Community is the answser. Dr. Margaret Wheatley (Meg) writes, teaches, and speaks about how we might organize and accomplish our work in chaotic times. She invites us to attend to the quality of our relationships to weather the increasing turbulence. She knows that whatever the problem, community is the answer.

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Eero Paloheimo has worked as designer, politician and university professor. He has written eight books and many articles about the prospects of future and environmental issues. In this lecture, he emphasizes we aave but decades to change our attitude from us being the disease to being the doctor.  Here are the first two of his strategies to change the world. First strategy is first aid. Second strategy is user (consumer) health care - we produce things and do not design to work properly and must plan new cities.

David Korten presentation to 39th Trinity Institute National Theological Conference on Radical Abundance: A Theology of Sustainability. He is the author of the Agenda for A New Economy. Click on image to order from Amazon.com.

Community partnerships challenge each of us to understand our own relationships and experience, to come to grips with your own day to day living - a comparison action that you have to take part in.  Mr. Patton was addressing the NW Environmental Health Conference sponsored by Portland State University, February, 2012 as a panelist on A Case Study of University-Community Partnership in Portland, Oregon.  Special thanks to videographer Maegan Prentice of Eyeopening Video.

TEDxBerlin brings the artist and musician Nik Nowak to talk about how sound claims space and its use as a weapon, particularly against civil demonstrators. He includes a discussion of the use of the "human microphone" and the speechlessness of the system.

This is "a really really really short history of nearly everything", in four amazing facts that reveal important and fundamental things about the world and our lives within it.
The first is that we exist, under the circumstances of inestimable chance within the history of the universe, the three others follow with telling consequences about how we should think about our lives on this planet. (2010)

Why is it so hard to give it back? Citizen dividends in oil rich countries. Johnny West is a social entrepreneur and writer with 20 years professional experience in and around the oil industry. He began covering energy markets as a Reuters correspondent in the Middle East in the early 1990s.  He is founder of OpenOil and a transparency activist.

KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice. It is the most successful viral video to date on YouTube with over 72M views as of February 11th. More information on Invisible Children site.

Did you know that conflict minerals from Congo are in all cell phones, smart phones, and other electronics? Join Jewish World Watch in taking action to demand that electronics companies produce conflict-free products.