collaboration city - trust transparency sustainability future's economics of exponentials

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Is your city hosting a world citizen event in 2007?

references to most trusted world citizen 0 00 1 2 3 4 5 6 -help develop a map of 200 for Norman Macrae's 85th birthday party in 2008

Please tell us so we can add it here and to our mailings across collaboration knowledge city?

London's number 1 world citizen event in 2007 is SolarSpace on the SouthBank (practice sponsor solaroof world citizen network) starting March 7. As far as our 23 years of research shows, only photosynthesis approaches can save humanity from the climate crisis. SolarSpace is a photosynthesis building exhibit; a space for convening open space meetings of up 100 people; and its on the forecourt of the Royal Festival Hall with prime views of the Thames and alongside one of London's main pedestrian circuits. Over the year with Branson's 3 billion dollar pledge and HM Treasury's 17 billion dollar commitments to climate crisis, London has emerged from nowhere on the climate crisis map to a lead climate collaboration city. All our friends will be doing everything possible to keep it that way up to and betond London's Olympic year 2012


Africa's year of Collaboration Meetings:
January World Social Forum, Kenya - Nairobi , which is also the world citizen epicentre of Wangari Maathai- the Nobel winner of enviromental peace
June, Arusha, Tanzania Ted's first ever international assembly following up on Bono's wish to end Africa as the forgotten world citizen continent

September - New York is expected to Host the 3rd annual Clinton GI

mail info@worldcitizen.tv if your city is hosting a meeting of importance to world citizen networks

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Change World:

Imagine an olympics but one where the sports icons are replaced by other compasses

let's substitute the track and field with pursuit of peace

swimming with exploring every way to alleviate climate crisis

rifle range = every way to sustain discriminated groups out of poverty

the football = education revolutions now that we have abundant evidence that a networked globe needs a whole new way round than that so very 20th century top-down geo-segragated

and the scoring -and the expert commentaries - needs revisioning so that cheats are out ; open collaboration is valued; those you'd like your 9 year of daughter to heroise have better chances of gold medal than those you hope she nevers connects with

well believe it or not, many many Londoners value the world change olympics in 2012 as being as vital as the sports ; this stern warning in Oct 2006 turned the tide a month earlier we became the city with the biggest share of voice for sustainability with Branson's 3 billion dollar pledge for climate crisiswe still have the largest peoples broadcaster; the 2006/2007 goal for Britain must be to get the BBC to understand we are serious stop wasting our time and money on sports if you have not got the courage to ask the world's biggest crisis questions until the day before doomsday instead of years earlier

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http://www.pledgebank.com/bbcgames

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The impact of cafes (one hour open meetings but on particular crisis invitations - ie truncated open spaces) where invitations are past through all changemakers networks has never been higher. Especially in London as a model for the future of all open cross-cultural cities and villages as social sub-networks - a reconciliation of enduring urgency forced on us by 7/7 and the recognition that government over many years has failed to wholly integrate cultures at the grassroots in ways that people and local communities must take charge of.

This is such a huge subject that I neither have time nor space in this weblog medium to do justice to all the questions that live cafes have raised and how all the major crises of lost sustainability and distrust between different local and global groups of peoples are being made ever more conflicted by national government- whose monopoly rule over public service budgets in the most vital areas like safety, media, health, education, peace is disastrous when most of the challenges facing us are as world citizens (interlocal waves that are made worse wherever a Blair of Bush make decisions like a Canute) or wherever 2 party politics one-dimensionalises issues that need 360 degree diversity of transparent public dialogue

We will have a special series of cafes in the Islington area all of sept 11-15 - email me for a full calendar; and if you only read this after sept 15: I will be happy to after action debrief on you what we learnt from the dialogues and where next we will be restaging them. I will also be putting a lot of the learnings from our cafe series at these weblogs which are inter-related . chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

http://worldcitizen.tv - this looks as ways we citizens can perform communications experiments to show that huge investigative journalism contexts are being missed (biased out) by the BBC, and debates how to rectify this

http://worldentrepreneur.net which focuses on the source of good news out of America in terms of supporting the world's poorest with 30 years of mapping what social projects have resolved crises in one local community and can be replicated as interlocal franchises

http://worldeconomist.net pulls together these latest practical banks of learnings and connects this back with my father and my future history book on death of distance in 1984 which forecast that economics as a worldwide discipline would need transforming between 2005-2105, as much if not more than when James Wilson founded The Economist to keep questioning how economics could sustain peoples through the industrial revolution

