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Browsing All Posts filed under »Globalization«
Radical Evolution | Notes & Review
Joel Garreau. Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies — and What It Means to Be Human. Broadway Books, 2005. (384 pages) http://www.garreau.com/index.cfm Prologue: The Future of Human Nature Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. - Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn This […]
The Electronic Wasteland
July 3, 2009
Where do the millions of computer monitors, cell phones and other electronic refuse our society generates end up? In places like Guiyu, China. There are similar places in other countries like India, and it’s unseen, underground, and highly toxic to the local residents. 60 Minute’s “The Electronic Wasteland” program (transcript: Following the Trail of Toxic […]
The Story of Stuff
May 12, 2009
Website: http://www.storyofstuff.com/ NYTimes.com article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/education/11stuff.html This ~20 min. video and connected website is a captivating production of consumption in America. Key words: Extraction, Production, Distribution, Consumption, Disposal. — VIA — In my estimation and observation, the heart of this particular subject the mindset, the ideologies, the biases, and the a priori assertions and assumptions of […]
An Inconvenient Truth | Notes & Review
April 11, 2009
An Inconvenient Truth. Paramount Classics, 2006. National Geographic article. Washington Post fact-checker and Pinocchio test. Several months ago, I found myself in a fairly heated (no pun intended) discussion with a family member who believes the earth is only 6 – 10,000 years old, that oil is a renewable resource, and that global warming is […]
Big Think – Crowdsourcing Community and A Diffusion of Authority
March 16, 2009
Discovered this site today. It has been called the “Intellectual YouTube”: www.bigthink.com The gist? From the “About” page: In the global digital age, there is a glut of accessible information. And while this information empowers you, the citizen-consumer, the only way to make any sense of it, is to begin an interactive relationship with the […]
Time to Reboot America
December 26, 2008
Another thought provoking Op-Ed article from Thomas Friedman. Here’s the brunt of his rant: My fellow Americans, we can’t continue in this mode of “Dumb as we wanna be.” We’ve indulged ourselves for too long with tax cuts that we can’t afford, bailouts of auto companies that have become giant wealth-destruction machines, energy prices that […]
OLPC: One Laptop Per Child & Nicholas Negroponte’s TED Talk
November 26, 2008
(This is the first of two posts that highlight endeavors that are helping to change the world through creative and contrarian ways of thinking.) You can learn more about OLPC through the Amazon videos here, and their website: http://www.laptop.org/en/. You can buy the laptops at Amazon.com. Founded in 2005 by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte. Mission […]
Multiethnic Ministry – Race & Reason in the Church, pt.2
July 8, 2008
My first post addressed the Leadership article “Ethnic Blends.” This post, I’d just like to offer a few resources that may be of help for furthering the discussion. As mentioned in the previous post, the complexity of the issue gives me pause for strong opinions. I offer this post as a contribution to the conversation. […]
TED Talks Worth Talking About | Alisa Miller – The News About the News
July 2, 2008
As the CEO of American Public Radio, Alisa Miller brings an extremely insightful look at the breadth of American media. The short 4 1/2 min. talk is here. [If anyone has a the actual graphics that she used in her talk, I would love to get a hold of those.] I suppose we could consider […]
GodblogCon – A Tribe of Individuals and The Lawnmower Man
July 2, 2008
The world is rapidly changing. It’s face is changing — how it appears. The vehicles of communication are changing — how we interact. And in a McLuhan-esque ethic, humanity is also changing — who we really are. GodBlogCon is one of those fascinating growths out of this new era of change. Whether it is inconsequential, […]
Thomas Friedman’s Obama On The Nile – Letting The Future Bury The Past
June 12, 2008
What makes New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s op-ed posts interesting, to me, is that his global (flat) perspective allows us to glimpse a little bit of a bigger picture that many others simply cannot provide. Why is this important? Because life is a simultaneous tension between “individualness” and interconnectedness. Humanity, in order to be […]
Pangea Day – The Tower of Babel and The Healing Of The Nations
May 13, 2008
On May 10, 2008, an international media event called “Pangea Day” was seen on over “one million screens,” (according to the website). Their purpose? To bring the world together through film. Pangea Day is a global event bringing the world together through film. Why? In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, […]
RELEVANT’s Burning Issues: War
April 27, 2008
The May_June 2008 edition of Relevant Magazine posted 7 burning issues: Injustice, Homosexuality, Faith, Politics, Culture, Consumerism, and War. WAR: How Should We Respond? 1. Jim Wallis – Followers of the Prince of Peace should be the hardest to convince to go to war, never the easiest…The real problem here is the cultural captivity of […]
RELEVANT’s Burning Issues: Consumerism
April 25, 2008
The May_June 2008 edition of Relevant Magazine posted 7 burning issues: Injustice, Homosexuality, Faith, Politics, Culture, Consumerism, and War. CONSUMERISM: How Do We Escape the Excesses of Culture? VIA: I had several disagreements with the contributors. Here are my thoughts, and reflections that I think are important to keep in mind regarding the issue of […]
You’ve Jott to be Kidding Me!
April 18, 2008
So, my friend sent me the coolest new technology, and I just have to share. Jott allows you to email, text, blog, add items to your Google calendar, and even surf Amazon.com all from talking into your phone. And, it’s all FREE! www.jott.com So, there are some cultural and anthropological implications to this continuing technology. […]
Earth Hour ’08 and the Power of Symbols
April 9, 2008
Thursday, March 29, 2008 was “Earth Hour,” a campaign that encourages individuals, organizations and businesses to turn off their lights for one full hour beginning at 8pm. This year, 24 global cities participated. Time Magazine published this article on Earth Hour and more information can be found at http://www.earthhour.org/. Okay, so we’ve heard it all, […]
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