Nassim Haramein is a swiss scientist who is trying to unify current scientific understanding of universe and the nature of reality, with the understanding of ancient civilizations. He came up with really holistic approach. Looking for holy grail of physics somewhere, where we stoped looking probably sometimes around the times of Platon and Aristoteles… in geometry.
I am preparing an article on Paradigm shift and I came across this wonderful site, full of political cartoons made by Barry Deutsch. I found his work absolutely hilarious. They say that the perfection is not when you can not add something more, but when you cannot take more away. So (in a sense of the above) you can read 1000 books on economy, politics and history and you will not understand the current matters better, than reading a few of Barry´s strips. Simply perfection and funny as hell.
Follow this link to Barry´s website.
American writer of science fiction literature Isaac Asimov may be known mainly for his mind-bending novels from far future worlds, but he never really abolished his “real world” scientific work neither. Writing tons of articles on many subject during the course of decades of his successful career.
In the video series following this article you can see, that he was a great speaker and political and social evangelist as well. His vision of ”threats to humanity” may be considered really prophetic 20 years after the speech was recorded.
I find the idea of some federal planetary government a bit scary from today’s perspective, but Asimov’s argument about the necessity of great space exploration projects to guarantee international peace just can´t be argued with. We need something to unite humanity in one common endeavour and then we will be more open to settle our arguments in peaceful way, instead of spreading nationalist and religious hatred.
Yesterday I reported about a very interesting site called wideeyecinema.com full of great documents, speeches and lectures on the hottest global issues. Today I found another mind-blowing documentary made by Journeyman Pictures.
“Life Running Out of Control” is one of those great documentaries, that will make you to understand the wast scale and the enormous dangers of contemporary genetic engineering. I was aware about those dangers even before I saw this particular movie, but I think only now I truly understood the full scale of it. And I think everybody should, before it’s too late.
Click here, to watch the document on Wide Eye Cinema
Maybe I shouldn’t be telling you about this site, because I think the people behind this project did much better what I’m trying to do with this blog.
But of course my aim is to inform about everything I consider to have a positive effect in process of forming a new paradigm and changing the overall belief system of current global population. WideEyeCinema.com,definitely is one of those things. A very nice collection of documentary movies that will indeed open your eyes.
I really recommend to start wit this little link. I is a fairly mind-blowing speech of Michel Chossudovsky, explaining the mechanics of current global economic depression. http://wideeyecinema.com/?p=865
I’m just a bit afraid,that now that you know about WideEyeCinema you will not come back to Utopia Crowd.
I was looking forward to see this movie with a lot of expectation, but somehow there was no time left to do it during the last few weeks. Now, I finally did and I can say; “I am not disappointed”. Great images from fascinating places all over the world. Mostly aerial view of wast landscapes. Both natural and transformed by mans hands. The movie gives a stunning perception of human kinds influence on its natural environment. On planet Earth,Its only “Home”.
Rather than seeing human history from typically human anthropocentric viewpoint we can see ourselves integrated into planets natural biosphere. It is a story of natural history of man. A story that as we can see may not have an happy ending. This is definitely one of those great movies, that every human being should see to understand his place in this world and to become aware of ones responsibility to it.
As mentioned many times during the course of the movie; “There’s no time to be a pessimist !” We have got a very short time to stop and reverse the human impact on this planet. And as also mentioned in the movie; “We still have a lot of resources to do so!” The clock is ticking on and our time is shorter everyday. I am one of those rare optimists and dreamers who think that we can still do it. We can still turn around and start acting, not only intelligent, but also wise and compassionate. But we have to start acting together and now! Most of our social and ecological problems are caused by inappropriate technological solutions and unethical business practice. And solutions to those problems does not only exist, but they are already implemented. It depends on us, how wide spread are those solutions going to be implemented and if they are going to make the necessary difference. Every one of those little ant-like creatures that you can see in the movie can become a part of change. Everyone can add up to the equation with his creativity and his behaviour.
The movie is freely available on Youtube. Just one click away.
A month ago I posted a very inspirational speech of Alex Steffen, about the 20 necessary steps to move toward more sustainable civilization. The speech was made on a conference on Sustainable Cities in Danish architecture centre. Alex had a very good point in his speech. “Many times we just hear about how bad things may become if we continue on current curse, but actually we are not listening that much about, how good may thing become, if we will start to change and begin to do things in different manner. Of course there is a lot of content around the web, that is inspiring us to make a positive change to the world, but as far as I know, non of them so comprehensive as two annual events I want to post about today.