We also has http://worldapprentice.com given that folk of every age need to start blueprinting a revolutionary new curricula and modalities of education for all our children if we are to time warp through sustainability's inconvenient truths. At time of writing I am still waiting to hear whether I will get accepted into the first wave of 2000 people being trained by Al Gore on how to present his inconvenient truth slides. This first wave rehearsals and start of an amazing change network takes place In Nashville towards the end of September
http://www.theclimateproject.org

The RSA's and Starbucks and BBC action network coffeehouse challenge in 2006 has been much more interesting in London this year as its been permitted to brew as a summer long festival rather being constrained to a one-month (May schedule)

CAFES & OPENSPACERACE 1 2
God bless all who host and attend cafes - seeds and real-people crossroads to the huge virtual networks that can be multiplied if each person's social network can be interfaced with each other person united in hi-trust and wish to raise questions about a global crisis context before we rush for any open answer

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Early next month at a special meeting of the be the change and other London-based cooperation networks, we will be launching the idea that every collaboration city can publish its tour guide to social entepreneurs whose networks change the world

some particularly urgent emphases appear to be

-bridge to Pakistan: If you have time to click to http://clubofpakistan.blogspot.com/, you will see that I have put Ashoka's Pakistan social entrepreneurs in the right hand column- can we choose at least one of them to include in London's first 100 publication of Social Entrepreneurs being shown round Be The Change in early September

-propagating the www fashion key to interlocal franchises and where they originated from -
You can judge for yourself whether BRAC001 should be awarded to Fazle ABED who is the founder of Bangladesh's and the World's Largest civil society organiiation also merits the most trusted award of early 21st century organsiations by viewing these three 5-minute video clips 1 2 3

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Londoners may need to start campaigning for the end of sports olympics unless...

here's part of a growing conversation - do email me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if there's any group you want to reherase this with in more detail

I agree with what Kurt says as far as he goes, but let me ask a few devil's advocate questions
when you say it (organisation designed around human trust and worth of such belief by all the organsiation impacts through time) can be done- can it within accounting, performance, current goverance, shareholder value etc measurement systems that are all rigged to separate quarters from compound consequences, people relationships from each other; what you measure in a system is not just what you get but what spreadsheets have now compounded for 80 quarters- so can it be done withing current monopolies of measurement? all this rigged maths is about big gets bigger not peoples' lives and cultural communities getting deeper

now let's move one level up the macro scale from how we measure every separate global corporation to how we measure the future being compounded by the whole of a global market sector,; the exponential curves of that seem to go beyond just truth, trust, transparency to the compound economics of sustainability - would you agree?

2 weblogs which provide dramatic contexts of what can be mapped if you take yourself up to the maths of global sector sustainability and then ask how risky all the lower level maths of current accounting is to the future of our children are at
http://social-entrepreneur.blogspot.com - Londoners invite the world's people call for an end to sports olympics (and an end to British Broadcasting Corporation as world's largets public broadcaster) unless media cover social entrepreneur olympics with an equal share of programming- now that will be the day globalisation has a fair chnace of being humanly sustainable

http://exponentials.blogspot.com 21 global market sectors that are clearly spinning over a generation's valuation of time towards destruction under current monopoly measures of corporate governance
chris macrae www.valuetrue.com Transparency Communities wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

Qouting Kurt R.:
Hi all: Truth and Trust go hand in hand can not separate them - in business it is essential to have means of building truth and trust - otherwise the oppositions will be more competitive than we are. Every business needs to establish a common denominator on which truth and trust can be built. However the common denominator needs to be transparent - thus transparency is the key to truth and trust - but transparency of people is the challenge to achieve. It can be done for any business - can collaboration between business improve performance - this is the question where culture plays a big part. Cheers Kurt Rieger

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This week saw world water day come and go with less than a ripple. Did Londoners know how they could have contributed more news on this around the world? no matter

Next week is arguably the biggest in the calendar for gifts to the world Londoners as number 1 collaboration knowledge city can start up, and make the next 6 years marathon of make poverty history connect all around the world

With Al Gore visiting the twin cities of London and Oxford, we cannot imagine a better time to Launch the Social Entrepreneur Olympics. The game is to have got 30 gravity pursuits of social entrepreneur world champions into the public consciousness by 2012 as much as the top 30 sports.

