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Paul Hawken has spent over a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice.

Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of the movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and hidden history, which date back many centuries. A culmination of Hawken's many years of leadership in the environmental and social justice fields, it will inspire and delight any and all who despair of the world's fate, and its conclusions will surprise even those within the movement itself. Fundamentally, it is a description of humanity's collective genius, and the unstoppable movement to reimagine our relationship to the environment and one another.

Video 6min - April 2007

Paul Hawken tells the story in Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being.

If you are awake, you understand that "business as usual is in trouble". We must change how we think and how we act, to reverse the trajectory to man made global disaster. If you can read you know many of the problems. Perhaps you don't know that most of the solutions are already known, they just need public understanding, public approval, and flowing from that political approval and action. This can be done. Must be done. Four Years.Go. (20 min)

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THE SHIFT Movie Trailer
A massive worldwide phenomenon is in progress offering seeds of great hope for the future. Millions of individuals, organizations and corporations around the world are waking up and embracing a new outlook with an emphasis on their responsibility to contribute positively to our collective future. We are in the middle of the biggest social transformation in human history, The SHIFT. It involves our very understanding of who we are as human beings, and our responsibility to the world and to life itself. THE SHIFT film raises awareness to the story of our roles in an evolutionary shift in our collective consciousness. (7 min)

Director: Rochelle Marmorstein of Lighthouse FIlms Inc. -   - Follow The Shift on Twitter.


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The Need for a Radical Tactical Shift - NOW



Lewis Pugh asks us to committ ourseklves 100% to a "radical tactical shift"which changes the way we do things to modify man made global warming. (10 min)

TED Talks: The Amateur Professional

Shift Happens

Some interesting statistics on the changes that are happening in the world today. I think the message is important to everyone. Shift happens, and you can't know what's happening, you can't understand it no matter how clever you may be. But you can be interested, you can understand what's happening in your own local area, and you can connect that to the pattern of world wide change in a general way. You need to be responsible for your own re-education.

Here's the video - Video Link"Shift Happens" (7 min)

Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. In fact it never was. Leadbeater talks about how we organize ourselves without organizations. The traditional view about how innovation occurs is invalid.

Video LinkThe Rise of the Amateur Professional. (20 min)

Video LinkFour Years.Go. - A Campaign To Change The Course of History

Communicate 2007: LinkedInSolitaire Townsend, Futerra

Her studies convinced her that a new approach to communications was needed in order to engage businesses and consumers on issues of sustainability. Futerra has compiled worldwide learning to understand what works and what doesn't when communicating with people about environmental and social issues. That learning has been distilled into ten key rules (www.futerra.co.uk/10rules) that underpin the company's work. - 16 min

TED Talks: Inspired ideas for a sustainable future

Worldchanging.com founder Alex Steffen offers a fast-paced round-up of radical (but possible) answers to our planet's greatest challenges. As Western-style consumerism spreads to developing countries, we must re-imagine our world - a process he believes is slowly happening in such cities as Vancouver and Portland, Oregon, and also in the developing world, where new technologies and new forms of collaboration are combining to solve 21st-century problems.

Video LinkAlex Steffen: Inspired ideas for a sustainable future (20 min)

Arithmetic, Population and Energy

Dr Albert A Bartlett is a remarkable man. In a video that lasts almost an hour he explains in words everyone can understand why the USA will quite quickly run into decline and why the rapid development of China will also change course. However Dr Bartlett only has part of the story. He neglects the effect of free markets on the picture. Oil is not going to "run out" it's simply going to get so expensive that most of us will choose not to use it. That is likely to happen more quickly that we expect. Our use of oil will be forced down and down and down. That will cause huge hardship in every part of the economy that is heavily oil dependent, and severe dislocation and adjustment everywhere.

Incomes will fall, and there will be an increase in the death rate. Real estate prices will fall, but not in a uniform way. It will be unpleasant but most of us will survive IF we are blessed by good GOVERNANCE. Resource wars will not solve the problem.

There is a transcript here:

And a video stream here:
Video LinkDr Albert A Bartlett: Arithmetic, Population and Energy (58 min)

Climate Change - State of the Science

A talk by Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf on climate change on December 28, 2008, at the Chaos Computer Club's 25th annual Chaos Communication Congress. Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf is is a German oceanographer and climatologist. His work focuses on the role of ocean currents in climate change. He was one of the lead authors of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. - 1hr 4min

This is a political comedy video from Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, 16 June, 2010.  Eight Presidents of the USA have made commitments to reduce the dependency on oil, without success.  There is a systematic problem here.  That is why Four Years.Go. is an important initiative.  

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
An Energy-Independent Future
www.thedailyshow.com
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A Government to protect the Seventh Generation

LinkedInCarolyn Raffensperger speaks about the purpose of government. The Common is the cental element of our society, and the economy. The common wealth and the common health. The function of government is to be the trustee of of the things we share. The government and the economy must be scaled to ensure the protection of that heritage. (5 min)

Education in the Digital Age

Alan Kay talks about education, his own education and the possibilities for a new type of education in a modern world. He draws a parallel between the printing press and the computer. When the printing press was developed one person in 100 could read. 200 years later 20 people in 100 could read in Europe. But the printing press was still only being used to print the old books of the past it wasn't being used to create new books.

In the same way we are today using the computer to do the things we have previously done in other ways. To keep stock records or to do accounting, or to reprint the daily news. The real benefit of computers is that they help us to think more efficiently, but we find that hard so we don't do that.

In spite of the development of digital information, the essential things people need to know about the world is still in books in the public library. Those books are under-utilized because people don't have the foresight to make it their business to be better informed. That is why the computer that sits on almost every desk is so poorly used and why the information age that digital technology makes possible isn't happening anytime soon.

Video LinkEducation in the Digital Age - with Alan Kay (28 min)

LinkedInJulien Smith, Co-author of "Trust Agents"
Video LinkTaking the Risk, being the lead goose. 2min.

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