I watched a video today, from “Stories from the Near Future,” the 2008 New Yorker Conference, that spoke of happiness and how it is created by humans being involved in an economy of engagement.
The presenter argued that many people today, because we have become so good at surviving, feel not good at life.
Depicts 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags, the number used in the US every hour. photo credit: Chris Jordan
I just learned of photographer/artist Chris Jordan’s brilliant exhibition, Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait. Chris combines specific quantities of something (such as plastic cups), statistics (one million plastic cups are used on airline flights in the US every six hours) and photographic inventiveness to present viewers with a real and stark understanding of America’s outrageous consumption patterns.
The Charter for Compassion is an inspired idea to create a charter to celebrate compassion and to promote a new collaboration between the world’s major religions. Here is a short video about it.
Karen Armstrong, an insightful writer on comparative religion dreamed up this idea and TED has helped her to make it a reality.
A fun video that clearly describes what Design Thinking is. Call it Design Thinking for Dummies, if you will.
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Hi there, I’m Tara Joyce.
Unfulfilled at 26, I decided to start my own business to explore how I could be of service. Quickly, I was attracted to the seemingly backwards strategy of not setting a price and to allowing my customers to determine the value of my offering. Today, my “Pay What It’s Worth” concept supports people globally in exploring their own fear-based ideas around money, value, and business relationships.
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