All we need is love and courage to cheerlead cross-cultural creativity's waves:

The Livingstone has got us off to a great start; he has declared there will be no sporting Olympics in London in 2012 unless they are carbon free - turn up the heat on every politician since only photosynthesis innovations can produce clean energy of that sustainability magnitude. Make sure all those who host Al Gore events debrief him as the clock to 2012 counts down

The lessons to be learnt from Make Poverty History from pop stars down can be an epiphany if University of Stars and the BBC turn their minds to the greater transparencies (eg end all country corruptions) needed if Make Poverty History is to be a reality network not just an image-making one

So that's 28 more gravity pursuits we need to celebrate around social entrepreneurs with as much gusto as the 20th Century hailed sporting stars

We are reminded of one Harrison Owen story I should tell because open spacing education is a social entrepreneur pursuit every family can stand up for whereas we cannot all help on the ground with projects in Africa or in the roofs that algae use to convert the sunshine into cleansing energy banks.

He was studying to be a priest around the Washington Dc area. It was a time when Martin Luther King was having a dream. Harrison can't recall quite how it happened but he was standing in a civil rights field in a crowd of African Americans - one tall lanky white man. The police were beginning to charge on the crowd and Harrison was feeling quite scared. That is until a 7 year old black girl came up to him - and said Mister will you hold my hand

Since that day, Harrison gave up the priesthood to the chagrin of most of his family. And is one of the handfuls of people who most interconnects conflict resolution facilitators around the world. Their networks criss-cross all religions that believe in golden rules of reciprocity such as so unto another what you want done unto you. They also connect mathematically - if Einstein is correct here at http://clubofdc.blogspot.com - to Gandhi as the greatest inventor of peaceful social entrepreneurial revolution that 144 years of The Economist's coverage of this most productive of all professions.

If some of this post makes sense to you, why not re-edit the parts you like and send it to the board of Governors of the BBC, and should you wish Tony Blair or another politician well with their legacy why not copy them in to. We the British people, not any of our political representatives own the BBC. We have invested way over 50 billion pounds in this corporation. On a personal note to all scots- may I ask whether you feel the inventor of television would feel proud of a television where every big debate is framed one dimensionally around short-term left and right rivals or whomever is looking fore a job with big business if the party does not turn out Trumps for their apprenticeship to network power.

It is high noon for the BBC with its 10 year licence determined by and for the people in the year of 2o06. Please could our world service be one of British Character we can feel both pride and humility in searching for. Please free your journalists for humanity to take a fearless lead in realising this open source script from 1984 , so that trust across peoples everywhere begins to flow through every documentary inquiry that has anything to do with world peace or nightly newscast on poverty's challenges through 2012 - and through these communications help the British to get to know 30 gravity pursuits of Social Entrepreneurs with as much joy and attention as the 30 sports it spend most public licence fees on. Hey when Brits helped to invent most of these sports we surely never intended they would take over from greater British realities of world service, through believing in CommonWealth principles and our Queen's higher order right to ask us as she did in her end of 2005 broadcast to unite in preventing globalisation from turning humanity on itself.

For the same of deeper democracy blossoming and connecting every coordinate on earth, you can also play a jigsaw mapping game aimed at sustaining 2 million global villages. Here's part of my family's tree which may open up some useful connections- what connections could your family tree or that of your peer networks open source. If you can make a "peer or family tree" picture why don't we play the mixed networking games of swap and snap. If we are going to turn around globalisation’s exponentials sustainably in time, we are all going to have to work with whatever grassroots community contexts up we can help each other navigate. No lead is too small as long as it is one you intend to gravitate transparently around as part of you lifelong learning mission. We need to help change children's education now so that the core human rights of freedom and happiness have a chance to breathe nature's clean waters, airs and energies everyone human beings sing her praises. Let's all turn up the courage through every family in the land and into wherever co-mentoring networks in internet space may take A B C D E F you

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In 30 years of Entrepreneurial Revolution debates, it is becoming clear that the future of the 21st century's networked world depends on changing over to the peoples economics which includes transparent ways for 2 million global villages to thrive through selecting inter-village trades, and encouraging village networks in rich cities to get involved in cataloguing project30000 by 2010. If London is intent on being a number 1 Knowledge Collaboration City, how might we map and network around the city's top 5 global change villages?

