwagon, Sprol
is a fascinating blog that shows aerial views of some of the horrible
things man has done to our planet, with some well-researched
commentary. The picture above is from this site, showing Las Vegas
sprawl. Imagine how this area will do when the oil and water run out.
Oh, the green, naturally, is a golf course.
Ken Wilber vs Stan Rowe: The field of ecological philosophy/psychology has two main streams of thought. The more popular one is espoused by Ken Wilber (A Theory of Everything), a very bright but annoyingly arrogant thinker who argues
that all animate matter in some sense a 'member' and in other senses a
'constituent' of a hierarchy of communities. An alternate point of view
is espoused by the late Stan Rowe (A Manifesto for Earth), who argues
in favour of the 'deep ecology' model that the Earth is a single
super-organism of which each living creature is simply a part. A recent
article in Trumpeter by Michael Zimmerman contrasts
and tries to reconcile the two views. It's heavy-going stuff but every
once in awhile theoretical discussion can be enlightening, and these
guys are intellectual heavyweights. I bet Jon Husband has something to say about this.
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