Comments on: The Innovation Invitation

By: mfidelman

mfidelman — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:21:26 +0000

I’ve been quite enjoying http://worldchanging.com - which has been highlighting positive innovations.

By: Warren Gillam

Warren Gillam — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:07:52 +0000

Inovation when it is new is very exciting. We have not yet learned how to fully exploit the technology of the internet. And this is a process that may not so exciting to some. The reason that I found this site this morning is as the result of a search on ‘Vision and Democracy’ that displayed a post of Aldon Hynes from July 2004. This excited me for he prospect of continueing a discusion over such a period. But, alas, there was no longer any one at the other end of that conversation and I ended here. The upside of this technology is the opportunity to be able to connect with others of a like mind. This is important when one doesn’t know many of those around them. The downside is just the shear volume of information that exists and how does one filter to just what interesting at the moment.
At any rate, I think there is much to be done yet and that is what is exciting to me.
weg

By: Jock Gill

Jock Gill — Mon, 21 May 2007 13:25:03 +0000

Aldon,

I recommend the NY Times Magazine article on Al Gore to you.

Al Gore Has Big Plans

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/magazine/20wwln-gore-t.html

Gore want to change politics. Big Time.

“But the core of everything is the three-year program of mass persuasion to be conducted under the aegis of the Alliance for Climate Protection. The alliance will not lobby or even propose specific solutions to global warming; rather, it will seek to break the climate crisis out of the crunchy confines of environmentalism. Global warming is going to have a giant product rollout. Gore talks constantly about the need to move public opinion; he is convinced that what now seem like forbidding political and technical obstacles to drastically reducing carbon emissions will give way once we marshal the will to act. And Gore says he believes that once people understand the science, they’ll share his sense of urgency. Thanks to Hurricane Katrina, and balmy winters, and animals evacuating their habitats, and all those terrifying pictures of melting glaciers, that sense may already be taking hold. According to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, 78 percent of Americans believe that global warming requires action “right away.”

I recommend reading the whole article. Hopfully it is one step closer to inventing a politics of resilience that recognizes the imperative of integrating the private sector with the public sector into somethng greater than the sum of the parts.

Jock

By: Orient Lodge

Orient Lodge — Mon, 21 May 2007 13:19:24 +0000

The Innovation Invitation…

I have always been fascinated by innovation. It is what America was built on, has helped keep America strong, and I believe is where our strength in the future lies. I’ve always been an early adopter of technology and seek to add my own innovations…