The rational for villages 1 2 3 4 5 is discussed in further detail at ClubofCity. One way to look at the exchanges these 5 villages can systemise and interconnect is:

1 Authority, transparency: to question governance & exponentials valuation of leadership Queen's Moral Influence; safe constitution Home of entrepreneurial & economics revolution Innovation to world – photosynthesis energy

2 Scale - broadcast revolutionary action learning

3 Provide people large open spaces to meet and scripts on revolutionary change signed by opinion leaders

4 Provide hubs & microfinance so people can see communal projects being tested and successes open sourced

5 Safe haven cafes for those who pioneer resolution of corruption & nurture end to extreme poverty @ all corners of our globe

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Hi open space racers

My father and I have been working for 30 years on language as the great integration crisis of leadership as well as system theorists. Every professor needs a different term to copyright their fame and alumni class and journal (sub-discipline, sub-professional business case or startegic power)- we need to open up such intellectual chaining all over the world's web

My father's beginning in this was to publish Entrepreneurial Revolution in The Economist in 1976. Odd collaborators included Romano Prodi who hosted an Italian roundtable in venice where all Italy's great leaders of the day sung the chorus of 10 green bottles (administrative barriers Entrepreneurs need to open space through). If you think about it now whether people claim leadership or facilitation gravity to unleash wealth or societal goods, they are usually happy to call themselves either entrepreneur (if business audiences are listening) or social preneur - see eg this fantastic meeting in Oxford next month http://clubofoxford.blogspot.com

To celebrate our 30th birthday of ER, which is actually close on the 200th birthday of the founder of The Economnist (probably the world's first social preneur as his only editorial goals were to repeal corn laws and end capital punishment - both Victorian England's remaining slave chains) , we invite you:
to translate what every your system language is so that it connects with preneurs as a trojan horse for changing global economics
and to choose a place name clubof which we can weblog a debate of how your systemic method helps cross-culturally interrate any type of preneur (ideally 2 million club of global villages are needed!)

Above I have put one slide up which shows 200 years of preneurial language revolutions and since we are also mathematicians, we will need to slay the monopoly of tangible accounting which assigns 0 value to goodwill as a system flow and compounds maximum conflicts by separation every quarter. Knowing that's the fina system barrier is the only way that any system's theory can interface with changing leadership atop the wordl's biggest organsaitions be they corporate of government. As well as 30 years of ER scripts we have 22 years of death of distance scripts since tracking what webs will do has been my whole career and in 1984 I teamed up with my dad and a sci-fi writer to write a book on how 1984-2024 would challenge humanity to its wits end because becoming interconnected in obe generation was always going to be the biggest revolution our species had encountered ; and our species copes with revolutions in ways that spin either very good compound outcomes or in this case ones that will mean no 22nd century. So given this is just a language problem of eladership, why not open source the preneur word unless you can sugest one that can flow through more corridors of power without them knowing what confusion has open spaced

I know swapping the language you believe in most is diffciult. happy to try to help with any 1:1 or many:1 Q&A

chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com/
http://openspaceraces.blogspot.com/
http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com/
http://ecosaintjames.blogspot.com/
http://project30000.blogspot.com/

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President Bush's Mission for 2006-2010

Please tell us if we spot amny other world leader's missions we should be cataloguing here