First of them is the well known TED Conference. The annual conference brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). TEDs website is packed with great inspirationa speeches made by interesting personalities from all walks of life. And you can get lost on the site for hours and days. Definitely worth checking if you dont know about it already.
Second of them is a similar annual project held in Amsterdam.
“PICNIC brings together and disseminates the ideas and knowledge of the world’s best creators and innovators, through a top-class conference, a broad selection of participative sessions, interactive experiences, matchmaking events wrapped in a festival experience.”
Again, the website is just bursting of great content and positive energy.
I got to say I really like the idea of this kind of branded conferences/festivals, which are in the end of the day inspiring not only the participants that are present in the conference hall, but thousands ( and hopefully millions) of people around the world. I hope there will be more stuff like that coming in the near future. One for every significant town and the city on this planet.
Alex Steffen is American writer, blogger, futurist, editor and self proclaimed “bright green environmentalist”.
Bright green environmentalism is a wing of sustainability movement that is promoting social and technological change through development of smarter designs, technologies, infrastructures and business practices, rather than by more traditional protests and political pressure. He has written for magazines such as Business Week or Wired. He is a founder of an influential WorldChanging.com blog which is taking a big-picture approach on sustainability. What follows is a very inspirational speech that was given by Alex in Danish Architecture Center in Copenhagen and it is a very extended answer of question I asked in the title of this article. Contemplating about 20 necessary steps to move toward more sustainable civilization he make us aware that sustainability is not just windmills, organic carrots and electric cars. Enjoy the speech as much as I did.
Despite the fact that P.U.M.A. (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility) looks a bit like Steve Urkel’s BMW Isetta I got to say that I really love the concept. I completely understand the rain of negative comments that appeared all over the net after General Motors and Segway announced that they teamed up for PUMA Project. Without any doubt the safety of the vehicle is definitely an issue to consider. Mainly if you realize that its speed is 3 times higher than that of original segway and that it is expected to run alongside more traditional (bigger) vehicles.
I do understand all that moaning and reasoning! But still! P.U.M.A is a great alternative to traditional vehicles for two reasons:
1.It protects the driver from exposure to weather conditions (Well not yet, but I believe soon we will get a machine looking more like the original concept and less like a dune buggy), unlike other car alternatives like Bicycle and small motorbikes.
2.Segway works! And you can moan and argue as much as you like to, but I just can’t see all that flashy urban mobility vehicles around our towns and cities as much as I do see segways.
To go around the question of security of this type of vehicles forever is frankly getting trapped in chicken and egg situation. We cannot have lighter, more practical and more ecological vehicles, becouse there is no infrasturcture and safe roads to drive them. And there is not enough infrastracture, becouse there is not enough lighweight vehicles. So what’s next?
PUMA is a nice concept adding to ever increasing spectrum of similar personal mobility solutions and unlike many others it is not just a CAD animation, but a working machine.
And talking about the security; “Do you prefere to be hit by a traditional car or by this little thingy?”
The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 from a record distance, showing it against the vastness of space. Both the idea for taking the distant photo and the title came from scientist and astronomer Carl Sagan, who also wrote the 1994 book of the same name.In 2001, it was selected by Space.com as one of the top ten space science photos.Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977. Sagan had pushed for Voyager to take a photo of the Earth when its vantage point reached the edge of the solar system. On February 14, 1990, having completed its primary mission, NASA commanded the spacecraft to turn around to photograph the planets of the Solar System. Between February 14, 1990 and June 6, 1990, one image Voyager returned was of Earth, showing up as a “pale blue dot” in the grainy photo.
In his book, Pale Blue Dot, Sagan wrote:
“While almost everyone is taught that the Earth is a sphere with all of us somehow glued to it by gravity, the reality of our circumstance did not really begin to sink in until the famous frame-filling Apollo photograph of the whole Earth — the one taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts on the last journey of humans to the Moon.”
In a commencement address delivered May 11, 1996, Sagan related his thoughts on the deeper meaning of the photograph:
(Parts of this article are taken from Wikipedia)
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