Pop!Tech Notes, part 3
- Sustainable ecocities (Dickson Despommier)
- One shed of hydroponic barley = 200 acres of land
- No new tech required
- VerticalFarm.com
- Shipping container homes
- 70% of worlds fresh water in Antarctic ice shelf
- a Russian drilling project almost completed will cause water geyser 3000 meters high for 4 months which will change climate (but nobody knows how)
- Common theme: Always follow your heart; success (no matter how you define it for yourself) will follow automatically and inevitably
- Pop!Tech Accelerator program yields projects like:
- Solar blanket for TB patients which also recharges a light for nighttime
- Project M
- "disease = microbes + host out of balance" (Ian Lipkin)
- First published Map of World Happiness
- Bhutan doesn't have a single traffic light (600K people)
- Project 20 Twenty
- Games For Change
- Games as great (crucial) learning environment
- and they are universally misunderstood by each successive generation
- Plato bashed written word, Voltaire bashed plethora of books, ___ bashed novels, etc
- games for changing the world for the better
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- two biggest problems in the world according to secretary general
- inability to understand the other side's perspective
- misunderstanding of the complex, interdependent
- two biggest problems in the world according to secretary general
- Games as great (crucial) learning environment
Related posts:
- Pop!Tech Notes, part 2
- Pop!Tech Notes, part 1
- Favorite Pop!Tech Talks, part 1
- Designing for Generosity
- Out of Poverty
Rafe Furst
I believe the scientific method as currently practiced is incomplete. ”Science 2.0″ is emerging, and the lessons from complex systems theory are a big part of what’s missing. This has more than theoretical implications; the biggest challenges we face are due to a general ignorance of — and a willful dismissal of — the realities of an increasingly complex, interdependent world. To learn what else I’m interested in visit RafeFurst.com.