http://addictionusa.blogspot.com/
We invite anyone from every place to connect with scripts and debates on how to do this. Here are some of our credentials, and why we'd love it if we all collaborate and just do this now. Since we have been working on this openly for 22 years we have a lot of deep contextual linkins if you will tell us where your contribution to ending this addiction (and passion to help people change) starts....
chris macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.ukHundreds of co-editing spaces at http://clubofcity.blogspot.com http://clubofvillage.blogspot.com
sustaining 22 years of DoD script and debates http://deathofdistance.blogspot.com
sustaining 30 years of ER scripts and open spaces http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com
timeline overview 31 Jan 2006- President Bush asks the world for help in State of Union address - how do we free USA from addiction to petroleum economy and make ethanol (or other green energy) a competitively priced gasoline within 5 years?
2005: dec 25 Queen Elizabeth 2 asks commonwealth: is globalsiation turning humanity on itself- reflecting DoD's 1984 forecast of 2005 as mankind's most dangerous year if we fail to chnage from economics of big power to the open peoples economics http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687
Oct 2005: 21 Business leaders publish Gathering storm report - its 2 recommendations to the president free us from addiction to petroleum addiction, and invest in education of those who connect maths, engineering and innovation. One of the report'c co-chairs mentions the buzz phrase DEATH OF DISTANCE 5 times of Charlie Rose PBS interview of 1 Feb 2006http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11463.htmlhttp://www.nap.edu/execsumm_pdf/11463.pdf
December 1984 : Death of Distance is coined as main slogan of the 1984 future history co-authored by The Economist's Deputy Editor Norman Macrae, and his son Chris Macrae. Death of Distance network maps and dialogue circles have been open spaced ever since. In particular, our 1984 script for energy is reproduced below and helps to explain why hundreds of club of city and village blog correspondents are collaboratively linked in to the most exciting innovations of green energy we can find
page 145-146 of our 1984 book Sunlight is the fuel which sustains life on earth. The process by which plants extract energy from sunlight, using that energy to build up complex compounds from simper ones and thereby storing the energy which animals, including humans, use to grow and move and see and think is the life-process itself. We (human beings) have always exploited that life-process, but in the past we have only been able to do so by using living plants as our agents. We learned to cultivate them, develop them by selective breeding, and since the 1980s to meddle with their genes, but we have not yet learned to substitute something of our own making for the living plant. We have not found or made a more efficient substitute for chlorophyll itself outside the naturally-occurring factory which is the living cell.
Until we design our own systems which can deploy the energy of sunlight as efficiently as humble algae does, we humans have no real biotechnology of our own. We have many kinds of solar cells which can extract energy from the sunlight and store is as electricity or heat, but such devices are very crude indeed beside the technical sophistication and versatility of living plants.
We are making a determined effort to capture and use a greater fraction of the solar energy which falls upon the face of the earth every day. We are trying to make plants flourish in paces where at present they can only eke out the most precarious of existence. The ideal situation, however, would be one in which we did not need to work so hard to adapt existing plants to more hostile conditions. If we had our own artificial systems of photosynthesis we might exploit the desert sun ourselves, without using other organisms as intermediaries. Our ultimate ambition must be to make artificial photosynthetic systems more efficient than those which have evolved alongside side us throughout the history of life on earth. Then and only then will we be able to claim that we are technologically self-sufficient. In 2024, this looks as if it might be one of our children's tasks.

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Queen's Mission for 2006

In Her Majesty's Christmas 2005 speech she voiced a concern that all of the Kindgom could unite round reliving:

With Wars & Terror, Tsunami, Quakes & Hurricanes: Has Humanity Turned on Itself?

Chartering is one conversational method that provides sufficient Systemic Connections for everone to transparently map around an urgently big idea. Here is a simplified version of its question grid; repeated with a few first replies I would love to help people connet around; what ideas would you like to see people connect - mail me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you have some naswers that you would like me to publish in grid form

Leaders Question Waves through being connecting Nation
Transparency Lessons from our history	Ideas we have to uplift the world
Downward Exponentials to resolve internally	Upward Exponentials we can help connect externally
Masterbriefing - how everyone can join in
Agreeing what First Unites the world of humanity
What Leaders can Demand of Fellow Leaders

Leaders Question Waves through being connecting Nation How can we help prevent humanity turing on itself
Transparency Lessons from our history When an international empire's superpower wanes, we know from our past how short-term leadership decisions are prone to compound agony for many people and societies abroad for decades. Which of these lessons do we need to talk about openly everywhere we can	Ideas we have to uplift the world Green as the new Red White & Blue- out of omniworldview & solaroof, we can offer collaboration leadership to anyhwhere in the world interested in Green Energy
Downward Exponentials to resolve internally Cities including London, Leeds, and everywhedre needing deeper multicultural integration must open more space and love of one another's diversity	Upward Exponentials we can help connect externally Take a lead with English speaking networks across the commonwealth so they successfully collaborate for humanity worldwide and ground this trought 30000 grassroots projects
Masterbriefing - how everyone can join in Encourage every UK Club of City to start raising questions through collaboration cafes and blogs: what positive futiures are already happening here which we can help multiplyeverywhere that might enjoy this
Agreeing what First Unites the world of humanity Every major religion was originally united by the Golden Rule of Relationship Reciprocity. Ensure true practice by training enough preiests to coach people in conflict resolution of self before going out to convert the world with love
What Leaders can Demand of Fellow Leaders Open BBC 1 2 up to represent all the people's biggest conversations, not those edited by politicians. Instruct lots of documentaries to be shown on why top-down planning alone is the most destructive way forward now we are all trying to live together in a networked world

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Happy New Year Club of Village 2.0 & Welcome back to the land of the living. Our original Club of Vilage was a victim of the infamous google metdown of 100 of our co-edited colaboration blogs on 9 Dec 2005

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A report (titled Unseen Wealth) issued by economists and scholars of law in 2000, confessed that due to a mathematical mistake , the larger the organisation the less likely it is to be governing what impacts it is compounding for humanity. Since then our expert futures circles (including entrepreneurs since 1976 and network experts since 1984) have been working hard on the jigsaw pieces of this problem – its maths, its maps, and its stories - as you can see from browsing 1 2 3 4

