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Uncommon Sense(4)
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Karl Ahlrichs explains that everybody who’s waiting for “normal” to return may be waiting a long time. Ahlrichs says that uncommon sense is needed for the new economy we’re facing, and he asks us not to waste this opportunity.
Full Story»Design is the Problem
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Nathan Shedroff is chair of the ground-breaking MBA in Design Strategy program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. In “Design is the Problem,” Nathan examines how the endemic culture of design often creates unsustainable solutions, and shows how designers can bake sustainability into their design processes in order to produce more sustainable solutions.
Power of Less
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Author, journalist and blogger, Leo Babauta transformed his work life accomplishing more by working less by simply focusing on the high impact items that created the most effective results. Babauta motivated himself through a spiral of success.
It seems more than strange that the H1N1 flu pandemic declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) could be controversial. But it is. Some just don’t believe it.
WHO made the pandemic declaration in June on the fact that the H1N1 flu was rapidly spreading throughout the regions of the world. The rapid spread has continued [...]