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Ecology – is it an immature science? If you have watched the controversy netween Paul Gilding and Peter Diamandis at TED.com you might have come to the conclusion that approaching the big question of our future survival and wellbeing cannot be accomplished  in a scientific framework, the contrahents

A dynamic year 2011 is ending: Crisis. protests, movements, system skepticism What is in your mind? What will I have I forgotten to mention? Arab spring, occupy movement, maybe a stolen Arab spring in Egypt, maybe an awakening civill society in Russia. And kind of “cold (civil) war” in US. And ever

Facts – present and future There are different names out there: sharing economy, peer-to-peer value exchange – and “people-powered markets”.  The last title is from Vanessa Miemis, who has done a great job to collect and sort 60 (!) of that markets (emergentbydesign.com). There are some more facts f

Paul Gilding: We enter the Great Disruption Quote: “It’s time for all those focusing on sustainability to change gears and review strategy. With the ecological system groaning under the strain of an economy simply too big for the planet, we have to face the uncomfortable truth. The time to act just

The Eco-Singularity is near. Preface (I) - … Definition (II) - … Solutions (III) As I have said in the posts above there is a structural problem with our accelerated hightech civilization: We are witnessing two growing avalanches – the avalanche of technological solutions and the avalanche of second

News from the avalanche Things are changing in front of our eyes. As I said we need an avalanche of innovations beyond the hardware and material innovation realm: Organisational, social innovation will be essential for the successful transformation to a more lasting civilisation (see Eco-Singularity

Entrepreneurial design – and the design thinking context The focus of the entrepreneurship summit 2010 has been entrepreneurial design and I think the concept is convincing. Concept? Maybe there are more than one concept around under this name. Just found it linked to design thinking in a certain ma

Three posts about ecological singularity and the avalanche of change The Eco-Singularity is near. Preface (I) - … Definition (II) - … Solutions (III) . Eco-Singularity – core concept, strengths and challenges In part II a first approach has been accomplished to define the concept of “eco-singularity

The day when Facebook  did have more than 500,000,000 active users caused some social network skeptics to think again. But not only researchers, investors, marketers are observing this unfolding universe. There is so much “social capital” bound in social networks now that hackers of the evil kind st

Reflections after the econsense meeting US, China, Europe have ambitious green tech and clean tech goals. But: Eyeing for the emerging green markets will not be enough Speakers at econsense meeting made an appeal to bring the sustainability issue into the DNA of the company – I totally agree; as an