I stumbled upon Yes Men today. Had heard of their movie before, but never actually seen it. Definitely have to do that now.
Half of me wishes I'd done this. The other half knows I'd never have dared.
I stumbled upon Yes Men today. Had heard of their movie before, but never actually seen it. Definitely have to do that now.
Half of me wishes I'd done this. The other half knows I'd never have dared.
I DN idag. Botkyrka satsar på sommarlovsentreprenörer. Man kan naturligtvis diskutera vad som igår i det kommunala uppdraget och inte, men i stort tycker jag detta är ett lysande initiativ. Ett bra sätt att göra entreprenörskap mer konkret. Och positivt att de involverat lokala näringslivet också.
Can't remember if I've mentioned this here earlier but I'm with a network collegue exploring a long shot idea of connecting refugees from Iraq living in Sweden with apparent business opportunities in Iraq for Swedish companies.
There is a local government that makes sense to involve. Positive meeting today. And a government agency with investment capital that talks about "the opportunity of a generation". Positive meeting a week ago.
We will see where this wants to go...
//jan
As midsummer makes its way into Swedish minds I've revisited an old parked idea about creating a creative hub/outpost thing in my home town Vaxholm. What sparked it was the discovery of a specific piece of property presently up for sale. It seems to be a very suitable location for my idea.
On another level, it’s [sustainability] just a bad word. It’s technically what we would call a “negative vision.” We don’t want the unsustainable, we don’t want civilization to collapse, we don’t want the human species to fail. Well, of course we don’t want that, but those images don’t move people. “Survival” is not the most inspiring vision. It motivates out of fear, but it only motivates for as long as people feel the issues are pressing on them. Soon as the fear recedes, so does the motivation.
What we’re talking about is arguably the greatest challenge to innovation that humankind has ever faced: reinventing our whole way of living. And every single example I know of where something meaningful has happened, where people have worked at something that’s taken five years, 10 years, 15 years, it’s because of people’s excitement toward something that really draws them. It’s aspirational.
I've now spent the full 1 hour and 33 minutes to see Home. If you haven't I urge you to (it was supposed to close June 14, but seems open still). It is a remarkably beautiful film with a really grim message. A message we don't seem to be taking seriously enough...
I wrote this almost a year ago to the day. The first bit seems to be changing a little. The second has an interesting connection to my last post.
//jan
Sustainability for most today seems to be about tackling climate change. Damn, that is narrow. But arguably still an important an daunting task.
Sustainability needs to be discussed and understood better. But not from the perspective of creating sustainable human life. That is also too narrow. Instead we should be building and protecting sustainability for ALL LIFEFORMS ON THE PLANET. Focusing on sustainability the for the whole system called our planet seems to me to be the only reasonable strategy to take care of our own egoistic needs of survival. We're interdependent on the planet. We need to look beyond our own needs to save ourselves.
So, when I in the same article found out about The World Future Council I checked their web site and discovered:
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