Across the world, our expert panel and club of city have compiled a 2005 listing of sectors that humanity needs to keep a close watch on for their destructive consequences. However, this is very contextual work varying from locality to locality, and it is not starting from the grassroots up as we did in the listing we have been making with the Global University of Poverty. We have also left out a few sectors where some change stories are circulating since we want those inventors to have chance to turnround. What we love to hear from your citizen/local viewpoint is:
What sectors concern you most that we have missed in our general list?
Are there any communities at your locality that would like to debate views with other citizens about any of the sectors we have listed

You welcome to discuss this privately with me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk or to post at this blog

Healthcare – increasing costs
Children – increased family strain, lost safety of community
Professionals- loss of Hippocratic oath, ever more bureaucratic
Water – Clean water is getting scarcer
Transport – getting slower
National Government – Increasingly powering over instead of facilitating what people need next Mass media – dumbing down, loss of social space and transparent debates
Food chain – cost of good for you food going up
Nations Cultures- love of each other’s diversity going down
Pensions (investment in sustainable growth) – going down
Adult confidence in making a difference with lifelong learning potentials – seems to be going down
Insurance – cost going up, learnings across biggest tragedies seem increasingly blocked
Underclass – compounding underclass- their loss of hope in life and mutual risks to all of us in a hi-connected world
NGOs/Charity – Global*Local infrastructure further removed from depth of grassroots needs in crisis or sustainability turnround challenges

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Channel 4 tv featured an interesting top 10 risk list for the future of the UK. Would be interested to hear from other citizens or countries where risk lists are part of public discourse. Apparently risk of the gulf stream turning off, and making Briain and N. Europe up to 5 degrees cooler is rated as most underknown risk we face.

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Lecture 12 December 2005 18.00 National Manifesto Challenge: Advancing Global Citizenship
Speakers: John Thackara, Jeremy Myerson
Location: RSA, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZBooking Status: FullCost: free

With John Thackara, Director, Doors of Perception and author of In the bubble: designing in a complex worldChaired by Jeremy Myerson, InnovationRCATonight's discussion on 'Solidarity economics and design: life after consumerism' is being streamed live over the web. Click here to listen to tonight's lecture in the comfort of your own home/office/mobile web device... starting at 6pm. If you can't join us at 6pm, look out for the edited version available as a podcast later this week. The word 'development' implies that we advanced people in the North have the right or even obligation to help backward people in the South to ‘catch up' with our own advanced condition. No, it doesn't make sense. The concept of development is further devalued by the impoverished but destructive mindset of economics. The North's purse strings are clutched by people who define development narrowly in terms of growth, jobs and productivity - and ignore broader measures of sustainability and well-being. A renewed sensitivity to context, and to social relationships, is a key aspect of the transition from mindless development to design mindfulness. But even this new approach can be a mixed blessing. One b-school professor now talks about "harvesting lifestyles". By what right do we swan around distant cities capturing information about people's lives? If we are to exchange value - rather than just take it, or act like cultural tourists - what do we have to offer? One contribution is that fresh eyes can reveal hidden value and thus mobilise otherwise neglected or hidden local resources. Visiting designers can act like mirrors, reflecting things about a situation that local people no longer notice or value. Shamefully, too many visiting designers promise local people they will do this, but never get around to sharing their conclusions and documentation.

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Tuesday 4 Oct 2005 sees the inaugural meeting of London’s Collaboration Club for people on Twin Mission
Venue The Hub, Angel Islington:

TWIN MISSION 1
Who belong to one or more networks with a goal that requires change a system’s vicious spiralling within 5 year. Examples:
Dirty energy to cleansing energy
Terrorised Cities to Open Multicultural Cities
Externalised Sector Economics to Internalised/Sustainability Investments
Bottom of Pyramid Nations to World Sustaining Ones
National only politics to Simultaneous World’s People’s Futures
Etc

TWIN MISSION 2
Who declare need for cooperation both within their network’s change spiral goal and to support wherever possible any other cooperative network with a change spirals

Our meeting will seek to open up a common map the first 50 subnetworks we actively belong to that have globalisation and localisation change goals and at least one unique collaborative approach in making this happen. Our peace transforming nets are for and by the people movements rather than traditional gov or non-gov ones

Click the Grid to see the network starting points we collaborators can guide each other round

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